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Representing Human Motions in an Eigenspace Based on Surrounding Cameras

  • Houman, Satoshi;Rahman, M. Masudur;Tan, Joo Kooi;Ishikawa, Seiji
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1808-1813
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    • 2004
  • Recognition of human motions using their 2-D images has various applications. An eigenspace method is employed in this paper for representing and recognizing human motions. An eigenspace is created from the images taken by multiple cameras that surround a human in motion. Image streams obtained from the cameras compose the same number of curved lines in the eigenspace and they are used for recognizing a human motion in a video image. Performance of the proposed technique is shown experimentally.

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Automatic Extraction of Gound-glass Opacities on Lung CT Images by Histogram Analysis

  • Maekado, Masaki;Kim, Hyoung-Seop;Ishikawa, Seiji;Tsukuda, Masaaki
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2352-2355
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    • 2003
  • In recent yeas, studies on computer aided diagnosis (CAD) using image analysis on CT images have been conducted with respect to various diseases. Extracting ground-glass opacities (GGO) on lung CT images is one of such subjects, though it has not found an established method yet. If the region of ground-glass opacities is large on CT images, it can be detected without much difficulty. On the other hand, if the region is small, it is still difficult to find it exactly. In the latter case, increasing overlooking possibility cannot be avoided according to smaller size of the region. To solve this difficulty, this paper proposes an automatic technique for extracting ground-glass opacities on lung CT images employing some statistical parameters of a gray level histogram and a differential histogram. The proposed technique is applied to some lung CT images in the performed experiment. The results are shown with discussion on future work.

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Performance Research of Counter-rotating Tidal Stream Power Unit

  • Wei, Xuesong;Huang, Bin;Liu, Pin;Kanemoto, Toshiaki
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.129-136
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    • 2016
  • An experimental investigation was carried out to improve the performance of a counter-rotating type horizontal-axis tidal stream power unit. Front and rear blades were designed separately based on modified blade element momentum (BEM) theory, and their performances at different conditions of blade tip speed ratio were measured in a wind tunnel. Three different groups of blades were designed successively, and the results showed that Group3 possessed the highest power coefficient of 0.44 and was the most satisfactory model. This experiment shows that properly increasing diameter and reducing chord length will benefit the performance of the blade.

An optical instrumentation using a sensor with a sensordummy against noises on sensor and transmission line

  • Mine, Katsutoshi;Kubota, Nobuhisa;Morimoto, Fumio;Sanada, Mizuho;Qi, Zhang
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1993.10b
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    • pp.550-553
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    • 1993
  • Methods of Alternating Noise Canceling were previously developed for the optical instrumentation;one using a dual photo sensor and another using a single photo sensor that could cancel normal mode noise on a transmission line, even if the noise was of equal status noise. But the methods could not remove noise on sensor line. This paper discusses a new method of using a photo sensor with a resistance sensordummy, effectively canceling equal status normal mode noise not only on a sensor line but also on a transmission line of an optical instrumentation. The accuracy of this method has been verified by experiments using sinusoidal wave as an equal status noise on a sensor line and/or rectangular wave as an equal status wide band noise on a transmission line respectively.

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Measurement of Barium Ion Displacement Near Surface in a Barium Titanate Nanoparticle by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

  • Aoki, Mai;Sato, Yukio;Teranishi, Ryo;Kaneko, Kenji
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2018
  • Barium titanate ($BaTiO_3$) nanoparticle is one of the most promising materials for future multi-layer ceramic capacitor and ferroelectric random access memory. It is well known that electrical property of nanoparticles depends on the atomistic structure. Although surface may possibly have an impact on the atomistic structure, reconstructed structure at the surface has not been widely investigated. In the present study, Ba-ion position near surface in a $BaTiO_3$ nanoparticle has been quantitatively characterized by scanning transmission electron microscopy. It was found that some Ba ions at the surface were greatly displaced in non-uniform directions.

