The first part of the dissertation introduces several new methods for estimating thestructure of graphical models. Firstly, we consider estimating graphical models withdiscrete variables, including nominal variables and ordinal variables. For the nominalvariables, we prove the asymptotic...

Introduction and Excel Basics -- Blockchain (I): Numbers and Alphanumeric -- Blockchain (II): ASCII and Sha256 -- Ledge and Distributed Ledger -- Cryptography Basics: public and private keys -- Advanced Cryptography -- Cryptocurrency and Ganache -- Crypto markets, risk and risk-return tradeoff...

Although last improvements in both physical storage technologies and image handling techniques have eased image managing processes, the large amount of information handled nowadays constantly demands more efficient ways to store and transmit image data streams. Among other alternatives for such...

This article describes how in order to facilitate the retrieval of impressive scenes from lifelog videos, a method to estimate the intensity of a facial expression of a person in a lifelog video is proposed. The previous work made it possible to estimate the facial expression intensity, but the...