This paper presents a method to locate and identify characters within a comic strip. As many comics use distinct color schemes to represent each character, the developed method uses color histograms to determine the presence and location of characters in a frame. To provide a baseline for comparison, SIFT features were also used to identify the characters. It was found that the SIFT algorithm i...

The inclusion of potentially correct characters in candidate sets is key to improving accuracy in the recognition of Chinese scripts in the aspect of contextual post-processing. This paper presents two methods based on a confusion matrix to recall the correct characters. The first method uses original candidates to conjecture the most likely correct characters, and then combines the conjectured...

Pulsed characters are temporary biochemical, cellular, or structural changes produced in response to environmental or biotic challenge. For example, response to parasitic attack develops as a pulse of defensive chemicals or cells that typically decay after the parasite has been controlled. Almost all theories for the genetic variability of characters assume measurements on static characters. Th...

This paper presents two studies pertaining to the use of virtual characters applied in clinical forensic rehabilitation of sex offenders. The first study is about the validation of the perceived age of virtual characters designed to simulate primary and secondary sexual character of typical adult and child individuals. The second study puts to use these virtual characters in comparing a group o...

This paper proposes two methods of query expansion for retrieving paraphrase candidates indexed by Kanzi (Chinese) characters. The idea is to calculate similarity between Kanzi characters based on an ordinary thesaurus defining relations between words. The local analysis method calculates similarity of Kanzi characters based on a semantic class to which words in a query belong, in contrast, the...

This paper presents a study of how exaggerated facial expression in the lower face region affects perception of emotion and the Uncanny Valley phenomenon in realistic, human-like, virtual characters. Characters communicated the six basic emotions, anger, disgust, fear, sadness and surprise with normal and exaggerated mouth movements. Measures were taken for perceived familiarity and human-liken...

This paper presents the development of Gurumukhi character recognition system of isolated handwritten characters by using Neocognitron at the first time. Wellknown neocognitron artificial neural network is chosen for its fast processing time and its good performance for pattern recognition problems. Here we have found the recognition accuracy of both learned and unlearned images of characters. ...