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This paper presents a method of estimation of facial expression intensity from a sequence of binary facial images obtained from video. The binarization has been done using a neuro-visual model of figure ground segregation. The Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is taken as characteristic feature of a face with expression. This pattern gets evolved in the temporal domain over the sequence. The dynamics of...
Post-disaster reconstruction includes two aspects: material reconstruction and psychological reconstruction. We all know that people's behavior is controlled by their mental forces. So in a sense, we can consider the psychological reconstruction as a basic foundation of the material reconstruction. But the reality in the process of post-disaster reconstruction is that many people emphasize on the...
We introduce a surveillance video tractability adjustment system that employs a dynamic operator attention model. The tractability of the surveillance video is adjusted according to the instantaneous attention level of the operator (Fig.1). Our system has two novel major parts: (i) dynamic measurement of the operator attention levels and (ii) an online video tractability adjustment system that employs...
This paper investigated the effect of moving and static presentation modes on children's digital flashcard learning context. A comparison between carousel mode and keyhole mode in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) techniques has been carried out to examine which presentation mode is more effective for the children. Two groups of children from the normal and LINUS class ages six to eight years...
In this paper we introduce video features which are used to predict if people want to exchange contact information with the other in a speed-date, we also use these features to predict how physically attractive participants found their dates. Previous work on predicting and interpreting speed-dates has focused mainly on the audio channel. We use automatically extracted features related to position,...
Mobile Operators offer usually also Internet Services but because of regulations in some countries they may get their redundant Internet Access from authorized Internet service Providers (ISP) only. For providing good level of service for their customers, the operators sign Service Level Agreements (SLA) with ISP's with Key Performance Indicators (KPI) defined. The paper deals with multidiscipline...
Detection of visually salient image regions is useful for applications like object segmentation, adaptive compression and object recognition. In this paper, we introduce a method for salient region detection using spectrum tuning based on lateral inhibition mechanism. The new method tunes the Fourier spectral adaptively using nonlinear function to inhibit the redundant image features and enhance the...
Research in psychology and SSP often describe posture as one of the most expressive nonverbal cues. Various studies in psychology particularly link posture mirroring behaviour to rapport. Currently, however, there are few studies which deal with the automatic analysis of postures and none at all particularly focus on its connection with rapport. This study presents a method for automatically predicting...
The aim of design is to provide a legible information map and instructions to the searchers. Designers research the graphic design by Perceptual Decomposition and Perceptual Combination in the Graphical Perception Theory. They also use the Psychology of Vision to interpret and remind people's views and perceptions on searching Google Earth information. According to the research and analysis about...
Leadership is a robust human behaviour, which occurs rapidly in groups. It is argued that leadership provides a solution to coordination problems in groups and allows maximizing group benefits while minimizing group costs. In this paper a novel, agent-based model of leadership is presented, which is based on recently emerging literature on the human evolution. The model advances on the traditional...
This paper focuses on socio-cultural user modeling in a social and intercultural collaborative context. we first, study and discuss several examples of user models in many research domains, we mainly focus on how these models are defined and represented. After that, we describe our generic and multidimensional socio-cultural profile, so, we define and justify its dimensions, its characteristics and...
Mental State Transition Network which consists of mental states connected one another is a basic concept of approximating to human psychological and mental responses. It can represent transition from an emotional state to other one with stimulus by calculating Emotion Generating Calculations method. However, this method ignores most of emotions except for an emotion which has the strongest effect...
Container security and contraband interdiction in air cargo have become highly relevant topics at airports all over the world. The European Union (EU) requires detailed measures for standards in the field of aviation security that also cover training and certification of security personnel. In Switzerland, the same standards are being enacted by the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA). The training...
In this paper, recent theoretical and experimental results in the area of structured intelligence research as well as future research directions and open questions are summarized. The Theory of Structured Intelligence (TSI) provides a transdisciplinary modular framework for intelligence research in psychology, neurosciences, computer science and engineering and can, thus, achieve synergetic effects...
This paper presents experiments where natural and spontaneous cognitive processes, in particular those who lead to the attribution of personality traits to unacquainted people, are used as a natural form of feature extraction. In particular, personality assessments provided by human judges are used as features to distinguish between professional and non-professional speakers. The same task is performed...
Among sub-languages (i.e., subdivided categories of natural language), spatial language is the most important for human-robot interaction at various scenes in our daily life. This paper describes systematic analysis and synthesis of human subjective knowledge expressed in spatial language based on certain cognitive hypotheses of human mental image and gives a brief sketch of its implementation. Mental...
In this paper, the authors consider school bullying using digital communication media (such as cell phones, short messaging, emails, blogs, SNS, and BBS) and create a framework whose goal is to help teachers identify whether school bullying is taking place among students. The framework proposed in this paper models interactions among students as a relationship network (referred to as a "human...
Visual complexity perception is an important issue in the fields of psychology and computer vision because it leads to the better understanding of the nature of human perception as well as the properties of the objects being perceived. In this study, five important characteristics of texture images that affect visual complexity perception are identified: regularity, understandability, roughness, directionality,...
The aim of this research was to explore that information types make a difference in decision-making. In this experiment, two types of stimuli were used as information types: (1) car front photographs as Uninominal information stimuli (2) Car front & side pair photographs as Binominal information stimuli. Twenty university students participated in the experiment. While Uninominal information stimuli...
The purpose of this study was to develop an Expert System (ES) to evaluate Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) operators. The study included a review of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) literature relevant to the NPP and human resource management, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, knowledge encoding, and Inference engine. An expert system development tool FuzzyCLIPS6.1 was used to develop a fuzzy...
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