This special compendium provides a concise and unified vision of facial image processing. It addresses a collection of state-of-the-art techniques, covering the most important areas for facial biometrics and behavior analysis. These techniques also converge to serve an emerging practical application of interactive distance learning.Readers will get a broad picture of the fundamental science of the field and technical details that make the research interesting. Moreover, the intellectual investigation motivated by the demand of real-life application will make this volume an inspiring read for...

The 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein’sTractatus, asLogisch-Philosophische AbhandlunginAnnalen, is celebrated by a collection of original papers by well-known experts, on various aspects of what is no doubt one of the most influential books to have been published in philosophy in the twentieth century.