This paper describes a new head detection method for people counting in crowded environments from a single camera. Our method adopts skeleton graph to distinguish person among people in crowded enviroments. The usage of skeleton graph is the main difference between this method and the traditional ones. Firstly, the skeleton graphs are calculated for each selected blob in the scene after foregro...

radical alterations in the factors determining energy intake and expenditure that we have witnessed over recent times have fundamentally changed the way we view the interplay between the environment and our physical selves. It was only at the advent of the 20th century that technological advancement finally began to squeeze out the manual labour associated with the production and transport of g...

Older people browse the internet in a different way to younger people. This creates significant challenges for those who wish to design web sites which appeal and can be used effectively by people of all ages. This study investigated how older and younger adult web users browse web pages. It found that older people experience more difficulties in using computers and browsing the web than younge...

T is estimated that there are several differences between elder and younger people on cognitive and behavioral characteristics toward anthropomorphized artifacts such as robots and animation characters on screens. Robots are expected as one of assistive technologies in home for the elderly, in particular, in industrialized countries including Japan, due to the decrease in rates of childbirth an...