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Publications (6)

cs.CV2025

Attention Maps in 3D Shape Classification for Dental Stage Estimation with Class Node Graph Attention Networks

Barkin Buyukcakir, Rocharles Cavalcante Fontenele, Reinhilde Jacobs +4

Deep learning offers a promising avenue for automating many recognition tasks in fields such as medicine and forensics. However, the black-box nature of these models hinders their…

cs.CV2020

3D Facial Matching by Spiral Convolutional Metric Learning and a Biometric Fusion-Net of Demographic Properties

Soha Sadat Mahdi, Nele Nauwelaers, Philip Joris +8

Face recognition is a widely accepted biometric verification tool, as the face contains a lot of information about the identity of a person. In this study, a 2-step neural-based pi…

stat.ME2026

A Consistent Feature Screening Approach for Tensor Responses with Applications to Genome-Wide Facial Shape Association

Shaofei Zhao, Zuofeng Shang, Seth M. Weinberg +3

As data collecting technologies advance, data structures are getting more and more complex, from single vectors to multi-dimensional tensors. This article is motivated by a variabl…

cs.CV2025

An Autoencoder and Vision Transformer-based Interpretability Analysis of the Differences in Automated Staging of Second and Third Molars

Barkin Buyukcakir, Jannick De Tobel, Patrick Thevissen +2

The practical adoption of deep learning in high-stakes forensic applications, such as dental age estimation, is often limited by the 'black box' nature of the models. This study in…

eess.IV2021

Unsupervised Diffeomorphic Surface Registration and Non-Linear Modelling

Balder Croquet, Daan Christiaens, Seth M. Weinberg +3

Registration is an essential tool in image analysis. Deep learning based alternatives have recently become popular, achieving competitive performance at a faster speed. However, ma…

stat.ME2017

Manifold Data Analysis with Applications to High-Frequency 3D Imaging

Hyun Bin Kang, Matthew Reimherr, Mark Shriver +1

Many scientific areas are faced with the challenge of extracting information from large, complex, and highly structured data sets. A great deal of modern statistical work focuses o…