<p> In this paper, the authors explore different approaches to animating 3D facial emotions, some of which use manual keyframe facial animation and some of which use machine learning. To compare approaches the authors conducted an experiment consisting of side-by-side comparisons of animation clips generated by skeleton, blendshape, audio-driven, and vision-based capture techniques.</p> <p>Ninety-five participants viewed twenty face animation clips of characters expressing five distinct emotions (anger, sadness, happiness, fear, neutral), which were created using four different facial animation techniques. After viewing each clip, the participants were asked to score the naturalness on a 5-point Likert scale and to identify the emotions that the characters appeared to be conveying.</p> <p>Although the happy emotion clips differed slightly in the naturalness ratings, the naturalness scores of happy emotions produced by the four methods tended to be consistent. The naturalness ratings of the fear emotion created with skeletal animation were higher than other methods.Recognition of sad and neutral were very low for all methods as compared to other emotions. Findings also showed that a few people participants were able to identify the clips that were machine generated rather than created by a human artist.The means, boxplots and HSD revealed that the skeleton approach had significantly higher ratings for naturalness and higher recognition rate than the other methods.</p>

This thesis introduces readers to the basic types of the text and information inputs and processing to the computer. Thesis also includes historical contexts, current trends and future perspective of computer data input technologies and their use in practice. The first part of the thesis is a summary of a particular forms of entering and processing of the text data and information. The following part presents technological trends on the market concentrated on the automatic speech recognition systems along with the possibilities of their application in the business sphere. The rest of the thesis consists of a survey between Czech IT companies and based on it's results comes a suggestion of which technologies should be used as a part of the information systems.

Déclaré « pierre angulaire » de la coopération judiciaire en matière civile au sein de l’ELSJ, le principe de reconnaissance mutuelle est devenu un véritable leitmotiv de la construction du droit international privé européen. Venu du marché intérieur, il est utilisé de deux façons : d’une part dans les règlements européens qui, posant le principe de reconnaissance mutuelle des décisions judiciaires, tentent de parvenir à une suppression généralisée de la procédure d’exequatur, et d’autre part dans la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l’Union qui utilise cette notion pour corriger les entraves causées par les règles nationales de conflit de lois à la libre circulation des citoyens, en énonçant un véritable principe de reconnaissance mutuelle des situations. Ces entraves sont notamment constituées en cas d’atteinte au principe de continuité des situations juridiques personnelles et familiales qui composent l’identité des citoyens de l’Union. Vecteur de nouvelles orientations dans les objectifs du DIP, ce principe exerce donc une influence certaine sur la mise en oeuvre des règles nationales de droit international privé en présence de situations qui concernent les citoyens de l’Union européenne, au soutien de leur libre circulation. L’heure est donc venue de s’interroger sur l’aptitude de ce principe à être combiné avec le rôle traditionnellement dévolu à la règle de conflit de lois. Loin d’envisager de manière concurrente le principe de reconnaissance mutuelle et le droit international privé au sein de l’ELSJ, l’étude de leur interaction devrait se clore par leur conciliation, afin de réassigner au DIP son rôle traditionnel qui est d’assurer la coordination des législations / The principle of mutual recognition was declared «corner stone» of the judiciary cooperation in the field of civil matters within the space of security and justice, and has become a real leitmotiv of the construction of European international private law.Directly derived from the internal market, this principle is used in two ways: first, the European regulations establishing the principle of mutual recognition of judiciary decisions aim at a general deletion of the exequatur procedure ; second, the European court of Justice uses this principle in its case law and has established a real principle of mutual recognition of situations in order to correct hindrances caused by national laws ruling conflict of laws upon people’s freedom of movement.Those hindrances are partly constituted in case of infringement to the principle of continuity of personal legal and family situations of the citizens of the European Union, which constitutes their identity.Driver of new approaches in respect of the objectives of international private law, the principle exert an influence on the implementation of national rules of international private law with respect in situations concerning citizens within the European Union, in support of their freedom of movement.In this view, time has come to examine the capability of this principle to be combined with the traditional role played by the rule of conflict of laws.Far from opposing the principle of mutual recognition and the international private law within the ELSJ, the study of their interaction should be examined through a conciliation spectrum in order to reassign international private law with its traditional role (coordinating legislation)