Range maps have been actively studied in the last few years in the context of depth perception in natural scenes. With the availability of co-registered luminance information, we have the ability to examine and model the statistical relationships between luminance, range and disparity. In this study, we find that a onesided generalized gaussian distribution closely fits the prior of the range g...

It has been getting important recently to take a local resident's request into consideration for coastal improvement works. Based on the questionnaire survey for the coastal primary psycho-scenes, items that related to the coastal primary psycho-scenes were studied. The items have four types; activity in amenity spaces, things and natural phenomenon, five physical senses and Kansei(sensitivity)...

Effects of locomotion on scene-recognition reaction time (RT) and accuracy were studied. In experiment 1, observers memorized an 11-object scene and made scene-recognition judgments on subsequently presented scenes from the encoded view or different views (ie scenes were rotated or observers moved around the scene, both from 40 degrees to 360 degrees). In experiment 2, observers viewed differen...

The tornado-induced unsteady crosswind responses of railway vehicles are investigated by using multibody dynamic simulations. Firstly, a aerodynamic force model is proposed the equivalent wind method and quasi-steady theory validated experimental data. Uetsu line accident caused tornado winds on December 25, 2005 then multi-body simulation. predicted scenes show favorably agreement with those o...