Brick is one of the most common masonry units as a building material due to its properties. Many attempts have been made to incorporate wastes into the production of bricks, for examples, rubber, limestone dust, wood sawdust, processed waste tea, fly ash, polystyrene and sludge. Recycling such wastes by incorporating them into building materials is a practical solution for pollution problem. Th...

Green concrete is a concept of thinking environment into concrete considering every aspect from raw materials manufacture over mixture design to structural design, construction and service life. Green concrete is a type of concrete which resembles the conventional concrete but the production or usage of such concrete requires minimum amount of energy and causes least harm to the environment. Si...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a view of a real-world mixed with and/or superimposed by virtual objects. Therefore, one of the most important key techniques of implementing an AR is recognizing the environment so that it can correctly determine the virtual objects to be displayed on the multimedia representing the real-world. This paper reviews the “Method of Recognizing Objects in a Picture for Mob...

As the popularity of touch-screen devices, understanding a user’s hand-drawn sketch has become an increasingly important research topic in artificial intelligence and computer vision. However, different from natural images, the hand-drawn sketches are often highly abstract, with sparse visual information and large intraclass variance, making the problem more challenging. In this work, we study ...

This work presents a piecewise linear approximation to non-linear Point Distribution Models for modelling the human hand. The work utilises the natural segmentation of shape space, inherent to the technique, to apply temporal constraints which can be used with CONDENSATION to support multiple hypotheses and quantum leaps through shape space. This paper presents a novel method by which the one-s...

Re-use and recycling in the construction sector is essential to keep resource use check. Data availability about material contents of buildings significant challenge for planning future re-use potentials. Compiling intensity (MI) data time intensive. Often studies end up with only a handful datapoints. In order adequately cover diversity materials found cities, accurately assess stocks at detai...

Speech recognition is still a rapidly developing area of research. It is used for all kinds of applications. In this article a corpus will be build that consists of sentences collected in human-computer dialogs. The corpus will be created in a Wizard-of-Oz environment where the user has to perform several tasks in a virtual environment related to navigation. The raw audio collected in these exp...