Face recognition is one of the most active research fields of computer vision and pattern
recognition, with many practical and commercial applications including identification, access …

Today, digitalization decisively penetrates all the sides of the modern society. One of the key
enablers to maintain this process secure is authentication. It covers many different areas of a …

Biomimicry, adapting and implementing nature's designs provides an adequate first-order
solution to achieving superior mechanical properties. However, the design space is too vast …

Composites are widely used to create tunable materials to achieve superior mechanical
properties. Brittle materials fail catastrophically in the presence of cracks. Incorporating …

Imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) is a rapidly advancing molecular imaging modality that
can map the spatial distribution of molecules with high chemical specificity. IMS does not …

In the last decade, advances and popularity of low-cost RGB-D sensors have enabled us to
acquire depth information of objects. Consequently, researchers began to solve face …

Support vector machine (SVM) has been used widely for classification of
electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for the diagnosis of neurological disorders such as …

Electronics industry is one of the fastest evolving, innovative, and most competitive
industries. In order to meet the high consumption demands on electronics components …

Local binary pattern (LBP) is a nonparametric descriptor, which efficiently summarizes the
local structures of images. In recent years, it has aroused increasing interest in many areas …

Facial expression recognition (FER) is increasingly gaining importance in various emerging
affective computing applications. In practice, achieving accurate FER is challenging due to …