Artificial intelligence is similar to human intelligence, and robots in organisations always
perform human tasks. However, AI encounters a variety of biases during its operational …

Biometric systems have the goal of measuring and analyzing the unique physical or
behavioral characteristics of an individual. The main feature of biometric systems is the use …

This paper presents a multimodal emotion recognition system, which is based on the
analysis of audio and visual cues. From the audio channel, Mel-Frequency Cepstral …

As mobile payment technology is at a nascent stage, the use of facial recognition payment
(FRP) services is gradually penetrating the lives of Chinese people. Although the FRP …

This preface introduces the special issue on The Dark Sides of AI. The special issue offers
six papers that focus on challenges of AI technology. In the twenty-first century, artificial …

Age estimation based on the human face remains a significant problem in computer vision
and pattern recognition. In order to estimate an accurate age or age group of a facial image …

Aging face recognition refers to matching the same person's faces across different ages, eg,
matching a person's older face to his (or her) younger one, which has many important …

Human age estimation is an important research topic and has found its applications in such
scenarios as commodity recommendation and security monitoring. The design of existing …

Heart disease is the major cause of death as well as a leading cause of disability in the
developed countries. Mitral Regurgitation (MR) is a common heart disease which does not …

Facial aging variation is a major problem for face recognition systems due to large intra-
personal variations caused by age progression. A major challenge is to develop an efficient …