OBJECTIVE Burn wound depth is a significant determinant of patient treatment and morbidity. While superficial partial-thickness burns generally heal by re-epithelialization with minimal scarring, deeper wounds can form hypertrophic or contracted scars, often requiring surgical excision and grafting to prevent a suboptimal result. In addition, without timely intervention, more superficial burn w...

Depth map upsampling is an approach to increase the spatial resolution of depth maps obtained from ToF (Time of Flight) cameras. Since depth map quality directly affects 3D perception of stereoscopic image, applying different depth upsampling methods to a low resolution depth map causes a variety of perceptions of the stereoscopic images. In this paper, we investigate the relation between objec...

This paper presents a method for assessing the distance between a mobile robot and an obstacle. The idea is to make use of stereo cameras that are mounted on a pan-tilt platform (the pan-tilt device itself is mounted on a mobile robot). When an obstacle occurs, the pantilt device drives the stereo cameras to an orientation such that the left and right images of the obstacle are in a symmetrical...

This document presents initial findings from a Video Interaction Analysis of Professor Sheri Sheppard's Toy Dissection activity, in the ME99 course at Stanford. The goalsof this document are to: (a) help improve the dissection activity and (b) to contribute to anoverall evaluation of the activity for the Synthesis Coalition. We have prepared a video tape of shortscenes from the class activity, ...

abstract the concept of armouring is used to discuss the coarse surface layer in rivers. selective erosion in an alluvial channel reach for which there is no upstream sediment supply can lead to formation of a layer coarser than the under laying material. this phenomenon inhibits sediment transport from the reach.numerical modeling of armouring river bed, provides an approach to simulation of t...