{"title":"Hybrid Image as the Assessment Tool for Myopia Severity Level","authors":"Peeraya Sripian","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.29","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an innovative media to assess 3 different levels of myopia using hybrid images. The experiment results showed that hybrid images can be used to distinguish the person with the different level of myopia.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121183953","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":"Construction of Indoor Location Search System Using Bluetooth Low Energy","authors":"Yuta Miyagawa, N. Segawa","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.43","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, services that use position estimation by Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are extensively being used. However, the technology itself is not used optimally owing to the high cost of installation at a base station. To solve this problem, we constructed and operated a system capable of visualizing the location information of a hotel key, and conducted an experiment to verify its functionality. Consequently, we confirmed that it is possible to reduce the base station in the floor plan and behavior model.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129036289","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":"Japanese Fingerspelling Recognition Based on Classification Tree and Machine Learning","authors":"N. Mukai, N. Harada, Youngha Chang","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.9","url":null,"abstract":"Sign language is a very important communication tool for hearing-impaired people and also for the communication between hearing-impaired and non-handicapped people. There are many methods for sign language recognition, some of which are based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and others are based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) and so forth. In fact, the most of previous methods recognize fingerspelling using video sequence because some fingerspellings are accompanied by movement. Some methods use Microsoft Kinect or Leap Motion controller to obtain the finger movement. Some fingerspellings, however, are not accompanied by movement and can be recognized with just one snap shot of fingerspelling. Therefore, this paper proposes a recognition method of fingerspelling without movement. The target fingerspellings are 41 characters without movement in Japanese sign language, and the method uses only one picture. Some of fingerspellings are easily recognized and others are not so that the method is based on pattern recognition using classification tree and machine learning with SVM for easily recognized fingerspellings and difficultly recognized ones, respectively. As the result of the experiment, the averaged recognition rate was 86%.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130893335","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}
Yuma Hayashida, Tomoya Uetsuji, Yasuo Ebara, K. Koyamada
{"title":"Category Classification of Text Data with Machine Learning Technique for Visualizing Flow of Conversation in Counseling","authors":"Yuma Hayashida, Tomoya Uetsuji, Yasuo Ebara, K. Koyamada","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.35","url":null,"abstract":"The beginner counselors have more likely to continue counseling in their own interest, they have a high tendency to make great use of the closed-ended question in order to confirm the interpretation with the client. While expert counselors are instructing the counseling skill to beginner counselors, we consider that the reaction of a client for a beginner counselor's question is important to visualize in an appropriate method. To respond the request, we have developed a system for visualizing the flow of conversation in counseling. However, the expert counselor as the system user requires to correct the initial classification result manually, and the work burden is large, because the accuracy of the category classification of conversation data is very low in the current system. To improve this problem, we have implemented on the category classification method of text data with SVM (Support Vector Machine) as machine learning technique to visualize the flow of conversation in counseling. In addition, we have compared and evaluated with results of the initial classification method of the current system. As these results, we have shown that the accuracy rate of the classification method with SVM become higher than the results in the current system.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128023013","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":"Tracking and Short-Term Forecasting of Typhoon Structure","authors":"Jiayi Xu, Xuanxuan Huang, Xiaoyang Mao","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.18","url":null,"abstract":"The tracking of wind field circulation is an important and difficult problem in typhoon forecasting. This paper studies how to catch the shape and intensity deformation characteristics of this type of severe weather system, which includes the wind field estimation and typhoon structure prediction in a short period of time. A correlation matching approach is used to retrieve typhoon wind field without the estimation of typhoon center. Firstly, an energy function is designed to dynamically restrain the tracking area instead of using a constant one. Then for each grid at previous time step, a corresponding one with maximum correlation coefficient at current time step is computed. The collection of these computed grid pairs reflects the movement of circulation structure and thus the wind field is obtained. Finally, a quality control is performed with total variation reconstruction to smooth the global wind field by eliminating local error data and filling missing data points with the average velocity in the neighborhood. With the computed wind field, the short-term forecasting of typhoon structure that represented by radar echo data is realized by the semi-Lagrangian advection approach. Experimental result shows that the proposed method could retrieve accurate and smooth typhoon wind field compared with observation data, or data computed with optical flow algorithm, and could predict relative accurate typhoon structure in 1 hour.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125267173","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}
