The ability to localize nociceptive stimuli on the body surface is essential for an organism to respond appropriately to potential physical threats. This ability not only requires a representation of the space of the observer׳s body, but also of the external space with respect to their body. Therefore, localizing nociceptive stimuli requires coordinating multiple senses into an integrated frame...

This paper describes a method to obtain accurate 3D body models and texture of arbitrary people from a single, monocular video in which a person is moving. Based on a parametric body model, we present a robust processing pipeline to infer 3D model shapes including clothed people with 4.5mm reconstruction accuracy. At the core of our approach is the transformation of dynamic body pose into a can...

We propose a two component fully-convolutional network for heatmap regression to perform multi-person pose estimation from images. The first component of the network predicts all body joints of all persons visible on an image, while the second component groups these body joints based on the position of the head of the person of interest. By applying the second component for all detected heads, ...

Metrics, which facilitate the measurement of parameters such as “distance” and “length” are used frequently in rigid body guidance problems. Commonly used metrics have a characteristic of being dependent on the choice of fixed or moving reference frame and the units used. Most motion synthesis algorithms require some notion of the “distance” between two desired locations. The metrics in Euclide...

We report on a novel leg strain sensory system for the autonomous robot RHex [8] implemented upon a cheap, high performance local wireless network [1]. We introduce a model for RHex’s 4-bar legs [4] relating leg strain to leg kinematic configuration in the body coordinate frame. We compare against ground truth measurement the performance of the model operating on real-time leg strain data gener...

In these experiments, the dynamics of the three-body dissociative photodetachment of O3(D2O) at 258 nm are directly probed for the first time. Photodetachment of a negatively charged precursor, with coincident energy analysis of the photoelectron, allows production of energy-selected excited-state O3(D2O) complexes. By measurement of the laboratory velocities and recoil angles of the O + O2 + D...