This study uses a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment to explore the returns to physical appearance on fund-raising success. Interestingly, blonde females earn more on average than brunette counterparts. However, the returns to physical appearance depend critically on the race of a potential donor. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

This article addresses the issue of expressive face modelling using an active appearance model for facial expression recognition and synthesis. We consider the six universal emotional categories namely joy, anger, fear, disgust, sadness and surprise. After a description of the active appearance model (computed with 3 or only one PCA), we address the active appearance model contribution to autom...

Malaysia has undergone tremendous social change in the past two decades and is indeed changing rapidly today. Aside from the changes in the physical appearance of its cities and countryside some for the better and some for the worse, there has occurred also phenomenal change of a social nature in Malaysian society. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the large numbers of people who today floc...

In this paper we describe a real-time speech-driven method for synthesising realistic video sequences of a subject enunciating arbitrary phrases. In an offline training phase an active appearance model (AAM) is constructed from hand-labelled images and is used to encode the face of a subject reciting a few training sentences. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) coupled with linear regression i...