Data-driven synthesis of human motion during conversational speech is an active research area with applications that include character animation, computer gaming and agents. Natural looking key to both perceived realism understanding any synthesised animation. Multi-modal body-motion data scarce limited, so it common augment real by mirroring the body pose double number training samples. This a...

The influence of age on capsular contracture rates remains unclear. Most studies have only investigated early capsule development and not whether a link between age at primary surgery and the later development of capsular fibrosis exists. To clarify whether patient age impacts the development of late capsular fibrosis, the authors conducted a retrospective case study involving 43 patients who p...

This paper discusses an experimental solution that provides the development medium for augmented reality, through a vision based sensory approach. The development medium is a digital toolkit which consists of six modularized components. They are the capture engine (which acquires digital video streams from hardware or media files), the analysis engine (performing various search algorithms), the...

The city of Staufen im Breisgau in southwest Germany suffers from a localized land uplift, which has occurred in the past six years in relation to geothermal drilling activities in 2007. So far, severe damages at 269 buildings have been recorded. The chemical transformation of anhydrite and water to gypsum, resulting in a volume increase, has been attributed as the cause of the uplift. Previous...

DESCRIPTION Capsular contracture is a common complication following breast augmentation. Although the etiology is unknown, it is hypothesized that subclinical infection contributes to the process. Surgical treatment strategies must take this into account to avoid recurrence.

The author describes the use of implants with exteriorized injection domes for patients undergoing breast augmentation. Domes were exteriorized for 1 to 5 days to allow the implant volume to be altered in the early postoperative period. Thirty-three patients were treated without any infections.

An extension of the idea of state tameness is presented in a dynamic framework. The proposed model for financial markets is rich enough to provide analytical tools that are mostly obtained in models that arise as the solution of SDEs with deterministic coefficients. In the presented model the augmentation by a shadow stock of the price evolution has a Markovian character. As in a previous paper...

In this paper, we propose a method for dynamic integration of TV-program content and related web content and demonstrate our prototype system called WebTelop . The primary source of information in WebTelop is the TV-program content. Web pages related to the TV-program content are retrieved automatically in real time and are used to augment the TV-program content in the form of captions. Our met...

In this work, Region Dependent Transform (RDT) is used as a feature extraction process to combine the traditional short-term acoustic features with the features derived from Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) which is trained from the long-term features. When compared to the conventional feature augmentation approach, substantial improvement is obtained. Moreover, an improved RDT training procedure ...