Abstract Used bicycle parts made from metal are often found in waste disposal or sold flea markets. Metal still has economic value because it can be recycled. However, the process requires special equipment and only carried out on an industrial scale. Although at markets, problem is that not many buyers. Most spare incompatible with current model, so these items pile up seller’s stall. This pap...

Social robots must master the nuances of human communication as a mean to convey an effective message and generate trust. It is well-known that non-verbal cues are very important in interactions, therefore social robot should produce body language coherent with its discourse. In this work, we report on system endows humanoid ability adapt according sentiment speech. A combination talking beat g...

Over the last couple of decades, many commercial systems are available to identify human faces. However, face recognition is still an outstanding challenge against different kinds of real world variations especially facial poses, non-uniform lightings and facial expressions. Meanwhile the face recognition technology has extended its role from biometrics and security applications to human robot ...

Face recognition using different imaging modalities, particularly infrared imaging sensors, has become an area of growing interest. The use of thermal IR images can improve the performance of face recognition in uncontrolled illumination conditions. In this paper, we present a new technique for face recognition based on statistical calculations of thermal images. We propose the use of moments i...

Most of the Virtual Environments (VE) currently available in the field of psychological treatments are designed to solve a specific problem (acrophobia, flying phobia, claustrophobia, etc.). Our research group has developed a versatile Virtual Reality (VR) system (an adaptive display) that could be useful for different problems. In previous studies, a VR application called “EMMA’s world” was de...

We developed a novel learning-based human detection system, which can detect people having different sizes and orientations, under a wide variety of backgrounds or even with crowds. To overcome the affects of geometric and rotational variations, the system automatically assigns the dominant orientations of each block-based feature encoding by using the rectangularand circulartype histograms of ...

This paper studies the effects of non-uniform light intensities and sensor exposures across observed images in photometric stereo. While conventional photometric stereo methods typically assume that light intensities are identical and sensor exposure is constant across observed images taken under varying lightings, these assumptions easily break down in practical settings due to individual ligh...

Subtle energy saving changes in guest rooms did not diminish satisfaction, based on a study of 192 guests at an independent four-star hotel. Two changes were tested, a television with three energy settings and lightemitting diodes (LEDs) in place of the standard compact fluorescent lightings (CFLs). While overall satisfaction was not affected by these changes, some guests, notably those with hi...

In this paper, we present an enhanced Pictorial Structure (PS) model for precise eye localization, a fundamental problem involved in many face processing tasks. PS is a computationally efficient framework for part-based object modelling. For face images taken under uncontrolled conditions, however, the traditional PS model is not flexible enough for handling the complicated appearance and struc...

The Lake Toba area as a Global Geopark Network is imaged super destination with the world's largest and one of deepest volcanic lakes, thus making it world heritage diverse diversity such geology, biology, culture. creates extraordinary natural phenomena, this rich in geological expanses rock types, contains values (heritage), cultural heritage, bio-heritage that are well known International. H...