585 research outputs found
Fast and Robust Detection of Fallen People from a Mobile Robot
This paper deals with the problem of detecting fallen people lying on the
floor by means of a mobile robot equipped with a 3D depth sensor. In the
proposed algorithm, inspired by semantic segmentation techniques, the 3D scene
is over-segmented into small patches. Fallen people are then detected by means
of two SVM classifiers: the first one labels each patch, while the second one
captures the spatial relations between them. This novel approach showed to be
robust and fast. Indeed, thanks to the use of small patches, fallen people in
real cluttered scenes with objects side by side are correctly detected.
Moreover, the algorithm can be executed on a mobile robot fitted with a
standard laptop making it possible to exploit the 2D environmental map built by
the robot and the multiple points of view obtained during the robot navigation.
Additionally, this algorithm is robust to illumination changes since it does
not rely on RGB data but on depth data. All the methods have been thoroughly
validated on the IASLAB-RGBD Fallen Person Dataset, which is published online
as a further contribution. It consists of several static and dynamic sequences
with 15 different people and 2 different environments
Smile aesthetics: an interdisciplinary approach
The face is the visiting card of our person to society and the smile is its most important
characterization: the presence of anomalies may represent a break in harmony and facial
aesthetics.
The main objective of this writing is to identify the main characteristics of a pleasant smile and
to analyse some of the available therapeutic approaches aiming to correct dentofacial
anomalies.
A bibliographic search was performed using B-on, PubMed and textbooks, based on the
keywords “smile aesthetics”.
According to the literature analysed, it seems that following certain guidelines and parameters
is crucial in achieving the best possible outcome and the clinician should consider an
interdisciplinary therapeutic approach, within the limits of anatomy and function.O rosto é o cartão de visitas de uma pessoa para a sociedade e o sorriso é a sua caracterização
mais importante: a presença de anomalias pode representar uma ruptura na harmonia e na
estética facial.
O objetivo principal deste trabalho Ă© identificar as principais caracterĂsticas de um sorriso
agradável e analisar algumas das abordagens terapĂŞuticas disponĂveis, visando corrigir as
anomalias dentofaciais.
Foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica utilizando B-on, PubMed e livros didáticos, com base
na palavra-chave "sorriso estético".
De acordo com a literatura analisada, parece que seguir certas diretrizes e parâmetros seja
crucial para alcançar o melhor resultado possĂvel e o clĂnico deveria considerar uma abordagem
terapêutica interdisciplinar, dentro dos limites da anatomia e da função
Smile aesthetics: an interdisciplinary approach
The face is the visiting card of our person to society and the smile is its most important
characterization: the presence of anomalies may represent a break in harmony and facial
aesthetics.
The main objective of this writing is to identify the main characteristics of a pleasant smile and
to analyse some of the available therapeutic approaches aiming to correct dentofacial
anomalies.
A bibliographic search was performed using B-on, PubMed and textbooks, based on the
keywords “smile aesthetics”.
According to the literature analysed, it seems that following certain guidelines and parameters
is crucial in achieving the best possible outcome and the clinician should consider an
interdisciplinary therapeutic approach, within the limits of anatomy and function.O rosto é o cartão de visitas de uma pessoa para a sociedade e o sorriso é a sua caracterização
mais importante: a presença de anomalias pode representar uma ruptura na harmonia e na
estética facial.
O objetivo principal deste trabalho Ă© identificar as principais caracterĂsticas de um sorriso
agradável e analisar algumas das abordagens terapĂŞuticas disponĂveis, visando corrigir as
anomalias dentofaciais.
Foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica utilizando B-on, PubMed e livros didáticos, com base
na palavra-chave "sorriso estético".
De acordo com a literatura analisada, parece que seguir certas diretrizes e parâmetros seja
crucial para alcançar o melhor resultado possĂvel e o clĂnico deveria considerar uma abordagem
terapêutica interdisciplinar, dentro dos limites da anatomia e da função
Promoting physical activity among university students: a systematic review of controlled trials
Objective:
University study is often accompanied by a decline in physical activity (PA) levels but can offer the opportunity to
promote a lifelong active lifestyle. This review aims to summarize controlled trials of interventions promoting PA among uni-
versity students, describing the quality of the evidence, effective strategies, and deficiencies in the interventions employed, to
provide directions for future research and for practical implementations.
Data Source:
PubMed, PsychINFO, Cochrane Library, Education Source, and SPORTDiscus.
Study Inclusion Criteria:
Randomized or nonrandomized controlled trial, describing an intervention to promote PA in uni-
versity students, where PA was one of the outcomes and results were published in English.
