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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Microsoft Kinect"”.
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Multiple mice tracking using Microsoft Kinect
… containing two 30-minute videos recorded with Microsoft's Kinect from the top view. Each video records the social reciprocal experiment of a pair of mice. I also explore applying the new tracking system to automated social behavior analysis, by detecting social interactions defined with …
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3D Sketch Recognition Using The Microsoft Kinect
… for object categorization. First, utilizing the Microsoft Kinect, software was developed to establish a virtual drawing board for three-dimensional sketching. Second, a new learning-based approach is proposed to allow for model feature extraction and recognition. The experimental results …
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Using gesture recognition to control PowerPoint using the Microsoft Kinect
… to control a PowerPoint presentation using the Microsoft Kinect. This system focuses on the identification of natural gestures that occur during a PowerPoint presentation, making the user experience as fluid as possible. The system uses an HMM to classify the performed gestures in conjunction …
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Avaliação do Microsoft Kinect v2 como instrumento de medição das oscilações posturais
… as attachment of markers. In this study, The Microsoft Kinect v2, which is a portable and markerless motion sensor, was used as an instrument to measure body sway. Fortysix volunteers had their trajectories of center of mass (CM) and center of pressure (CP) measured by a Kinect v2 and a force …
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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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Nightmare Runner: A Personalized Avatar and Physical Activity Game
… energy expenditure of subjects using the Microsoft Kinect is presented. There are two main types of methods used in calorimetry, direct and indirect. Direct calorimetry involves the measurement of actual heat transfer of the subject, which is infeasible in most situations. Indirect …
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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 …
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Multi-volume high resolution RGB-D mapping with dynamic volume placement
… reconstructions using RGB-D cameras, such as the Microsoft Kinect. We demonstrate how such a technique can be used both for large scale mapping and high-resolution object detection. Our work consists of two core contributions. First, we present an algorithm to generate 3D reconstructions of …
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Design and Implementation of the Kinect Controlled Electro-Mechanical Skeleton (K.C.E.M.S)
… task in the past but with the release of the Microsoft Kinect motion capture system, this problem has been simplified. This thesis discusses the feasibility and design behind a simple robotic skeleton that utilizes the Kinect to mimic human movements in near real-time. The goal of this project …
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Exploring real-time video interactivity with Scratch
… input devices. With the recent release of the Microsoft Kinect followed by an official Kinect SDK, there has been an explosion of activity around utilizing this now easily-accessible video sensor data. Many creative uses have surfaced including object recognition, gesture recognition, and more. …
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Gesture Recognition in Tennis Biomechanics
… tennis athletes of similar competency with the Microsoft Kinect performing standard tennis swings in the presence of different targets. With the acquired data we extracted biomechanical features that hypothetically correlated to ball trajectory using proper technique and tested them as …
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Workplace Posture Assessment and Biofeedback with Kinect
… good posture using information gathered from a Microsoft Kinect camera. To do so, we generate a data set of posture captures to test and train, applying crowd-sourced voting to determine ratings for a subset of these captures. Leveraging this data set, we apply machine learning to develop a …
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Motion correction of PET/CT images
… particle swarm optimization and an off-the-shelf Microsoft Kinect camera to eliminate or reduce errors caused by the patient's motion during a medical imaging study.
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A robotic hand that utilizes ergonomic evaluation as feedback to improve human robot collaboration in soldering applications
… during 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 …
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Interactive exploration of historic information via gesture recognition
… Recently motion sensing input devices like the Microsoft Kinect or Panasonic D-Imager have become available enabling gesture based control of computer systems. These devices present an attractive input device for exhibits since the user can interact with their hands and they are not required to …
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Covariance based point cloud descriptors for object detection and classification
… introduction of cheap range sensors like the Microsoft Kinect has created a great interest in the computer vision community towards developing efficient algorithms for point cloud processing. Previously, in order to capture a point cloud, expensive specialized sensors, such as lasers or …
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Plataforma Dinâmica de Avaliação Fisioterápica
… o driver Windows SDK para se comunicar com o Microsoft Kinect, responsável pela interação visual proporcionada pela plataforma. O sistema recebe as informações do hardware via Bluetooth e do Kinect via USB. Esta plataforma permite a avaliação dinâmica do paciente durante o exercício, exibindo …
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The Creation of a low-cost, reliable platform for mobile robotics research
… in real time. This sensor was later purchased by Microsoft and leveraged in their popular gaming device, the Microsoft Kinect. The robot has a powerful Acer Aspire 1830T-6651 laptop with an Intel Core i5 to perform processor-intensive, real-time image processing. The actual construction of the …
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Development of a human fall detection system based on depth maps
… of the subject using depth information from Microsoft Kinect sensor. Classification of human fall from other activities of daily life is accomplished using height and velocity of the subject extracted from the depth information after considering the fall risk level of the user. Acceleration …
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A Software Development Kit for Camera-Based Gesture Interaction
… this type of input, including the popular Microsoft Kinect and Leap Motion devices.</p> <p>Despite this rise in availability and popularity, development for these devices is currently an arduous task, unless only the most simple of gestures is required. The goal of this thesis is to develop …
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