In image retrieval, global features related to color or texture are commonly used to describe the image content. The use of interest points in contentbased image retrieval allows ...
We have been investigating an interactive approach for Open-domain QA (ODQA) and have constructed a spoken interactive ODQA system, SPIQA. The system derives disambiguating querie...
Chiori Hori, Takaaki Hori, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki ...
In most of the automatic face classification applications, images should be captured in natural environments, where partial occlusions or high local changes in the illumination a...
Abstract: Abrupt shifts in the level of a time series represent important information and should be preserved in statistical signal extraction. We investigate rules for detecting l...
We address the issue of modelling facial expressions for realistic 3D avatar animation. We introduce a hierarchical decomposition of a human face into different components and mod...