A facial analysis-synthesis framework based on a concise set of local, independently actuated, Coarticulation Regions (CR) is presented for the control of 2D animated characters. ...
We consider the use of wavelet transformations as a dimensionality reduction technique to permit efficient similarity search over high-dimensional time-series data. While numerou...
Recent works in object recognition often use visual words, i.e. vector quantized local descriptors extracted from the images. In this paper we present a novel method to build such ...
A feature extraction method using multi-frequency bands is proposed for face recognition, named as the Multi-band Gradient Component Pattern (MGCP). The MGCP captures discriminativ...
Yimo Guo, Jie Chen, Guoying Zhao, Matti Pietik&aum...
Adaptable similarity queries based on quadratic form distance functions are widely popular in data mining applications, particularly for domains such as multimedia, CAD, molecular ...