In this paper, we discuss our experimental results on Simulator Sickness (SS). A series of experiments were conducted in our Virtual Reality (VR) Lab. Our aim was to investigate the correlations between the perception of depth and the feeling of discomfort, as well as the role of gameplay regarding the familiarity of the viewer with computer games in the feeling of discomfort. Participants were...

In this paper the recently developed semi-analytic method to solve the free-surface wave interaction with a thin elastic plate is extended to the case of a plate of finite thickness. The method used is based on the reformulation of the differential-integral equation for this problem. The thickness of the plate is chosen such that the elastic behavior of the plate can be described by means of th...

The dock problem (cf. [2], [4, 5]), which is that of understanding the scattering of surface water waves by a thin semi-infinite rigid plate floating on the free surface of water of infinite depth, gives rise to the following mixed boundary value problem, involving Laplace’s equation in two dimensions, with (x, y) representing the rectangular Cartesian coordinates, assuming linearised theory of...

Semi-aquatic mammals have secondarily returned to the aquatic environment, although they spend a major part of their life operating in air. Moving both on land, as well as in, and under water is challenging because such species are considered to be imperfectly adapted to both environments. We deployed accelerometers combined with a depth sensor to study the diving behavior of 12 free-living Eur...

This paper describes an in-depth usability evaluation of our RoadMAProad network extraction system. Six operators used RoadMAP in both manual and semi-automated modes, as well as BAE Systems’ SOCET SET, to extract roads in four image test areas. An in-depth statistical analysis was performed on the timing results, with the main conclusion being that the performance differences among the three...

The distribution of center self-embeddings and extrapositions in German is assumed to reflect a universal performance strategy of minimizing memory load during parsing. Self-embedded relative clauses of embedding depth 2 were semi-automatically analysed in a treebank of German newspaper texts. Clause length and especially extraposition distance are found as the main distinctive parameters betwe...

In this work, we present an entirely data-driven approach to estimating the 3D pose of a hand given a depth image. We show that we can correct the mistakes made by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained to predict an estimate of the 3D pose by using a feedback loop of Deep Networks, also utilizing a CNN architecture. Since this approach critically relies on a training set of labeled frame...

A semi-empirical model for surf zone wave height decay is adapted to the parabolic equation method in order to include the effect of depth-limited wave breaking in combined refraction/diffraction calculations. Several examples for plane beaches are presented in order to show correspondence between the empirical model, its numerical formulation, and previous laboratory data. The model is then ap...

In dry lands, semi-circular bund has been considered as a management practice used to restore the ecological revival in terms of vegetation enrichment and soil amelioration. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of semi-circular bunds on vegetation cover and some soil properties in Koteh rangeland, Sistan and Baloochestan province, Iran (2014). Adjacent to the semi-circular bund a...

In this project I am focused on the problem of using depth information in the absence of labeled depth training data for the task of object detection in RGBz images. This task is important for computers to fully utilize both the breadth of image training data that does not include depth sensors while allowing depth-enabled systems to utilize the valuable added information provided by a depth se...