This application demonstrates how to provide personalized, syndicated views on distributed web data using Semantic Web technologies. The application comprises four steps: The information gathering step, in which information from distributed, heterogenous sources is extracted and enriched with machine-readable semantics, the operation step for timely and up-to-date extractions, the reasoning ste...

“Phantom Sight Reader” is the future of music playing. It captures an image of sheet music from an external camera and produces an audio output matching the sheet music. It is comprised of three components: image capture, note recognition, and audio production. Image capture involves interfacing a camera with the FPGA and capturing a still image to memory. Note recognition involves identificati...

In this paper a barcode-based system to help the visually impaired and blind people identify objects in the environment is introduced. The system is based on the idea of utilizing QR codes (two-dimensional barcode) affixed to an object and scanned using a camera phone equipped with QR reader software. The reader decodes the barcode to a URL and directs the phone’s browser to fetch an audio file...

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is recently becoming popular, promising and widespread. In contrast, RFID tags can bring about traceability that causes user privacy and reduces scalability of RFID. Guaranteeing untraceability and scalability at the same time is so critical in order to deploy RFID widely since user privacy should be guaranteed. A large number of RFID protocols were designe...

Traditional research on situation models has examined the accessibility of locations and objects during narrative experiences. These studies have described a ubiquitous gradient effect: Spatial locations and objects in reader focus are more accessible than locations farther from this focus, with accessibility decreasing as a function of distance. How might readers' expectations about character ...

This paper describes a method of pose (position and orientation) of large object such as construction materials using multiple ID devices for construction automation. Object pose is crucial issue for construction automation, however, the pose can change by the robots and workers that do not have ID reader or measure the object pose. The proposed method supposes the position and direction of eac...

In this paper, we propose a new protocol to allow delegation transfer between offline mobile readers in the mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) environment. A mobile reader can grant the access rights of a specific tag to another reader. Besides, our protocol is efficient and secure against most current network threats, such as replay attacks, Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks, denial o...