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The purpose of this research is to develop the real-world captioning system to ensure information accessibility for person with hearing impairment. However, switching the visual line between the speaker's face and the caption when one is engaging in conversation may stress the user. In this paper, we propose the real-world captioning system which display the dialog next to the speaker's face using...
A game space is designed and placed by considering the beats (Events or Quests) inducing the behaviors of a player. Beats of FPS game can be divided into three types. It is possible to evaluate the placement of the pieces of space in case of analyzing the visual cognition information obtained by the player depending on each kind of beat. In this paper, players were divided into two groups (Novices...
Spoken dialog systems are presently used widely. However, some users avoid using them because of poor usability and unattractiveness. In this study, we develop a system that captures the user's movement and estimates the user state. This function is incorporated into the existing spoken dialog system to build a multimodal dialog system. In the experiments, the recognition performance of body motion...
This paper proposes the method to recommend music using lyric network. This method corresponding to more than thousands of musics. The authors focus each lyric of the music. Keywords representing music are extracted from its lyric by combining TF-IDF method and principle of discriminant analysis. Lyric network is generated based on extracted keywords. The connection of generated network can recommend...
We propose a reversible data hiding method for embedding secret data in a scaled-up image of a cover image, where the scaled-up image is computed using maximum and minimum filters to achieve higher payload than that of conventional methods based on neighbor mean interpolation. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms conventional methods in both data-hiding capacity and image...
As the Internet of Things has emerged, it has become possible to develop applications and services through various types of input / output using things as well as various graphic displays. In view of the development of such interfaces, a distributed user interface (DUI) is emerging in which a plurality of devices are simultaneously used to utilize one application service. In order to activate a DUI-based...
This paper presents a serious game-based system for dance notation training named LabanDance. The system tracks the full body motion via Microsoft Kinect of the user while performing the movement according to the dancing score. The system provides two training modes which a practice mode and an examination mode. The practice mode is designed for users with less knowledge in the notation where movement...
We propose a model that adapts to CNN trained by non-rotated images even for rotated images by evaluating the feature map obtained from the convolution part of CNN. The additional network for rotation angle estimation is able to correct the rotation angle using the feature map in the MNIST data-set. It is possible to cope with the rotation without changing the original network by adding a network...
Captioning lecture speech is very useful for better understanding. However, it takes high cost to do real-time manual captioning or even if we employ automatic speech recognition system and human correction together. In this paper, we propose a method to reduce a cost for human correction as a prerequisite of a framework for captioning using automatic speech recognition system. Specifically, we investigate...
Although cameras are commonly used to achieve customer's attributes in the field of advertising, improving the precision of these consumer features just by imagery has been a great challenge. This paper proposes a new targeted advertising method experimentally accommodated to digital signage systems by using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. The paper provides a design of this new advertising method...
The semiconductor counterfeiting has become a serious problem. Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is attracted attention as a countermeasure. PUF can generate a unique ID for each device utilizing a variation during manufacturing. However, PUF is vulnerable to modeling attacks. In addition, it is reported that side-channel information allows modeling attacks effectively. To secure the safety of semiconductors,...
We have developed Positioning Capable Vibration Surface Motor System which can be applied to robots and amusement as new type actuator. The Surface Motor System consists of a Mover and a Base-table. The Mover constructs multiple piezoelectric elements and the Base-table is built in vibration sensor. The Mover of this system can move all direction and spin turn without steering mechanism. And position...
In this research, we present a practical method to detect the insufficient brushing points. The system consists of a sensor node and a visual interface. The sensor node can be clipped onto the handler of a toothbrush while brushing the teeth and the brushed regions will be realtime displayed on the visual interface. A six-axis inertial sensor inside the node is used to detect the scrubbed areas, so...
There are 3,930,000 physical-disabled people and 740,000 mentally-disabled people in Japan. Also, 6% of nations have some disability from the survey by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Among them, the total number of physical-disabled under 18 years old is 98,000 and mentally-disable is 125,000. Those children cannot communicate without somebody's help because of severe physical or/and mental...
Problem of test suite size increases in the process of software maintenance when numbers of revision are required can be solved by reduction algorithms such random and regression test reduction. Nevertheless, the whole performance need to be improved. Therefore, this research paper proposes the new model that is used for improving the regression test reduction, which guarantees the best results compared...
Semantic techniques can be utilized for understanding the meaning of sentences in a text. We can refer the abstract of some document in order to understand its contents very quickly. But the case of video data is different. We cannot review the whole video file in a short time period just like the text document case. This paper proposes the design of video abstract extraction. In order to generate...
It is well known that a mobile phone and an IH cooking appliance can affect implantable cardiac devices. The chargers of electric vehicles (EV) can also have a harmful effect on these devices. According to a report by the Ministry of Health, this harmful effect was detected in the worst case. However, this effect under usual conditions has not been studied. Therefore, in this paper, we conducted experiments...
In this paper we propose a robust method of displaying the archery score in real time by using image processing techniques to aid for the development of an automated scoring system after archers shoot arrows. Some experimental results are shown by using video sequences taken in an indoor environment.
Companies and public entities administer customer expectation and satisfaction surveys to identify business problems. However, devising and analyzing questionnaires is burdensome for investigators, and answering questionnaires imposes a burden on customers. Here, to address these problems, we attempt to estimate customer expectation and satisfaction using sensing technology. We hypothesize that satisfaction...
Physically weak people require support for standing up and sitting down. The purpose of this study is to develop an assistive device for sit-to-stand task in daily life. The device can support not only for standing-sitting motion but also for setting some places easy in house. And users can use the device by oneself or with caregivers. The muscle activity has been observed by using surface myoelectric...
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