This paper proposes a novel method for hand pose estimation that can be used for 3D free-form input interfaces. The aim of the method is to estimate all joint angles to manipulate objects in the virtual space. In this method, the hand regions are extracted from multiple images obtained by the multi-viewpoint camera system. By integrating multi-viewpoint silhouette images, a hand pose is reconst...

Sport, in particular football, constitutes one of the most dynamic, sociologically illuminating domains of globalization. This paper examines the globalization of football with particular reference to Robertson's theorizations of global processes. We examine football's cultural globalization through the concept of 'glocalization', which highlights the interdependence of local and global process...

Different stakeholders in the design of an enterprise information system have their own view on that design. To help produce a coherent design this paper presents a framework that aids in specifying relations and consistency rules between such views. The contribution of our framework is that it provides a collection of basic concepts. These basic concepts aid in relating viewpoints by providing...

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) were recently shown to provide state-of-theart results for object category viewpoint estimation. However different ways of formulating this problem have been proposed and the competing approaches have been explored with very different design choices. This paper presents a comparison of these approaches in a unified setting as well as a detailed analysis of t...

Data mining is a process of analyzing data in order to bring about patterns or trends from the data. Many techniques are part of data mining techniques. Other mining techniques such as text mining and web mining also exists. Clustering is one of the most important data mining or text mining algorithm that is used to group similar objects together. In other words, it is used to organize the give...

This paper studies the problem of how to choose good viewpoints for taking photographs of architectures. We achieve this by learning from professional photographs of world famous landmarks that are available on the Internet. Unlike previous efforts devoted to photo quality assessment which mainly rely on 2D image features, we show in this paper combining 2D image features extracted from images ...

This paper presents the state of e-commerce infrastructure in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). The state of e-commerce is comprised of factors not only technological, but also economic, social, commercial, legal, and regulatory. Based on the assessment of its current state, an attempt is made at projecting the future prospects for e-commerce in the GMS. E-commerce in the GMS countries is min...

Distributed System design is a highly complicated and non-trivial task. The problem is characterised by the need to design multi-threaded, multi-processor, and multimedia systems. Design frameworks such as Open Distributed Processing (ODP), the ITU/ISO standard, define a number of viewpoints from which the design of a distributed system should be approached. To use the framework, a design langu...

In this paper an unusual taxonomy for optical mappings is introduced based on their geometric characteristics: 1. type of projection center (single viewpoint, non single viewpoint) and 2. type of transformation (projective, non projective). Under this background we survey the multi media geometry (refraction resulting from different optical media). Strict physical models of non projective mappi...

High-quality non-intrusive human motion capture is necessary for acquistion of model-based free-viewpoint video of human actors. Silhouette-based approaches have demonstrated that they are able to accurately recover a large range of human motion from multi-view video. However, they fail to make use of all available information, specifically that of texture information. This paper presents an al...