Face frontalization is a rising technique for view-invariant face analysis. It enables a non-frontal facial image to recover its general facial appearances to frontal view. A few pioneering works have been proposed very recently. However, face frontalization with detailed facial expression recovering is still very challenging due to the non-linear relationships between head-pose and expression ...

Lee et al. proposed two methods to speed up the computation of scalar multiplication of elliptic curve defined over GF (2) with a medium size of m in the range 10 ≤ m ≤ 20. In these methods, Frobenius map is utilized to expand the integer k and each coefficient of the expansion is represented as a binary string. In this paper, with the application of joint sparse form (JSF) to the coefficients,...

Development of information technology results in creation of more and more advanced teaching assisting systems. The authors of the article made an attempt to design and use the adaptative educational system based on the technologies: J2EE, JSF and XML. Unlike most hitherto solutions, the authors propose a three-tier architecture of the system and its improvement with additional functionalities.

In the following article we describe the architecture of an online store project, which is an application utilising Java Enterprise Edition. Our project is based on a customer expectations model. The choice of technology has been due to its easy expandability by additional modules as well as its functionality which does not require reorganising the existing code.

Behavioral studies have shown that picture-plane inversion impacts face and object recognition differently, thereby suggesting face-specific processing mechanisms in the human brain. Here we used event-related potentials to investigate the time course of this behavioral inversion effect in both faces and novel objects. ERPs were recorded for 14 subjects presented with upright and inverted visua...

A summary on the most recent results of the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations on the top quark porperties is presented. The measurements used data from the 2010 and 2011 LHC run, using integrated luminosities ranging from 35 pb −1 to 5.0 f b −1 , the latter corresponding to the full 2011 data sample. c Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial...

A semi-distributed watershed model was developed that conceptualizes the catchment as a cascade of nonlinear storage elements whose geometric dimensions are derived from the Horton±Strahler ordering of the stream network. Each storage element represents quick storm runo€ over land or in a channel segment. The physically based groundwater submodel is parameterized through the application of the ...

Full-resolution (FMIDR) Magellan radar backscatter images have been used to characterize the geology and volcanology of the volcano Maat Mons on Venus. This volcano has often been identified by remote sensing techniques as one of the volcanoes on the planet that could have been recently active, and is the highest volcano on Venus with a relief of ∼9 km. The summit of Maat Mons is characterized ...