Morse inequalities for diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold were first proved by Smale [21] under the assumption that the nonwandering set is finite. We call these the integral Morse inequalities. They were generalized by Zeeman in an unpublished work cited in [25] to diffeomorphisms with a hyperbolic chain recurrent set that is axiom-A-diffeomorphisms which satisfy the no cycle condition. For...

Recent advances in video super-resolution have shown that convolutional neural networks combined with motion compensation are able to merge information from multiple low-resolution (LR) frames to generate high-quality images. Current state-of-the-art methods process a batch of LR frames to generate a single high-resolution (HR) frame and run this scheme in a sliding window fashion over the enti...

This paper investigates the appearance manifold of facial expression: embedding image sequences of facial expression from the high dimensional appearance feature space to a low dimensional manifold. We explore Locality Preserving Projections (LPP) to learn expression manifolds from two kinds of feature space: raw image data and Local Binary Patterns (LBP). For manifolds of different subjects, w...

We study the “conformal groups” of Jordan algebras along the lines suggested by Kantor. They provide a natural generalization of the concept of conformal transformations that leave 2-angles invariant to spaces where “p-angles” (p ≥ 2) can be defined. We give an oscillator realization of the generalized conformal groups of Jordan algebras and Jordan triple systems. A complete list of the general...