In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is given a sequence of its observations. We define a term called ‘‘deformability index’’ (DI) ...
This paper addresses Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), focusing on developing a hidden semantic concept discovery methodology to address effective semanticsintensive image ret...
Our goal is to incorporate polarization in appearancebased modeling in an efficient and meaningful way. Polarization has been used in numerous prior studies for separating diffuse...
Oana G. Cula, Kristin J. Dana, Dinesh K. Pai, Dong...
Recently there has been an increasing interest in developing regression models for large datasets that are both accurate and easy to interpret. Regressors that have these properti...
This paper presents a complete framework for creating a speechenabled avatar from a single image of a person. Our approach uses a generic facial motion model which represents defo...