Facial expression recognition has been an active research area in the past 10 years, with
growing application areas including avatar animation, neuromarketing and sociable robots …

In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-
century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the …

To date, much of the social science literature dealing with the extractive industries has been
dominated by debates over the so-called resource curse. According to its proponents …

Facial action unit (AU) detection and face alignment are two highly correlated tasks since
facial landmarks can provide precise AU locations to facilitate the extraction of meaningful …

In this paper, we design and evaluate a convolutional autoencoder that perturbs an input
face image to impart privacy to a subject. Specifically, the proposed autoencoder transforms …

Facial expression recognition is crucial for various human-robot interaction applications,
which requires facial expression analysis having a broad generalization. However, existing …

Driver inattention is one of the main causes of traffic accidents. To avoid such accidents,
advanced driver assistance system that passively monitors the driver's activities is needed …

Accurate heart rate is vital to acquiring critical physical data of human subjects. For this
reason, facial video-based heart rate estimation has recently received tremendous attention …

We present a framework that couples computer algorithms with human intelligence in order
to automatically sense and interpret nonverbal behavior. The framework is cloud-enabled …

Considering the ongoing intervention of the open-pit large-scale copper mine, Mirador, in
the Southern Ecuadorian Amazon, this article discusses divergent understandings of socio …