This paper presents high-level strategies for controlling emotional speech morphing algorithms. Emotion morphing is realized by representing the acoustic features in their timefrequency plan that is warped and modified to generate natural morphed emotional speech. These acoustic features are desirable to be decomposed into multidimensional space and to be orthogonal. After matching these acoust...

A new type of ensemble filter is proposed, which combines an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) with the ideas of morphing and registration from image processing. This results in filters suitable for nonlinear problems whose solutions exhibit moving coherent features, such as thin interfaces in wildfire modeling. The ensemble members are represented as the composition of one common state with a spat...

Image morphing has been the subject of much attention in recent years. It has proven to be a powerful visual effects tool in film and television, depicting the fluid transformation of one digital image into another. This paper reviews the growth of this field and describes recent advances in image morphing in terms of three areas: feature specification, warp generation methods, and transition c...

 ABSTRACT Background: The transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap remains the gold standard for postmastectomy reconstruction either immediate or delayed. However, transfer of TRAM flap can be associated with donor site morbidities and complications in flap. A successful reconstruction consists of careful patient selection, surgical technique and meticulous preoperative plannin...

The performance of many mechanical systems is directly related to the geometric shapes of their components, such as aircraft wings and antenna reflectors. While the shapes of these components are mostly fixed, incorporating shape morphing into these systems can increase the flexibility and enhance the performance. A synthesis approach for shape morphing compliant mechanism is presented in this ...

We present a method for naturally and continuously morphing two simple planar polygons with corresponding vertices in a manner that guarantees that the intermediate polygons are also simple. This contrasts with all existing polygon morphing schemes who cannot guarantee the non-self-intersection property on a global scale, due to the heuristics they employ. Our method achieves this property by r...

Traditional automatic face morphing techniques tend to generate blurry intermediate frames when the two input faces differ significantly. We propose a new face morphing approach that deals explicitly with large pose and expression variations. We recover the 3D face geometry of the input images using a projection on a prelearned 3D face subspace. The geometry is interpolated by factoring the exp...

Image morphing has been extensively studied in computer graphics and it can be summarized as follows: given two input images, morphing algorithms produce a sequence of inbetween images which transforms the source image into the target image in a visually pleasant way. In this paper, we propose an algorithm, based on recent advances from texturefrom-sample ideas, which synthesizes a metamorphosi...

This paper develops a control methodology for morphing, which combines Machine Learning and Adaptive Dynamic Inversion Control. The morphing control function, which uses Reinforcement Learning, is integrated with the trajectory tracking function, which uses Structured Adaptive Model Inversion Control. Optimality is addressed by cost functions representing optimal shapes corresponding to specifi...

We introduce a new appearance-modeling paradigm for synthesizing the internal structure of a 3D model from photographs of a few cross-sections of a real object. When the internal surfaces of the 3D model are revealed as it is cut, carved, or simply clipped, we synthesize their texture from the input photographs. Our texture synthesis algorithm is best classified as a morphing technique, which e...