This paper describes a new algorithm for combining color and texture information for the segmentation of color images. The algorithm uses maximum likelihood classi cation combined with a certainty based fusion criterion. The algorithm was validated using mosaics of real color textures. It was also tested on real outdoor color scenes and aerial images. This algorithm is part of a more complex sy...

Ambient and indoor temperature affects thermal comfort and human health. In a changing climate with a predicted change in temperature extremes, understanding indoor temperatures, both hot and cold, of different housing types is important. This study aimed to assess the hourly, daily and monthly variation in indoor temperatures in different housing types, namely formal houses, informal houses, f...

Image based video generation paradigms have recently emerged as an interesting problem in the field of robotics. This paper focuses on the problem of automatic video generation of both indoor and outdoor scenes. Automatic 3D view generation of indoor scenes mainly consist of orthogonal planes and outdoor scenes consist of vanishing point. The algorithm infers frontier information directly from ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) recently conducted the 1998 Baltimore Particulate Matter (PM) Epidemiology-Exposure Study of the Elderly. The primary goal of that study was to establish the relationship between outdoor PM concentrations and actual human PM exposures within a susceptible (elderly) sub-population. Personal, indoor, and outdoor sampling of particulate ...

The visible image-based approach has long been considered the most powerful approach to facial emotion estimation. However it is illumination dependency. Under uncontrolled operating conditions, estimation accuracy degrades significantly. In this paper, we focus on integrating visible images with thermal image sequences for facial emotion estimation. First, to address limitations of thermal inf...

This paper describes our vehicle classification system, which is based on local-feature configuration. We have already demonstrated that our system works very well for vehicle recognition in outdoor environments. The algorithm is based on our previous work, which is a generalization of the eigen-window method. This method has the following three advantages: (1) It can detect even if parts of th...

This paper deals with the study of degradation polylactic acid (PLA) material structures and biocomposite systems a PLA matrix containing ground natural particulate waste fillers, buckwheat husks egg shells. Waste fillers were used without difficult cleaning operations to describe effect raw on PLA. Biocomposites materials are increasingly coming forefront in car interiors packaging products. T...

Environmental control strategy via computerized implementation is one of the most efficient approaches to integrate new advanced knowledge in research of human thermal comfort to a mechanical air-conditioning unit. Recently, a new conceptual development in designing air-conditioning systems has indicated that the indoor comfort temperature strongly depends upon changes of the outdoor air temper...

A heat-recovery ventilator (HRV) effectively conducts ventilation by recovering waste heat from indoors to outdoors during heating periods. However, dew condensation associated with the HRV system may arise due to the difference between the indoor temperature and the very low outdoor temperature in winter, and this can decrease the heat exchange efficiency. These problems can be solved by the p...