In this paper we describe the use of avatar “appearance codes” for professionals in Internet-Based Virtual Worlds like Second Life. We describe the results of a survey with 37 participants. Of those participants, 45.9% indicated that an avatar appearance that accurately represents your physical appearance is unimportant to professional interactions. We conclude that it is important that emergen...

Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are generative parametric models that have been successfully used in the past to model faces. Anecdotal evidence, however, suggests that the performance of an AAM built to model the variation in appearance of a single person across pose, illumination, and expression (Person Specific AAM) is substantially better than the performance of an AAM built to model the va...

Recent research has shown that infants and young children up to the age of 5 years are more likely to imitate in-group members than out-group members. Cues like gender, race, age, and language are robust indicators for social categories and, thus, for group membership. Concerning imitation, research mainly focuses on language and accent, whereas race indicated by physical appearance is rarely i...

Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are a well studied 2D deformable model. One recently proposed extension of AAMs to multiple images is the CoupledView AAM. Coupled-View AAMs model the 2D shape and appearance of a face in two or more views simultaneously. The major limitation of CoupledView AAMs, however, is that they are specific to a particular set of cameras, both in geometry and the photometr...

The Rio de Janeiro state archive's collection of entry logs for the city's central detention center, going back to the mid-nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse into the lives of Rio's—and Brazil's—poor and working classes who otherwise left few written records behind. During the time when the institution maintained the entry logs, police exercised broad power to make arrests. Although re...

We present a joint face alignment technique that takes a set of images as input and produces a set of shapeand appearanceconsistent face alignments as output. Our method is an extension of the recent localization method of Belhumeur et al. [1], which combines the output of local detectors with a non-parametric set of face shape models. We are inspired by the recent joint alignment method of Zha...

Dental practice is the integral component of the oral health. Though the dental practice is in close relation with that of the medical practice, it has its own distinctiveness in relation to safe practice. The safe dental practice should not only assure good oral and general health but also improve social interaction by enhancing physical appearance, esthetics, etc. For the safe dental practice...

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between CPI inflation uncertainty, and private investment in the Iranian economy from 1988 to 2010 by using quarterly data. We employ a bivariate VAR(5)-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean with diagonal BEKK model to discover in a unified framework how are the interactions between the variables. In the model, conditional variance of inflation and private inve...