{"title":"Multi-level smile intensity measuring based on mouth-corner features for happiness detection","authors":"Chung-Hsien Chang, Po-Chuan Lin, Ta-Wen Kuan, Jing-Min Chen, Yuh-Chung Lin, Jhing-Fa Wang, A. Tsai","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956629","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a low-complexity algorithm for multi-level smile intensity measurement based on mouth-corner features (MCFs). The proposed MCFs-based algorithm uses the mouth region images and accumulates the value of enhanced grayscale pixels along the horizontal axis. To further analyze the mouth shape, the local maximum information of the accumulated values is extracted to identify the height and width sizes of an opening mouth. Finally, the normalized threshold method is adopted to measure the smile intensity. The experimental results have shown that the proposed approach can achieve an average accuracy rate of 80% for the smiling measuring with four different levels of intensity. Moreover, the proposed algorithm can measure the smile intensity in a multi-face environment. Such results have demonstrated the efficiency and the feasibility of proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"6 1-2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129094921","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 light-weight system for detecting indoor wandering of demented elders living alone","authors":"Weichao Zhao, Xingshe Zhou, Hongbo Ni, Qiang Lin","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6954695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6954695","url":null,"abstract":"Wandering can be seen as one of the most frequent and dangerous behaviors of the elderly with dementia, bringing negative effects on their physical and mental health and heavy caring burden on stakeholders. In order to detect the indoor wandering of demented elders living alone in real time, this paper proposes a light-weight wandering detection system named LWDS. Specifically, the LWDS system first collects the location information with timestamp using a pair of pyroelectric infrared sensors mounted on the doors of each room, and then classifies the ongoing trajectory consisting of a series of locations into different wandering locomotion patterns according to an established wandering model. After a trajectory has been detected as containing wandering behavior, the developed system will send an alert to their carers for necessary treatment. The non-intrusive and easy-to-deploy properties ensure the proposed LWDS system can find wandering behaviors in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner around the clock. An experimental evaluation conducted on a group of real data collected from two elders showed that the LWDS is effective in detecting indoor wandering when they moved across different rooms and obtained a detection ratio of more than 90.03% for the wandering patterns.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129144576","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 Doppler frequency estimation algorithm based on band mismatch","authors":"Feng Xue, Qiaoling Chen, Yang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956603","url":null,"abstract":"The Doppler frequency shift can make a mismatch in frequency band between the linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal and its matched filter. The amplitude and delay of the output pulse are based on the degree of the mismatch. An algorithm of Doppler frequency estimation is proposed basing on the amplitude of the output pulse. The algorithm sets a group of matched filters whose middle frequencies increase in an established pattern. When the echo pulse goes through them, the outputs will appear in different amplitudes and delays. The Doppler frequency is calculated by the two pulses whose amplitude is the biggest. The delay of echo will be compensated by the estimated Doppler frequency, which may achieve the target's precise location. Compared to standard processing of matched filtering, this algorithm dosen't cost more time. In addition, the Hyper-Rayleigh limit estimation can be achieved in the condition of a appropriate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The principle is discussed in this paper, and the simulation illustrates the feasibility and effectiveness of the algorithm.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131625691","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":"Solving TSP by dismantling cross paths","authors":"Yongsheng Pan, Yong Xia","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956614","url":null,"abstract":"Traveling salesman Problem (TSP) is a classical NP-hard problem and has been extensively studied in literature. Eliminating the cross paths, which commonly exist in approximate solutions to large scale TSP, can effectively improve the quality of the solutions. Through studying the impact of cross paths on the cost of a loop, in this paper we develop a method to detect and dismantle cross paths, and thus propose a novel greedy algorithm-based approach to the TSP. This approach has been evaluated on ten TSP data sets and compared to three classical optimization techniques, including the elastic network, ant colony algorithm and genetic algorithm. Our results show that the proposed approach can get approximate solution of high quality with far less computational cost and has an excellent performance in solving large-scale TSP.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134172853","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":"Real time super resolution reconstruction for video stream based on GPU","authors":"Jie Hu, Hailiang Li, Ying Li","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6954664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6954664","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an efficient and structure-based image/video (interframe independent) super resolution (SR) scheme. Image/video SR is currently a very active area of research because it is used in various applications. The basic idea of the proposed scheme is based on the concepts of pattern redundancy and parallel computing. Global and local motions of pixels are well estimated by exploiting the repeated and structured patterns existing in the most nature images. The value of a missing pixel in the desired high resolution image is obtained by calculating the weighted average of the selected pixels according to the estimated motions, which is able to preserve the intrinsic geometric structure of the original low resolution image/video stream. After that, the estimated pixels' values will be re-corrected by using iterative back projection (IBP) approach in which auxiliary high frequency information embedded. The proposed scheme is mainly implemented in parallel programming strategy based on Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), to reconstruct desired high resolution image/video steam from its low resolution counterparts. Experimental results show that the proposed method has high performance on both the visual quality and real time processing speed.