P300 was evoked by a visual oddball and an S1-S2 task in 22 non-demented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients (13 in the early stage, nine in the late stage) and 18 normal controls. Reaction time was also measured. All patients undertook the (99)Tc-ECD SPECT examination. Quantitative regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was obtained by overlying SPECT image on the 3D-magnetic resonance image. In th...

We propose a method for detecting facial symmetry axis from frontal face image. The proposed adopts voting procedure like Hough transform that transforms set of edge points into perpendicular bisectors two different selected the set. The initial guess is adjusted accurately by following fine tuning procedure. Experimental results show correctly detects axes real images visually a...

With the improvement of medical levels and continuous people’s living standards, demand for beauty by general public is increasing. The plastic surgery industry has also developed leaps bounds. People’s dissatisfaction with their own facial appearance, injuries some other reasons have prompted people to carry out reconstruction, rapidly. However, in current surgery, edge detection effect on con...

In this paper, we propose a recording system for a round-table meeting using microphone array as well as omnidirectional video camera. These equipments are located at the center of the table, and record all the activity during a meeting. They are also used for estimating the directions of speakers, and such data is exploited for reproducing the frontal image of the speaker from omnidirectional ...

Human face detection plays an important role in a wide range of applications such as face recognition, surveillance systems, video tracking applications, and image databasemanagement. In this paper, a novel fuzzy rule-based system for pose, size, and position independent face detection in color images is proposed. Subtractive clustering method is also applied to decide on the numbers of members...

This paper presents a novel Bayesian Discriminating Features (BDF) method for multiple frontal face detection. The BDF method, which is trained on images from only one database, yet works on test images from diverse sources, displays robust generalization performance. The novelty of this paper comes from the integration of the discriminating feature analysis of the input image, the statistical ...

The 3D Morphable Face Model (3DMM)[1] has been used for over a decade for creating 3D models from single images of faces. This model is based on a PCA model of the 3D shape and texture generated from a limited number of 3D scans. The goal of fitting a 3DMM to an image is to find the model coefficients, the lighting and other imaging variables from which we can remodel that image as accurately a...

Introduction: Paranormal beliefs are defined as believing in extrasensory perception, precognition, witchcraft, and telekinesis, magical thinking, psychokinesis, superstitions. Previous studies corroborate that executive brain functions underpin paranormal beliefs. To test causal hypotheses, neurophysiological studies of brain activity are required. Method: A sample of 20 students (10 females,...