Visual comparison and statistical methods were used to assess colour realism, specularity, impression of the dimensions, sharpness of rendering and appearance of the surface topology [11].
Dickens devotees will not soon forget that experience, nor the instruction the author wrote in an initialed note to Marcus Stone, the illustrator of "Our Mutual Friend," about a certain character's appearance: "A weird sharpness not without beauty, is the thing I want".
Type was based on the size of drusen, uniformity of appearance across the breadth, and the sharpness of edges.
Besides the use of photographic rules there are authors which evaluate low-level features (e.g., sharpness, brightness, and contrast) in order to identify the overall appearance of a photo [39, 73, 80, 81, 108].
The appearance pattern includes information of local contrast, nearby tissues, boundary sharpness, and etc.
Aggarwal et al.[82] show that good, bad, ugly pairs can be predicted by using partial least square regression between image-based features (sharpness, hue, and intensity) and geometric attributes of a face (obtained using active appearance modeling).
Post-processing included adjustment to image brightness and contrast, colour balance (Curves function) and sharpness (Unsharp mask) to ensure that reproduction matched the corresponding glass slide appearances, then images were uploaded to the viewing software (Digital SlideBox, Leica Biosystems).
His jarring juxtapositions of incongruous images and styles point up with special sharpness the paradox on which this art of appropriated matter is poised: its mysterious, almost preternatural appearance of originality.
That might have been to do with his ill appearance due to cancer, but was far more likely to be down to the sharpness of his verbal barbs and the fact that 57% of the audience already agreed with his sceptical position according to a pre-debate poll, while just 22% agreed with Blair's side.
Representing China in the country's first appearance in the unique mixed-doubles-centric tournament, the fifth-ranked Li showed flashes of the sharpness that carried to the podium in her first match of the 2012 calendar, twice winning long streaks of consecutive games on her way to a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 comeback victory over W.T.A. No. 9 Marion Bartoli of France.
