Reliable damage detection is one of the most critical tasks in composite plate structures. Ultrasonic guided waves are acknowledged as an effective way of structural health mo...

Saliency regions attract more human’s attention than other regions in an image. Low- level and high-level features are utilized in saliency region detection. Low-level features contain primitive information such as color or texture while high-level features usually consider visual systems. Recently, some salient region detection methods have been proposed based on only low-level features or hig...

1. Locating faces in the scene (e.g., in an image; this step is also referred to as face detection), 2. Extracting facial features from the detected face region (e.g., detecting the shape of facial components or describing the texture of the skin in a facial area; this step is referred to as facial feature extraction), 3. Analyzing the motion of facial features and/or the changes in the appeara...

We present a novel method for facial feature point detection on images captured from severe uncontrolled environments based on a combination of regularized boosted classifiers and mixture of complex Bingham distributions. The complex Bingham distribution is a rotationinvariant shape representation that can handle pose, in-plane rotation and occlusion better than existing models. Additionally, w...

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Phonemes in the English language can be represented using either parallel or hierarchical distinctive speech features. There have been a number of efforts to integrate multiple information sources but none of these efforts addressed the issue of combining multiple sets of articulatory/linguistic features with different organization topologies. In this study, we combine a frame-based parallel sp...

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