Xingji Zeng, Takafumi Iwaguchi, Hiroyuki Kubo, Takuya Funatomi, Y. Mukaigawa
{"title":"Estimating Parameters of Subsurface Scattering Using Directional Dipole Model","authors":"Xingji Zeng, Takafumi Iwaguchi, Hiroyuki Kubo, Takuya Funatomi, Y. Mukaigawa","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.20","url":null,"abstract":"Acquisition of parameters for the Bidirectional Scattering Surface Reflectance Distribution Function (BSSRDF) has significant meanings in the study of computer graphics and vision research field. In this paper, we present an inverse rendering approach combined with a newly developed BSSRDF model, directional dipole model, for parameter estimation. To validate our algorithm, we estimate parameters from spheres with a wide range of radius in a simulated and real environment, respectively. According to the observations from both simulated and real experiments, we find that surface curvature significantly affects the estimation results.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127934639","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":"Stylized Semi-transparent Streamlines by Stochastic Rendering Approach","authors":"Tomohisa Tanaka, Naohisa Sakamoto","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.30","url":null,"abstract":"Flow visualization technique such as streamlines is an effective technique in order to understand the flow field reproduced by numerical simulations such as computational fluid dynamics. In this work, we propose a streamline rendering technique with semi-transparent effects, which can effectively visualize the features and internal structure of complicated streamlines.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"143 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129430644","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":"Interface Design and Controller Development for Loop Performance of Contemporary Music Associated with a DJ Software","authors":"S. Iwaoka, A. Ito, Ken'ichiro Ito","doi":"10.1109/NICOInt.2017.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOInt.2017.27","url":null,"abstract":"In this research, we attempt to develop for artistic music loop performance on a de facto standard digital DJ system with TouchOSC. Through the analysis on the functions and UI of de facto DJ software and controllers, the 4 shortage of functions for artistic music loop performance were found. Therefore, we built the remote controller system by TouchOSC. It enables to control the complicated music loops and realize pseudo live-coding performance on DJ software.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122663381","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}
Endoh Masanobu, Henry D. Fernández B., Koji Mikami
{"title":"Dynamic Pressure Cycle Control: Dynamic Diffculty Adjustment beyond the Flow Zone","authors":"Endoh Masanobu, Henry D. Fernández B., Koji Mikami","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.12","url":null,"abstract":"The degree of difficulty is a key element of fun in digital games. Players enjoy games and improve their skills if the difficulty is set in their personal Flow Zones. The existing Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) is a suitable technique to automatically control the difficulty within the proper range in games. However, sometimes players feel uncomfortable when they recognize that the difficulty is being modified automatically. We devised a new game design concept called \"Dynamic Pressure Cycle Control,\" which still adds fun for players even when the difficulty exceeds the proper range. Our method's fundamental idea is to modify the difficulty extremely, increasing and decreasing it beyond the Flow Zone. We implemented our method combined with DDA and conducted experiments to verify it through playtesting. Results show that the proposed method succeeds to add a new element of fun to the game. Also, show the existence of a game design method which offers comfort to players even when they recognized the intentional change of difficulty during gameplay time.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115579755","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":"Botanical Puppet: Computer Controlled Shameplant","authors":"Wataru Kurihara, Akito Nakano, Hisakazu Hada","doi":"10.1109/NICOINT.2017.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NICOINT.2017.16","url":null,"abstract":"The Shameplant (Mimosa pudica) are known to move its twigs and leaves after stimulation, and people have enjoyed its reactions over time. These reactions have been identified to be related to bioelectric potentials. Using the reactions of the shameplant, we investigated methods and conditions that cause its twigs to face downward, by applying electrical stimulation using a computer and an Arduino. We successfully directed the twigs downward using electrical stimulation and made specific twigs of a stem face downward using a computer and an Arduino.","PeriodicalId":333647,"journal":{"name":"2017 Nicograph International (NicoInt)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126344381","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}