Over repeated reference conversational partners tend to converge on preferred terms or referential pacts. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by pragmatic difficulties that are best captured by less structured tasks. To this end we tested adults with ASD who did not have language or intellectual impairments, and neurotypical comparison participants in a referential communication t...

We present a longitudinal study of face recognition performance on Children Longitudinal Face (CLF) dataset containing 3, 682 face images of 919 subjects, in the age group [2, 18] years. Each subject has at least four face images acquired over a time span of up to six years. Face comparison scores are obtained from (i) a state-of-the-art COTS matcher (COTS-A), (ii) an open-source matcher (FaceN...

Cardiovascular diseases are a major health concern world-wide. Analysis of the cardiac motion is a standard technique for studying and understanding the etiology of heart disease such as ischemic heart disease. Ultrasound imaging is a very important and competitive medical diagnostic tool, due to its low cost, short acquisition time, and non-invasive nature. Echocardiography is a widely used ul...

This paper presents a new biometric identification and authentication schema in relation to payment systems and ATMs. The financial sector has used ATMs as a means to make payment and offer financial services for its clients. But, security is a major issue in accessing these machines. Improving the performance of individual matchers in the aforementioned situation may not be effective. Multi-bi...

A low level of relationship satisfaction is one of the best predictors of divorce in married couples, yet research has yet to clarify how relationship satisfaction changes during the first few years of marriage. This study sought to model the developmental trajectory of relationship satisfaction and demand-withdraw communication in newly married couples. Structural equation modeling was used to...

Kanishka Bhaduri Netflix Inc. 100 Winchester Cir. Los Gatos, CA, 95032 United States Tel.: 408 540 3331 (office) E-mail: [email protected] Abstract An automatic service to match commuting trips has been designed. Candidate carpoolers register their personal profile and a set of periodically recurring trips. The Global CarPooling Matching Service (GCPMS) shall advise registered candidates ho...

This paper focuses on the use of enhancement techniques for improving the performance of a hybrid fingerprint matcher based on the fusion of image-based fingerprint matchers and a minutiae-based matcher. A review of the existing literature is provided, and several methods are compared on all four FVC2004 databases. Through extensive testing, we find that the best performing system is obtained b...

We present a longitudinal study of face recognition performance on Children Longitudinal Face (CLF) dataset containing 3, 682 face images of 919 subjects, in the age group [2, 18] years. Each subject has at least four face images acquired over a time span of up to six years. Face comparison scores are obtained from (i) a state-of-the-art COTS matcher (COTS-A), (ii) an open-source matcher (FaceN...

Ontology specifies the concepts of a domain and their semantic relationships. It is widely used for solving the information heterogeneity problems on the web because of their capability to provide explicit meaning to the information. Different ontologies are created by developer for a same domain. To solve the heterogeneity problem among the specific domain several matching strategies are desig...