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Gender recognition from facial images: Two or three dimensions? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Optical Society of America. This paper seeks to compare encoded features from both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) face images in order to achieve automatic gender recognition with high accuracy and robustness. The Fisher vecto... Read More about Gender recognition from facial images: Two or three dimensions?.

Eye center localization and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Optical Society of America. This paper introduces an unsupervised modular approach for accurate and real-time eye center localization in images and videos, thus allowing a coarse-to-fine, global-to-regional scheme. The trajectories of eye cent... Read More about Eye center localization and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction.

An Analytical Capacitance Model for Through-Silicon Vias in Floating Silicon Substrate (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 IEEE. Through-silicon via (TSV) is an integral part of 2.5-D IC technology leveraged for multichip heterogeneous integration to achieve shorter interconnects, faster speed, and lower power consumption in the state-of-the-art circuit systems. T... Read More about An Analytical Capacitance Model for Through-Silicon Vias in Floating Silicon Substrate.

Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Sit-to-stand (STS) transfers are a common human task which involves complex sensorimotor processes to control the highly nonlinear musculoskeletal system. In this paper, typical unassisted and assiste... Read More about Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance.

Walking assistance using artificial primitives: A novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative exoskeleton (2016)
Journal Article

Bioinspiration in robotics deals with applying biological principles to the design of better performing devices. In this article, we propose a novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative... Read More about Walking assistance using artificial primitives: A novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative exoskeleton.

Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. To resolve an increasing global demand in energy, a source of sustainable and environmentally friendly energy is needed. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) hold great potential as a sustainable and green bioener... Read More about Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine.

Is the 2D unlabelled data adequate for facial expression recognition? (2016)
Journal Article

Automatic facial expression recognition is one of the important challenges for computer vision and machine learning. Despite the fact that many successes have been achieved in the recent years, several important but unresolved problems still remain.... Read More about Is the 2D unlabelled data adequate for facial expression recognition?.

Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Bremner and Leonards. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal communication might be realized remotely is t... Read More about Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech.

Determination of the anisotropic elastic properties of rocksalt Ge2Sb2Te5 by XRD, residual stress, and DFT (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 American Chemical Society. The chalcogenide material Ge2Sb2Te5 is the prototype phase-change material, with widespread applications for optical media and random access memory. However, the full set of its independent elastic properties has not... Read More about Determination of the anisotropic elastic properties of rocksalt Ge2Sb2Te5 by XRD, residual stress, and DFT.

The practical implementation of microbial fuel cell technology (2016)
Book Chapter

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. New green technologies are emerging in response to decades of damaging human activity. Among those are microbial fuel cells (MFCs), electric transducers that transform wet organic matter into electricity via... Read More about The practical implementation of microbial fuel cell technology.

The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers. Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is used to aid the selection of men undergoing biopsies. Its use remains controversial. We propose a GC-sensor algorithm system for cl... Read More about The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies.

High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures (2016)
Journal Article

Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which th... Read More about High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures.

Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. An analytical investigation into the non-linear elastic response of helical lattice structures coupled with an elastic medium is presented. Novel composite templates are then obtained to produce bespoke material characteristics b... Read More about Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development?.

3D finite element model for predicting manufacturing distortions of composite parts (2016)
Journal Article

© SAGE Publications. A 3D finite element model has been developed for predicting manufacturing distortions of fibre-reinforced thermosetting composite parts. The total curing process is divided into three steps that correspond to the states that resi... Read More about 3D finite element model for predicting manufacturing distortions of composite parts.

Creating statistics e-assessments using Dewis with embedded R code (2016)
Journal Article

We report on the creation of statistics e-assessments using the Dewis system with embedded R code. Dewis is a fully algorithmic open-source e-assessment system designed and developed at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). Dewis’ abi... Read More about Creating statistics e-assessments using Dewis with embedded R code.

A user-centric design of service robots speech interface for the elderly (2016)
Book Chapter

The elderly population in the Europe have quickly increased and will keep growing in the coming years. In facing the elder care challenges posed by the amount of seniors staying alone in their own homes, great efforts have been made to develop advanc... Read More about A user-centric design of service robots speech interface for the elderly.

Flexible on-body coils for inductive power transfer to IoT garments and wearables (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Inductive power transfer is a promising technology for ambient charging and powering of wearable devices without the need for direct user intervention. Existing systems typically use circular or rectangular coils built using inflexible wire and fixed... Read More about Flexible on-body coils for inductive power transfer to IoT garments and wearables.

A Review on the Mechanical Modeling of Composite Manufacturing Processes (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). The increased usage of fiber reinforced polymer composites in load bearing applications requires a detailed understanding of the process induced residual stresses and their effect on the shape distortions. This is utmost necess... Read More about A Review on the Mechanical Modeling of Composite Manufacturing Processes.

A comparison of visible wavelength reflectance hyperspectral imaging and Acid Black 1 for the detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences. Bloodstains are often encountered at scenes of violent crime and have significant forensic value for criminal investigations. Blood is one of the most commonly encountered types of biological evidenc... Read More about A comparison of visible wavelength reflectance hyperspectral imaging and Acid Black 1 for the detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints.

Comprehensive Study on Ceramic Membranes for Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cells (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) made with different types of ceramic membranes were investigated to find a low-cost alternative to commercially available proton exchange membranes. The MFCs operated wi... Read More about Comprehensive Study on Ceramic Membranes for Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cells.