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Adaptation to change of lighting conditions for interactive object recognition

This paper discusses the learning of color transformations for object recognition in various lighting conditions, a function which is needed in systems for object recognition by interaction with the user. The system first constructs a model of the target object under the reference lighting conditions. Since the lighting conditions in actual object recognition differ from those of object model c...

Skin Colour Imaging That Is Insensitive to Lighting Conditions

In previous human skin models, it has been suggested that the colour of human skin is mostly determined by the concentration of melanin in the epidermal layer combined with the concentration of hemoglobin in the dermal layer. The colour of facial skin changes significantly with changes in the light incident upon it. In this paper we propose a method of normalizing the skin tones of human faces ...

Too busy to relax?

Today I am going to exercise. Finally! I plan to leave my offi ce early and go to the gym on my way home. I just need to complete a few telephone calls and I will be on my way. Suddenly, the emergency department calls. Mrs S. is back with congestive heart failure and will likely need admission. There goes my new resolution. By the time I leave the emergency department, it is time to go home, ha...

Room to Relax

Within a generation leisure time may loom as large in our lives a5 work does now. Michael Dower, director of the Dartington Amenity Research Trust, says that planning must start now if the space an^ facilities needed to enjoy leisure are going to be available. suppose you had a five-hour working day, a four-day weekend , a three-month annual holiday. How would you use your leisure? Within a gen...

Skin Colour Detection Under Changing Lighting Conditions