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In the geological exploration of the Adit, the texture, section, joint and other rock structural information are important factors to determine the stability of the Adit. Therefore, the collection and analysis of rock data information are the premise work and the key process of the safe production. Faced with the actual requirements of Adit 3D reconstruction, an automatic 3D reconstruction system...
Building a human-computer interactive parachute simulator is an efficient way to avoid the high risk and high cost of field parachute training. In this paper, a novel dynamic recognition and simulation approach of parachute training is developed. Firstly we process the skeletal data acquired by Kinect and enforce the indication of the trainees' parachute posture, where principle component analysis...
Stereo matching is important in the area of computer vision and photogrammetry. We present a stereo matching algorithm to refine depth map by using stereo image pair. The reference image is segmented by using hill-climbing algorithm and Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) feature descriptor with Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD) local stereo matching is performed. Next, we extract a set of disparity...
Our objective is to create a system that enables users to interact with surrounding surfaces by using touch interactions. In this work, we propose a touch detection method that utilizes the shadows of a finger for use with a system featuring an infrared (IR) camera and two IR lights. Since the shape of a finger's shadow varies depending on the distance between the surface and the finger, the system...
Encoding spatio-temporally varying textures is challenging for standardised video encoders, with significantly more bits required for textured blocks compared to non-textured blocks. It is therefore beneficial to understand video textures in terms of both their spatio-temporal characteristics and their encoding statistics in order to optimize coding modes and performance. To this end, we examine the...
Motion analysis and tracking often relies on multimodal signals, e.g., video, depth map, motion capture (MoCap), due to the completeness of information they jointly provide. The joint analysis of multimodal signals requires to know the correct timing, i.e., the signals to be aligned. In this paper we propose an approach to automatically estimate the correct matching and alignment between a video and...
Recently, in the field of speech processing, I-Vector modeling has been appealed a great deal of interest. I-Vector has shown its benefits in modeling of intra and inter-domain variabilities to a single low dimension space for speaker identification tasks. This paper presents the usage of I-Vector in camera identification as a new approach in image forensics domain. In our approach, image texture...
Nowadays, there is a growing demand for automated video-based surveillance systems due to increase security concerns. Anomaly detection is a popular application in this area where anomalous events of interest are defined as observed behavior that stands out from its context in space and time. In this paper, we present an approach for the detection of anomalous motion based on the extraction of object-size...
Abnormal activity sensing has attracted increasing research attention in military surveillance, patient monitoring, and health care of children and elderly, etc. Researchers have exploited the characteristics of wireless signals to sense “keystrokes” and “human talks”, relieving the privacy invasion concern caused by mounting the surveillance cameras or wearing the smart devices. However, existing...
Because visually impaired persons are not able to confirm the appearance of their own face, they are afraid of and uneasy about makeup. We have been developing a system that assists makeup application through verbal feedback according to the appearance of the user's face. The system encourages social communication by helping the user feel confident. In this paper, we introduce a new method of using...
In this paper, we propose a novel method to estimate the posture of the human body in a network of depth sensors. We divide the body into two regions and take a limited number of selective samples from point cloud of human body. The sample points are utilized to compute 2D gradient and the histograms of the gradient of sample points along two different scan directions. These extracted values are then...
In this paper, a system to aid the visually impaired by providing contextual information of the surroundings using 360° view camera combined with deep learning is proposed. The system uses a 360° view camera with a mobile device to capture surrounding scene information and provide contextual information to the user in the form of audio. The scene information from the spherical camera feed is classified...
Person re-identification via cross-camera is a difficult problem in the field of target discovery and tracking. Traditional solutions depending on the characteristics of a target's appearance have low reliability and can easily lead to low matching rate because they use simple metric functions. This work proposes a more reliable measurement: correlative degree of a target's features among different...
The analysis of human motion as a clinical tool can bring many benefits such as the early detection of disease and the monitoring of recovery, so in turn helping people to lead independent lives. However, it is currently under used. Developments in depth cameras, such as Kinect, have opened up the use of motion analysis in settings such as GP surgeries, care homes and private homes. To provide an...
Nowadays, visual features play a key role, as they can provide a concise representation of visual data that is efficient for multiple tasks, notably content retrieval and object recognition. In parallel, visual sensors have been improving, targeting richer acquisitions of the light in a visual scene. In this context, the so-called light field cameras, which have recently emerged, are able to go beyond...
Large-field image stitching and 3D reconstruction are two hot topics in computer vision. Generally, only a small amount of overlapped area is required in large-field image stitching. On the other hand, cameras usually share almost the same field of view for multi-view 3D reconstruction, which guarantees enough overlapped areas to calculate 3D information of the target scene. To realize the two purposes...
Wireless cameras can be used to gather situation awareness information (e.g., humans in distress) in disaster recovery scenarios. However, blindly sending raw video streams from such cameras, to an operations center or controller can be prohibitive in terms of bandwidth. Further, these raw streams could contain either redundant or irrelevant information. Thus, we ask "how do we extract accurate...
In this paper, a temporally iterative Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) of Dynamic Texture (DT) for target detection using a moving PTZ camera, is proposed. Camera movement in a PTZ sensor causes motion-based target detection techniques to fail for the periods affected by the scene change. This is because the whole scene is considered a representation of the target motion. When the camera is in motion,...
Robust semantic knowledge of the environment is one of the building blocks for autonomous driving. If different sensor types are employed for the same task independently, the overall accuracy and safety of the system can increase. Therefore, it is desirable to maximize each sensor's capabilities and to build up redundancies, as it is often required by functional safety. To this end, this paper demonstrates...
This paper proposes a method that realizes moving object detection (MOD) and static obstacle detection (SOD) in real time utilizing the fisheye cameras of the around viewing system (AVM). The topview of the AVM is used to calculate the vehicles movement between two frames using homograph estimation. Image features are detected and tracked evenly using cell detection technique. Then the features are...
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