In this paper, the artist/author wishes to examine corporeality in the virtual realm, through the usage of the (non)-physical body of the avatar. Two sister art installations created in the virtual world of Second Life®, both of which are meant to be accessed with site specific avatars, will provide the creative platform whereby this investigation is undertaken. While the installation “Anatomia...

The development of automatic analysis and classification methods for large databases of X-ray images is a pressing need that may have a great impact on clinical practice. To advance this objective the ImageCLEF-2015 clustering of body part X-ray images challenge was created. The aim of the challenge is to group digital X-ray images into five structural groups: head-neck, upper-limb, body, lower...

Human action recognition is a challenging problem that has received considerable attention from the computer vision community in recent years. Its applications are diverse, spanning from its use in activity understanding for intelligent surveillance systems to improving human-computer interactions. Ideally, the desired representation for actions should generalize over variations in viewpoint, h...

Humans recognize body parts in categories. Previous studies have shown that responses in the fusiform body area (FBA) and extrastriate body area (EBA) are evoked by the perception of the human body, when presented either as whole or as isolated parts. These responses occur approximately 190 ms after body images are visualized. The extent to which body-sensitive responses show specificity for di...

Basic knowledge about human anatomy is an important education. While there has been much advances in the way the subject is being taught, there is still a very large gap in bringing these knowledge to the average man as much focus is on professional medical practitioners. Presented in this paper is an augmented reality mobile application for anatomy education. The main goal of the project is to...

The human body--and its parts--has long been a target for commodification within myriad cultural settings. A discussion of commodification requires that one consider, first, the significance of the body within anthropology and, second, what defines a body "part." After exploring these initial questions, this article outlines dominant theoretical approaches to commodification within anthropology...

A salamander’s limbs are smaller and a bit slimier than those of most people, but otherwise they are not that different from their human counterparts. The salamander limb is encased in skin, and inside it is composed of a bony skeleton, muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves and blood vessels. A loose arrangement of cells called fibroblasts holds all these internal tissues together and gives the l...

papers by Gourevitch and Hanson), and with Hippocratic notions of diet. Smith and Thivel both try in different ways to identify the contribution to therapeutics of the historical Hippocrates, but reach very different conclusions, although both suggest that we should look to some aspect of dietetics and their arguments contain much that is of value beyond the Corpus. Surgery as such is hardly me...

Human segmentation in still images is a complex task due to the wide range of body poses and drastic changes in environmental conditions. Usually, human body segmentation is treated in a two-stage fashion. First, a human body part detection step is performed, and then, human part detections are used as prior knowledge to be optimized by segmentation strategies. In this paper, we present a two-s...

In simple detection tasks, reaction times (RTs) are faster when stimuli are presented to the visual field or side of the body ipsilateral to the body part used to respond. This advantage, the crossed-uncrossed difference (CUD), is thought to reflect inter-hemispheric interactions needed for sensorimotor information to be integrated between the two cerebral hemispheres. However, it is unknown wh...