As a global feature of fingerprints, singular point plays important roles in fingerprint model, synthesis fingerprint, fingerprint classification, fingerprint alignment and so on. In our previous work, a rapid and effective fingerprint singular points detection method was proposed. That method detects singular points based on partitioning the orientation field into a serious non-overlapping hom...

These are notes prepared for a series of lectures at the conference Variétés rationnellement connexes: aspects géométriques et arithmétiques of the Société Mathématique de France held in Strasbourg, France in May 2008.

This paper addresses the problem of adapting a generic 3D face model to a human face of which the frontal and profile views are given. Assuming that a set of feature points have been detected on both views the adaptation procedure initializes with a rigid transformation of the model aiming to minimize the distances of the 3D model feature nodes from the calculated 3D coordinates of the 2D featu...

Data mapping is the essence of being human. This report follows the process of data mapping; the transmission of a structured utterance from one domain to another. It starts with signals in the world and moves through experience and engagement with the world through those signals. The paper develops descriptions of the materials and mechanisms of data mapping. The descriptions are aids and conv...

In order to better support the development of higher education of Chinese pharmaceutical engineering and encourage the career development of young personnel in Chinese pharmaceutical engineering field, ISPE and Sichuan University jointly organized the first China Student Poster Competition in Pharmaceutical Engineering at the end of August 2011. The academic competition helps to arouse and fost...

Sports are a key part of cultural identity, and it is necessary to preserve them as important intangible Cultural Heritage, especially the human motion techniques specific to individual sports. In this paper we present a method for extracting 3D athlete motion from video broadcast sources, providing an important tool for preserving the heritage represented by these movements. Broadcast videos i...

Bringing software process change to an organisation is a real challenge. The authors have shown a sample attempt to carry out a process change and then reflected on its results and context. The present reflection points to a need for a set of principles and practices that would support the fragile process of introducing agility. For a start, the authors propose the Empirical Evidence principle ...

Landmarks are fundamental elements for people to learn an environment. People use these landmarks to enrich their route descriptions (for example, when anchoring movements at decision points). Several automatic landmark identification and selection theories have been suggested in recent years. This paper evaluates these theories by comparing the landmarks identified by automatic landmark select...