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Depth camera has gained much more attention in applications of human computer interactivity. In this paper, we present an approach to tracking 3D human pose by constructing/estimating an articulated upper body joint model from depth data captured by Kinect camera. The system first calibrates the human pose parameters by processing the depth data of an initial pose. After that, the dynamic programming...
The finite element models have been used to evaluate the biomechanics of healthy and pathologic knee. And the imaging data provide functional representation of anatomical structures for the models. Previous studies have established the geometry of bone from Computed tomography (CT), and created the cartilage of femoral, tibial according to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The meniscus geometric structure...
This paper contains analysis and simulation of recent dynamic models, describing human emotion. The pharmacological discussions lead to a new model of drug taking, which also have a better performance for description of psychological and psychiatric phenomena. Studying the effects of the order of fractional model, obtains an advantage of the fractional order model over the integer order one.
Simulations of statistical models have been used to validate theories of past events in evolution of species. Studies concerning human evolution are important for understanding about our history and biodiversity. However, these approaches use complex statistical models, leading to high computational cost. The present paper proposes optimization techniques for Hyper-threaded multicore architectures...
Nowadays, even though countries take measures to control the population, it is reported that the total number of global population has reached 7billion. In 21st century, the human society is still faced with the problems about the unprecedented consumption of material wealth and the unprecedented increase in population [1]. So the researchers should study the dynamic changes of resources and population...
We have developed techniques to automatically generate personalised biomechanical models of patients' hearts based on 3D cardiac images. We demonstrate this approach using multi-slice computed tomography images. Unsupervised segmentation was performed using non-rigid image registration with a segmented image. A finite element model was automatically fitted to the segmented data of the left ventricle...
Cloud Computing allows the use of information technology based on the on-demand utility. This technology can provide benefits to small and medium enterprises with limited capital, human resources, and access to marketing network. A survey conducted on SMEs in the district of Coblong Bandung to dig up the IT needs and analyze their readiness to adopt cloud computing technologies. The survey results...
Agent-based evacuation modeling approach is gained more and more attention for investigating human cognitive capabilities and social behaviors in building fires. This paper mainly overviews the research about various agent-based evacuation models. For the decision-making reflects the intelligence of agent individual, we define three types of behavior decision-making models for agent individual based...
Sustainable development analysis is the important problem in contemporary domestic and international. The analysis about sustainable development evaluation index system spreads widely in the international, this paper analyzes sustainable development index system of research results in the relevant international organizations and main developed countries. We point out the characteristics of the related...
Body Area Networks is an emerging domain taking a big interest from developers and system designers. On the other hand, the need to localize is becoming necessary in diverse applications. Within this context, the aim of this paper is to estimate the different gestures and motions of the human body. Initially, we use information, about human motion, extracted from C3D files. In fact, these files provide...
Recent advances in technologies for capturing video data have opened a vast amount of new application areas. Among them, the incorporation of Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments. Although the performance of tracking algorithms have quickly improved, symbolic models used to represent the resulting knowledge have not yet been adapted for smart environments. This paper...
The new breakthrough in technology has opened new chances for researchers to develop more advance video surveillance system to provide human a more liveable city. Hand detection from silhouette for video surveillance application is important as it enables the tracking of human hand across video frames. This paper describes the algorithm for hand detection from human silhouette for video surveillance...
This paper presents the results of the CuReSS Project and demonstrates how the use of systems thinking principles and systems thinking methods, combined with an exploration of the human body's achievement of resilience, have contributed to the development of a ‘Blueprint’ for resilience. SSM is used to draw together viewpoints from fields including ecology, physics, sociology, psychology and disaster...
Our research investigates application of cybernetic concepts to problem definition which is often considered a project's most important and difficult phase. The addition of cybernetic principles can make existing problem definition methods even more powerful. This is explained and demonstrated by enhancing Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) with several cybernetic concepts, and applying the resulting...
The purpose of this work is the development and the validation of an accurate computer program for modeling of the thermal, the respiratory and the cardiovascular responses of a live or dead person exposed to any kind of environment while wearing different kinds of clothing and at rest or doing a moderate or intensive activity. The range of possible utilization is extensive, e.g., the optimization...
The main purpose of this work is to present a three dimensional biomechanical multibody foot model suitable to perform forward dynamic analysis. The proposed approach takes into accounts the different contact phenomena that develop between the foot and ground during the stance phase of the human gait. The interaction between the foot and ground bodies is provided by the introduction of a set of spheres...
Elevated temperatures (1-2°C) resulting from radio frequency (RF) absorption can cause adverse health effects, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke. In the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIPR) guidelines [1] and the IEEE standard [2], the whole-body-averaged specific absorption rate (WBA-SAR) is used as a metric of human protection from RF whole-body exposure....
Recent experimental studies have shown that cardiac tissue can be engineered to respond to optical stimulation using Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a light-gated cation channel. We present the first comprehensive multiscale framework for simulating cardiac optogenetics, following illumination effects from membrane proteins to ventricular contraction. Virtual optogenetic therapy is applied in ventricular...
This paper presents a simple and effective method to compute the pixel saliency with full resolution in an image. First, the proposed method creates an image representation of four color channels through the modified computation on the basis of Itti et al.[5]. Then the most informative channel is automatically identified from the derived four color channels. Finally, the pixel saliency is computed...
We propose an approach to recognize group activities which involve several persons based on modeling the interactions between human bodies. Benefitted from the recent progress in pose estimation [1], we model the activities as the interactions between the parts belong to the same person (intra-person) and those between the parts of different persons (inter-person). Then a unified, discriminative model...
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