AIMS There is a general consensus that individuals with conspicuous strabismus are perceived more negatively with respect to physical appearance, personality and capability. Such social biases can potentially lead to social alienation and negative psychosocial development, particularly when experienced at a young age. This study aims to explore young children's perception of peers with noticeab...

The aim of this work is to investigate a selection of audio and visual speech features with the aim of finding pairs that maximise audio-visual correlation. Two audio speech features have been used in the analysis filterbank vectors and the first four formant frequencies. Similarly, three visual features have also been considered active appearance model (AAM), 2-D DCT and cross-DCT. From a data...

Over the course of the last decade, infrared (IR) and particularly thermal IR imaging based face recognition has emerged as a promising complement to conventional, visible spectrum based approaches which continue to struggle when applied in the real world. While inherently insensitive to visible spectrum illumination changes, IR images introduce specific challenges of their own, most notably se...

FACS (Facial Action Coding System) coding is the state of the art in manual measurement of facial actions. FACS coding, however, is labor intensive and difficult to standardize. A goal of automated FACS coding is to eliminate the need for manual coding and realize automatic recognition and analysis of facial actions. Success of this effort depends in part on access to reliably coded corpora; ho...

The deterministic active appearance model (AAM) tracker fails to track objects under occlusion. In this paper, we discuss two approaches to improve this tracker ’s robustness and tracking results. The first approach initialises the AAM tracker with a shape estimate obtained from an active contour, incorporating shape history into the tracker. The second approach combines AAMs and the particle f...

Ubiquitous computing applications are frequently long-running and highly distributed, leading to bugs that only become apparent far from and long after their original point of appearance. Such bugs are hard to find. This paper describes the Interaction Analyzer, a debugging tool for ubiquitous computing applications that addresses this problem. The Interaction Analyzer uses protocol definitions...

Citation: Marseglia A, Xu W, Fratiglioni L, Fabbri C, Berendsen AAM, Bialecka-Debek A, Jennings A, Gillings R, Meunier N, Caumon E, Fairweather-Tait S, Pietruszka B, De Groot LCPGM, Santoro A and Franceschi C (2018) Effect of the NU-AGE Diet on Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Front. Physiol. 9:349. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00349 Effect of the NU-AGE Diet on ...

Beauty and physical appearance are considered to be of great importance in today’s society. In the U.S., many strive for physical perfection, and much attention is focused on the way one looks. A beauty ideal has been created over time through the combination of several elements within American culture, and this ideal image attempts to define female beauty as fitting into a certain mold. Certai...

This paper presents a solution to the problem of tracking intermittent targets that can overcome long-term occlusions, as well as movement between camera views. Unlike other approaches, our system does not require topological knowledge of the site or labelled training patterns during the learning period. The approach uses the statistical consistency of data obtained automatically over an extend...

And what lessons could other countries learn from Finland? A major difference, when compared, for example, to central and southern Europe, is gender equality. For decades, Finnish women have had their jobs outside home, and this has been supported by the state: we have an excellent and affordable communal day-care system and equal high-quality basic education systems. Being a woman has not hind...