This paper addresses the problem of human emotion estimation. Human emotion understanding will play a very important role in future humancomputer interaction systems. Human emotion is a complicated temporal behavior. The technical difficulty in human emotion estimation lies in that the inherent emotional states are not measured directly. The only way to estimate the emotional states is from obs...

Human age is considered an important biometric trait for human identification or search. Recent research shows that the aging features deeply learned from large-scale data lead to significant performance improvement on facial imagebased age estimation. However, age-related ordinal information is totally ignored in these approaches. In this paper, we propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network ...

An automatic facial feature extraction algorithm is presented. The algorithm is composed of two main stages: the face region estimation stage and the feature extraction stage. In the face region estimation stage, a second-chance region growing method is adopted to estimate the face region of a target image. In the feature extraction stage, genetic search algorithms are applied to extract the fa...

Besides the static soft tissue prediction in surgery simulation, the estimation of postoperative facial mimics is another important criterion for the evaluation of surgery planning. Especially in craniofacial surgery, the realistic prediction of patient’s dynamic appearance is of utmost importance. For a realistic simulation of facial mimics at least an adequate biomechanical model of soft tiss...

Facial attractiveness seems to be perceived immediately. Neuroimaging evidence suggests that the appraisal of facial attractiveness is mediated by a network of cortical and subcortical regions, mainly encompassing the reward circuit, but also including prefrontal cortices. The prefrontal cortex is involved in high-level processes, so how does its activity relate to beauty appreciation? To shed ...

Picture selection is a time-consuming task for humans and a real challenge for machines, which have to retrieve complex and subjective information from image pixels. An automated system that infers human feelings from digital portraits would be of great help for profile picture selection, photo album creation or photo editing. In this work, two models of facial pictures evaluation are defined. ...

Recently we made a proposal for realization of an effective BRS symmetry along the Wilsonian renormalization group flow. In this paper we show that the idea can be naturally extended for the most general gauge theories. Extensive use of the antifield formalism is made to reveal some remarkable structure of the effective BRS symmetry. The average action defined with a continuum analog of the blo...

title = {Facial pose estimation using active appearance models and a generic face model}, booktitle = {Proceedings of VISAPP 2010-International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications}, publisher = {INSTICC}, year = {2010}, pages = {499-506} } Abstract: The complexity in face recognition emerges from the variability of the appearance of human faces. While the identity is preserved...

In this study, I present a real-time gender and age estimation approach that I developed for the course project of Artificial Neural Networks. For these tasks, I employed a local appearance-based representation using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), which has been shown to be very effective in realtime processing and robust against changes caused by light and facial expressions. Using these fea...