Abstract: This paper proposes a novel local feature descriptor, local directional number pattern (LDN), for face analysis, i.e., face and expression recognition. LDN encodes the directional ...

For more than a century, Egyptologists have dated the Great Pyramid to around 2580 BC, about 4,600 years ago. A controversial new study now claims the monument could be tens of thousands of years ...

I recently discussed in this space the dominance of French-bred horses in National Hunt racing, and suggested that moves towards earlier development of jumps horses in Britain and Ireland, encouraged ...

Abstract: Key classes have become excellent starting points for developers to understand unknown software systems. Up to now, a variety of approaches have been proposed to mine key classes in a ...