Monday, July 10, 2017

Deep Learning at Pennsylvania State University

Integrating Deep-learned Models and Photography Idea Retrieval

ABSTRACT: Retrieving photography ideas corresponding to a given location facilitates the usage of smart cameras, where there is a high interest among amateurs and enthusiasts to take astonishing photos at anytime and in any location. Existing research captures some aesthetic techniques such as the rule of thirds, triangle, and perspectiveness, and retrieves useful feedbacks based on one technique. However, they are restricted to a particular technique and the retrieved results have room to improve as they can be limited to the quality of the query. There is a lack of a holistic framework to capture important aspects of a given scene and give a novice photographer informative feedback to take a better shot in his/her photography adventure. This work proposes an intelligent framework of portrait composition using our deep-learned models and image retrieval methods. A highly-rated web-crawled portrait dataset is exploited for retrieval purposes. Our framework detects and extracts ingredients of a given scene representing as a correlated hierarchical model. It then matches extracted semantics with the dataset of aesthetically composed photos to investigate a ranked list of photography ideas, and gradually optimizes the human pose and other artistic aspects of the composed scene supposed to be captured. The conducted user study demonstrates that our approach is more helpful than the other constructed feedback retrieval systems.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Detecting Dominant Vanishing Points in Natural Scenes

Academic Endeavors at Pennsylvania State University

Friday, November 7, 2014

Bad children and a box of beverage bottles!

D. and F. provided one beverage box with 32 bottles for the weekend party, but one of their four children changed the content of one of the bottles that cannot be detected easily! To punish the children, they decided to permute the bottles and ask the children to find it again until two days later! Unfortunately if one drinks from THAT bottle, he/she will be sick tomorrow for a week, but the children like to participate in the party very much! What is the best strategy for the children?

Bad children and a box of beverage!

D. and F. provided one beverage box with 32 bottles for the weekend party, but one of their four children changed the content of one of the bottles that cannot be detected easily! To punish the children, they decided to permute the bottles and ask the children to find it again until two days later! Unfortunately if one drinks from THAT bottle, he/she will be sick tomorrow for a week, but the children like to participate in the party very much! What is the best strategy for the children?


What is the best strategy?


Monday, February 11, 2013

Farshid Farhat (fuf111 at cse psu edu)

Farshid Farhat @ Computer Science and Engineering Dep. of Pennsylvania State University
Farshid Farhat CSE
Farshid Farhat PSU

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

No "Transcend" just lose and fail!

I had bought two external Transcend HDs, that after 6 months both of them failed!
No "Transcend" just lose and fail!

Sunday, November 11, 2012