Chinese and German blogs do not only differ in the language of their text but also in many other aspects. This study explores how far these differences can be identified and relat...
This discussion presents a new perspective of subspace independent component analysis (ICA). The notion of a function of cumulants (kurtosis) is generalized to vector kurtosis. Th...
This paper presents a method of imaging the coloration pattern in the fingernail and surrounding skin to infer fingertip force direction during planar contact. Nail images from 7 ...
Query-by-tapping systems are content-based music retrieval systems that allow users to tap or clap in a microphone the rhythmic pattern of the melody requested. In this paper, a n...
This paper describes an improved thinning algorithm for binary images. We improve thinning algorithm from the fundamental properties such as connectivity, onepixel width, robust t...