Abu Saleh Md. Mahfujur Rahman, M. Eid, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
{"title":"KissMe: Bringing virtual events to the real world","authors":"Abu Saleh Md. Mahfujur Rahman, M. Eid, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592761","url":null,"abstract":"Several researchers have successfully developed realistic models for real world objects/phenomenon and have simulated them in the virtual world. In this paper, we propose the opposite: brining virtual world events and instantiate them in the real world. The proposed system, named KissMe, comprises two components: (1) a virtual reality environment that has avatars that represent real humans interacting with each other, and (2) a neck piece (tactile haptic device) that is put on the neck of the real person. When one of the avatars kisses the other, an event is triggered and a message is sent over the Internet, via web service paradigm, to a Bluetooth-enabled neck piece hardware. The neck piece applies the haptic stimulus that simulates the kiss feeling using actuators that are embedded in a scarf-like suit. Examples of potential applications for the KissMe prototype include 3D gaming and virtual reality social communities such as second life, among others.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128385237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Head pose detection with one camera based on pupil and nostril detection technique","authors":"Y. Ebisawa","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592775","url":null,"abstract":"A remote video-based head pose detection system is useful to observe the behavior of the driver, e.g., prevention oft the driver from failing to keep the eyes on the road. In addition, if the precision of the system is high, it may be used as a pointing device. We have already proposed a horizontal and vertical head pose estimation method using the 3-D positions of the two pupils and two nostrils, which are obtained from the stereo cameras. In the method, the horizontal and vertical angles of the average vector of the normal vector of the plane including the two pupils and one nostril and that of the plane including the two pupils and another nostril were determined as the head angle. The system showed the measurable ranges of more than plusmn 40 deg in horizontal and 30 deg in vertical. In this paper, we propose the head pose detection method with one camera in order to increase the horizontal range. The 3D positions of the pupils and nostrils are determined by giving the distances among the feature points as restraint conditions. The experimental results showed the measurable ranges of approx. plusmn 45 deg in horizontal and 40 deg in vertical. In addition, the one-camera method indicated high resolution compared to our previous stereo method. Finally, the proposed one-camera method was introduced into each of the two stereo-calibrated cameras, placed with 30 deg separated. The two-camera system showed a wide horizontal range of plusmn 60 deg.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132306750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Web applications as health provision tool","authors":"R. Leca, V. Groza","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592753","url":null,"abstract":"Web interfaces to automated, device-driven health monitoring systems are necessary to narrow and to bridge the quality gap between physiological observation and semiological interpretation. When designed according to metrology principles, such interfaces are useful in overcoming the measurement and data quality problems created by the lack of safety science in health care and the associated cost of cognition, capability, communication, and coordination.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124308584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AVRA: a Architecture for VR-based Applications","authors":"S. Nourian, N. Georganas","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592764","url":null,"abstract":"The most fundamental ingredients of computer simulations are the analytical or experimental models and their visual representations (views). This paper presents AVRA, a framework that receives the simulation models and the description of the view as XML files and dynamically generates a VR (Virtual Reality) application that corresponds to those specifications. The result consists of a 3D scene with configurable graphical elements that are animated based on the numerical outputs of the simulation models. The task of managing the communication between the model and view components as well as their construction and destruction is automatically handled by AVRA. In essence, this framework allows developers to quickly construct the simulation components of a VR application through XML descriptions and view plug-ins thereby allowing developers to focus their efforts on implementing the higher level functionalities of the application.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124872043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PupilMouse supported by head pose detection","authors":"Masanari Iwata, Y. Ebisawa","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592776","url":null,"abstract":"We have already proposed dasiaPupilMousepsila, which would be very useful for the severely handicapped people, who can move their heads, to operate a PC and so on. In PupilMouse, pupil motion between frames detected by a video camera is reflected in cursor motion on a PC screen and whether each of the right and left pupils are detected or not is reflected in the push states of the corresponding buttons of a two button mouse. Accordingly, users can move the cursor on the PC screen by head rotation, and can click by closing their single eye. If they rotate their head while closing one eye, they can drag.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123738691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. D. Santo, L. Ferrigno, V. Paciello, A. Pietrosanto