APPLICATION OF THREE DIMENSIONAL CULTURE OF ADULT RAT HAPATOCYTES IN POLYURETHANE FOAM PORES FOR AN ARTIFICIAL LIVER SUPPORT SYSTEM

  • Funatsu, K.;Matsushita, T.;Ijima, H.;Iwahashi, T.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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    • 1994.04a
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 1994
  • Spherical multicellular aggregates of adult rat hepatocytes (spheroid) which have tissue like structure, were formed and immobilized in the pores of polyurethane foam (PUF) which was used as a culture substratum. These hepatocyte/spheroids, about 100 $\mu\textrm{m}$ in diameter, have maintained higher differentiated functions than those of hepatocyte/monolayer for about 3 weeks in serum-free medium. Then, we designed a prototype module of an artificial liver support system using a PUF/spheroid packed-bed, in which hepatocyte/spheroids were immobilized at high density. The urea synthesis activity of the artificial liver was maintained at least 10 days in 100% rat blood plasma. We start examining the performance of hybrid artificial liver in an ex vivo extracorporeal experiment with an acute hepatic failure rat.

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Evaluation of likes and Dislikes during Visual Stimuli by Electroence phalography

  • Suo, Y.;Marusei, O.;Takeda, A.;Watanuki, S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.58-61
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of electroencephalogram (EEG) during emotional occurrence of likes and dislikes in humans subjected to visual stimuli. Fifteen healthy male subjects participated in the study. Portrayals of females and cars on a visual screen, one photographic display at a time. were used as the stimulus. The subjects, with their EEGs concomitantly monitored, were asked to record their likes and dislikes for each portrayal of a total of 50 sequential displays. The results indicated that beta ($\beta$)=wave was more prevalent with dislikes than likes, and the arousal level was higher when dislikes predominated over likes, implying that more cerebral information processing activity was involved in answering dislikes than likes. In the case of cars, the difference between likes and dislikes was focused within a frequency band of 15-20 Hz in the right cerebral hemisphere. Our findings suggest that the activity in the right brain predominates with increases in negative emotion.

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Selection of dominant meteorological indices related with heavy rainfall caused by BAIU activity

  • Koji, Nishiyama;Yoshitaka, I;Kenji, Jinno;Akira, Kawamura
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 2003
  • In this study, paying much attention to notable features obtained from spatial distributions of strongly related indices (precipitable water, convergence of air, convective available potential energy) with precipitation, fatal problems in selecting strongly related indices with observed precipitation in a BAIU season were discussed. These results showed spatial distribution of a predicted index provided alternative and physically consistent interpretation for selecting dominant index for heavy rainfall even if the predicted index did not correlate with observed rainfall at a specific observational point as confirmed by the features of CONV (Convergence) or even if it correlated with observed rainfall as confirmed by those of PW (Precipitable Water). Therefore, dominant meteorological indices of heavy rainfall should be selected according to physically evidenced interpretation on features of spatial distributions of indices, and physically and statistically consistent relationship should be built up.

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ON THE LONG-TERM VARIABILITY OF SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX

  • Jin, Young-Hoon;Kawamura, Akira;Jinno, Kenji;Iseri, Yoshihiko
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.151-158
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    • 2003
  • Recently, there has been considerable interest in the influence of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on a global scale. ENSO has been measured by a simple index called Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). The statistical characteristics of SOI have been also focused to reveal the influence of ENSO. The SOI trend shows that El Nino events are generally getting stronger and more frequently occurring than La Nina events. However, the variation of SOI has varied significantly in a long-term. The SOI values are computed using the mean value and its standard deviation of the base period from 1951 to 1980. In the present study, the different base periods are applied to compute the SOI values and the influence of the different base periods is investigated in detail to reveal the long-term variation of SOI From the results, we could conclude that the present SOI should be carefully considered as a criterion to judge whether the El Nino and La Nina events are occurring.

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Measuring the volume of powder by vision

  • SeijiIshikawa;ShigeruHarada;HiroyukiYoshinaga;KiyoshiKato
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1987.10a
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    • pp.776-779
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    • 1987
  • This paper describes a technique for measuring the volume of a pile of powder in a visual way. The volume of a fragile object whose shape is easily transformed by a slight touch of another object must be measured without any contact with it. This can be achieved by applying a three-dimensional shape reconstruction technique employed in computer vision. We have developed a measurement system that finds the volume of a pile of powder by employing a range finder, and performed an experiment of determining the volume of PVC powder piled on a table. The result of the experiment was satisfactory.

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