This short paper discusses the utilization of naturalistic eye blinking behavior in social robotics and gives an overview of the application possibilities. It proposes an integrative blinking model and gives an outlook on its implementation.

Marker tracking is widely used in applications like motion capture and pose estimation. This thesis describes the development of an active marker tracking algorithm using a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) as recording device. The DVS’s event driven behaviour opens novel opportunities to develop a tracking algorithm with a high temporal resolution at low costs. The tracking algorithm combines both t...

PURPOSE Eyelid myoclonia (EM) is considered a seizure type and has been described in several epileptic conditions. Previous studies reported that EM are precipitated only by slow eye closure, but little is known about the characteristics of blinking in patients with EM seizures and differences in precipitation of EM by different kinds of eye closure. We analyzed by video-EEG the characteristics...

Dopamine D1 ligands have been classified and ordered according to efficacy in both in vitro and in vivo studies. In the present experiments, dopamine D1 ligands reported to differ in in vitro efficacy were evaluated for efficacy-related effects on eye blinking in squirrel monkeys. Additional comparisons were made with the effects of D2 receptor agonists and indirect dopamine agonists. The resul...

Information processing with only locally connected networks such as cellular neural networks is advantageous for integrated circuit implementations. Adding long range connections can often enhance considerably their performance. It is sufficient to activate these connections randomly from time to time (blinking connections). This can be realized by sending packets on a communication network und...

N-type semiconductor indium tin oxide (ITO) nanoparticles are used to effectively suppress the fluorescence blinking of single near-infrared-emitting CdSeTe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs), where the ITO could block the electron transfer from excited QDs to trap states and facilitate more rapid regeneration of neutral QDs by back electron transfer. The average blinking rate of QDs is signific...

From previous researches, eye movements are related with visual discomfort caused from watching stereoscopic 3D video. In this paper, we present an analysis of eye movements to measure visual discomfort in terms of motion-in-depth and viewing time. First, we extract pupil from near-infrared eye image. Then, we detect two types of eye movements (saccadic number and blinking rate) from motion inf...

This paper defines a new method of attribute uncertainty representation, the blinking region. It specifically communicates uncertainty in values associated with choropleth map regions. In this way, error and attribute (census) data can be made to alternate in the user’s view, communicating both datasets. The blinking region uncertainty visualization was tested via a web-based survey. Results sh...

In this work we analyzed the blinking statistics data of single CdSe/ZnS quantum dots at very short times to test some predictions of the diffusion-controlled electron transfer (DCET) model. Using autocorrelation function (ACF) approach we could extract the exponent of the inverse power-law blinking statistics down to 1 micros. Such an approach also minimizes human subjectivity in choosing a bi...

In this paper we present a novel technique to automatically synthesise eye blinking from a speech signal. Animating the eyes of a talking head is important as they are a major focus of attention during interaction. The developed system predicts eye blinks from the speech signal and generates animation trajectories automatically employing a ”Trajectory Hidden Markov Model”. The evaluation of the...