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- research-articleMay 2024
Squishy, Yet Satisfying: Exploring Deformable Shapes' Cross-Modal Correspondences with Colours and Emotions
- Cameron Steer,
- Kim Sauvé,
- Anika Jain,
- Omosunmisola Lawal,
- Michael J Proulx,
- Crescent Jicol,
- Jason Alexander
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 331, Pages 1–20https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641952Surfaces with deformable and shape-changing properties seek to enhance and diversify tangible interactions with computing systems. However, we currently lack fundamental knowledge and user interface design principles that connect the inherent properties ...
- research-articleJanuary 2024
Adaptive optimized residual convolutional image annotation model with bionic feature selection model
Highlights- This work proposes a hybrid deep learning (DL) based optimized image annotation model for AIA.
The advancements in Internet and Web 2.0 technologies resulted in the easier generation and distribution of digital images. Many images are stored without any form of significant labelling. This makes searching for desired images ...
- research-articleDecember 2023
Impact of alloying on the bandgap energy in nano-sized ternary semiconducting compounds
Journal of Computational Electronics (SPJCE), Volume 23, Issue 1Pages 12–21https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-023-02115-8AbstractThe variation in bandgap energy with decreased size and varying composition of alloys has attracted the attention of researchers over the past few decades. In the present paper, a simple unified model is presented to study the impact of alloying ...
- ArticleJuly 2023
“Kawaii” from an Engineering Perspective
AbstractIn 2007, the author began a study to systematically analyze the physical attributes of “kawaii,” focusing on its value as a kansei value of artificial products. In this article, I introduce some of the studies we have conducted. The targeted ...
- research-articleMarch 2023
Comparison of outline-based shape descriptors for alphanumeric characters by using piecewise linear functions: the case of vehicle license plates typeface
- Victor Manuel Jimenez-Fernandez,
- Victor Manuel Tlapa-Carrera,
- Hector Vazquez-Leal,
- Uriel Antonio Filobello-Nino
Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAA), Volume 82, Issue 20Pages 31641–31658https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14976-zAbstractThe selection of a suitable shape representation model is an essential component to consider in order to achieve satisfactory results in shape recognition. However, this selection is highly dependent on the specific case of study. In this paper, a ...
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- research-articleFebruary 2023
Modular Tangible User Interfaces: Impact of Module Shape and Bonding Strength on Interaction
TEI '23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionArticle No.: 1, Pages 1–15https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572731Modular Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) –i.e., UIs made of small-scale physical modules– offer novel opportunities for tangible interaction thanks to their highly customizable form factor. Such modular TUIs were proposed with different shape of modules ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
A model to determine variation in dielectric constant with size and composition in semiconducting nanosolids
Journal of Computational Electronics (SPJCE), Volume 21, Issue 6Pages 1212–1219https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-022-01932-7AbstractIn the present study, a simple model is developed to determine the variation in dielectric constant with size and shape in nanosolids. The dielectric properties are investigated with respect to the size and composition of the nanoalloys. The ...
- research-articleOctober 2022
Diffusion tensor image denoising via geometric invariant nonlocal means on the tensor manifold
Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAA), Volume 82, Issue 10Pages 15817–15835https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-14025-1AbstractDiffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an advanced magnetic resonance technology that describes subtle brain structures using a diffusion tensor at each point. The obtained DTI image is always degraded since diffusion-weighted imaging sequences, which ...
- ArticleAugust 2022
Metric Learning on Complex Projective Spaces
AbstractShape analysis of landmarks is a fundamental problem in computer vision and multimedia. We propose a family of metrics called Fubini-Study distances defined in the complex projective space based on the seminal work of Kendall [11] for metric ...
- research-articleJuly 2022
Breast Cancer Detection and Classification from Mammogram Images Using Multi-model Shape Features
AbstractNowadays, breast cancer has become one of the common diseases and is leading in causes of deaths in women. Early detection of breast cancer is very much needed and critical, and mammography is considered as one of the best-suited procedures. The ...
