Mathematical Camera Array Optimization for Face 3D Modeling Application.

Camera network design is a challenging task for many applications in photogrammetry, biomedical engineering, robotics, and industrial metrology, among other fields. Many driving factors are found in the camera network design including the camera specifications, object of interest, and type of application. One of the interesting applications is 3D face modeling and recognition which involves recognizing an individual based on facial attributes derived from the constructed 3D model.

Automated color detection in orchids using color labels and deep learning.

The color of particular parts of a flower is often employed as one of the features to differentiate between flower types. Thus, color is also used in flower-image classification. Color labels, such as 'green', 'red', and 'yellow', are used by taxonomists and lay people alike to describe the color of plants.

The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance.

Research overwhelmingly shows that facial appearance predicts leader selection. However, the evidence on the relevance of faces for actual leader ability and consequently performance is inconclusive. By using a state-of-the-art, objective measure for face recognition, we test the predictive value of CEOs' faces for firm performance in a large sample of faces.

Sampling variability in forensic likelihood-ratio computation: A simulation study.

Recently, in the forensic biometric community, there is a growing interest to compute a metric called "likelihood-ratio" when a pair of biometric specimens is compared using a biometric recognition system. Generally, a biometric recognition system outputs a score and therefore a likelihood-ratio computation method is used to convert the score to a likelihood-ratio. The likelihood-ratio is the probability of the score given the hypothesis of the prosecution, Hp (the two biometric specimens arose from a same source), divided by the probability of the score given the hypothesis of the defense, Hd (the two biometric specimens arose from different sources).

Likelihood-ratio-based verification in high-dimensional spaces.

The increase of the dimensionality of data sets often leads to problems during estimation, which are denoted as the curse of dimensionality. One of the problems of second-order statistics (SOS) estimation in high-dimensional data is that the resulting covariance matrices are not full rank, so their inversion, for example, needed in verification systems based on the likelihood ratio, is an ill-posed problem, known as the singularity problem. A classical solution to this problem is the projection of the data onto a lower dimensional subspace using principle component analysis (PCA) and it is assumed that any further estimation on this dimension-reduced data is free from the effects of the high dimensionality.

Level-set-based artery-vein separation in blood pool agent CE-MR angiograms.

Blood pool agents (BPAs) for contrast-enhanced (CE) magnetic-resonance angiography (MRA) allow prolonged imaging times for higher contrast and resolution. Imaging is performed during the steady state when the contrast agent is distributed through the complete vascular system. However, simultaneous venous and arterial enhancement in this steady state hampers interpretation.