Given the ubiquity of handwritten documents in human transactions, Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) of documents have invaluable practical worth. Optical character …

Pain is a complex phenomenon, involving sensory and emotional experience, that is often
poorly understood, especially in infants, anesthetized patients, and others who cannot …

Pain is an unpleasant feeling that has been shown to be an important factor for the recovery
of patients. Since this is costly in human resources and difficult to do objectively, there is the …

Automated detection of pain intensity from facial expressions, especially from face images
that show a patient's health, remains a significant challenge in the medical diagnostics and …

Automatic pain intensity estimation possesses a significant position in healthcare and
medical field. Traditional static methods prefer to extract features from frames separately in a …

Pain sensation is essential for survival, since it draws attention to physical threat to the body.
Pain assessment is usually done through self-reports. However, self-assessment of pain is …

Bedside caregivers assess infants' pain at constant intervals by observing specific
behavioral and physiological signs of pain. This standard has two main limitations. The first …

Vision-based monitoring for assisted living is gaining increasing attention, especially in multi-
modal monitoring systems owing to the several advantages of vision-based sensors. In this …

ABSTRACT Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is linked with abridged ability in social
behavior. Scientists working in the broader domain of cognitive sciences have done a lot of …

Pain is an indication of uneasiness, and its assessment is crucial for medical diagnosis and
treatment of patients. Subjective methods like visual inspection and self-report of pain, are …