automatic facial recognition has many potential applications in different areas of humancomputer interaction. however, they are not yet fully realized due to the lack of an effectivefacial feature descriptor. in this paper, we present a new appearance based feature descriptor,the local directional pattern (ldp), to represent facial geometry and analyze its performance inrecognition. an ldp feat...

to increase agricultural crops’ quality and to minimize losses in the final product and used energy during the drying process, major drying system parameters should be continuously controlled. precise control of such parameters is attained by using automatic control systems. to optimize the overall dryer efficiency in a forced convective solar dryer, a controller was designed, constructed a...

for two algebras $a$ and $b$, a linear map $t:a longrightarrow b$ is called separating, if $xcdot y=0$ implies $txcdot ty=0$ for all $x,yin a$. the general form and the automatic continuity of separating maps between various banach algebras have been studied extensively. in this paper, we first extend the notion of separating map for module case and then we give a description of a linear separa...

the geometric distribution of states duration is one of the main performance limiting assumptions of hidden markov modeling of speech signals. stochastic segment models, generally, and segmental hmm, specifically, overcome this deficiency partly at the cost of more complexity in both training and recognition phases. in this paper, a new duration modeling approach is presented. the main idea of ...

The technique of transforming voices in order to hide the real identity a speaker is called voice disguise, among which automatic disguise (AVD) by modifying spectral and temporal characteristics with miscellaneous algorithms are easily conducted softwares accessible public. AVD has posed great threat both human listening verification (ASV). In this paper, we have found that ASV not only victim...