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Unsupervised Clustering in Personal Photo Collections
2008
In this paper we propose a probabilistic approach for the automatic organization of collected pictures aiming at more effective representation in personal photo albums. Images are analyzed and described in two representation spaces, namely, faces and background. Faces are automatically detected, rectified and represented projecting the face itself in a common low dimensional eigenspace. Backgrounds are represented with low-level visual features based on RGB histogram and Gabor filter energy. Face and background information of each image in the collection is automatically organized by mean-shift clustering technique. Given the particular domain of personal photo libraries, where most of the …
Keyword Based Keyframe Extraction in Online Video Collections
2015
Keyframe extraction methods aim to find in a video sequence the most significant frames, according to specific criteria. In this paper we propose a new method to search, in a video database, for frames that are related to a given keyword, and to extract the best ones, according to a proposed quality factor. We first exploit a speech to text algorithm to extract automatic captions from all the video in a specific domain database. Then we select only those sequences (clips), whose captions include a given keyword, thus discarding a lot of information that is useless for our purposes. Each retrieved clip is then divided into shots, using a video segmentation method, that is based on the SURF d…
Introduzione
2020
Introduction to the volume "Una memoria fragile? Collezioni di calchi in gesso e il loro ruolo di eredità storica tra passato e presente / Fragile Erinnerung? Sammlungen von Gipsabgüsse als historisches Erbe in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" (Leipzig 2020)
Il vandalismo sui gessi
2020
The article reads the vandalism against plaster casts in the context of a general misfortune of this educational medium. The author explores the question of the extent to which the movement Arte Povera has paved the way for the recovery of historical plaster cast collections.
Renato Guttuso and Sicily. For awidespread museum of the master of Bagheria
2021
Il contributo propone un approfondimento sulla figura di Renato Guttuso, artista siciliano che occupa un posto di rilievo nel panorama della pittura europea del XX secolo, attraverso ladisamina delle sue opere presenti in Sicilia,svolta alla luce dei più aggiornati studi sul legame dell’artista con la sua terra d’origine. Oltre al Museo Guttuso, fondato a Bagheria grazie a un lascito dell’artista, e al Complesso Monumentale dello Steridi Palermo, dove recentemente il suo capolavoro internazionalmente noto La Vucciriaè stato oggetto di un nuovo allestimento, si contano numerose sul territori siciliano le testimonianze della sua ricerca multiforme, grazie alla presenza di diverse realtà istit…
Un'aggiunta al catalogo delle opere in argento di Filippo Juvarra
2007
Si studia l'inedito Crocifisso d'argento di collezione privata palermitana. La presenza del punzone FL.IV porta ad ascrivere il manufatto, realizzato nel 1695, a Filippo Juvarra, inserendolo tra le sue opere giovanili in argento. The unprecedented silver Crucifix from the Palermo private collection is being studied. The presence of the FL.IV punch leads to ascribe the artifact, made in 1695, to Filippo Juvarra, inserting it among his youthful works in silver.
Ugo Zovetti and Book Decoration. A New Acquisition for the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Drawings and Prints Cabinet
2020
The essay focuses on a valuable acquisition of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini graphic art collections: a group of works by Ugo Zovetti Senior (Curzola, Dalmatia, 1879 - Milan, 1974). Ugo Zovetti was a great master of decoration and also distinguished himself in other fields, such as mural painting, advertising painting and engraving. An original, multifaceted artist, Zovetti is particularly valued for his works on paper, and especially the outstanding, highly refined decorated papers.
The Portuguese Man-of-War Has Always Entered the Mediterranean Sea—Strandings, Sightings, and Museum Collections
2022
A search of records from different kinds of sources namely, scientific and grey literature, social media, and zoological museum collections, has been carried out to review the incidence of Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), the Portuguese man-of-war, in the Mediterranean Sea. The temporal frame of the records, considered valid if documented with images or collected specimens, ranged from the second half of the eighteenth century to the year 2021. Thanks to colonies preserved in some Italian historical museum collections, originating from the western basin, it was possible to date the putative first documented record of P. physalis of the Mediterranean Sea in 1850. The dataset shows some ma…