Video-streaming services usually feature post-processing effects to replace the background. However, these often yield inconsistent lighting. Machine-learning-based relighting methods can address this problem, but, at real-time rates, are restricted a low resolution and result in an unrealistic skin appearance. Physically-based rendering techniques require complex models that only be acquired u...

Previous work has demonstrated that the human visual system can detect animals in complex natural scenes very efficiently and rapidly. In particular, using a saccadic choice task, H. Kirchner and S. J. Thorpe (2006) found that when two images are simultaneously flashed in the left and right visual fields, saccades toward the side with an animal can be initiated in as little as 120-130 ms. Here ...

background: one of the domains of scientific activities is working on animals. performing experiments on animals is per­missible only with the purpose of obtaining necessary information for saving and improving life of human be­ings or ani­mals. principally, all religions believe that human life is more valuable than animal life and humans have a god-given au­thority over animals, but they shou...

Dogs have a rich social relationship with humans. One fundamental aspect of it is how dogs pay close attention to human faces in order to guide their behavior, for example, by recognizing their owner and his/her emotional state using visual cues. It is well known that humans have specific brain regions for the processing of other human faces, yet it is unclear how dogs' brains process human fac...

The supervision of people in special circumstances, having as their purpose detecting risk situations, is an area which has many applications. In this context we are interested, in this paper, the problems of driver drowsiness detection based on video analysis. We describe a new approach to detect reduced alertness automatically, to prevent the driver. Unlike many other works, our noninvasively...

Humans are better at recognizing human faces than faces of other species. However, it is unclear whether this species sensitivity can be seen at early perceptual stages of face processing and whether it involves species sensitivity for important facial features like the eyes. These questions were addressed by comparing the modulations of the N170 ERP component to faces, eyes and eyeless faces o...

An animal face in Ashurbanipal's reliefs (7th BC) ? Case study of the horse (Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758) and lion (Panthera leo 1758). Following studies carried out by Pauline Albenda or Elena Cassin on human-animal relationship through figures 1758), this specifically questions facial features these two animals as well that human under reign Ashurbanipal (669-631/627 BC). The corpus consist...