Asbestos-related illnesses become a nationwide problem in Japan. Now human inspectors check whether asbestos is contained in building material or not. To judge whether the specimen...
Identifying verbally and non-verbally referred-to objects is an important aspect of human-robot interaction. Most importantly, it is essential to achieve a joint focus of attentio...
Abstract--Image segmentation plays an important role in computer vision and image analysis. In this paper, image segmentation is formulated as a labeling problem under a probabilit...
Abstract. This paper presents a novel method for human gesture recognition based on quadratic curves. Firstly, face and hands in the images are extracted by skin color and their ce...
Detection of moving objects in video streams is the first relevant step of information extraction in many computer vision applications. Aside from the intrinsic usefulness of being...