We present a novel approach for generating stylized artistic rendering of caricatures from a given face image,with the ability to map any one of the main six expressions and control the degree of its expressiveness on...
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We present a novel approach for generating stylized artistic rendering of caricatures from a given face image,with the ability to map any one of the main six expressions and control the degree of its expressiveness on the generated caricature. Our method achieves this by manipulating the facial appearance and expressivity of the caricature,using quadratic deformation model representations of facial expressions.A stroke-based non-photorealistic rendering(NPR) engine is developed to generate the output caricature that appears to be a sketch of the original *** NPR engine segments the defined rendering path and generates rectangular strokes that approximate each segment. The stroke properties arc computed by applying geometric image moments on each *** enhance the overall appearance of the caricature,extra strokes are randomly positioned around the rendering *** results show that from an input neutral facial image,expressive rendered caricatures are generated for the facial expressions neutral,smile,sad,fear,surprise,disgust, and *** approach produces very expressive artistically rendered caricatures,and could lead to future research directions in further extending the method to produce pencil sketch rendering of images or rendering 3D characters to generate cartoon-like 3D characters.
Transfer of gained experience, skills and know-how in aircraft maintenance from experts to trainees assures the organizational learning in providing quality of service. Taking survey method, this paper presents an ear...
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Transfer of gained experience, skills and know-how in aircraft maintenance from experts to trainees assures the organizational learning in providing quality of service. Taking survey method, this paper presents an early investigation on effective mechanism of knowledge transfer among aircraft engineers in Malaysia and a proposal on its implementation within the aviation domain.
First, the basic knowledge of information fusion and its' application in power system are introduced. Next, aiming at the failure of conditional D-S evidence theory in dealing with conflicting evidences, an improv...
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Fuzzy control is a nonlinear control method;its performance depends on the fuzzy control rules, quantification factor and the scale factor. Because these multiple objectives are influence with each others, therefore i...
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Spatial Audio Coding (SAC) is an emerging technology with a distinguishing feature of delivering good even excellent audio quality at monotonic or stereo bitrate of conventional perceptual transform coders. By a syste...
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Spatial Audio Coding (SAC) is an emerging technology with a distinguishing feature of delivering good even excellent audio quality at monotonic or stereo bitrate of conventional perceptual transform coders. By a systematic exploitation of spatial hearing, Binaural Cue Coding illustrates the power and potentials of SAC in the future for intelligent multimedia services. MPEG Surround, receiving cumulative efforts from industry and academy, strives to build a SAC system with great versatility and high quality. The initial test results of MPEG Surround show its performance advantage over conventional state-of-the-art coders in a wide range of coding configurations.
This paper proposes a mobile station (MS)-controlled fast MAC-layer handover (HO) scheme to reduce the HO latency in Mobile WiMAX. Based on the received signal strength (RSS) from any Base Station (BS), the MS can est...
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This paper proposes a mobile station (MS)-controlled fast MAC-layer handover (HO) scheme to reduce the HO latency in Mobile WiMAX. Based on the received signal strength (RSS) from any Base Station (BS), the MS can estimate its present distance from that BS. This capability allows the MS, through utilization of the broadcast messages by its Serving BS (SBS) and through few scannings of the Neighbouring BSs (NBS), to self-track its own direction of motion relative to the SBS and the NBSs and thus look ahead to perform an intelligent choice of the Target BS (TBS) for the impending HO. Simulation studies have shown a considerable reduction in the HO latency in the proposed method.
In this contribution, we present a new application based on fuzzy linguistic information to evaluate the quality of digital libraries. The quality evaluation of digital libraries is defined using users' perception...
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In this contribution, we present a new application based on fuzzy linguistic information to evaluate the quality of digital libraries. The quality evaluation of digital libraries is defined using users' perceptions on the quality of digital services provided through their Web sites. We assume a fuzzy linguistic modeling to represent the users' perception and apply automatic tools of fuzzy computing with words based on some weighted aggregation operators to compute global quality evaluations of digital libraries.
The current researches to improve the reliability of operating systems have been focusing on the evolution of kernel architecture or protecting against device driver errors. In particularly, the device driver errors a...
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(纸本)9781424454273
The current researches to improve the reliability of operating systems have been focusing on the evolution of kernel architecture or protecting against device driver errors. In particularly, the device driver errors are critical to the most of the complementary operating systems that have a kernel level device driver. Especially on special purpose embedded system, because of its limited resources and variety of devices, more serious problems are induced. Preventing data corruption or blocking the arrogation of operational level is not enough to cover the entire problems. For examples, when using device drivers, the violation of function's call sequence can cause a malfunction. Also a violation of behavior rules on system level involves the same problem. This type of errors is difficult to be detected by the previous methods. Accordingly, we designed a system that traces system behavior at runtime and recovers optimally when errors are detected. We experimented in Linux 2.6.24 kernel operating on GP2X-WIZ mobile game player.
The double-tree scan-path architecture, originally proposed for low test power, is adapted to simultaneously reduce the test application time and test data volume under external testing. Experimental results show sign...
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(纸本)9781424455416
The double-tree scan-path architecture, originally proposed for low test power, is adapted to simultaneously reduce the test application time and test data volume under external testing. Experimental results show significant performance improvements over other existing scan architectures.
Healthcare organisations using the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model for self-assessment have found an opportunity to work more effectively and a powerful driver for improvement. Never...
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Healthcare organisations using the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model for self-assessment have found an opportunity to work more effectively and a powerful driver for improvement. Nevertheless, when these organisations address self-assessment processes for the first time the initial effort needed presents many difficulties. The aim of this paper is to offer a consensus support methodology based on fuzzy logic under a linguistic approach that would undoubtedly contribute to conduct self-assessment processes with questionnaires. We assume qualitative evaluation, through linguistic labels, to facilitate the individual responses, and we use the concept of fuzzy majority to calculate the measures which guide the consensus reaching process.
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