Visual and Camera Sensors

This book includes 13 papers published in Special Issue ("Visual and Camera Sensors") of the journal Sensors. The goal of this Special Issue was to invite high-quality, state-of-the-art research papers dealing with challenging issues in visual and camera sensors

Intelligent Sensors for Human Motion Analysis

The book, "Intelligent Sensors for Human Motion Analysis," contains 17 articles published in the Special Issue of the Sensors journal. These articles deal with many aspects related to the analysis of human movement. New techniques and methods for pose estimation, gait recognition, and fall detection have been proposed and verified. Some of them will trigger further research, and some may become the backbone of commercial systems

Measuring Behavior 2018 Conference Proceedings

These proceedings contain the papers presented at Measuring Behavior 2018, the 11th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research. The conference was organised by Manchester Metropolitan University, in collaboration with Noldus Information Technology. The conference was held during June 5th – 8th, 2018 in Manchester, UK. Building on the format that has emerged from previous meetings, we hosted a fascinating program about a wide variety of methodological aspects of the behavioral sciences. We had scientific presentations scheduled into seven general oral sessions and fifteen symposia, which covered a topical spread from rodent to human behavior. We had fourteen demonstrations, in which academics and companies demonstrated their latest prototypes. The scientific program also contained three workshops, one tutorial and a number of scientific discussion sessions. We also had scientific tours of our facilities at Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy, and the nearby British Cycling Velodrome. We hope this proceedings caters for many of your interests and we look forward to seeing and hearing more of your contributions

High-dimensional glyph-based visualization and interactive techniques.

The advancement of modern technology and scientific measurements has led to datasets growing in both size and complexity, exposing the need for more efficient and effective ways of visualizing and analysing data. Despite the amount of progress in visualization methods, high-dimensional data still poses a number of significant challenges in terms of the technical ability of realising such a mapping, and how accurate they are actually interpreted. The different data sources and characteristics which arise from a wide range of scientific domains as well as specific design requirements constantly create new special challenges for visualization research. This thesis presents several contributions to the field of glyph-based visualization. Glyphs are parametrised objects which encode one or more data values to its appearance (also referred to as visual channels) such as their size, colour, shape, and position. They have been widely used to convey information visually, and are especially well suited for displaying complex, multi-faceted datasets. Its major strength is the ability to depict patterns of data in the context of a spatial relationship, where multi-dimensional trends can often be perceived more easily. Our research is set in the broad scope of multi-dimensional visualization, addressing several aspects of glyph-based techniques, including visual design, perception, placement, interaction, and applications. In particular, this thesis presents a comprehensive study on one interaction technique, namely sorting, for supporting various analytical tasks. We have outlined the concepts of glyph- based sorting, identified a set of design criteria for sorting interactions, designed and prototyped a user interface for sorting multivariate glyphs, developed a visual analytics technique to support sorting, conducted an empirical study on perceptual orderability of visual channels used in glyph design, and applied glyph-based sorting to event visualization in sports applications. The content of this thesis is organised into two parts. Part I provides an overview of the basic concepts of glyph-based visualization, before describing the state-of-the-art in this field. We then present a collection of novel glyph-based approaches to address challenges created from real-world applications. These are detailed in Part II. Our first approach involves designing glyphs to depict the composition of multiple error-sensitivity fields. This work addresses the problem of single camera positioning, using both 2D and 3D methods to support camera configuration based on various constraints in the context of a real-world environment. Our second approach present glyphs to visualize actions and events "at a glance". We discuss the relative merits of using metaphoric glyphs in comparison to other types of glyph designs to the particular problem of real-time sports analysis. As a result of this research, we delivered a visualization software, MatchPad, on a tablet computer. It successfully helped coaching staff and team analysts to examine actions and events in detail whilst maintaining a clear overview of the match, and assisted in their decision making during the matches. Abstract shortened by ProQuest