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PAMI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Active Visual Segmentation
—Attention is an integral part of the human visual system and has been widely studied in the visual attention literature. The human eyes fixate at important locations in the scen...
Ajay K. Mishra, Yiannis Aloimonos, Loong Fah Cheon...
CGF
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Fruit Senescence and Decay Simulation
Aging and imperfections provide important visual cues for realism. We present a novel physically-based approach for simulating the biological aging and decay process in fruits. Th...
Joseph T. Kider Jr., Samantha Raja, Norman I. Badl...
IVC
2007
89views more  IVC 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Sequential Monte Carlo tracking by fusing multiple cues in video sequences
This paper presents visual cues for object tracking in video sequences using particle filtering. A consistent histogram-based framework is developed for the analysis of colour, e...
Paul Brasnett, Lyudmila Mihaylova, David R. Bull, ...
CSL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Accessing speech data using strategic fixation
When users access information from text, they engage in strategic fixation, visually scanning the text to focus on regions of interest. However, because speech is both serial and ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg
INTERACT
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Effective Vibrotactile Cueing in a Visual Search Task
: This paper presents results from work we have done into the combination of visual and vibrotactile cues for improving user interaction in virtual environments. Using a custom-des...
Robert W. Lindeman, Yasuyuki Yanagida, John L. Sib...
APGV
2008
ACM
126views Visualization» more  APGV 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Effect of scenario on perceptual sensitivity to errors in animation
simulations compare to similar measurements done in more abstract settings. We find that participant tolerance for certain types of errors is significantly higher in a realistic sn...
Paul S. A. Reitsma, Carol O'Sullivan
ICIAR
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Pulling, Pushing, and Grouping for Image Segmentation
This paper presents a novel computational visual grouping method, termed pulling, pushing and grouping, or PPG for short. Visual grouping is formulated as a functional optimisation...
Guoping Qiu, Kin-Man Lam
IROS
2006
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Visual Tracking Modalities for a Companion Robot
Abstract— This article presents the development of a humanrobot interaction mechanism based on vision. The functionalities required for such mechanism range from user detection a...
Paulo Menezes, Frédéric Lerasle, Jor...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Role of vision on haptic length perception
When a human recognize length of an object while exploring it with their index finger, haptic and visual sensation both provide information for estimating the length of the object...
Akinori Kumazaki, Kazunori Terada, Akira Ito
IROS
2008
IEEE
188views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Lumen detection for capsule endoscopy
— In this paper, two visual cues are proposed, to be exploited for the navigation of active endoscopic capsules within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. These cues consist of the ...
Xenophon Zabulis, Antonis A. Argyros, Dimitris P. ...