Journal of biomechanics
Jul 24, 2021
Human body center of mass location plays an essential role in physical therapy, especially in investigating a subject's capability to maintain balance. However, its estimation can be a very complex, costly, and time-consuming process. To overcome the...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Jun 11, 2021
Several countries nowadays are facing a tough social challenge caused by the aging population. This public health issue continues to impose strain on clinical healthcare, such as the need to prevent terminal patients' pressure ulcers. Provocative app...
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
May 25, 2021
3D human reconstruction from a single image is a challenging problem. Existing methods have difficulties to infer 3D clothed human models with consistent topologies for various poses. In this paper, we propose an efficient and effective method using ...
Journal of robotic surgery
Apr 22, 2021
Improved ergonomics for the operating surgeon may be an advantage of robotic colorectal surgery. Perceived robotic ergonomic advantages in visualisation include better exposure, three-dimensional vision, surgeon camera control, and line of sight scre...
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Feb 12, 2021
Despite the remarkable progress in recent years, person Re-Identification (ReID) approaches frequently fail in cases where the semantic body parts are misaligned between the detected human boxes. To mitigate such cases, we propose a novel High-Order ...
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Feb 12, 2021
In this paper, we propose a new method to super-resolve low resolution human body images by learning efficient multi-scale features and exploiting useful human body prior. Specifically, we propose a lightweight multi-scale block (LMSB) as basic modul...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Feb 10, 2021
Workplace environments have a significant impact on worker performance, health, and well-being. With machine learning capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI) can be developed to automate individualized adjustments to work environments (e.g., light...
Communications biology
Jan 29, 2021
In general, animal behavior can be described as the neuronal-driven sequence of reoccurring postures through time. Most of the available current technologies focus on offline pose estimation with high spatiotemporal resolution. However, to correlate ...
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Jan 29, 2021
Human pose transfer (HPT) is an emerging research topic with huge potential in fashion design, media production, online advertising and virtual reality. For these applications, the visual realism of fine-grained appearance details is crucial for prod...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 10, 2020
The objective of this study was to investigate the accuracy of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) in recognizing activities typical for hospitalized patients. A data collection study was conducted with 20 healthy volunteers (10 males and 10 females, age = 4...