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    Detecting Autism From Head Movements Using Kinesics
    (Assoc Computing Machinery, 2024-11-04) Gokmen, Muhittin; Sariyanidi, Evangelos; Yankowitz, Lisa; Zampella, Casey J.; Schultz, Robert T.; Tunc, Birkan
    Head movements play a crucial role in social interactions. The quantification of communicative movements such as nodding, shaking, orienting, and backchanneling is significant in behavioral and mental health research. However, automated localization of such head movements within videos remains challenging in computer vision due to their arbitrary start and end times, durations, and frequencies. In this work, we introduce a novel and efficient coding system for head movements, grounded in Birdwhistell's kinesics theory, to automatically identify basic head motion units such as nodding and shaking. Our approach first defines the smallest unit of head movement, termed kine, based on the anatomical constraints of the neck and head. We then quantify the location, magnitude, and duration of kines within each angular component of head movement. Through defining possible combinations of identified kines, we define a higher-level construct, kineme, which corresponds to basic head motion units such as nodding and shaking. We validate the proposed framework by predicting autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis from video recordings of interacting partners. We show that the multi-scale property of the proposed framework provides a significant advantage, as collapsing behavior across temporal scales reduces performance consistently. Finally, we incorporate another fundamental behavioral modality, namely speech, and show that distinguishing between speaking- and listening-time head movements significantly improves ASD classification performance.
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    Face Recognition With Local Zernike Moments Features Around Landmarks
    (IEEE, 2016-05-01) Gökmen, Muhittin; Basaran, Emrah
    In this paper, a new method that extracts the features from the complex Local Zernike Moments (LZM) images around facial landmarks is proposed. In this method, multiple grids which are in different sizes are located on landmarks and Phase-Magnitude (PM) histograms are calculated in each cells of these grids. The PM histograms are calculated for every component of LZM and the feature vectors are created by concatenating these histograms. By reducing the dimensionality of these vectors using Whitened Principle Component Analysis, more robust descriptors are constructed. It is shown that the state-of-the-art results are obtained in the experiments performed on FERET database using the proposed method. © 2016 IEEE.