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Chapter and Conference Paper
Video data management in Media Controller: A distributed multimedia surveillance system
This paper describes a multimedia surveillance system, the Media Controller. The Media Controller is designed for industrial surveillance and monitoring applications, and it provides the realtime recording and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Entertainment Applications of Human-Scale Virtual Reality Systems
This paper describes three applications of human-scale virtual reality in demonstrative systems. The first application is a demonstrative system, the “Tangible Playroom”. It was designed as a computer entertai...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Broadcasting Technique for Holographic 3D Movie Using Network Streaming
Lately, many kinds of transmitting techniques over the high speed communicating networks called broad-band internet have widespread among the general public. However, as for the transmission of 3D visual image...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Web-Based Telepresence System Using Omni-directional Video Streams
Recently, the telepresence which allows us to experience a remote site through a virtualized real world has been investigated. We have already proposed telepresence systems using omni-directional images which ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Indexing Method for Digital Video Contents Using a 3-Dimensional City Map
This paper presents a novel indexing method for digital video contents. The method automatically identifies city buildings captured by digital video camera. This is done by extracting the objects from candidat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Human-Scale Interaction with a Multi-projector Display and Multimodal Interfaces
We propose a novel multi-projector display for immersive virtual environments. Our system named “D-vision” has a hybrid curved screen which completely covers user’s view and immerses the user in displayed virt...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
EnhancedTable: Supporting a Small Meeting in Ubiquitous and Augmented Environment
This paper describes our design and implementation of an augmented table interface for small group meetings. The system was designed to be used by multiple users in the ubiquitous environment, where people do ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploring Cultural Context Using the Contextual Scenario Framework
In applications where individuals in different contexts interact with a technology system, cultural issues present complex challenges for developers attempting to understand context of use. Three features of c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Social Robot Design
The purpose of this study is to describe the network of human and non human as the personal robot in the community. We designed an original program for the personal robot and took it to the nursery school. We ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Cross-Cultural Study on the Perception of Sociability within Human-Computer Interaction
This study tries to use speech and dynamic emoticons as social cues to create a more sociable human-computer interaction. A cross-cultural study was conducted to investigate the influence of cultural backgroun...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MOSIR: Image and Segment-Based Retrieval for Mobile Phones
This paper proposes a novel image retrieval system called MOSIR, developed for mobile phones. This system enables the user to find similar images and information related to the photos taken with the user’s mob...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Linking Topics of News and Blogs with Wikipedia for Complementary Navigation
We study complementary navigation of news and blog, where Wikipedia entries are utilized as fundamental knowledge source for linking news articles and blog feeds/posts. In the proposed framework, given a topic as...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A New Image Quality Assessment Model Based on the MPEG-7 Descriptor
Our research is focused on examining the Image Quality Assessment Model based on the MPEG-7 descriptor and the No-Reference model. The model retrieves a reference image using image search and evaluate its subj...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Design-Supporting Tool for Implementing the Learning-Based Approach: Accommodating Users’ Domain Knowledge into Design Processes
In the current interactive product/system design, while users’ acquisition of sufficient knowledge for operating a product or system is increasingly considered important, their acquisition of problem-solving k...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Extracting Interval Distribution of Human Interactions
Recently, activity support systems that enable dialogue with humans have been intensively studied owing to the development of various sensors and recognition technologies. In order to enable a smooth dialogue ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Attention Prediction in Egocentric Video Using Motion and Visual Saliency
We propose a method of predicting human egocentric visual attention using bottom-up visual saliency and egomotion information. Computational models of visual saliency are often employed to predict human attent...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Neural Networks for Forecasting of Commodity Time Series Trends
Time series of commodity prices are investigated on two scales - across commodities for a portfolio of items available from the database@ of the International Monetary Fund on monthly averages scale, as well a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generation of a Super-Resolved Stereo Video Using Two Synchronized Videos with Different Magnifications
In this paper, we address the problem of changing the optical zoom magnification of stereo video that uses a stereo camera system with 4K or 8K digital cameras. We proposes a solution for generating a zoomed s...