Multimodal biometrics technology that uses more than two sorts of biometrics data has been universally applied for person certification and proof. Researchers have advised that the ear may have benefits over the face for biometric recognition. In this study, a technique for face and ear recognition has suggested. The face image and ear images are prearranged as input. From the pre-processed inp...

The 20 item prosopagnosia index (PI20) was recently developed to identify individuals with developmental prosopagnosia. While the PI20's principal purpose is to aid researchers and clinicians, it was suggested that it may serve as a useful screening tool to identify people with face recognition difficulties in applied settings where face matching is a critical part of their occupation. Although...

although the validity of content of program is mostly conducted with qualitative methods, this study used both qualitative and quantitative methods for the validation of content of post marriage training program provided for newly married couples. content validity is a preliminary step of obtaining authorization required to install the program in country's health care system.this mixed methodol...

Over the last decade, human facial expressions recognition (FER) has emerged as an important research area. Several factors make FER a challenging research problem. These include varying light conditions in training and test images; need for automatic and accurate face detection before feature extraction; and high similarity among different expressions that makes it difficult to distinguish thes...

This Ph.D thesis work is dedicated to 3D facial surface analysis, processing as well as to the newly proposed 3D face recognition modality, which is based on mapping techniques. Facial surface processing and analysis is one of the most important steps for 3D face recognition algorithms. Automatic anthropometric facial features localization also plays an important role for face localization, fac...

Face milling is an important and common machining operation because of its versatility and capability to produce various surfaces. Face milling is a machining process of removing material by the relative motion between a work piece and rotating cutter with multiple cutting edges. It is an interrupted cutting operation in which the teeth of the milling cutter enter and exit the work piece during...

The CDC recommends that healthcare settings provide influenza patients with facemasks as a means of reducing transmission to staff and other patients, and a recent report suggested that surgical masks can capture influenza virus in large droplet spray. However, there is minimal data on influenza virus aerosol shedding, the infectiousness of exhaled aerosols, and none on the impact of facemasks ...

This paper presents a real-time face detection algorithm for locating faces in images and videos. This algorithm finds not only the face regions, but also the precise locations of the facial components such as eyes and lips. The algorithm starts from the extraction of skin pixels based upon rules derived from a simple quadratic polynomial model. Interestingly, with a minor modification, this po...

BACKGROUND A novel remote access robotic thyroidectomy technique has been described that uses as its portal a postauricular and occipital hairline (facelift) incision. Experimental investigation and clinical validation have been completed. A detailed technical description is provided. METHODS AND MATERIALS A young woman with a thyroid nodule was referred for surgery. Because of her concerns a...