- ArticleJuly 2022
Procrustes Analysis of Muscle Fascicle Shapes Based on DTI Fibre Tracking
AbstractDiffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is a technique developed from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which uses a mathematical form diffusion tensor to measure the movement of water molecules in biological tissues in vivo. By performing fibre tracking ...
- research-articleMay 2022
Motion-shape-based deep learning approach for divergence behavior detection in high-density crowd
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics (VISC), Volume 38, Issue 5Pages 1553–1577https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-021-02088-4AbstractWe propose a novel method of abnormal crowd behavior detection in surveillance videos. Mainly, our work focuses on detecting crowd divergence behavior that can lead to serious disasters like a stampede. We introduce a notion of physically ...
- research-articleFebruary 2022
Visual complexity of shapes: a hierarchical perceptual learning model
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics (VISC), Volume 38, Issue 2Pages 419–432https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-020-02023-zAbstractUnderstanding how people perceive the visual complexity of shapes has important theoretical as well as practical implications. One school of thought, driven by information theory, focuses on studying the local features that contribute to the ...
- research-articleOctober 2021
Minimization of maximal von Mises stress in porous composite microstructures using shape and topology optimization
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SPSMO), Volume 64, Issue 4Pages 1781–1799https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-021-02942-yAbstractStrength-oriented optimization of porous periodic microstructures impacts on efficient design of load-bearing lightweight structures avoiding mechanical failure. In this work, the maximal von-Mises stress, predicted by homogenization theory on a ...
- research-articleSeptember 2021
A novel shape matching descriptor for real-time static hand gesture recognition
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 210, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2021.103241AbstractThe current state-of-the-art hand gesture recognition methodologies heavily rely in the use of machine learning. However there are scenarios that machine learning cannot be applied successfully, for example in situations where data is ...
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Highlights- Novel shape matching method for real-time hand gesture recognition.
- Novel shape ...
- ArticleJuly 2021
Comparison of Kawaii Feelings for Magnets with Different Shapes Between 2007 and Present
Human-Computer Interaction. Theory, Methods and ToolsPages 482–493https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78462-1_37AbstractIn the 21st century, the Kansei/affective values of industrial products are considered very important. In this study, we focus our attention on “kawaii” as a Kansei value for future industrial products. We began our research to analyze kawaii ...
- research-articleOctober 2020
Hexagonality as a New Shape-Based Descriptor of Object
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV), Volume 62, Issue 8Pages 1136–1158https://doi.org/10.1007/s10851-020-00966-5AbstractIn this paper, we define a new shape-based measure which evaluates how much a given shape is hexagonal. Such an introduced measure ranges through the interval (0, 1] and reaches the maximal possible value 1 if and only if the shape considered is a ...
- research-articleApril 2020
A proposal and evaluation of new timbre visualization methods for audio sample browsers
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC), Volume 25, Issue 4Pages 723–736https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01388-1AbstractSearching through vast libraries of sound samples can be a daunting and time-consuming task. Modern audio sample browsers use mappings between acoustic properties and visual attributes to visually differentiate displayed items. There are few ...
- research-articleMarch 2020
M-estimation with incomplete and dependent multivariate data
Journal of Multivariate Analysis (JMUL), Volume 176, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2019.104569AbstractWe extend the theory of M-estimation to incomplete and dependent multivariate data. ML-estimation can still be considered a special case of M-estimation in this context. We notice that the unobserved data must be missing completely at ...
- research-articleJanuary 2020
Anisotropy and Shape Optimal Design of Shells by the Polar–Isogeometric Approach
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOPT), Volume 184, Issue 1Pages 61–97https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-018-1425-zAbstractWe focus in this paper on the simultaneous shape and material optimal design of shells by an isogeometric-like approach of a new kind, in which geometry and material properties of the structure are defined by spline functions and the design ...