This paper proposes an automated method for extracting 39 feature point$ from 3D facial iniage, and shows that 3D facial caricaturing can be realized by such these smaller number of feature point. and that these 39 feature points could be extmcted automatically. As a result, it was clarified by comparing 3D caricature of 3D PICASSO system with that of a famous caricaturist Mr. Yoshida that 3D f...

The introduction of non-artistic materials and techniques in Cubism is not a complete invention, contrary to what the traditional historiography of this artistic movement would want to make us think. Contemporary do-it-yourself practices – amateur handicraft – with which Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso had been in contact while living in the workingclass neighborhood of Montmartre, have encour...

The ITT Industries SpeakerKey verifier was tested using the Polyvar/Picasso data set. This paper presents a brief description of the SpeakerKey algorithm, the test procedures used, and the results of the testing.

The increasing complexities of clinical trials have led to increasing costs for investigators and organizations that author and administer those trials. The process of authoring a clinical trial protocol, the document that specifies the details of the study, is usually a manual task, and thus authors may introduce subtle errors in medical and procedural content. We have created a protocol inspe...

The U.S. affiliated Pacific Island nations spend an average of over 10% of total health budget on off-island referral care to tertiary centers. Tripler Army Regional Medical Center (TAMC) has been the major provider of this service for many years. Prior to 1995 communication to consultants at TAMC was by long distance telephone, fax and regular mail. Connecting to a specialist sometimes took ho...

We describe an R package named picasso, which implements a unified framework of pathwise coordinate optimization for a variety of sparse learning problems (Sparse Linear Regression, Sparse Logistic Regression and Sparse Column Inverse Operator), combined with distinct active set identification schemes (truncated cyclic, greedy, randomized and proximal gradient selection). Besides, the package p...