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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identifying faces under varying pose using a single example view
Identifiying human faces with only a single face model per person is a difficult task, because the input face image may vary with position, expression and pose. This paper describes a flexible face identificat...
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Gesture recognition from image motion based on subspace method and HMM
This paper proposes a method to recognize human gestures from an image sequence based on Hidden Markov Model and Karhunen-Lo`eve Transform. As our method uses the motion vector field of the scene for recogniti...
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Wide-Range Tracking Hands in Real-Time
We propose a method for wide-range tracking of hands in real-time by a vision sensor. By using random sampling and importance sampling, our method can track hands and estimate hand positions in real-time. We u...
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Gesture and Posture Estimation by Using Locally Linear Regression
Many methods for measuring human motion have been proposed because they can be applied to various fields such as CG animation, virtual reality, and gesture recognition. This paper proposes a method for gesture...
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Face Recognition Based on Efficient Facial Scale Estimation
Facial recognition technology needs to be robust for arbitrary facial appearances because a face changes according to facial expressions and facial poses. In this paper, we propose a method which automatically...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Face Recognition System Using Accurate and Rapid Estimation of Facial Position and Scale
Face recognition technology needs to be robust for arbitrary facial appearances. In this paper, we propose a face recognition system that is efficient and robust for facial scale variations. In the process of ...
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Video Synthesis with High Spatio-Temporal Resolution Using Motion Compensation and Image Fusion in Wavelet Domain
This paper presents a novel algorithm for obtaining a high spatio-temporal resolution video from two video sequences. These sequences are high resolution with low frame rate and low resolution with high frame ...
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Real-Time Object Detection with Adaptive Background Model and Margined Sign Correlation
In recent years, the detection accuracy has significantly improved under various conditions using sophisticated methods. However, these methods require a great deal of computational cost, and have difficulty i...
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Face Tracking and Recognition Considering the Camera’s Field of View
We propose a method that tracks and recognizes faces simultaneously. In previous methods, features needed to be extracted twice for tracking and recognizing faces in image sequences because the features used f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Detection of Unconscious Reactions to Illuminance Changes in Illumination
In this study, we investigated expressive facial reactions in response to changes in the visual environment and their automatic extraction from sensors, in order to construct a comfortable level of illuminatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generation of Facial Expression for Communication Using Elfoid with Projector
We propose a method for generating facial expressions with a mobile projector built into a cellphone-type tele-operated android, called Elfoid. Elfoid is designed to transmit the presence of a speaker to a com...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Regression Based Trajectory Learning and Prediction for Human Motion
This paper presents a method for learning and predicting human motion in closed environments.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparing the Recognition Accuracy of Humans and Deep Learning on a Simple Visual Inspection Task
In this paper, we investigate the number of training samples required for deep learning techniques to achieve better accuracy of inspection than a human on a simple visual inspection task. We also examine whet...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identifying People Using Body Sway in Case of Self-occlusion
We propose a method of identifying people in case of self-occlusion by using body sway measured at the head using a top-view camera. To accurately represent the identities of people as reflected in body sway,...
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Improved Gamma Corrected Layered Adaptive Background Model
This paper proposes a method for pixel-based background subtraction with improved gamma correction and a layered adaptive background model (IGLABM). The main problems of background subtraction are background o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deep Segmentation Network Without Mask Image Supervision for 2D Image Registration
Two-dimensional (2D) image registration is a conventional technique for simultaneously performing object recognition and pose estimation tasks. Deep neural-based 2D image registration techniques recently emerg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Heatmap Overlay Using Neutral Body Model for Visualizing the Measured Gaze Distributions of Observers
We propose a method for visualizing where an observer’s gaze focuses on a subject in a still image using a neutral human body model. Generally, two-dimensional (2D) heatmaps are superimposed on still images to...
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Pixel-Wise Detection of Road Obstacles on Drivable Areas by Introducing Maximized Entropy to Synboost Framework
Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in understanding the surroundings of a vehicle in the context of autonomous driving. Nevertheless, segmentation networks are typically trained on a closed-set of inli...