Face Hallucination With Finishing Touches

Obtaining a high-quality frontal face image from a low-resolution (LR) non-frontal face image is primarily important for many facial analysis applications. However, mainstreams either focus on super-resolving near-frontal LR faces or frontalizing non-frontal high-resolution (HR) faces. It is desirable to perform both tasks seamlessly for daily-life unconstrained face images. In this paper, we present a novel Vivid Face Hallucination Generative Adversarial Network (VividGAN) for simultaneously super-resolving and frontalizing tiny non-frontal face images. VividGAN consists of coarse-level and fine-level Face Hallucination Networks (FHnet) and two discriminators, i.e., Coarse-D and Fine-D. The coarse-level FHnet generates a frontal coarse HR face and then the fine-level FHnet makes use of the facial component appearance prior, i.e., fine-grained facial components, to attain a frontal HR face image with authentic details. In the fine-level FHnet, we also design a facial component-aware module that adopts the facial geometry guidance as clues to accurately align and merge the frontal coarse HR face and prior information. Meanwhile, two-level discriminators are designed to capture both the global outline of a face image as well as detailed facial characteristics. The Coarse-D enforces the coarsely hallucinated faces to be upright and complete while the Fine-D focuses on the fine hallucinated ones for sharper details. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our VividGAN achieves photo-realistic frontal HR faces, reaching superior performance in downstream tasks, i.e., face recognition and expression classification, compared with other state-of-the-art methods

A conversion disorder

Interrogating the relationship between reading, writing and ‘conversion disorder’, this creative-critical essay explores the eversion of the glove in the work of Woolf, Genet, Freud and Derrida. Gathering together reflections on gloves and glove anaesthesia, doubles and pairs, and flowers and the death knell (glas), it offers a series of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic conversions in order to return to and rethink the question of ‘disorder’

Discovering Psychosis in “The Drowning Girl” Novel by Caitlín R. Kiernan

The purpose of the study is to discover the psychosis personality in The Drowning Girl novel by Caitlín R. Kiernan that written in 2012. The story of the novel reveals a condition of someone who suffers psychosis living her life and the psychosis in the novel shown from the dialogues and narratives form. The writer used psychoanalysis theory of Jacques Lacan that exposes Mirror Stages of protagonist and it consist three stages; Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real. Therefore, this study applied qualitative methodology and textual methodology as the analysis presented in textual form. The result of the study uncovers the symptoms form and the causes of psychosis of the protagonist. Then, the symptoms form of the psychosis in this study are hallucination and delusion which make someone who suffers psychosis hard to differentiate reality and imagination. Furthermore, the causes of psychosis which discuss in this study are the absentee of father figure, the imagination in infancy period, and the lesbian identity state

The Materials’ Catch Dream-Thinking for Architects

Materials appear to be the stuff architects day-dream about, experiment and work with in architecture studios, building sites, prototyping labs. In both design and make, materials’ specifications, their properties and performance are always an issue of much consideration that requires solid technical knowledge and thoughtful decisions. But what if materials were to be thought neither as inert entities that architects manipulate for their clients to use and check in post-occupancy evaluations, nor just as matter whose properties are to be tamed to appease architectural obsessions and then offered to colleagues (and theorists) for contemplation? This text experiments with ways of thinking about or ‘together’ with materials. To do so, it takes a dream-ride to different cities to recall instances of intense personal attachments with architecture matter, two of which belong to the specific temporal category of the bygone. Architecture ruins and materials of urban pasts are of particular interest as they seem to set up catches that allure and captivate in a visceral way. Such an ‘unmediated’ encounter with materials has unpredictable consequences that undermine the ‘meet the eye/touch the ear/hit the brain’ beaten path of recounting experiences of architecture’s past in our cities. Unsurprisingly, capricious side-effects emerge as soon as the process of thinking drops its academic respectability to open up to the delights of dreamthinking

Intersecting Nervous Disorders in Dostoevsky’s

Intersecting Nervous Disordersin Dostoevsky’

“Where is the Essence that was so Divine?”: The Nostalgia of Moore’s Minutemen

The research seeks to identify the purpose of nostalgia within Alan Moore’s Watchmen. The characters Laurie Juspeczyk and Adrian Veidt look to the past for truth and inspiration, whereas Dr. Manhattan stands as a figure rejecting the past as humans perceive it. Laurie and Adrian seek to regain the feelings held by the past, but are met with the grim state of the present. Each of these characters has a specific relationship with the past that shapes their perceptions on life as they know it. To figure out why Laurie and Adrian hold onto nostalgia and why Dr. Manhattan repudiates the concept, Friedrich Schiller’s thoughts on nature will stand as the theoretical basis for this essay and will be applied to the teachings of thinkers such as Judith Butler, John Stuart Mill, and Scott McCloud. By incorporating the thoughts of these intellectuals, and others, nostalgia’s role in the life of each character will be hypothesized and placed in conversation with Moore’s text

Avoidance - Avoidance

A book documenting the Avoidance-Avoidance project: Avoidance—Avoidance combines a performed play staged amongst exhibited art works. The play has had 10 iterations in 6 countries using 12 actors and has been performed in 5 languages. Each presentation comprises a new edited site-specific script and a new body of accompanying artworks that act as both autonomous artworks and stage devices. The play centres on two characters based on the film director Mary Ellen Bute and her real-life lover and cinematographer Ted Nemeth. The dialogue is a love story which comments on the methods of concealment that are used both in our personal intimate relationships and more broadly speaking in politics where ‘trust’ and ‘transparency’ are a valuable currency