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ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Estimating 3D Face Model and Facial Deformation from a Single Image Based on Expression Manifold Optimization
Facial expression modeling is central to facial expression recognition and expression synthesis for facial animation. Previous works reported that modeling the facial expression wi...
Shu-Fan Wang, Shang-Hong Lai
VLDB
2007
ACM
181views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
STAR: Self-Tuning Aggregation for Scalable Monitoring
We present STAR, a self-tuning algorithm that adaptively sets numeric precision constraints to accurately and efficiently answer continuous aggregate queries over distributed data...
Navendu Jain, Michael Dahlin, Yin Zhang, Dmitry Ki...
VLDB
2008
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
PicShark: mitigating metadata scarcity through large-scale P2P collaboration
With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather th...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Manfred H...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
227views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Incorporating partitioning and parallel plans into the SCOPE optimizer
— Massive data analysis on large clusters presents new opportunities and challenges for query optimization. Data partitioning is crucial to performance in this environment. Howev...
Jingren Zhou, Per-Åke Larson, Ronnie Chaiken
CVPR
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Human age estimation using bio-inspired features
We investigate the biologically inspired features (BIF) for human age estimation from faces. As in previous bioinspired models, a pyramid of Gabor filters are used at all positio...
Guodong Guo, Guowang Mu, Yun Fu, Thomas S. Huang