Brief history of the violin. The emergence of the violin in Upper Italy: The violin evolved from the viola da braccio family between 1520-1550, the Upper Italian towns of Milan, Brescia, Cremona and Venice being the most important centers. The term “violin” (from the Italian word violino) is derived from the word viola and had the general meaning “small stringed instrument” rather than “small v...

This master thesis deals with real-time algorithms and techniques for face detection and face tracking in videos. A new approach is presented where optical flow information is incorporated into the Viola-Jones face detection algorithm, allowing the algorithm to update the expected position of detected faces in the next frame. This continuity between video frames is not exploited by the original...

Viola and Jones Algorithmand Viola and Jones, the conventional face-detecting methods, have the advantages in that they could help fast and clear face recognition. But they also have their own drawbacks. With Viola and Jones, detection of slanted face is hard, and Viola and Jonescannot provide the precise recognition of faces since the detected area in faces is rather wide depending on the envi...

Two or more components (e.g., objects, modules, or programs) interoperate when they exchange data, such as XML data. Currently, there is no approach that can detect a situation at compile time when one component modifies XML data so that it becomes incompatible for use by other components, delaying discovery of errors to runtime. Our solution, a Verifier for Interoperating cOmponents for findin...

In order to build a fully automated system that analyzes the information in face image, there is a need for robust and efficient face detection algorithms. One of the fastest and most successful approaches in this field was presented by Viola. In this paper, Viola approach is used as the basis algorithm in order to propose a new efficient face detection system. Using Haar-like features for faci...

Her comments on my work cover a rich variety of topics. I won't try to comment on everything she has to say, but she has focused on a number of issues that I have also thought about and think are important. Broadly speaking we do agree, I believe, about the role of models in the philosophy of science and also in various parts of science as well. I have several comments, so I will highlight each...

Embedded systems such as mobile phones, handheld computer systems, robots etc., are becoming increasingly more important in our daily lives. There are countless examples of embedded systems on which it is feasible to have a robust face detector. For example to increase the interaction between a human and a robot, a first step for the robot could be to detect the face of the human it interacts w...