2007
Autores
Pinho, RR; Tavares, JMRS; Correia, MV;
Publicação
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Abstract
In this paper we present a management model to deal with the problem of tracking missing features during long image sequences using Computational Vision. Some usual difficulties related with missing features are that they may be temporarily occluded or might even have disappeared definitively, and the computational cost involved should always be reduced to the strictly necessary. The proposed Net Present Value (NPV) model, based on the economic Theory of Capital, considers the tracking of each missing feature as an investment. Thus, using the NPV criterion, with adequate receipt and outlay functions, each occluded feature may be kept on tracking or it may be excluded of the tracking process depending on its historical behavior. This approach may be applied to any tracking system as long as the tracking results may be evaluated in each temporal step, and it can deal with the appearance, occlusion and disappearance of features especially useful for tracking in long image sequences. Experimental results, both on synthetic and real image sequences, which validate our model, will be also presented.
2006
Autores
Pinho, RR; Tavares, JMRS; Correia, MV;
Publicação
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Abstract
In this paper we present a management model to deal with the problem of tracking a large number of features during long image sequences. Some usual difficulties are related to this problem: features may be temporarily occluded or might even have disappeared definitively; the computational cost involved should always be reduced to the strictly necessary. The proposed Net Present Value (NPV) model, based on the economic Theory of Capital, considers the tracking of each missing feature as an investment. Thus, using the NPV criterion, with adequate receipt and outlay functions, each occluded feature may be kept on tracking or it may be excluded of the tracking process depending on its historical behavior. This methodology may be applied to any tracking system as long as the tracking results may be evaluated in each temporal step. Experimental results, both on synthetic and real image sequences, which validate our model, will be also presented.
2007
Autores
Correia, MV; Santos, JA;
Publicação
SPANISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Abstract
2005
Autores
Pinho, RR; Tavares, JMRS; Correia, MV;
Publicação
Advances in Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2005, Vols 4 A & 4 B
Abstract
In this paper we address the problem of tracking feature points along image sequences. To analyze the undergoing movement we use a common approach based on Kalman filtering which performs the estimation and correction of the feature point's movement in every image frame. The criterion proposed to establish correspondences, between the group of estimates in each image and the new data to include, minimizes the global matching cost based on the Mahalanobis distance. In this paper, along with the movement tracking, we use a management model which is able to deal with the occlusion and appearance of feature points and allows objects tracking in long sequences. We also present some experimental results obtained that validate our approach.
2001
Autores
Santos, JA; Campilho, A; Baptista, C; Correia, MV; Noriega, P; Albuquerque, PB;
Publicação
PERCEPTION
Abstract
2012
Autores
Zambrano, A; Derogarian, F; Dias, R; Abreu, MJ; Catarino, A; Rocha, AM; da Silva, JM; Ferreira, JC; Tavares, VG; Correia, MV;
Publicação
pHealth 2012 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, Porto, Portugal, June 26-28, 2012
Abstract
A new wearable data capture system for gait analysis is being developed. It consists of a pantyhose with embedded conductive yarns interconnecting customized sensing electronic devices that capture inertial and electromyographic signals and sends aggregated information to a personal computer through a wireless link. The use of conductive yarns to build the myoelectric electrodes and the interconnections of the wired sensors network, as well as the topology and functionality of the sensor modules are presented.
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