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In this paper, a tree decomposition model for eye blink detection is presented. The work is defined as a layered model for identification of human object over the video and identifying the moment based analysis over the video frames. At first the object region is identified and then the decomposition model is applied for eye blink identification based on featured map. The results show that the ...

In this paper, we motivate the need for a publicly available, generic software framework for question-answering (QA) systems. We present an open-source QA framework QANUS which researchers can leverage on to build new QA systems easily and rapidly. The framework implements much of the code that will otherwise have been repeated across different QA systems. To demonstrate the utility and practic...

D ry eye is very common among patients presenting for cataract or laser vision correction surgery. If the dry eye is not treated preoperatively, it can reduce the quality of preoperative data and can have a negative impact on surgical outcomes. Just prior to ASCRS, we surveyed cataract and refractive surgeons about the incidence of dry eye in their surgical patients, their awareness of current ...

Even under perfect fixation the human eye is under steady motion (tremor, microsaccades, slow drift). The “dynamic” theory of vision [1, 2] states that eye-movements can improve hyperacuity. According to this theory, eye movements are thought to create variable spatial excitation patterns on the photoreceptor grid, which will allow for better spatiotemporal summation at later stages. We reexami...

Purpose: This is the first population-based descriptive study of hospitalised eye injuries in New South Wales (NSW), Australia that also estimates the cost of these injures to the health system. The purpose is to describe the incidence and cause of hospitalised eye injuries in NSW from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2005. Method: Hospitalised eye injuries in NSW were obtained from information recorded ...

Eye contact is an effective means of controlling human communication, such as in starting communication. It seems that we can make eye contact if we simply look at each other. However, this alone does not establish eye contact. Both parties also need to be aware of being watched by the other. We propose a method of bidirectional eye contact satisfying these conditions for human-robot communicat...

We explore the idea that eye-movement strategies in reading are precisely adapted to the joint constraints of task structure, task payoff, and processing architecture. We present a model of saccadic control that separates a parametric control policy space from a parametric machine architecture, the latter based on a small set of assumptions derived from research on eye movements in reading (Eng...

People accurately compare and estimate means without using formal calculations, however, little is known about the cognitive processes underlying these behaviors. We used objective, behavioral data (e.g., eye fixation patterns), which are compatible with multiple representations, to compare cognitive models. Specifically, we compared seven cognitive models including working memory activation (w...

The locations of the eyes are the most commonly used features to perform face normalization (i. e., alignment of facial features), which is an essential preprocessing stage of many face recognition systems. In this paper, we study the sensitivity of open source implementations of five face recognition algorithms to misalignment caused by eye localization errors. We investigate the ambiguity in ...