In this paper, we describe subskills of visual communication based on the skill structure outlined in the Common European Framework of Visual Literacy. We have developed this Framework further through assessing the development of subskills related to...
In recent decades, multiple approaches have emerged to assess architectural visual character, including fractal dimension analysis, visual equilibrium calculations, and visual preference surveys. However, the relationships among these methods and the...
With increasing focus on more nuanced aspects of quality of life, the phenomenon of urban visual pollution has been progressively gaining attention from researchers and policy makers, especially in the developed world. However, the subjectivity and c...
Within the broad field of landscape assessment, scholarship focused on visual impacts accounted for a very small percentage of peer-reviewed journal articles. There has been even less interest in reviewing the methods being employed to conduct visual...
Visual pollution (VP) is a visual landscape quality issue, and its most consistently recognized symptom is an excess of out of home advertising billboards (OOHb). However, the VP related research concerns landscape aesthetic and advertisement cultura...
Earthquake is among the most devastating natural disasters causing severe economical, environmental, and social destruction. Earthquake safety assessment and building hazard monitoring can highly contribute to urban sustainability through identificat...
Public landscape impact assessment of renewable energy installations is crucial for their acceptance. Thus, a sound assessment basis is crucial in the implementation process. For valuing landscape perception, the visual sense is the dominant human se...
Background/Objectives: Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is a non-invasive diagnostic technique commonly employed in routine clinical practice to identify coronary artery disease. Emerging echocardiographic methods, including strain and strain...
Visual Impact Assessment (VIA) is a critical tool in managing cultural heritage, evaluating the impacts of development and construction projects on the visual aspects of heritage values. However, VIA is often constrained by subjectivity, low public p...
This paper presents the construction of a new objective method for estimation of visual perceiving quality. The proposal provides an assessment of image quality without the need for a reference image or a specific distortion assumption. Two main proc...
Nowadays, how to evaluate image quality reasonably is a basic and challenging problem. In view of the present no reference evaluation methods, they cannot reflect the human visual perception of image quality accurately. In this paper, we propose an e...
Currently, recognition and assessment of human posture have become significant topics of interest, particularly through the use of visual sensor systems. These approaches can effectively address the drawbacks associated with traditional manual assess...
Land cover identification and area quantification are key aspects of implementing the European Common Agriculture Policy. Legitimacy of support provided to farmers is monitored using the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS), with land cover ident...
To facilitate the display of solar images, captured solar images are often subjected to tone-mapping and enhancement. Accordingly, it is necessary to assess the quality of solar images before and after tone-mapping. However, there exist certain diffe...
Fuel load and structure are fundamental drivers of fire behaviour. Accurate data is required for managers and researchers to better understand our ability to alter fire risk. While there are many ways to quantify fuel, visual assessment methods are g...
Against the backdrop of urban stock renewal, as the core area of a city rich in culture, aesthetics, and tourism resources, the assessment of landscape visual sensitivity of historic districts can provide an accurate, objective, and intuitive decisio...
At present, the collection and analysis of large amounts of key data for the visual quality assessment of streets are performed manually. The assessment efficiency is not high, and the effective information is not fully explored. This study aims to e...
Traditional visual quality assessments of rural landscapes rely on subjective methods. This study integrates eye-tracking technology with subjective perception evaluation to construct a visual quality assessment model for rural landscapes, aiming to...
Provisioning the stereoscopic 3D (S3D) video transmission services of admissible quality in a wireless environment is an immense challenge for video service providers. Unlike for 2D videos, a widely accepted No-reference objective model for assessing...
Vista landscapes of historic cities embody unique spatial order and cultural memory, and the scientific quantification of their visual quality presents a common challenge for both heritage conservation and urban renewal. Focusing on the Beijing Centr...
This research addresses critical challenges in clinical gait analysis by developing an automated video quality assessment framework to support Edinburgh Visual Gait Score (EVGS) scoring. The proposed methodology uses the MoveNet Lightning pose estima...
Collect Earth is a free and open source software for land monitoring developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Built on Google desktop and cloud computing technologies, Collect Earth facilitates access to multipl...
Background/Objectives: Visual inspection of parenteral drug products is a mandatory and critical unit operation, typically followed by an Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) check, as required by current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and regulatory...
The urban village represents a particular problem in urban design and renewal in China. Many cities in China have started the redevelopment of urban villages. Based on the investigation of four urban village redevelopment projects in Guangdong Provin...
In order to prevent possible loss of life and property, existing building stocks need to be assessed before an impending earthquake. Beyond the examination of large building stocks, rapid evaluation methods are required because the evaluation of even...
The Yangshuo Section of the Lijiang River Basin (YS of LRB) is the essence of the Guilin landscape in China. The typical karst landforms and changing topography form a unique forest landscape in YS of LRB. In order to reveal the visual quality of its...
