A new approach for estimating 3D head pose form a monocular image is proposed. Our approach employs general prior knowledge of face structure and the corresponding geometrical constraints provided by the location of vanishing point to determine pose of human faces. Eye-lines and mouth-line are assumed parallel in 3D space, and the vanishing point formed by the intersection of the eyeline and mo...

We show that the existence of a Fredholm element of the zero calculus of pseudodifferential operators on a compact manifold with boundary with a given elliptic symbol is determined, up to stability, by the vanishing of the Atiyah-Bott obstruction. It follows that, up to small deformations and stability, the same symbols have Fredholm realizations in the zero calculus, in the scattering calculus...

‎let $g$ be a finite group‎. ‎an element $gin g$ is called non-vanishing‎, ‎if for‎ ‎every irreducible complex character $chi$ of $g$‎, ‎$chi(g)neq 0$‎. ‎the bi-cayley graph $bcay(g,t)$ of $g$ with respect to a subset $tsubseteq g$‎, ‎is an undirected graph with‎ ‎vertex set $gtimes{1,2}$ and edge set ${{(x,1),(tx,2)}mid xin g‎, ‎ tin t}$‎. ‎let $nv(g)$ be the set‎ ‎of all non-vanishing element...

It is shown that the QCD anomaly may lead to an abnormal mixing behavior of the axial vector mesons similar to the pseudoscalar mesons. These mixing effects, involving a gluonic axial vector state, generate a non-vanishing strange quark component in the nucleon. They reduce the matrix element of the singlet axial vector in comparison to the value obtained in a na¨ıve quark model. The results ar...

We study the dynamics of a thin film over a substrate heated from below in a framework of a strongly nonlinear one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation. The evolution leads to a fractalization into smaller and smaller scales. We demonstrate that a primitive element in the appearing hierarchical structure is a dissipative compacton. Both direct simulations and the analysis of a self-similar soluti...

A stabilization method for the spectral element computation of incompressible flow problems is investigated. It is based on a filtering procedure which consists in filtering the velocity field by a spectral vanishing Helmholtz-type operator at each time step. Relationship between this filtering procedure and SVV-stabilization method, introduced recently in [JCP, 2004, 196(2), p680], is establis...

The paper presents the test results of beams made of chipboards, fibreboards, wood as per referenced items [1], [2], [3]. Adopting various rheological models, their behaviour in time under permanent load was described. The model testing of a box-section beam, with wooden flanges connected with continuous chipboard lacings, was described. It was found that the construction of beams made of unlim...

We show that the existence of a Fredholm element of the zero calculus of pseudodifferential operators on a compact manifold with boundary with a given elliptic symbol is determined, up to stability, by the vanishing of the Atiyah-Bott obstruction. It follows that, up to small deformations and stability, the same symbols have Fredholm realizations in the zero calculus, in the scattering calculus...

From the numerical point of view, given a set X ⊂ Rn of s points whose coordinates are known with only limited precision, each set e X of s points whose elements differ from those of X of a quantity less than the data uncertainty can be considered equivalent to X. We present an algorithm that, given X and a tolerance ε on the data error, computes a set G of polynomials such that each element of...