The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in the facial profile resulting from the use of a twin block (TB) functional appliance. The sample comprised 38 patients (24 males and 14 females) with a Class II division 1 malocclusion. Nineteen subjects were treated with a functional appliance while the remaining 19, who did not undergo any intervention, served as the control. The mean age of the...

Multi-view facial expression recognition is important in many scenarios, as frontal view images are not always available. In this paper, we investigate facial expression recognition from frontal to profile view. Few works have investigated this issue on live captured data. A recent database, multi-pie, allows empirical investigation of facial expression recognition for different yaw angles. Exp...

This paper proposes the combination multiple facial feature extraction methods and probabilistic neural network for facial recognition. Firstly, we use horizontal projection of 2-D image to obtain accumulated energy profile signal. Secondly, we obtain the statistical distribution of facial gray images. Finally, we adopt wavelet transform to extract low frequency coefficients from 1-D energy pro...

This paper presents a multi-modal database intended for person authentication from multiple cues. It currently contains three sessions of the same 120 individuals, providing profile and frontal color images, 3-D facial representations and many french and some english speech utterances. People were selected for their availability so that new sessions will be easily acquired. Individual recogniti...

The aim of this study was to evaluate facial morphology in 25 Class III and 46 non-Class III children aged 5-6 years using three-dimensional (3D) laser imaging; 3D facial images were obtained, two average facial templates were constructed for the non-Class III male and female groups, each individual face was superimposed on the corresponding average template and group comparisons were evaluated...

OBJECTIVE Classic facial characteristics of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) are shortened palpebral fissures, smooth philtrum, and thin upper vermillion. We aim to help pediatricians detect facial dysmorphism across the fetal alcohol spectrum, especially among nonsyndromal heavily exposed (HE) individuals without classic facial characteristics. METHODS Of 192 Cape Coloured children recruited, 69...

objective: no research has been conducted on facial emotional recognition on patients with borderline personality disorder (bpd) and schizotypal personality disorder (spd). the present study aimed at comparing facial emotion recognition in these patients with the general population. the neurocognitive processing of emotions can show the pathologic style of these 2 disorders.   method:   twenty ...