Big data: A case study of disruption and government power [PDF]
Although it is part of core government business to collect information about its citizens, ‘big data’ has increased the scale, speed and complexity of data collection and use to such an extent that it is arguably qualitatively different from the record ...
Galloway, Kathrine
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Real masks and spoof faces: On the masked face presentation attack detection
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Fang, Meiling +3 more
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Fruit over sunbed : carotenoid skin coloration is found more attractive than melanin coloration [PDF]
Skin coloration appears to play a pivotal part in facial attractiveness. Skin yellowness contributes to an attractive appearance and is influenced both by dietary carotenoids and by melanin.
Lefevre, Carmen E, Perrett, David I
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Identifying speech requires that listeners make rapid use of fine-grained acoustic cues—a process that is facilitated by being able to see the talker’s face.
Violet A. Brown +2 more
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Safety Recommendations for Evaluation and Surgery of the Head and Neck During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Importance The rapidly expanding novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has challenged the medical community to an unprecedented degree.
Chinn, Steven B. +13 more
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Geometry-Aware Face Completion and Editing
Face completion is a challenging generation task because it requires generating visually pleasing new pixels that are semantically consistent with the unmasked face region. This paper proposes a geometry-aware Face Completion and Editing NETwork (FCENet)
Cao, Jie +4 more
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Effects of face masks on the appearance of emotional expressions and invariant characteristics
Faces convey a lot of information about a person. However, the usage of face masks occludes important parts of the face. There is already information that face masks alter the processing of variable characteristics such as emotional expressions and the ...
Lau Wee Kiat, Huckauf Anke
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Unmasking History: Who Was Behind the Anti-Mask League Protests During the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in San Francisco? [PDF]
On April 17, 2020, San Francisco Mayor London Breed did something that had not been done for 101 years. She issued an order that face masks be worn in public as a measure to help prevent the spread of infectious disease in the midst of a pandemic.
Dolan, Brian
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Self-correction of 3D reconstruction from multi-view stereo images [PDF]
We present a self-correction approach to improving the 3D reconstruction of a multi-view 3D photogrammetry system. The self-correction approach has been able to repair the reconstructed 3D surface damaged by depth discontinuities.
Ayoub, A.F. +3 more
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Communication with face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic for adults with hearing loss
Face masks have become common protective measures in community and workplace environments to help reduce the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Face masks can make it difficult to hear and understand speech,
Brenda T. Poon, Lorienne M. Jenstad
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