Background: The assessment of breast density is one of the main goals of radiologists because the masking effect of dense fibroglandular tissue may affect the mammographic identification of lesions. The BI-RADS 5th Edition has revised the mammographi...
Multiple hazards, which threaten people’s lives and property, are the main concern for engineers in preventing dangers to buildings. In particular, densely populated areas, such as capital cities and tall buildings, are exposed to higher risks...
The Internet has been progressively more integrated into daily life through its evolutionary stages, ranging from web1.0 to the current development of web3.0. These continued integrations broaden the attack surface that cybercriminals aim to exploit....
Multiview video plus depth is one of the mainstream representations of 3D scenes in emerging free viewpoint video, which generates virtual 3D synthesized images through a depth-image-based-rendering (DIBR) technique. However, the inaccuracy of depth...
Deep learning has recently been used to study blind image quality assessment (BIQA) in great detail. Yet, the scarcity of high-quality algorithms prevents from developing them further and being used in a real-time scenario. Patch-based techniques hav...
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This two-year follow-up assessment was performed on 721 elementary (Grades 2–4) and middle (Grade 1) school students who used, and 62 Grade 4 (Control) students who did not use, E-learning environments from schools in Beijing and Shandong Provi...
Wind turbines can affect perceived landscape quality, particularly in open rural settings where their scale and distinctive form make them a strong visual dominant. This article presents model-based research on how turbine setback distance from resid...
Recently, the demand for residence and usage of urban infrastructure has been increased, thereby resulting in the elevation of risk levels of human lives over natural calamities. The occupancy demand has rapidly increased the construction rate, where...
Surgical skill assessment can quantify the quality of the surgical operation via the motion state of the surgical instrument tip (SIT), which is considered one of the effective primary means by which to improve the accuracy of surgical operation. Tra...
The subway is one of urban residents’ main means of public transportation. The design of entrance pavilions to subway stations has shown a diverse development trend over time. Since most of the subway building space is underground, it is very d...
The landscape visual sensitivity (LVS) assessment is recognized as a critical tool for identifying areas most sensitive to landscape changes and for informing multi-resource optimization and allocation strategies. However, conventional large-scale LV...
Many conventional rapid visual screening (RVS) methods for the seismic assessment of existing structures have been designed over the past three decades, tailored to site-specific building features. The objective of implementing RVS is to identify the...
Thinking of present gastronomic trends is inevitable when talking about innovation in Haute Pastry. Despite the rising demand for new creations, launching a successful product that meets the high expectations of consumers is increasingly complex. For...
While visual literacy has been identified as a foundational skill in life science education, there are many challenges in teaching and assessing biomolecular visualization skills. Among these are the lack of consensus about what constitutes competenc...
It is widely acknowledged that the visual dimension of photovoltaics (PV) is fundamental for social acceptance. In this sense, the so-called Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) is a possible catalyzer, as PV is hidden (integrated) into building...
Baijiu is an ancient, distilled spirit with a complicated brewing process, unique taste, and rich trace components. These trace components play a decisive role in the aroma, taste, and especially the quality of baijiu. In this paper, the redox reacti...
The cultural landscape of Chiang Mai city, which is characterized by the interlinkage between mountain and historical settlement, has faced the adverse impacts of visual intrusion in its buffer zone from urbanization. However, there are challenges to...
Visual quality and impact assessments have historically relied on experts to formally evaluate the visual properties of a landscape. In contrast, environmental psychologists have studied subjective landscape preferences using ratings and surveys. The...
Thinking of the present gastronomic trends is inevitable when talking about innovation in haute pastry. Launching a successful product that meets consumers’ high expectations despite the rising demand for new creations is increasingly complex....
Depth-Image-Based-Rendering (DIBR) is one of the core techniques for generating new views in 3D video applications. However, the distortion characteristics of the DIBR synthetic view are different from the 2D image. It is necessary to study the uniqu...
Carbon emission assessment in civil engineering has gained worldwide attention due to the negative effects of greenhouse gases on the environment. Significant amounts of building materials and electric power are consumed during the construction of tu...
The optimal structural design is imperative in order to minimize material consumption and reduce the environmental impacts of construction. Given the complexity in the formulation of structural design problems, the process of optimization is commonly...
Visual evoked potential (VEP) has been used as an alternative method to assess visual acuity objectively, especially in non-verbal infants and adults with low intellectual abilities or malingering. By sweeping the spatial frequency of visual stimuli...
For power system disaster prevention and mitigation, risk assessment and visualization under typhoon disaster have important scientific significance and engineering value. However, current studies have problems such as incomplete factors, strong subj...
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