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With the core concept of "body without organs" in Deleuze's "body" theory, this paper presents a new view at the ways of human perception and construction of the environment through the medium of the human "body". The purpose is to break the inherent structural association among levels of senses in the body, to highlight the basic role of "body" in recognition...
We report on the development of a novel in vitro, multi-compartmental, three-dimensional, Human Skin Tissue Experimental Model (HISTEM) using three-dimensional free form fabrication (3DFFF). The availability of this model is expected to positively impact the development of transdermal vaccines and immunomodulators for infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders. Our studies demonstrate the biological...
The skin model can be used in many different fields, mostly in the face detection. Based on the skin model, the problem of face detection has more simple and fast solutions. What's more, skin model can be applied to other target detections, such as detecting the fish in the pictures. Through our experimental comparative study on the skin model by some experiments of face and fish detection, we can...
Laser direct-write (LDW) is a biofabrication method capable of rapidly creating precise patterns of viable cells. While previous studies have successfully printed cells to polystyrene Petri dishes, here we have adapted LDW to printing both human dermal fibroblasts and mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) to cover slips, allowing more efficient use of culture reagents. Viability of both cell types was...
Our contribution deals with the human skin voltage chart measurement. We have concentrated our effort on finding and following the measurement of active points on different parts of the skin's surface, to acknowledge their existence and position through a measuring process. The human skin has a certain impedance or resistance — it can be easily described and simulated using a substitute electric circuit...
Human cognition and emotion can be affected by subliminal visual stimulus. Does sustained subliminal auditory stimulus (SAS) have the similar effect? In this study, the speech sound “Be happier” was used as the SAS, and the power-to-take game was used as the experimental task to investigate the effect of SAS on human emotion. 34 subjects were randomly divided into control group and experiment group...
The known 3-layered model of a human body (skin-fat-muscle) is applied to estimate maximum distances feasible for the communication between two in-vivo miniature electronic devices. It is notable that dimensions of these implants are assumed not to extend the thickness of the human fat layer. The effect of guided wave propagation in the selected 3-layered model is investigated and the gain coming...
Existing face liveness detection algorithms adopt behavioural challenge-response methods that require user cooperation. To be verified live, users are expected to obey some user unfriendly requirement. In this paper, we present a multispectral face liveness detection method, which is user cooperation free. Moreover, the system is adaptive to various user-system distances. Using the Lambertian model,...
Recent research in the field of Human Computer Interaction aims at recognizing the user's emotional state in order to provide a smooth interface between humans and computers. This would make life easier and can be used in vast applications involving areas such as education, medicine etc. Human emotions can be recognized by several approaches such as gesture, facial images, physiological signals and...
Facial rejuvenation has driven a lot of research in the field of dermatology and plastic surgery, leading to many medical procedures. This paper proposes an age prediction method that could be used to better understand the ageing process and to evaluate the benefits of a rejuvenating treatment, for example. A supervised Facial Model (SFM) is built using Partial Least Squares regression (PLSR) to capture...
An electronic device for electrical stimulation and measurement of the skin impedance is described. The device allows to program any type of waveform for stimulating the skin. Two investigative experiments were performed to assess the effects of different electrical pulse shapes in the pain sensation and in the measured electrical impedance values. The selective fibers stimulation was studied with...
Segmenting brain from non-brain tissue within magnetic resonance (MR) images of the human head, also known as skull-stripping, is a critical processing step in the analysis of neuroimaging data. Though many algorithms have been developed to address this problem, challenges remain. In this paper, we apply the “deformable organism” framework to the skull-stripping problem. Within this framework, deformable...
The detection and tracking of faces and facial features in video sequences is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. This research area has many applications in face identification systems, model-based coding, gaze detection, human-computer interaction, teleconferencing, etc. This work presents a real time system for detection and tracking of facial features in video sequences....
This paper presents a real-time system for hand gesture classification. The hands are detected using both the depth by the stereo camera and the skin color. The reconstructed trajectory of hands is classified into one of the gesture references.
This paper presents an electronic travel aid for blind people to navigate safely and quickly, an obstacle detection system using ultrasonic sensors and USB camera based visual navigation has been considered. The proposed system detects the obstacles up to 300 cm via sonar and sends feedback (beep sound) to inform the person about its location. In addition to this, an USB webcam is connected with eBox...
The blind sportsmen have recorded significant improvements in their performances since their first participation in the Paralympics Games in Toronto 1976. In athletics, mainly running, they have to be guided by other athletes who have to follow them closely, especially in a competitive run, where the distance between them cannot exceed 50 cm, that is, between the visually impaired and their guide...
A novel temporary transfer tattoo based RFID tag is presented providing a non-optimised read range of 50cm. The transfer based tag is proposed for security and personnel tagging applications where the injection of a sub-skin tag is not desirable. With some refinement the tag could have a life span of a day or more, but could not be transferred to another person without destroying it. By applying correctly...
Considering human and robot cooperation and interaction, sensory and emotional feelings can be assumed as the most important point of being safe and secure for human and environment. In our previous study that is focused on imitating human pain sensing system, we designed a multi-layer pain sensing unit to mimic human behaviors in the case of superficial stimulation. Translating data acquired by pain...
Gestures represent an important channel of human communication, and they are “co-expressive” with speech. For this reason, in human-machine interaction automatic gesture classification can be a valuable help in a number of tasks, like for example as a disambiguation aid in automatic speech recognition. Based on the hand gesture categorization proposed by D. McNeill in his reference works on gesture...
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