scholarly journals Fast, integrated person tracking and activity recognition with plan-view templates from a single stereo camera

Author(s):  
M. Harville ◽  
Dalong Li
Author(s):  
Kentaro Hayashi ◽  
Takahide Hirai ◽  
Kazuhiko Sumi ◽  
Koichi Sasakawa

Author(s):  
Nguyen Duc Thang ◽  
Md. Zia Uddin ◽  
Young-Koo Lee ◽  
Sungyoung Lee ◽  
Tae-Seong Kim

We present an approach of how to recover 3-D human body postures from depth maps captured by a stereo camera and an application of this approach to recognize human activities with the joint angles derived from the recovered body postures. With a pair of images captured with a stereo camera, first a depth map is computed to get the 3-D information (i.e., 3-D data) of a human subject. Separately the human body is modeled in 3-D with a set of connected ellipsoids and their joints: the joint is parameterized with the kinematic angles. Then the 3-D body model and 3-D data are co-registered with our devised algorithm that works in two steps: the first step assigns the labels of body parts to each point of the 3-D data; the second step computes the kinematic angles to fit the 3-D human model to the labeled 3-D data. The co-registration algorithm is iterated until it converges to a stable 3-D body model that matches the 3-D human posture reflected in the 3-D data. We present our demonstrative results of recovering body postures in full 3-D from continuous video frames of various activities with an error of about 60-140 in the estimated kinematic angles. Our technique requires neither markers attached to the human subject nor multiple cameras: it only requires a single stereo camera. As an application of our body posture recovery technique in 3-D, we present how various human activities can be recognized with the body joint angles derived from the recovered body postures. The features of body joints angles are utilized over the conventional binary body silhouettes and Hidden Markov Models are utilized to model and recognize various human activities. Our experimental results show the presented techniques outperform the conventional human activity recognition techniques.


Author(s):  
T. Marieb ◽  
J. C. Bravman ◽  
P. Flinn ◽  
D. Gardner ◽  
M. Madden

Electromigration and stress voiding have been active areas of research in the microelectronics industry for many years. While accelerated testing of these phenomena has been performed for the last 25 years[1-2], only recently has the introduction of high voltage scanning electron microscopy (HVSEM) made possible in situ testing of realistic, passivated, full thickness samples at high resolution.With a combination of in situ HVSEM and post-testing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) , electromigration void nucleation sites in both normal polycrystalline and near-bamboo pure Al were investigated. The effect of the microstructure of the lines on the void motion was also studied.The HVSEM used was a slightly modified JEOL 1200 EX II scanning TEM with a backscatter electron detector placed above the sample[3]. To observe electromigration in situ the sample was heated and the line had current supplied to it to accelerate the voiding process. After testing lines were prepared for TEM by employing the plan-view wedge technique [6].


Author(s):  
Ming-Hui Yao ◽  
David J. Smith

The chemical properties of catalysts often depend on the size, shape and structure of the supported metal particles. To characterize these morphological features and relate them to catalysis is one of the main objectives for HREM study of catalysts. However, in plan view imaging, details of the shape and structure of ultra-fine supported particles (<2nm) are often obscured by the overlapping contrast from the support, and supported sub-nanometer particles are sometimes even invisible. Image simulations may help in the interpretation at HREM images of supported particles in particular to extract useful information about the size, shape and structure of the particles. It should also be a useful tool for evaluating the imaging conditions in terms of visibility of supported particles. P. L. Gai et al have studied contrast from metal particles supported on amorphous material using multislice simulations. In order to better understand the influence of a crystalline support on the visibility and apparent morphological features of supported fine particles, we have calculated images of Pt and Re particles supported on TiO2(rutile) in both plan view and profile view.


Author(s):  
N. Rozhanski ◽  
A. Barg

Amorphous Ni-Nb alloys are of potential interest as diffusion barriers for high temperature metallization for VLSI. In the present work amorphous Ni-Nb films were sputter deposited on Si(100) and their interaction with a substrate was studied in the temperature range (200-700)°C. The crystallization of films was observed on the plan-view specimens heated in-situ in Philips-400ST microscope. Cross-sectional objects were prepared to study the structure of interfaces.The crystallization temperature of Ni5 0 Ni5 0 and Ni8 0 Nb2 0 films was found to be equal to 675°C and 525°C correspondingly. The crystallization of Ni5 0 Ni5 0 films is followed by the formation of Ni6Nb7 and Ni3Nb nucleus. Ni8 0Nb2 0 films crystallise with the formation of Ni and Ni3Nb crystals. No interaction of both films with Si substrate was observed on plan-view specimens up to 700°C, that is due to the barrier action of the native SiO2 layer.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed J Kadhim ◽  
Mohammed H Hafiz ◽  
Maryam A Ali Bash

The high temperature corrosion behavior of thermal barrier coating (TBC) systemconsisting of IN-738 LC superalloy substrate, air plasma sprayed Ni24.5Cr6Al0.4Y (wt%)bond coat and air plasma sprayed ZrO2-20 wt% ceria-3.6 wt% yttria (CYSZ) ceramic coatwere characterized. The upper surfaces of CYSZ covered with 30 mg/cm2 , mixed 45 wt%Na2SO4-55 wt% V2O5 salt were exposed at different temperatures from 800 to 1000 oC andinteraction times from 1 up to 8 h. The upper surface plan view of the coatings wereidentified for topography, roughness, chemical composition, phases and reaction productsusing scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, talysurf, and X-raydiffraction. XRD analyses of the plasma sprayed coatings after hot corrosion confirmed thephase transformation of nontransformable tetragonal (t') into monoclinic phase, presence ofYVO4 and CeVO4 products. Analysis of the hot corrosion CYSZ coating confirmed theformation of high volume fraction of YVO4, with low volume fractions of CeOV4 and CeO2.The formation of these compounds were combined with formation of monoclinic phase (m)from transformation of nontransformable tetragonal phase (t').


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