The Johns Hopkins University, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Veterans Administration are collaborating to develop and test the Low Vision Enhancement System (LVES), a new technology for aiding persons with severe, chronic visual impairments. The LVES consists of a batterypowered, binocular, head-mounted black-and-white video display equipped with three video cameras....

Hilar dissection is an important and delicate stage in partial nephrectomy during which surgeons remove connective tissue surrounding renal vasculature. Potentially serious complications arise when vessels occluded by fat are missed in the endoscopic view and are not appropriately clamped. To aid in vessel discovery, we propose an automatic method to localize and label occluded vasculature. Our...

Video cameras offer the unique capability of collecting high density spatial data from a distant scene of interest. They could be employed as remote monitoring or inspection sensors because of their commonplace use, simplicity, and relatively low cost. The difficulty is in interpreting the video data into a usable format, such as displacement, that is familiar to engineers. A methodology called...

Plant aliveness is proven through laboratory experiments and special scientific instruments. In this paper, we aim to detect the degree of animation of plants based on the magnification of the small color changes in the plant’s green leaves using the Eulerian video magnification. Capturing the video under a controlled environment, e.g., using a tripod and direct current (DC) light sources, redu...

• A novel video-based indirect measurement procedure for SHM projects. three-step modification process inappropriate conditions in video records. No need high-speed cameras and expensive record equipment. Experimental modal characteristics time history responses are the main outputs. Effective accurate field-measurement of historical structures. sensing dynamic identification purposes is presen...

Existing software systems for visual exploration are limited in their capabilities in that they are only applicable to static omnidirectional images. We present a software system that has the capability to generate at video rate (30 Hz), a large number of perspective and panoramic video streams from a single omnidirectional video input, using no more than a PC. This permits a remote user to cre...

A volume angiography system for on-line computation of left ventricular angiograms has been developed utilizing a video disc recorder, a light-pen unit, and a digital computer. The video disc recorder allows for immediate replay and stop-motion of ventricular angiograms on a video monitor. The light-pen is used by a technician/physician operator to define the margins of the ventricular chamber ...