Human face processing techniques for broadcast video, including face detection, tracking, and recognition, has attracted a lot of research interest because of its value in various applications, such as video structuring, indexing, retrieval, and summarization. The main reason for this is that the human face provides rich information for spotting the appearance of certain people of interest, suc...

Scanning the deformation behavior of real objects is a useful technique to acquire physically realistic behavior. It has been shown previously how to acquire physically realistic object behavior for small deformation and how to render the behavior at interactive rates. This paper introduces a novel method to extend previous work to handle large scale deformation. We model large scale deformatio...

Over the course of the London 2012 Olympics a large public installation took place in Central London. Its premise was to enable members of the public to express themselves by controlling the lights around the rim of the London Eye. The installation’s design and development was undertaken as a collaborative project between an interactive arts studio and researchers in the field of affective and ...

In partial caging, an object is partially constrained by robots and is able to escape from there. Although complete caging ensures the hand never releases the confined object, insufficient degrees of freedom of robots does not often satisfy the conditions for caging. Partial caging, however, can be accomplished even by robots having such mechanical restriction. We consider a case that an object...

There exists a large body of research devoted to creating real time interactive locomotion controllers which are targeted at some specific class of character, most often humanoid bipeds. Relatively little work, however, has been done on approaches which are applicable to creatures with a wide range of different forms – partially due to the lack of easily obtainable motion-capture data for anima...

Citation: Jakubowski K, Eerola T, Alborno P, Volpe G, Camurri A and Clayton M (2017) Extracting Coarse Body Movements from Video in Music Performance: A Comparison of Automated Computer Vision Techniques with Motion Capture Data. Front. Digit. Humanit. 4:9. doi: 10.3389/fdigh.2017.00009 extracting coarse Body Movements from Video in Music Performance: a comparison of automated computer Vision T...

This paper describes a robust tracking algorithm for real-time, video based motion capture systems. Conventional motion capture systems are unable to capture motion data in real time because they use many video cameras and take a long time to deal with many images. To deal with problem, the authors have proposed in their earlier work [I] a real-time motion capture system using one video camera....

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Sensing pianist movements is useful for various applications fields such as electronic music, music performance research, musician medicine, and piano pedagogy. This paper contributes an unobtrusive, markerless method to capture pianist movements based on depth sensing. The method was realized using the Kinect depth camera and evaluated in comparison with 2D marker tracking.