... be used in training the persons having hearing disabilities as well as it helps them communicate with persons unfamiliar to sign languages. Since the video data has become ubiquitous, many systems have been proposed to automate gesture recognition process. Classification Image processing...

... Publishing Limited 2014 Image processing Coarticulation Facial animation Lip synchronization MPEG-4 Speech animation Initial lip-sync studies attempted to concatenate phonetic segments, however it was found that phonemes do not achieve their ideal target shape at all times, due...

... Group Publishing Limited 2014 Image processing Robotics Human-robot interaction Background subtraction Foreground detection Image parameters With the development of service robots, human-robot interaction (HRI) has been paid more and more attention to due to its advantages...

... to analyze an image by removing distortions with refined bitplane slicing using the proposed algorithm of rough intuitionistic fuzzy c-means to show the superiority of RIFCM. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Artificial intelligence Cybernetics Image processing Metrics Clustering...

... Surveying Image processing The outputs of SURF are the location of the feature points and their corresponding 64‐dimensional descriptor vectors. For the further application a 128‐dimensional descriptor vector can also be designed. The keypoints must be matched so as to establish tie points...

... projected on the surface of the target small object, there are two corresponding 2D points existing. One is an image point in one of the image sequences from the digital camera; another is a point in the slide from the projector. Using the image processing method, the image point can be extracted out...

.... The image processed according the above steps are show as Figure 2 , Figure 2(a) is processed regular bars section image; Figure 2(b) is processed irregular bars section image. Chain lists are widely used in data structure; it is a structure that can distribute EMS memory dynamically. A node...

...Qiuping Wang; Tiepeng Wang; Ke Zhang Purpose Image edge detection is an essential issue in image processing and computer vision. The purpose of this paper is to provide a novel and effective algorithm for image edge detection. Design/methodology/approach Because GM (1,1) model is a typical...

... Publishing Limited 2011 Cybernetics Gaussian processes Image processing Image‐based applications are currently being used in a large variety of scientific fields such as aerospace, biology, medical sciences, geology, astronomy, robotics, remote sensing and photogrammetry (Russo, 1998...

.... The filtering operation based on pixel level provided auto‐adapted filtering with a new stage. Practical implications Applications of grey theory deepened the content of detecting infrared targets and enriched technology of image processing. Originality/value This system introduces an effective method...

... also be advantageous in this respect. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Electronic mail Biometrics Image processing Internet In an Internet Tourbus (October 23, 2007, Vol. 13, No. 11), Bob Rankin refers to an optimistic claim by Bill Gates, in 2004...

... and the recognition rate. Francisco A. Pujol can be contacted at: fpujol@dtic.ua.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Cybernetics Image processing Markov processes Humans possess a remarkable ability to determine what things are simply by looking at them. We do this very quickly...

... for image processing using mathematical morphology. We have considered gray‐scale images, varying between 300×360 pixels and 640×480 pixels, as it is shown in Figure 3 . The average mean times are shown in Table I . Finally, let us consider a graphical representation of these average time in Figure...

... the uniformity of a region and the discontinuity between different regions are not well incorporated into the algorithms. So, it is interesting to incorporate some robust features to some distortion level, so that solid results are produced. Cybernetics Image processing Image segmentation...

...Pilar Arques; Patricia Compañ; Rafael Molina; Mar Pujol; Ramón Rizo Segmentation is an important topic in computer vision and image processing. In this paper, we sketch a scheme for a multiscale segmentation algorithm and prove its validity on some real images. We propose an approach to the model...

... with mixed (discrete‐continuous) distributions is derived in terms of the usual entropy definitions. In addition, the maximum entropy problem in the general setting of mixture distributions is discussed. Image processing Statistics Maximum Entropy Modelling of Mixture Communications Distributions...

...S.A. Amin; D.J. Evans Systolic array designs of parallel algorithms for low‐level digital image processing, and in particular the gradient operator, are described. Indicates how, to achieve high performance, a new systolic array can be designed in which all the cells in a double pipeline...

... mismatches, but shows that there are also important correspondences. The successful applications are to image processing, pattern classification and automatic optimization, in various guises. Reviews important issues raised by extension to the symbolic problem solving of “intellectual” thought, the prime...

...B.H. Rudall Reports and surveys are given of selected current research and developments in systems and cybernetics. They include: New Applications for Missile Launcher, Second Order Cybernetics, Management Cybernetics, VDU Workstation Safety, Medical Cybernetics, New Image Processing System...