gesture and motion recognition are needed for a variety of applications. the use of human hand motions as a natural interface tool has motivated researchers to conduct research in the modeling, analysis and recognition of various hand movements. in particular, human-computer intelligent interaction has been a focus of research in vision-based gesture recognition. in this work, we introduce a 3-...

acquired color deficiency in the tritan axis in parkinson’s disease has already been reported, manifesting itself as impaired performance in various visual tasks. however, its clinical significance has always been controversial. in this study we evaluated the performance of parkinson s disease patients in lanthony 15-desaturated clinical test and for the first time, compared it with the standar...

Barnstorming the Prairies offers a panoramic vista of transformative nature and power aerial vision that remade Midwest in wake airplane. Jason Weems explores how cognitive perceptual practices helped to resymbolize Midwestern landscape amid technological change social uncertainty early twentieth century.

The notion of 'integration' in the context of health information systems is ill-defined yet in widespread use. We identify a variety of meanings ranging from the purely technical integration of information systems to the integration of services. This ambiguity (or interpretive flexibility), we argue, is inherent rather than accidental: it is a necessary prerequisite for mobilizing political and...

The ASETA project (acronym for Adaptive Surveying and Early treatment of crops with a Team of Autonomous vehicles) is a multi-disciplinary project combining cooperating airborne and ground-based vehicles with advanced sensors and automated analysis to implement a smart treatment of weeds in agricultural fields. The purpose is to control and reduce the amount of herbicides, consumed energy and v...

This work is intended to foster a “quantum leap” in the reflection on learning in smart cities/territories. We try to move from a vision according to which education is identified with “infrastructures and services” needed to sustain the smart city “organism” (due also to the social capital that it may produce) toward a “new” vision that recovers the founding role of the educative processes, th...

This paper examines research directions and opportunities in manufacturing logistics based on recommendations from an NSF sponsored workshop, and subsequent efforts by the authors to synthesize, extract and revitalize the vision formed in the workshop. To convey this vision we suggest a taxonomy that characterizes research problems in manufacturing logistics by the physical entities (systems) i...

Recent technological advances have made lightweight, head mounted cameras both practical and affordable and products like Google Glass show first approaches to introduce the idea of egocentric (first-person) video to the mainstream. Interestingly, the computer vision community has only recently started to explore this new domain of egocentric vision, where research can roughly be categorized in...

Hodge theory is a beautiful synthesis of geometry, topology, and analysis, which has been developed in the setting of Riemannian manifolds. On the other hand, spaces of images, which are important in the mathematical foundations of vision and pattern recognition, do not fit this framework. This motivates us to develop a version of Hodge theory on metric spaces with a probability measure. We bel...

The progress in communication systems has fostered the need for a pragmatic methodology, centered on a user-centric approach, that leads to a novel vision of the Fourth Generation of Mobile Communication Systems (4G) and the definition of its key features and technological development. Along with this view, 4G will be a convergence platform that will provide clear advantages in terms of bandwid...