An important challenge of any skin color based tracking system is to accommodate varying illumination conditions. We present a method for automatic transformation of the color planes to match the skin color model learnt for a fixed illumination. The first couple of initial frames are used to automatically extract the palm region which in turn serves as an observed skin color palette which needs...

Analysis of our fold recognition results in the 3rd Critical Assessment in Structure Prediction (CASP3) experiment, using the programs THREADER 2 and GenTHREADER, shows an encouraging level of overall success. Of the 23 submitted predictions, 20 targets showed no clear sequence similarity to proteins of known 3D structure. These 20 targets can be divided into 22 domains, of which, 20 domains ei...

This paper describes an optical flow-based person tracking method using multiple cameras in indoor environments. There are usually several objects in indoor environments which may obstruct a camera view. If we use only one camera, tracking may fail when the target person is occluded by other objects. This problem can be solved by using multiple cameras. In our method, each camera tracks the tar...

We describe a virtualized reality model-based benchmarking of camera tracking methods for augmented reality and mixed reality. Benchmark datasets created with virtualized reality models do not include any measurement errors, and can be effectively used for a benchmark of tracking methods [5][6]. But there are many issues to be discussed for creators and users of the datasets. For the creators, ...

Packaging is the last process of microsystem manufacturing. There are mainly two kinds of packages: plastic or metallic. The two main components of the package (base and cover) may either be glued or soldered. Each of these techniques has its advantages and drawbacks, and the choice should be driven by the functionality of the microsystem. The advantage of gluing is that it is quite an easy pro...

I present a framework of banking in which banks’ main role is to monitor their borrowers. Within this framework I analyze the benefits of diversification and the threats of systemic risk and inter-bank competition. Diversification improves banks’ monitoring incentives. High systemic risk not only hampers banks’ monitoring incentives, but also makes diversification less effective. I also show th...

In this paper, foveated vision for scene exploration is implemented. The peripheral and central vision are the basic capabilities of foveated vision. The informations obtained from the peripheral vision are used to determine the next gaze point. Due to the low resolution of the periphery, however, the determination is not always appropriate. To solve this problem, we propose to evaluate the tar...

There are no available datasets to evaluate integrated Pedestrian Detectors and Re-Identification systems, and the standard evaluation metric for Re-Identification (Cumulative Matching Characteristic curves) does not properly assess the errors that arise from integrating Pedestrian Detectors with Re-Identification (False Positives and Missed Detections). Real world Re-Identification systems req...

This paper presents a scalable solution to the problem of tracking objects across spatially separated, uncalibrated, non-overlapping cameras. Unlike other approaches this technique uses an incremental learning method to create the spatio-temporal links between cameras, and thus model the posterior probability distribution of these links. This can then be used with an appearance model of the obj...

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