The authors examined how an applicant's handshake influences hiring recommendations formed during the employment interview. A sample of 98 undergraduate students provided personality measures and participated in mock interviews during which the students received ratings of employment suitability. Five trained raters independently evaluated the quality of the handshake for each participant. Qual...

OBJECTIVE Low self-esteem is one of the main psychosocial factors related to childhood overweight. Yet not all overweight children are affected. Little is known about what characterises the group of overweight children with the lowest self-esteem. Our aim was to identify factors related to low domain-specific self-esteem in children with overweight/obesity. METHODS Children (aged 10-13; N = 5...

There is number of researches on the lip reading. However, there is little discussion about which face model is effect for lip reading. This paper builds various face models which changes the combination of a face part, and changes the feature points. Various experiments were conducted on the conditions which change only model and do not change other algorithms. We apply the active appearance m...

This paper describes unifying Active Appearance Model and Simulated Annealing for automatic Cephalometric analysis. A complete model of shape and texture was built from a dataset of manually annotated images, and then tested with unseen images. A comparison with Active Shape Models was presented. Twenty randomly selected cephalograms were used for training and seven cephalograms for testing. 25...

In this article, we present a general statistical parts-based model for representing the appearance of an image set, applied to the problem of inter-subject MR brain image matching. In contrast with global image representations such as active appearance models, the parts-based model consists of a collection of localized image parts whose appearance, geometry and occurrence frequency are quantif...

The work presented here takes place in the field of computer aided analysis of facial expressions displayed in sign language videos. We use Active Appearance Models to model a face and its variations of shape and texture caused by expressions. The inverse compositional algorithm is used to accurately fit an AAM to the face seen on each video frame. In the context of sign language communication,...

Primate brains are equipped with evolutionarily old and dedicated neural circuits so that they can grasp absolute quantities, such as the number of items or the length of a line. Absolute magnitude, however, is often not informative enough to guide decisions in conflicting social and foraging situations that require an assessment of quantity ratios. We report that rhesus monkeys can discriminat...

Based on the structural-choice theory of victimization, the current study examines the effects of a high-risk environment on the sexual victimization of 311 homeless and runaway youth. Results from logistic regression revealed that survival sex, gender, and physical appearance were significantly associated with sexual victimization. Results from a series of interactions also revealed that the e...

One of the most crucial techniques associated with Computer Vision is technology that deals with the automatic estimation of gaze orientation. In this paper, a method is proposed to estimate horizontal gaze orientation from a monocular camera image using the parameters of Active Appearance Models (AAM) selected based on several model selection methods. The proposed method can estimate horizonta...

This study investigated whether stimulus affective content can be extracted from visual scenes when these appear in parafoveal locations of the visual field and are foveally masked, and whether there is lateralization involved. Parafoveal prime pleasant or unpleasant scenes were presented for 150 msec 2.5 degrees away from fixation and were followed by a foveal probe scene that was either congr...