In this paper, we propose a multi-modal search engine for interior design that combines visual and textual queries. The goal of our engine is to retrieve interior objects, e.g. furniture or wall clocks, that share visual and aesthetic similarities with the query. Our search engine allows the user to take a photo of a room and retrieve with a high recall a list of items identical or visually similar to those present in the photo. Additionally, it allows to return other items that aesthetically and stylistically fit well together. To achieve this goal, our system blends the results obtained using textual and visual modalities. Thanks to this blending strategy, we increase the average style similarity score of the retrieved items by 11 . Our work is implemented as a Web-based application and it is planned to be opened to the public.
We introduce an unsupervised co-hierarchical analysis of a set of shapes, aimed at discovering their hierarchical part structures and revealing relations between geometrically dissimilar yet functionally equivalent shape parts across the set. The core problem is that of representative co-selection. For each shape in the set, one representative hierarchy (tree) is selected from among many possible interpretations of the hierarchical structure of the shape. Collectively, the selected tree representatives maximize the within-cluster structural similarity among them. We develop an iterative algorithm for representative co-selection. At each step, a novel cluster-and-select scheme is applied to a set of candidate trees for all the shapes. The tree-to-tree distance for clustering caters to structural shape analysis by focusing on spatial arrangement of shape parts, rather than their geometric details. The final set of representative trees are unified to form a structural co-hierarchy. We demonstrate co-hierarchical analysis on families of man-made shapes exhibiting high degrees of geometric and finer-scale structural variabilities. To the Editor:— I have read the editorial, "Elements of Style," inThe Journal, Jan. 23, page 345. Naturally, I am flattered. I must accept the compliment with some reservation, however, because as a matter of fact I have on occasion made a number of revisions or drafts before I have been satisfied with what I have written. It seems to me that this is bound to be so. We present a method for learning custom deformation handles for an object, from a co-analysis of similar objects. Our approach identifies the geometric and spatial constraints among the different parts of an object, and makes this information available through abstract shape handles. These handles allow the user to prescribe arbitrary deformation directives including free-form surface deformations. However, only a subset of admissible deformations is enabled to the user as learned from the constraint space. Example applications are presented in shape editing, co-deformation and style transfer. Texts on methods with introductions Critical glossary of concepts Bibliography Index. Giorgio Vasari - lives of the artists, 1958 Carel van Mander - Dutch and Flemish Painters, 1604 Giovanni Bellori - the idea of the painter, the sculptor and the architect chosen from the higher natural beauties of nature, 1672 Johann Winckelmann - history of ancient art, 1764 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Von deutscher Baukunst, 1772 Jakob Burckhardt - reflections on history, 1872 Giovanni Morelli - Italian painters, 1880 Alois Tiegi: late Roman art industry, 1901 Heinrich Wolfflin - principles of art history, 1915 Paul Franki - principles of architectural history, 1914 Roger Fry - reflections, 1920 Henri Focillon - the world of forms, 1934 Alfred H. Baff - chart of modern art, 1936 Erwin Panofshky - the history of art as a humanistic discipline, 1940 Nikolaus Pevsner - an outline of European architecture, 1943 Arnold Hauser - the scope a limitations of sociology of art, 1959 Susan Sontag - against interpretation, 1964 E.H. Gombrich - in search of cultural history, 1967 William Fagg - studying primitive art, 1973 T.J. Clark - the conditions of artistic creation, 1974 John Onians - art history, Kinstegschichte and historia, 1978 Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden - art history, art criticism and explanation, 1981 Svetlana Alpers - interpretation without representation, or the viewing of Las Meninas, 1983 Hans Belting - the end of the history of art?, 1984 Griselda Pollock - Feminist interventions in the history of Art, 1988.