In this paper, we describe an approach for an animated speaking face synthesis and its application in modeling impostor/replay attack scenarios for face-voice based speaker verification systems. The speaking face reported here learns the spatiotemporal relationship between speech acoustics and MPEG4 compliant facial animation points. The influence of articulatory, perceptual, and prosodic acous...

Vehicles or freight cars on fire below a bridge or inside a tunnel are exceptional events and imply difficult intervention conditions for firefighters. A buried technical network like high voltage electricity line, gas or steam pipeline around such a fire causes additional specifics risks. Vulnerability areas for firefighters are defined as zones where both factors exist: a difficult incident a...

Assessing and mapping damage risk of floods for large river basins is still in its infancy. Damage risk is understood to be the combination of flood hazard and the vulnerability of communities to a flood of a particular return period. Risk is calculated and mapped for two communities in which dykes are not located for flood protection: Meissen on the Elbe River and Döbeln in the Mulde catchment...

Geographically isolated places are often sites of exported environmental risks, intense resource extraction, exploitation and marginalization, social policy neglect. These conditions create unique challenges related to vulnerability adaptation that have direct disaster management implications. Our research investigates the relationship between geographic isolation flood-related across Peru’s ec...

In recent decades, there has been a growing emphasis on assessing aquifer vulnerability. Given the availability of spatial data and GIS advantages, mapping groundwater vulnerability become common tool for protecting managing resources. Here, we applied indexing an overlay method to explore combination potential contamination factors needed assess in Mosha aquifer. The from borehole logger chemi...

extended abstract 1. introduction various effects of continuous drought, contributes to the vulnerability of rural households and their livelihoods is unstable, dynamic and multi-dimensional nature and vulnerability of drought it difficult to provide the study. however, to understand what an important role in mitigating the effects of drought vulnerability and improve the livelihood of rural pe...

BACKGROUND The thickness of the fibrous cap is a major determinant in the vulnerability of atherosclerotic plaque to rupture. It has been demonstrated that intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) backscatter from fibrous tissue is strongly dependent on the ultrasound beam angle of incidence. This study investigated the feasibility of using a new IVUS color mapping technique representing the angle-depen...

In general, the territory of Indonesia is prone to hydrometeorological disaster events. management, it necessary map source or level potential hazards. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method has been used determine relative importance each criterion for mapping disasters. This literature study aims criteria and weighting in AHP approach that can be assessing review limited by analyzing pot...

background: the safety of rehabilitation centers is of great importance to ensure the well-being of patients. the present study aimed to determine non-structural and functional vulnerability of state rehabilitation centers of tehran city welfare organization in disasters using national standard instruments in 2014. materials and methods: this study has a descriptive and cross-sectional design. ...