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This paper focuses on the study of modified constructive training algorithm for Multi Layer Perceptron “MLP” which is applied to face recognition applications. In general, constructive learning begins with a minimal structure, and increases the network by adding hidden neurons until a satisfactory solution is found. The contribution of this paper is to increment the output neurons simultaneously with...
Micro-blog has been increasingly used for the public to express their opinions, and for organisations to detect public sentiment about social events. In contrast to the effort and progress made in English-based micro-blog analysis, research on Chinese micro-blog received relatively little attention. In this paper we examine and identify the key problems of this field, focusing particularly on the...
Facial landmarking is a fundamental step in machine-based face analysis. The majority of existing techniques handle such an issue based on 2D images; however, they suffer from illumination and pose variations that largely degrade landmarking performance. The emergence of 3D data provides us with an alternative to overcome these unsolved problems in the 2D domain. This paper proposes a novel approach...
Recent investigations on human vision discover that the retinal image is a landscape or a geometric surface, consisting of features such as ridges and summits. However, most of existing popular local image descriptors in the literature, e.g., scale invariant feature transform (SIFT), histogram of oriented gradient (HOG), DAISY, local binary Patterns (LBP), and gradient location and orientation histogram,...
This paper presents a novel method for building textual feature defined on semantic distance and describes multi-model approach for Visual Concept Detection and Annotation(VCDA). Nowadays, the tags associated with images have been popularly used in the VCDA task, because they contain valuable information about image content that can hardly be described by low-level visual features. Traditionally the...
In this paper, to characterize and distinguish identical twins, three popular texture descriptors: i.e. local binary patterns (LBPs), gabor filters (GFs) and local gabor binary patterns (LGBPs) are employed to encode the normal components (x, y and z) of the 3D facial surfaces of identical twins respectively. A group of facial normal descriptors are thus achieved, including Normal Local Binary Patterns...
Face recognition is becoming a difficult process because of the generally similar shapes of faces and because of the numerous variations between images of the same face. A face recognition system aims at recognizing a face in a manner that is as independent as possible of these image variations. Such variations make face recognition, on the basis of appearance, a difficult task. This paper attempts...
This paper presents a mesh-based approach for 3D face recognition using a novel local shape descriptor and a SIFT-like matching process. Both maximum and minimum curvatures estimated in the 3D Gaussian scale space are employed to detect salient points. To comprehensively characterize 3D facial surfaces and their variations, we calculate weighted statistical distributions of multiple order surface...
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