Front cover image: Given a rise in the popularity of wearable electronics that are able to deform into desirable configurations while preserving electrochemical functionality, stretchable and flexible supercapacitors (SCs) have become increasingly interest as innovative energy storage devices. In article number: 10.1002/cey2.320, Amiri et al. investigated various advancements upcoming prospects...

This paper presents a complete framework for creating speechenabled 2D and 3D avatars from a single image of a person. Our approach uses a generic facial motion model which represents deformations of the prototype face during speech. We have developed an HMM-based facial animation algorithm which takes into account both lexical stress and coarticulation. This algorithm produces realistic animat...

This thesis gives an overview of the research of a system that generates a 3D model of a human head from 2D images. The location and size of the eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth in 2D orthogonal images are detected using skin color detection, template matching, value detection and a anthropometric model. The results of these detections are combined for more robust results. Manual initialization i...

Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms are a relatively common cause of death in the western world. Endovascular repair can be used to reduce the risk of rupture and is becoming the preferred method of treatment in lieu of open surgery. However, intraoperatively only 2D fluoroscopy imagery is available to the surgeon making complex repair difficult. We have been investigating the use of a rigid 2D...

In this paper we combine methods from the field of computer vision with surface editing techniques to generate animated faces, which are all in full correspondence to each other. The inputs for our system are synchronized video streams from multiple cameras. The system produces a sequence of triangle meshes with fixed connectivity, representing the dynamics of the captured face. By carefully ta...

Composite materials are promising in the manufacturing industry due to quality of their materials. However, transforming these materials, machining process experiences a high-heat generation rate, which has led study temperature distribution, and reduction analysis at cutting region. High-temperature during operation leads thermal deformation on developed component or parts, affecting life span...