This work aims to develop a system for predicting age progression in children’s faces from a small exemplar-image set, which is a critical task to assist in the search for missing children. The proposed method consists a facial component extraction module, a facial component distance measurement module, and a face synthesis module. It is developed based on the assumption that two similar facial...

We consider the problem of data interpolation or smoothing using a thin-plate spline approach. The thin-plate spline formulation involves the linear combination of logarithmic kernels. For problems with large data sets, current methods for evaluating the splines are too slow. Recently, Beatson and Newsam 1] have suggested using a form of multi-pole type technique for the rapid evaluation of thi...

To prevent the compilation of documents, many table documents are formatted with non-editable and non-structured texts such as PDFs or images. Quickly recognizing contents tables is still a challenge due to factors irregular formats, uneven text quality, complex diverse content. This article proposes UTTSR recognition model, which consists four parts: region detection, line detection recognitio...

I discuss the production of low rank smoothers for d ≥ 1 dimensional data, which can be fitted by regression or penalized regression methods. The smoothers are constructed by a simple transformation and truncation of the basis that arises from the solution of the thinplate spline smoothing problem, and are optimal in the sense that the truncation is designed to result in the minimum possible pe...

Thin-plate spline interpolation is used to interpolate the chromaticity of the color of the incident scene illumination across a training set of images. Given the image of a scene under unknown illumination, the chromaticity of the scene illumination can be found from the interpolated function. The resulting illumination-estimation method can be used to provide color constancy under changing il...

The study of human evolution centres, to a large extent, around the study of fossil morphology, including the comparison and interpretation of these remains within the context of what is known about morphological variation within living species. However, many fossils suffer from environmentally caused damage (taphonomic distortion) which hinders any such interpretation: fossil material may be b...

Direct experimental measurement techniques have had limited success in the determination of the two-dimensional (2D) doping profile of a MOSFET. In this paper, we describe an alternative methodology that uses source/drain (S/D) diode and gate overlap capacitance measurements to determine the 2D profile by inverse modeling [l]. Our approach is based on the optimized tensor product spline (TPS) r...

Thin plate splines provide smooth interpolation of the given data in two or more dimensions. These are analogous to cubic splines in one dimension. The main objectives of this report is to provide an implementation of the thin plate spine interpolation of data using various efficient methods and to investigate the possibility of using thin plate splines in adaptive optics. In this report, we co...