Recent research has shown that infants and young children up to the age of 5 years are more likely to imitate in-group members than out-group members. Cues like gender, race, age, and language are robust indicators for social categories and, thus, for group membership. Concerning imitation, research mainly focuses on language and accent, whereas race indicated by physical appearance is rarely i...

Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are a well studied 2D deformable model. One recently proposed extension of AAMs to multiple images is the CoupledView AAM. Coupled-View AAMs model the 2D shape and appearance of a face in two or more views simultaneously. The major limitation of CoupledView AAMs, however, is that they are specific to a particular set of cameras, both in geometry and the photometr...

The Rio de Janeiro state archive's collection of entry logs for the city's central detention center, going back to the mid-nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse into the lives of Rio's—and Brazil's—poor and working classes who otherwise left few written records behind. During the time when the institution maintained the entry logs, police exercised broad power to make arrests. Although re...

We present a joint face alignment technique that takes a set of images as input and produces a set of shapeand appearanceconsistent face alignments as output. Our method is an extension of the recent localization method of Belhumeur et al. [1], which combines the output of local detectors with a non-parametric set of face shape models. We are inspired by the recent joint alignment method of Zha...

Dental practice is the integral component of the oral health. Though the dental practice is in close relation with that of the medical practice, it has its own distinctiveness in relation to safe practice. The safe dental practice should not only assure good oral and general health but also improve social interaction by enhancing physical appearance, esthetics, etc. For the safe dental practice...

Physically based rendering of complex scenes can be prohibitively costly with a potentially unbounded and uneven distribution complexity across the rendered image. The goal an ideal level detail (LoD) method is to make costs independent 3D scene complexity, while preserving appearance scene. However, current prefiltering LoD methods are limited in appearances they support due their reliance app...