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An Application Of Deep-Learning To Understand Human Perception Of Art, Sanjana Kapisthalam Dec 2018

An Application Of Deep-Learning To Understand Human Perception Of Art, Sanjana Kapisthalam

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Eye movement patterns are known to differ when looking at stimuli given a different task, but less is known about how these patterns change as a function of expertise. When a particular visual pattern is viewed, a particular sequence of eye movements are executed and this sequence is defined as scanpath. In this work we made an attempt to answer the question, “Do art novices and experts look at paintings differently?” If they do, we should be able to discriminate between the two groups using machine learning applied to their scanpaths. This can be done using algorithms for Multi-Fixation Pattern …


Perceptions Of Non-Americans Towards American Tv Series, Thaarika Charumathy Seetharaman Aug 2018

Perceptions Of Non-Americans Towards American Tv Series, Thaarika Charumathy Seetharaman

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Television drama is one of the most entertaining genre of the media industry, and it serves as a socialization platform (Greenberg, 1982). American TV series have gained audience and fans from all around the world which opens up the scope for examining the effects of American media on the secondary audience. Drawing on the framework of cultivation theory, this study examined the effect of American TV series on non-American population. The results suggested that the cultivation effects are dependent on age and gender of the respondents, in connection with the genre of the series influencing the audience’s framing of the …