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2002
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A Functionally-Distributed Hand Tracking Method for Wearable Visual Interfaces and Its Applications
This paper describes a Functionally-Distributed (FD) hand tracking method for hand-gesture-based wearable visual interfaces. The method is an extension of the Distributed Monte Ca...
Takeshi Kurata, Takekazu Kato, Masakatsu Kourogi, ...
MVA
2002
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Wearable Virtual Tablet: Fingertip Drawing Interface Using an Active-Infrared Camera
We always input various kinds of information into a computer when using it. As wearable technology advances, several works about portable interfaces have been reported. These inte...
Norimichi Ukita, Akihiro Terabe, Yasuyuki Kono, Ma...
MVA
2002
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Automatic Useful Shot Extraction for a Video Editing Support System
Video editing is a work to produce final videos with certain duration by finding and selecting appropriate shots from raw material videos and connecting them. In order to produce ...
Masahito Kumano, Yasuo Ariki
MVA
2002
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Pose Estimation for Insertion of Orbital Replacement Units Against Cluttered Background Using a Non-calibrated Camera
In this paper, we present work from our ongoing project on vision-guided retrieval and insertion of ORUs. Guidance is to be provided through estimated relative poses between an OR...
Chiun-Hong Chien
MVA
2002
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Determining Shapes of Transparent Objects from Two Polarization Images
In the eld of computer vision, bene cial methods of measuring surface shape of transparent objects such as glasses have rarely been proposed. In this paper, we propose a convenien...
Daisuke Miyazaki, Masataka Kagesawa, Katsushi Ikeu...
MVA
2002
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Enhancing Character Recognition by Optimizing Focal Length
This paper proposes to use zooming function of digital cameras for robust character recognition and to control focal length for improving the performance even in dim light conditi...
Takahiko Shimmura, Yoshinao Shiraki, Naoki Mukawa,...
MVA
2002
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The Scalable Model-Based Hand Posture Analysis System
system [6] is defined for each finger. Recently, the model-based hand posture analysis researches have become increasingly popular for many applications, such as hand gesture recog...
Cheng-Chang Lien
MVA
2002
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Extraction of Character String Areas from Color Scenery Image Using Extended Psychological Potential Field
As digital cameras have been used widely, a technology to extract features of character string areas from scenery (nature) image is required. However, it is very difficult to extr...
Masanori Anegawa, Akira Nakamura