Reviews on whole body human cold adaptation generally do not distinguish between population studies and dedicated acclimation studies, leading to confusing results. Population studies show that indigenous black Africans have reduced shivering thermogenesis in the cold and poor cold induced vasodilation in fingers and toes compared to Caucasians and Inuit. About 40,000 y after humans left Africa...

The classification of human body motion is a difficult problem. In particular, the automatic segmentation of sequences containing more than one class of motion is challenging. An effective approach is to use mixed discrete/continuous states to couple perception with classification. A spline contour is used to track the outline of the person. We show that for a quasi-periodic human body motion, ...

The goal of the research presented in this thesis is to design an integrated system for the automatic acquisition of a human body model, using input images from mutually orthogonal views. The model consists of two sets of free-form surface patches: the torso and its arms. We determine a neck joint on the torso and six joint positions on the arms (i.e., one location for each shoulder, elbow and ...

We present a new algorithm for automatic inference of human upper body motion in a natural scene. The initial motion cues are first detected from the captured video. A graph model is proposed for human upper body motion, and motion inference is posed as a mapping problem between state nodes in the graph model and the motion cues in images. Belief Propagation and dynamic programming algorithms a...

SARS-CoV-2 is a novel strain of the coronaviruses posing great challenges to the human immune system. Hence, human innate immunity determines how our body responses to the early infection (1-3). According to the studies, coronavirus can cause a range of symptoms by affecting various organs in the body (4, 5). Currently, our hospital is one of the referral centers of COVID-19 in Iran. We would l...