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ECCV
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Geometric Constraints for Human Detection in Aerial Imagery
In this paper, we propose a method for detecting humans in imagery taken from a UAV. This is a challenging problem due to small number of pixels on target, which makes it more di...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Tendon Arrangement and Muscle Force Requirements for Humanlike Force Capabilities in a Robotic Finger
Human motion can provide a rich source of examples for use in robot grasping and manipulation. Adapting human examples to a robot manipulator is a difficult problem, however, in ...
Nancy S. Pollard, Richards C. Gilbert
ICRA
2003
IEEE
97views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
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Wearable-based evaluation of human-robot interactions in robot path-planning
In Robotics, many path-planning algorithms have been proposed but almost all are evaluated only by their path lengths in PC. However, the evaluation is completely independent of a...
Ritsu Shikata, Takayuki Goto, Hiroshi Noborio, Hir...
ECCV
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
3D Digitization of a Hand-Held Object with a Wearable Vision Sensor
It is a common human behavior to hold a small object of interest and to manipulate it for observation. A computer system, symbiotic with a human, should recognize the object and th...
Sotaro Tsukizawa, Kazuhiko Sumi, Takashi Matsuyama
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Teaching and Working with Robots as a Collaboration
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
Cynthia Breazeal, Guy Hoffman, Andrea Lockerd
AMDO
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Human Body Analysis with Biomechanics Criteria
Today in many applications the study of human movement using a computer vision and graphics techniques is very useful. One of these applications is the three-dimensional reconstruc...
Jose Maria Buades Rubio, Francisco J. Perales L&oa...
AMDO
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Recognition and Tracking of the Members of a Moving Human Body
We present a method to solve the human silhouette tracking problem using 18 major human points. We used: a simple 2D model for the human silhouette, a linear prediction technique f...
Costas Panagiotakis, Georgios Tziritas
APGV
2005
ACM
146views Visualization» more  APGV 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
A similarity-based approach to perceptual feature validation
Which object properties matter most in human perception may well vary according to sensory modality, an important consideration for the design of multimodal interfaces. In this st...
Theresa Cooke, Florian Steinke, Christian Wallrave...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Time Series Action Support by Mobile Robot in Intelligent Environment
— Recent development of information technology is making electric household appliances computerized and networked. If the environments surrounding us could recognize our activiti...
Tsukasa Fukuda, Yasushi Nakauchi, Katsunori Noguch...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
89views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
The Human Context of Information Systems
In its past, IS research has focused on IT and the organizations that use IT. Human issues have been studied in HCI and the Human Factor Studies of MIS. Yet recently a new wave of...
Minna Koskinen, Eleni Berki, Katja Liimatainen, Mi...