—The goal of this work is to develop statistical models for the shape change of a configuration of “landmark” points (key points of interest) over time and to use these mode...
In this paper, we introduce a system that synthesizes the emotional audio-visual speech for a 3-D talking agent by adopting the PAD (Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance) emotional model. A ...
—In this work we propose a dynamic-texture-based approach to the recognition of facial Action Units (AUs, atomic facial gestures) and their temporal models (i.e., sequences of te...
In this paper we describe our experiments for the high level features extraction task of TRECVid 2007. Our approach is different than previous submissions in that we have impleme...
The emerging MPEG-7 standard embodies a visual descriptor that will be associated with the dominant colors of an image. In this contribution, a threshold adaptation method for reg...