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Modern robotic platforms, deployed for environmental monitoring and mapping, are able to rapidly accumulate large data sets. Whilst the data sets collected by these platforms are highly descriptive, they are often too large for human experts to analyse exhaustively. Although the large data sets could be analysed by humans in principle, the amount of labour and time required to process them is not...
The ability to automatically predict likelihood of reaction to specific events and situational awareness is important to many military and commercial applications. Gauging population sentiment for targeted response areas and having the ability to predict or control sentiment within these areas is invaluable. Review of reception towards deployed forces must be analyzed, especially in areas vital for...
This paper presents an audio monitoring system for detecting and identifying people engaged in a conversation. The proposed method is hands-free as it uses a microphone array to acquire the sound. A particularity of the approach is the use of a laser range finder based human tracker system. The human tracker monitors the locations of people then local steered response power is used to detect the people...
We present an approach, based on non-negative matrix factorization, for learning to recognize parallel combinations of initially unknown human motion primitives, associated with ambiguous sets of linguistic labels during training. In the training phase, the learner observes a human producing complex motions which are parallel combinations of initially unknown motion primitives. Each time the human...
In this paper, we propose a passive wire-type motion support system to guide a human hand through the use of servo brakes. This system is intrinsically safe because servo brakes cannot generate a driving force to control the system. On the other hand, this system may not generate sufficient force to guide the human hand along the desired path because of the use of servo brakes. To resolve this problem,...
According to the competency dictionary of Spencer, this research explores the component of senior researchers' competency in universities, and designs a scale of competency through the literature review, net information analysis, as well as the interviews of experts. To elaborate a model for senior researchers' competency, a total of 348 professors from 17 universities answered the questionnaire....
In this paper, we present a monocular, texture-based method for person detection and upper-body orientation classification. We build on a commonly used approach for person recognition that uses a Support Vector Machine (SVM) on Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) [1] but replace the SVM by a decision tree with SVMs as binary decision makers. Thereby, in addition to the pure detection of persons,...
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Human Apart) is widely used than before, which becomes the common part of current website login system. However, the CAPTCHA implementation is tricky and risky without deliberate design. In this paper, we give a study case of the vulnerabilities in current login website using text-based CAPTCHA. Our target is a website of mainstream...
This paper presents a Nonlinear AutoRegressive with eXogenous input (NARX)-based approach for human-emotion recognition from an input video. The dynamics of facial expressions are first captured by performing a temporal-spatial analysis by extracting local and spatial features using a pyramid of histograms of oriented gradients (PHOG) descriptor. Then the temporal phases of facial expressions are...
This paper reports experimental analysis of human characteristic in the lever operation by utilizing the stabilization task of cart-pendulum system. Previous studies have shown that there was a difference in the velocity distribution of the cart in the difference of the skill level. Then, cart-pendulum simulator is newly constructed and training that does the stabilization operation is done for five...
A benchmark evaluation dataset which reflects users' search behaviors in the real world is indispensable for evaluating the performance of information retrieval applications. A typical evaluation dataset consists of a document set, a topic set and relevance judgments. Manual preparation of an evaluation dataset needs much human cost, and human-made topics may not fully capture users' real search needs...
Enterprises and industrial companies strive to improve their functional performance by identification of core competencies in order to utilize human resources and optimise the knowledge integration processes of the company. In addition, maintenance operations are one of the most important sections in industrial companies which consist of key personnel and also explicit and implicit knowledge resources...
The cultural and creative industry has a positive role in a city's prosperity and development, it is also very important in a city's restructuring and upgrading of industrial structure, especially to Shanghai, the Chinese biggest international financial center, it is important for its comprehensive competitiveness. By studying the status of the development of Shanghai's creative industry and the human...
This work investigates a semantic-driven human detection algorithm, which employs global human template matching to inspire the local features based Adaboosting algorithm. We use distance transform to analyze distances between training samples and human contour template to obtain a classifier based on human outline features. At the training stage, the global outline feature will be coordinated into...
This paper proposes a classification system for human activity using a multi-sensor system with a built-in electrocardiograph and 3D accelerometers. The multi-sensor system unconstraintly measures biological information, and provides these data to personal computer by wireless communication. We classify human activity by the biological information. The sensor detects the electrocardiogram and triaxial...
This article analyzes the impact of the introduction of robotics in industry today and its impact on workers and unions. It offers possible solutions to reduce or eliminate the rejection of human beings with the introduction of robots in the workplace, and concludes that learning and formation are the keys to do it.
Automated characterization of human actions plays an important role in video indexing and retrieval for many applications. Action change detection is considered among the most necessary element to ensure a good video description. However, it is quite challenging to achieve detection without prior knowledge or training. Usually humans are practicing different actions in the same video and their silhouettes...
We propose a nighttime pedestrian detection method for a moving vehicle equipped with a camera and the near-infrared lighting. The objects in the nighttime environment will reflect the infrared projected. In some cases, however, the clothes absorb most of the infrared and make the pedestrian partially invisible in that part. To deal with this, a part-based pedestrian detection method according to...
In this work we present a new way to analyze human facial expressions in social situations. We are able to record the smiling expressions of multiple subjects simultaneously using a wireless wearable device that records physiological signals and allows the subjects complete freedom of movement, both of head position and in their environment. We analize the correlation of facial expressions in two...
Crowd counting and density estimation is still one of the important task in video surveillance. Usually a regression based method is used to estimate the number of people from a sequence of images. In this paper we investigate to estimate the count of people in a crowded scene. We detect the head region since this is the most visible part of the body in a crowded scene. The head detector is based...
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