Cars and Fashion: How Vehicles Became a Part of Personal Identity

Why cars in 2025 reflect personal values as much as clothing Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. It is in the sky, in the street, it has to do with ideas, the way we live.” — Coco ...
GitHub

AVF-MAE++ : Scaling Affective Video Facial Masked Autoencoders via Efficient Audio-Visual Self-Supervised Learning

Abstract: Affective Video Facial Analysis (AVFA) is important for advancing emotion-aware AI, yet the persistent data scarcity in AVFA presents challenges. Recently, the self-supervised learning (SSL) ...
IEEE

Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication for Wireless Visual Question Answering

Abstract: The rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision (CV) has facilitated the development of computation-intensive applications like Visual Question Answering (VQA), which ...
IEEE

Visual Language Model-Based Cross-Modal Semantic Communication Systems

Abstract: Semantic Communication (SC) has emerged as a novel communication paradigm in recent years. Nevertheless, extant Image Semantic Communication (ISC) systems face several challenges in dynamic ...
Psychology Today

Have We Been Misled About Self-Esteem?

What if a lot of what we’ve been told about self-esteem is not true? What if self-acceptance—not self-esteem—serves as the foundation for confidence, resilience, and true belonging? The Myth of ...
Yale Daily News

‘Severance’ visual effects supervisor speaks about creativity in film

Students and faculty gathered around Emmy-nominated visual effects supervisor Ashley Bernes Monday evening to discuss creative practices in the film and production industry. This event was part of the ...
bjo.bmj

Validation of a self-administered Home ETDRS visual acuity testing (H-ETDRS) for self-monitoring vision changes in retinal diseases

Objective To validate a self-administered Home Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (H-ETDRS) visual acuity (VA) test and to assess its accuracy in detecting VA decline in patients with retinal ...
Frontiers

Visual storytelling and cultural connection in GCC social media advertising

Introduction: Social media has transformed brand communication in the GCC, making culturally relevant visual storytelling essential for effective engagement. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey ...
PC Gamer

I played a visual novel about the terror of having a 'casual' boss and a job that wants you to conform to society's expectations—but not the ones involving economic stability

Truer than You is about working for an app run by a guy who definitely wears cartoon socks in the office to show he's not just a regular boring manager. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
The New York Times

What Visual and Audio Evidence Reveals About the Air India Crash

A Times investigation shows that the flight’s takeoff was largely routine, and that disaster struck after the plane was airborne. By Mika Gröndahl, Zach Levitt and Karthik Patanjali It could take ...
Frontiers

Instructors as communication strategists: using multimodal communication to implement a new course policy on assignment extension due dates

This study examines the implementation process and impact of a new course policy, the Emergency Button (EB), that was introduced to enhance the previously established penalty-free assignment extension ...