We introduce Puppet Flow (PF), a layered model describing the optical flow of a person in a video sequence. We consider video frames composed by two layers: a foreground layer corresponding to a person, and background. We model the background as an affine flow field. The foreground layer, being a moving person, requires reasoning about the articulated nature of the human body. We thus represent...

In this paper, we present a virtual shadow puppet play application that allows real-time play of the puppet and gives the user the impression of being a storyteller or a shadow play puppeteer. Through this tool, everybody can be a puppeteer digitally regardless of the ability to perform the traditional art.

As high performance computing (HPC) continues to grow in scale and complexity, energy becomes a critical constraint in the race to exascale computing. The days of “performance at all cost” are coming to an end. While performance is still a major objective, future HPC will have to deliver desired performance under the energy constraint. Among various power management methods, power capping is a ...

The Energy Puppet is an ambient display device that provides peripheral awareness of energy consumption for individual home appliances. The display produces different “pet-like” behavioral reactions according to energy use patterns of the appliances to give homeowners an indication of their energy consumption status. The puppet would raise its “arms” in victory to display normal consumption rat...

This study aimed to explore the relationship between children’s sharing behavior and Theory of Mind (ToM) understanding. Seventy-four 2 to 4 years old Chinese children participated in 3 tasks using toys that could be shared with a puppet that was animated by a female experimenter. On each task, the puppet expressed her desire for the items using a series of cues that progressively became more c...

We have designed a system that can automatically generate a real optical illusion puppet from any input individual frontal-view face photo. The basic function of the system is to capture the human face from the given photo and correctly transform it onto a fixed template. The final product is a 2-D layout that can be printed out for further assembling.

Events unfold over time, i.e., they have a beginning and endpoint. Previous studies have illustrated the importance of endpoints for the perception and memory of various events (Lakusta & Landau, 2005, 2012; Papafragou, 2010; Regier & Zheng, 2009; Strickland & Keil, 2011; Zacks & Swallow, 2007). However, this work has not compared endpoints to other potentially salient points in the internal te...