International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing

Volume 4, Issue 4, October 2016
Research Article

1. Recognition and Intensity Estimation of Facial Expression Using Ensemble Classifiers

Hiroki Nomiya, Shota Sakaue, Teruhisa Hochin
Pages: 203 - 211
Facial expression recognition (FER) has been widely studied since it can be used for various applications. However, most of FER techniques focus on discriminating typical facial expressions such as six basic facial expressions. Spontaneous facial expressions are not limited to such typical ones because...
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2. Extracting Children?s Behavioral Characteristics for Acquiring Language from Texts of Picture Book Reviews

Hiroshi Uehara, Mizuho Baba, Takehito Utsuro
Pages: 212 - 220
Pointing behavior in childhood is typical developmental sign having strong correlation to his or her language development. This paper focuses on the pointing behavior accompanied by utterance during picture book reading. With this respect, we make use of picture books’ review data amounting to approximately...
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3. Frequency-specific Alterations of Functional Hub in Generalized Tonic-clonic Seizure

Zhe Zhang, Huiyan Cheng, Xuhui Chen, Chaolin Ma
Pages: 221 - 230
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has shown aberrant brain functional networks at a conventional low-frequency range (0.01-0.08 Hz) in individuals with generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS). However, it is unclear how functional networks hubs change across different frequency...
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4. Refinement on Data, Information and Knowledge Lifecycles towards Service Economics Planning to Services Implementation

Yucong Duan, Gongzhu Hu, Xiaobing Sun, Zhaoxin Lin, Qiang Duan
Pages: 231 - 242
Service Economics has been successfully proposed and implemented for promoting the macro service market especially in Global value chains which however don’t provide guidance to and integrate directly with the IT side implementation to achieve coherent information coordination and robust adaptability...
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5. Minority Costume Image Retrieval by Fusion of Color Histogram and Edge Orientation Histogram

Xu-mei Shen, Ju-xiang Zhou, Tian-wei Xu
Pages: 243 - 251
It has very important practical significance to analyze and research minority costume from the perspective of computer vision for minority culture protection and inheritance. As first exploration in minority costume image retrieval, this paper proposed a novel image feature representation method to describe...
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6. Pedestrian Detection by Fusing 3D Points and Color Images

Ben-Zhong Lin, Chien-Chou Lin
Pages: 252 - 257
In this paper, a fusing approach of a 3D sensor and a camera are used to improve the reliability of pedestrian detection. The proposed pedestrian detecting system adopts DBSCAN to cluster 3D points and projects the candidate clusters onto images as region of interest (ROI). Those ROIs are detected by...