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The study focuses on development of digital library of Kashmiri handicraft "Papier-Machie". The art is one of the most famous and exported handicraft of Kashmir. The Greenstone Digital Library Software has been used to design digital library of "Paper-Machie" handicraft. The digital library will be a knowledge resource providing opportunities for storing, managing and retrieving...
Exhibition content has been used a touch panel for the user's convenience. Touch panel are not good recognition. And errors may occur when you use a long time. In addition there occurs a malfunction due to contamination. In the present study, such problems want to improve. We designed the Exhibition contents to recognize the swipe gesture of Kinect. Gesture recognition is constructed in three steps...
Nonlinear interaction resulting in unusual propagation properties of high power pulsed lasers beams can be exploited for remote and high resolution spectroscopy. Long range interrogation of solids and vapors, for instance by stimulated backward Raman scattering, requires a thorough understanding of the propagation of intense pulses in the atmosphere. Self trapping of femtosecond (in the near IR) and...
This paper reports a computational method to develop customized dual padding to be inserted at certain body parts with double low pressure areas. The results show that both custom made paddings can be created computationally. It is hope that the method can help occupational therapists to design padding that can exert the pressure close to the specific design pressure to the whole of the affected body...
Echocardiography provides information about size, shape, and function of heart to create the image. Apical four-chamber echocardiography can be obtained by placing the ultrasound probe at the apex of the left ventricle. Such view enables to analyze heart abnormalities. In this regard, chamber quantification is recommended to evaluate the heart volume by defining the endocardial border of the chambers...
Whole brain tractography generates a very huge dataset composed by various tracts of different shapes, lengths, positions. Then clustering them into anatomically meaningful bundles is a challenge. Until now, several clustering methods have been proposed such as methods based on similarity measures or methods based on anatomical information, but no optimal clustering criteria were found yet. All methods...
Line drawing can express meaningful information by ignoring less important or distracting details, and thus becomes a popular shape depiction technique. However, existing methods mainly focused on static data. Although we can apply these methods to animated data frame by frame, it is still not applicable for large scale model due to the high computational cost. In this paper, we present a real time...
Mobile comic is now evolving into an industry with great potential for its convenience, huge user base etc. A key challenge in mobile comic is to adapt the comic content to various mobile screens for better visual effect, which is also called image retargeting. Although a lot of works have been conducted in this area, most of them target on nature or natural-like images. However, cartoon images are...
Nanotechnology is an increasingly researched area due to the big potential and a wide range of applications. An important part of this technology is communication, so that's why the paper will be mainly focused on the area of nanocommunications, which is primarily based on principles of electromagnetic field. The goal is then to design nanoantennas and their constructions, it means to find the appropriate...
Conventional iris recognition using a full frontal iris image has reached a very high accuracy rate. In this paper, we focus on processing off-angle iris images. Previous research has shown that it is possible to correct off-angle iris images, but knowledge of the angle was needed. Very little work has focused on iris angle estimation which can be used for angle correction. In this paper, we describe...
We have been studying the use of "Rich Media" to support creative and intelligent human activities. Specifically, for over ten years we have been focusing on the 3D space as a "Rich Medium" and developed many 3D sketch systems that support the design of 3D objects. However, we found that designers in the real world do not use them. The fundamental problem is the lack of an indispensable...
This paper proposes a method for contour completion of a skew-symmetry object which is partly occluded by other objects. The proposed method assumes that skew symmetry of a shape can be measured by correlation with its reflection on a no orthogonal plane. Under the assumption, the method estimates a skew-symmetry axis and a skew transverse angle, and then reflects the contour to the estimated axis...
To achieve more realistic surface design, this paper proposes a new scheme of interpolation subdivision surface, which is extended from interpolation subdivision of Bezier curve. Different from the previous interpolation subdivision schemes, the normal vectors are used to generate a circle from a triangle which results in only 3 vertices and 3 edges. This improvement not only makes a curve smooth,...
This paper aims to provide a more convenient interaction approach for users who can manipulate or build his pleasurable car model by adjusting semantic properties. Since specific aesthetic property is determined by semantic key lines, adjusting these lines obeying particular curve styling property will manipulate car model semantically. An interface is designed to change styling properties with modification...
Concave region partitioning is valuable for object modeling and recognition. A key issue to the design of an efficient partitioning method is on the selection of cut points. In this paper, we propose to use imbalanced points in a region to characterize cut points in the contour of the region, motivated by the good corner nature of imbalanced points. Specifically, we formulate a concave region as a...
Connected components of edge pixels are valuable for many applications, e.g., Image segmentation, contour extraction, and text detection. However, a connected component of edge pixels may not form a simple curve due to the existence of bifurcation pixels, and thus limits its application in shape modeling. In this paper, we propose an approach to remove bifurcation pixels in an edge image, which let...
In this particular paper we have described an algorithm for synergistic segmentation of endoscopie ulcer images of the patient. Suppose a small number of user-labeled pixels are given, then the rest of the image is segmented automatically by using a Grow cut method. User can keep a keen watch on the segmentation evolution and direct the algorithm with human input where the segmentation is difficult...
A swing-arm conditioning is generally adopted for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) system to recover the surface roughness of polishing pad. However, the conditioning process results in uneven pad profile. During conditioning, locally excessive pad wear relates to the pad lifetime in CMP process. In this paper we investigate on the relationship of locally controlled swing condition and maximum...
Face shape is also important information for glasses design companies. In this paper, we proposed a non-contact method to classify the face shape by using Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique. This algorithm consists of three steps: head segmentation, face plane identification, and face shape classification. First, as whole 3D body data is captured and used as input of system, Eigenvector is used...
This paper looks at the newly materializing nanotechnology industry in Japan, and attempts to answer the question of what processes shape the formation and change of the organizational field network. Nanotechnology is a loosely-coupled field and includes organizations from a diverse set of industries and fields that evolved through different historical pathways. To understand the boundaries of the...
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