{"title":"Experimental characterization of synchronization protocols for wireless networks","authors":"M. D. Santo, L. Ferrigno, V. Paciello, A. Pietrosanto","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592754","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays more and more measurement applications where sensor nodes cooperate to realize a data fusion process are entrusted to wireless sensor networks (WSN). Data fusion to be accurate requires that nodes be referred to a common clock and among themselves. In this scenario node synchronization got a crucial research topic and even sophisticated synchronization algorithms can be easily found in literature. Not a few others show to be especially designed for low cost, low memory and low power architectures. Their performance is usually evaluated either through analytical considerations or in simulation environments, but in some cases where ad hoc radio systems have been adopted. This paper makes a first step toward an experimental characterization of synchronization protocols that hold into account also influence factors which arise when commercial wireless communication busses as WiFi, BlueTooth (BT), ZigBee are adopted.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121755299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A survey on water supply system’s technology for the development of enhanced measuring strategies empowered by our gestalt image characterisation","authors":"P. A. Valle, M. Köppen","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592767","url":null,"abstract":"In order to observe and gather viewpoints from various technological achievements undertaken in the frameworks of water distribution systems, a state-of-the-art is researched and presented here in form of methodological highlights related to these fields. Furthermore, to be established and guarantee the thorough efficiency of water supply systems, a method relying on pattern recognition approaches like the coocurrence matrix, edge-detection filtering and region growing algorithms is devised by means of which, an optimized model has been achieved at Sistema de Aguas de la Ciudad de Mexicopsilas (SACM) Hydraulic Systemspsila Verification Subdirection to overcome the peak traffic conditions of the rain season being currently monitored via a robust supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127776832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. R. D. Santos, J. Oliveira, Luciane Machado Fraga, P. R. Trenhago, S. M. Malfatti
{"title":"Using a rendering engine to support the development of immersive virtual reality applications","authors":"S. R. D. Santos, J. Oliveira, Luciane Machado Fraga, P. R. Trenhago, S. M. Malfatti","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592756","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents the features of a exible realtime 3D graphics engine aimed at the development of multimedia applications and collaborative virtual environments. The engine, called EnCIMA (engine for collaborative and immersive multimedia applications), enables a quick development process of applications by providing a high level interface, which has been implemented using the C++ object-oriented programming paradigm. Important characteristics of the engine are the integration of several real time graphics techniques needed by visualization applications; access to network connection management to support collaboration; 3D sound capability; the support to various specialized interaction equipments such as 3D mice, haptic devices, 3D motion trackers, data-gloves, joypads, force feedback joysticks, and; the capacity to have rendering computation and Physics simulation assigned to GPUs and PPUs, respectively. The engine also enables the developer to choose how the scene should be rendered to, i.e. using standard display devices, stereoscopy, or even several simultaneous projection for spatially immersive displays. As part of the evaluation process, we have compared the performance of EnCIMA to a game engine and two scene graph toolkits, through the use of a testbed application.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131724592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual environment for granulometry analysis","authors":"S. Ferrari, V. Piuri, F. Scotti","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592772","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of granulometry of substances is relevant in a great variety of the research and industrial applications. Unfortunately, image-based algorithms for granulometry analysis are difficult to tune and validate. In a typical setup, one or more cameras acquire images of a scene with a great number of objects or particles that must be measured. The distribution of the sizes/shape characteristics of the elements are the common output of such systems. The creation of supervised image database where the coordinates of all elements are known is very important and it allows for testing in a suitable manner the final size/shape distribution of particles produced by the image processing system with respect to the real distribution. Due to the great amount of objects or particles in the images, it is not often convenient, or even impossible, to individually measure each single objects in order to test the capability of the image processing system to locate and measure the elements (creation of a supervised dataset). One possible solution encompasses the creation of a synthetic image dataset where the position of each elements is known a priori. In this paper we propose a virtual environment to create and test an image-based granulometric system based on the 3D engine Blender. Results are encouraging and show the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131803328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abdulaziz Al Hamidi, A. Boukerche, Luqman Ahmad, Ming Zhang
{"title":"Supporting web-based e-learning through collaborative virtual environments for radiotherapy treatment: A formal design","authors":"Abdulaziz Al Hamidi, A. Boukerche, Luqman Ahmad, Ming Zhang","doi":"10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592752","url":null,"abstract":"Web based virtual reality application has been widely used in education, virtual conferences, entertainment. Observing the progress of the gaming industry over the years can clearly show the advancement in virtual reality Web application and virtual environments. In this paper, we propose a novel Web based e-learning application design approach that uses discrete event system specification (DEVS) formalism to form and model the 3D virtual hospital Web based application for radiotherapy and cancer care treatment class of applications. We present a case study that demonstrates the value of this formal approach in modeling and designing 3D virtual environment and Web based e-learning class of application.","PeriodicalId":284224,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114715891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}