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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Kinect sensor"”.
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The Exploration of Sagittal Spine Curvature: Validating a surface topography method & relating curvature to physical function
… development and testing of the Microsoft Kinect sensor, a new technology for surface topography measurement. The Kinect sensor demonstrated high reliability and aspects of validity in thoracolumbar measurement. In the last stage, the Kinect sensor was used as an outcome measure in a cohort …
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Investigation into the use of the Microsoft Kinect and the Hough transform for mobile robotics
The Microsoft Kinect sensor is a low cost RGB-D sensor. In this dissertation, its calibration is fully investigated and then these parameters are compared to the parameters given by Microsoft and OpenNI. The parameters found were found to be different to those given by Microsoft and OpenNI …
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The things you do: Implicit person models guide online action observation.
… actions via motion tracking (using the Microsoft Kinect Sensor). The findings provided evidence that knowledge about seen actor’s typical behaviour is used in action observation. It was found, first, that actions are identified faster when performed by an actor that typically performed these …
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Vision-Based 3D Human Motion Analysis for Fall Detection and Bed-Exiting
… detection for elderly people, respectively. The Kinect sensor is chosen as the major monitoring device.</p> <p>The first approach exploits the Kinect sensor with its Windows SDK to detect fall activities. The recorded spatial coordinates of the human body joints from Kinect's 3D skeletal view are …
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A robotic hand that utilizes ergonomic evaluation as feedback to improve human robot collaboration in soldering applications
… a soldering task. The robot uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor to continuously analyze the posture of the human worker and calculate a score based on the RULA (Rapid Upper Limb Assessment), an objective measure used in the ergonomics field to evaluate ergonomic working postures. The robot adjusts …
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IntelliChair: a non-intrusive sitting posture and sitting activity recognition system
… such as eating, cooking, etc. In general, the sensors employed (e.g. PIR sensors, contact sensors) provide low resolution information. Meanwhile, the expansion of ubiquitous computing allows researchers to gather additional information from different types of sensor which is possible to improve …
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Elbow exoskeleton mechanism for multistage poststroke rehabilitation.
… have limitations with structural configuration, sensory data acquisition and control architecture. It is still difficult to facilitate multistage post-stroke rehabilitation to patients sited around hospital bed without expert intervention. To support this, a framework for elbow exoskeleton has …
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Development of a human fall detection system based on depth maps
… systems are either based on wearable or ambient sensor which is very often rejected by users due to the high false alarm and difficulties in carrying them during their daily life activities. Thus, this study proposes a non-invasive human fall detection system based on the height, velocity, …
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Physically based geometry and reflectance recovery from images
… data, where the depth data is acquired through a Kinect sensor and is often noisy. We show how the inclusion of noisy depth input helps to resolve ambiguities in the recovery of shape and reflectance in the inverse rendering problem. Our results show that the complementary nature of RGB and depth …
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Computer vision based posture estimation and fall detection.
… RGB and the Depth images were captured from a Kinect Sensor. The fusion of RGB and Depth images were explored for feeding to a convolutional neural net- work. Depth together with RGB complimented each other to overcome their weakness respectively and proved to be a significant strategy. The …