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    Feeling Sound: Exploring a Haptic-Audio Relationship

    Sound propagates through space as a series of vibrations; the physical attributes of this motion excite and engage listeners. For example, when standing close to a loudspeaker, you can feel the propagation of ...

    Joanne Armitage, Kia Ng in Music, Mind, and Embodiment (2016)

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    mConduct: A Multi-sensor Interface for the Capture and Analysis of Conducting Gesture

    The art of conducting has a long and well-established history, as both a technical and expressive art form, using physical gesture to convey musical intent and expression. Conducting relies on visual communica...

    Joanne Armitage, Kia Ng in Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture (2013)

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    Feature Matching of Simultaneous Signals for Multimodal Synchronization

    The process of synchronizing multimodal data is used within numerous applications, including musical improvisation, interactive multimedia systems such as gaming, and exercise/sport tools. This project focuses...

    Matt Benatan, Kia Ng in Information Technologies for Performing Ar… (2013)

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    Mobile Motion: Multimodal Device Augmentation for Musical Applications

    Mobile devices have become an integral part of the twenty-first century lifestyle. From social networking and business to day-to-day scheduling and multimedia applications, smart-phones and other portable hand...

    Matt Benatan, Kia Ng in Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture (2013)

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    Automated Ground-Plane Estimation for Trajectory Rectification

    We present a system to determine ground-plane parameters in densely crowded scenes where use of geometric features such as parallel lines or reliable estimates of agent dimensions are not possible. Using featu...

    Ian Hales, David Hogg, Kia Ng, Roger Boyle in Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (2013)

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    Augmented Opera Performance

    Operatic performance has a long and well-established history as a large-scale performance encompassing elements of music, theatre and design. Staging of such productions is an intricate process involving many ...

    Joanne L. Armitage, Kia Ng in Information Technologies for Performing Ar… (2013)

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    Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems: An Introduction

    As early as 17th and 18th centuries different researchers have been interested in studying how humans are capable of playing different kinds of musical instruments as an approach to provide a credible imitation o...

    Jorge Solis, Kia Ng in Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems (2011)

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    Interactive Multimedia for Technology-Enhanced Learning with Multimodal Feedback

    Musical performances are generally physically demanding with high degree of control (mental and motor) and accuracy. This chapter presents the i-Maestro (www.i-maestro.org) project which explored interactive m...

    Kia Ng in Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems (2011)

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    Ontology for Preservation of Interactive Multimedia Performances

    Preservation of interactive multimedia performances is becoming important as they are getting more and more popular in the performing arts communities. Preservation does not only require kee** all the necess...

    Kia Ng, Tran Vu Pham, Bee Ong, Alexander Mikroyannidis in Metadata and Semantics (2009)

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    A Comparative Study on Using Zernike Velocity Moments and Hidden Markov Models for Hand Gesture Recognition

    Hand-gesture recognition presents a challenging problem for computer vision due to the articulated structure of the human hand and the complexity of the environments in which it is typically applied. Solving s...

    Moaath Al-Rajab, David Hogg, Kia Ng in Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (2008)

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    A system for segmenting and extracting paper-based watermark designs

    This paper presents a framework for the digitisation, extraction, and graphical representation of paper-based watermark designs embedded in paper texture: there is a growing need for this among librarians and ...

    Hazem Hiary, Kia Ng in International Journal on Digital Libraries (2007)

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    Music Manuscript Tracing

    This paper presents an ongoing project working on an optical handwritten music manuscript recognition system. A brief background of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is presented, together with a discussion on s...

    Kia Ng in Graphics Recognition Algorithms and Applications (2002)

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    Hybrid Approach to the Construction of Triangulated 3D Models of Building Interiors

    This paper describes a system which integrates laser range data and video data to construct textured 3D models of building interiors. The system has been implemented in a prototype known as the AEST (Autonomou...

    Erik Wolfart, Vítor Sequeira, Kia Ng, Stuart Butterfield in Computer Vision Systems (1999)

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    An autonomous sensor for 3D reconstruction

    We describe an automated approach to the reconstruction of 3D interiors from laser range data and digital images. This is achieved using a scanning laser rangefinder and digital camera that are mounted on an a...

    David Leevers, Pedro Gil in Multimedia Applications, Services and Tech… (1998)