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131293959","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 bionic micro sucker actuated by IPMC","authors":"Huashan Feng, Wenhao Dong, N. Chai","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956640","url":null,"abstract":"A bionic micro sucker was designed in this study based on the analyses of the structure and behavior of leech suckers. This sucker helps micro medical robot to adhere to the inner wall of the gastrointestinal tract and perform long-term test of the peristalsis. It is actuated by petaloid ionic-polymer metal composite (IPMC), and wrapped by innocuous silicone rubber, which makes it like a foveate plate and fit closely on the inner wall of the gastrointestinal tract. The silicone elastomer structure bends when 3-5V direct voltage is applied to the IPMC, and forms a negative pressure by closely contact with the gastrointestinal tract, thus realizing the initiative adsorption that imitates leech suckers. The preliminary experiment showed that this micro sucker is able to bear a load of 200g successfully when it sucks on a glass surface.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116308368","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":"Happy studying by gamificational role playing","authors":"Tsung-Han Hsieh, H. Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956601","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we advocate that improving teaching quality through better course design should be at least the same important as the other components of current Orange Technology. In order to attain this idea, we present a course design which have applied the concept of gamification and practised with role playing. Gamification is applied to a group role playing game to intensified the material students are expected to learn in the course. Comparing the student participating rate of the role playing game over 3 years, this study finds that gamification should be able to increase the willing of students to participate voluntarily in the activities of a course. An informal query upon students who have participated in the gamified course show that gamification can be an efficient tool to deliver strong impressions in student's mindset.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"60 36","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120930437","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 visualization toolkit for online social network propagation and influence analysis with content features","authors":"Bo Wang, Yingjun Sun, Cheng-Chung Tang, Yang Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956616","url":null,"abstract":"The propagation and influence is an important problem for online social network. In this paper, we develop a visualization toolkit for online social network propagation and influence analysis and predication which can not only present the main trend of the propagation and influence, but also can present them in multiple views e.g., time and location distribution. Considering the existing works mostly analysis the propagation and influence with the structure of the social network and the features of the individuals, in this paper, we also try to introduce the features of the information content to the problems. The main technologies and implementation results of the toolkit are introduced in this paper.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124630386","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":"Enhancing home area networks to facilitate telehealth services: Test-bed scenario with video-consultation-calls (VCC)","authors":"Mohib A. Shah, Jinman Kim, M. Khadra, D. Feng","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6954671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6954671","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have witnessed rapid development of Telehealth applications and the integration of portable devices to facilitate services such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP), Video-over-IP and distribution of other data types e.g., medical images and health sensor data. In line with Telehelath, Home Area Network (HAN) has also seen broad deployments and has expanded conventional households to support latest electronic devices that are equipped with network connectivity. Telehealth applications are starting to be designed to take advantages of the HAN environment and are providing healthcare at the patients home, i.e., facilitates hospital at home via video-consultation-call (VCC). However, some of these Telehealth applications are highly delay sensitive and require higher bandwidth priority and a network load-balancing system in order to produce best quality of service (QoS). We observed that typical HAN is established without bandwidth priority and network-load-balancing systems. This lack of management causes HAN to produce unacceptable QoS for Telehealth applications. In this scenario, we propose a scheme to enhance HAN while providing better quality of VCC to support Telehealth services. Our scheme controls the Internet traffic within the HAN network infrastructure environment. In our experimental setting, we implemented a real network test-bed based on HAN where two-way Skype VCC was established and the quality of packet-loss was measured. Skype was chosen for its wide availability and support on all types of computing devices (PC, mobile, laptop etc.). Our results indicate that packet-loss fluctuates between ~5-16% when user datagram protocol (UDP) traffic is utilised concurrently by other devices in HAN. It also demonstrated that our scheme could enhance HAN performance for VCC as it reduced packet-loss down to ~0.3 %.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120936552","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":"Development and evaluated for intracranial aneurysm imaging reconstruction algorithms by 320 Slice Dynamic Volume CT","authors":"Hua Cao, Jiazhong Chen, Jiayi Cao","doi":"10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOT.2014.6956613","url":null,"abstract":"320 Slice Dynamic Volume CT provides intracranial aneurysm patients with 4D digital subtraction angiography (DSA) imaging and the Key technology of which are the wide detection platform and ConeXact Cone-beam reconstruction algorithm. In this thesis, some familiar cone-beam scan reconstruction algorithms are analyzed and compared, especially those algorithms currently developed such as Feldkamp-type, Grangeant, Katsevich and ConeXact cone-beam reconstruction algorithm. In clinical applications, thirty-four aneurysm patients have through the dynamic volume scan with wide detection platform by TOSHIBA 320 Slice CT and obtained fine single-pass imaging results all of which had no phase artifacts. The quality of scanning images were evaluated and compared with computed tomography angiography (CTA) and convention cerebral vascular DSA angiography. Comparative analysis shows that the 320 slice CT has great advantages in dynamic volume function imaging compared to CTA and it is of a great value to screen out patients with susceptible intracranial aneurysm from the following re-examination after the surgery for the patients with aneurysm.","PeriodicalId":343641,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Orange Technologies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116997925","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}