Data Extraction:
Country, study design, participants\u2019 inclusion criteria, participation rate and characteristics, randomization,
blinding, theoretical framework, intervention characteristics, participant retention rate and withdrawal reasons, measures
employed, data analysis, PA results, and findings regarding PA correlates.
Data Synthesis:
Data were synthetized considering study characteristics, strategies used, and outcomes.
Results:
Two thousand five hundred eighty-five articles were identified. Twenty-seven studies met the inclusion criteria. Sixteen
studies reported an increase in PA levels.
Conclusion:
Physical Activity promotion interventions should address a range of behavioral determinants. Personalized
approaches and PA sessions should be considered in future studies. The high risk of bias of many studies (mainly due to attrition
and poor reporting) and missing information about intervention components limit the strength of conclusions about the most
effective strategies and the evidence of effectiveness, highlighting the need for further high-quality studies
Multicolor Photometry of the Uranus Irregular Satellites Sycorax and Caliban
We report on accurate BVRI photometry for the two Uranus irregular satellites
Sycorax and Caliban. We derive colours, showing that
Sycorax is bluer than Caliban. Our data allows us to detect a significant
variability in the Caliban's light-curve, which suggests an estimated period of
about 3 hours. Despite it is the brighter of the two bodies, Sycorax does not
display a strong statistically significant variability. However our data seem
to suggest a period of about 4 hoursComment: 17 pages, 2 eps figures, in press in Astronomical Journa
Real-time marker-less multi-person 3D pose estimation in RGB-Depth camera networks
This paper proposes a novel system to estimate and track the 3D poses of
multiple persons in calibrated RGB-Depth camera networks. The multi-view 3D
pose of each person is computed by a central node which receives the
single-view outcomes from each camera of the network. Each single-view outcome
is computed by using a CNN for 2D pose estimation and extending the resulting
skeletons to 3D by means of the sensor depth. The proposed system is
marker-less, multi-person, independent of background and does not make any
assumption on people appearance and initial pose. The system provides real-time
outcomes, thus being perfectly suited for applications requiring user
interaction. Experimental results show the effectiveness of this work with
respect to a baseline multi-view approach in different scenarios. To foster
research and applications based on this work, we released the source code in
OpenPTrack, an open source project for RGB-D people tracking.Comment: Submitted to the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automatio
People tracking and re-identification by face recognition for RGB-D camera networks
This paper describes a face recognition-based people tracking and re-identification system for RGB-D camera networks. The system tracks people and learns their faces online to keep track of their identities even if they move out from the camera's field of view once. For robust people re-identification, the system exploits the combination of a deep neural network- based face representation and a Bayesian inference-based face classification method. The system also provides a predefined people identification capability: it associates the online learned faces with predefined people face images and names to know the people's whereabouts, thus, allowing a rich human-system interaction. Through experiments, we validate the re-identification and the predefined people identification capabilities of the system and show an example of the integration of the system with a mobile robot. The overall system is built as a Robot Operating System (ROS) module. As a result, it simplifies the integration with the many existing robotic systems and algorithms which use such middleware. The code of this work has been released as open-source in order to provide a baseline for the future publications in this field
Real-time RGB-Depth preception of humans for robots and camera networks
This thesis deals with robot and camera network perception using RGB-Depth data. The goal is to provide efficient and robust algorithms for interacting with humans. For this reason, a special care has been devoted to design algorithms which can run in real-time on consumer computers and embedded cards.
The main contribution of this thesis is the 3D body pose estimation of the human body. We propose two novel algorithms which take advantage of the data stream of a RGB-D camera network outperforming the state-of-the-art performance in both single-view and multi-view tests. While the first algorithm works on point cloud data which is feasible also with no external light, the second one performs better, since it deals with multiple persons with negligible overhead and does not rely on the synchronization between the different cameras in the network.
The second contribution regards long-term people re-identification in camera networks. This is particularly challenging since we cannot rely on appearance cues, in order to be able to re-identify people also in different days. We address this problem by proposing a face-recognition framework based on a Convolutional Neural Network and a Bayes inference system to re-assign the correct ID and person name to each new track.
The third contribution is about Ambient Assisted Living. We propose a prototype of an assistive robot which periodically patrols a known environment, reporting unusual events as people fallen on the ground. To this end, we developed a fast and robust approach which can work also in dimmer scenes and is validated using a new publicly-available RGB-D dataset recorded on-board of our open-source robot prototype.
As a further contribution of this work, in order to boost the research on this topics and to provide the best benefit to the robotics and computer vision community, we released under open-source licenses most of the software implementations of the novel algorithms described in this work
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