In this project, image processing techniques are used to develop basic understanding on video recording taken by vehicle’s front-view camera. By post processing on the video recording, the computer is able to extract road sign and traffic light information, and make prediction on how fast the vehicle is moving and steering. The road sign recognition is able to identify most of the signs in the ...

(*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.c. 154(b) by 919 days. (57) ABSTRACT A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web li...

Recent advances in digital technologies have made alteration of digital multimedia content simple and unnoticeable by human beings. Although digital multimedia content offers numerous advantages such as easy to store, easy to transmit, etc., it has made illegal replication/distribution of digital content easier and highlights the need for digital rights management (DRM). Digital watermarking ha...

A novel transportable 2-axis electromechanical photographic object rig (Simulated-3D Rig [S3DR] prototype Model 1) was designed and constructed in 2007-08 to allow the inexpensive, noninvasive, time-efficient and high-resolution digital recording and 3D visualisation of cultural artefacts in situ: both within institutional collections and in the field. Experience gained using Model 1 in team-ba...

Understanding wave dissipation in the nearshore is approached through modeling of field observations obtained across a variety of beach profiles and under a wide range of wave conditions. Wave breaking data are obtained remotely from video recordings of the surf zone, and image processing techniques subsequently used to detect and quantify the position and time of wave breaking occurrences over...

Digital fingerprinting is a means to offer protection to digital data by which fingerprints embedded in the multimedia are capable of identifying unauthorized use of digital content. A powerful attack that can be employed to reduce this tracing capability is collusion. In this paper, we study the collusion resistance of a fingerprinting system employing Gaussian distributed fingerprints and ort...

Humans select relevant locations in a scene by means of stimulus-driven bottom-up and context-dependent top-down mechanisms. These have mainly been investigated by recording eye movements under 2D natural or 3D artificial stimulation conditions. Here we try to close that obvious gap and presented 2D and 3D versions of natural, pink, and white noise images to human subjects. Importantly, ground ...

This paper presents the first publicly available dataset for Close Range On-Orbit Servicing Computer Vision (CROOS-CV) intended for testing and benchmarking of computer vision algorithms. It is an representative image dataset for CROOS operations with distances of 2 m between servicer and client satellite that was recorded under illumination conditions similar to a Low Earth Orbit. A training s...

Recently there has been increased interest in the use of cognitive architectures for mobile robots. In this research, a cognitive agent (developed using Soar) has been developed to perform an indoor search and rescue mission using a mobile robot. For this application, sensor processing systems such as image processing, fuzzy logic, and image matching are used to generate information about the e...