* 1 CUBIC, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, 650 West 168 Street BB217, New York, NY 10032, USA; 2 Columbia University Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2), Russ Berrie Pavilion, 1150 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10032, USA; 3 North East Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, ...

Facial caricature as a facial image media acts as an interface between the user and the computer. We developed the facial caricaturing robot “COOPER” (Fig. 1) that was exhibited at the Prototype Robot Exhibition of EXPO 2005 [1]. COOPER watches the face of a person seated at the chair, obtains facial images, and analyzes the images to extract 251 feature points to generate his facial line drawi...

Topic of this paper is an interactive sound reproduction system to create virtual sonic environments and visual spaces, called Virtual Audio Reproduction Engine for Spatial Environments (VARESE). Using VARESE, Edgard Varèse’s Poème électronique was recreated within a virtual Philips Pavilion. The system draws on binaural sound reproduction principles including spatialization techniques based on...

a Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA b Rutgers University, Institute for Health, 112 Paterson St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA c New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Harkness Pavilion, 180 Ft. Washington Ave., New York, NY 10032, USA d Department of ...

In this paper, a real time, user independent eyeball tracking approach is presented. The system is implemented using a low cost webcam. The robustness of the system is measured by several criteria such as users of different age where some of the users are wearing glasses under varying lighting condition, pose, eye orientation and distance from camera. The size and location of the region of inte...

Among the main physiological stress indicators, the body temperature evaluation is very important and innovative because it may be monitored without directly interacting with the animal. The use of thermographic system, which is based on the detection of infrared radiation emitted by a subject, is a suitable method in order to measure temperature without any contact. A thermographic system was ...

We developed a facial caricaturing robot named "COOPER", that was exhibited at the Prototype Robot Exhibition of EXPO 2005, Aichi Japan during 11 days from Jun.9 to Jun.19. COOPER watches the face of a person seated at the chair, obtains facial images, and analyzes the images to extract 251 feature points to generate his facial line drawings with deformation. It is noted that the caricature was...

Mathematics has been the interest of architects for hundreds of years and has been used in projects ranging from the Denmark Pavilion at Expo 2010 to Gaudi’s cathedral. Generative form finding frequently takes the inspiration of the geometric aesthetic found in mathematic forms. Today, the influence of digital computation technology is increasingly evident in architectural form seeking and anal...

This paper investigates the use of programming language constructs to realize adaptive behavior in support of collaboration among users of wearable and handheld computers. A prototype language, Adaptive Java, contains primitives that permit programs to modify their own operation in a principled manner. In a case study, Adaptive Java was used to construct MetaSocket components, whose composition...

Maggie P.Y. Lam, PhD Vidya Venkatraman, MSc Quan Cao, MD, PhD Ding Wang, PhD T. Umut Dincer, MSc Edward Lau, PhD Andrew I. Su, PhD Yi Xing, PhD Junbo Ge, MD *Peipei Ping, PhD yJennifer E. Van Eyk, PhD *National Institutes of Health BD2K Center of Excellence for Biomedical Computing at UCLA National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Proteomics Center at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCL...