Newtonian reaction to blood influx into the head at each heartbeat causes subtle head motion at the same frequency as the heartbeats. Thus, this head motion can be used to estimate the heart rate. Several studies have shown that heart rates can be me...
Face detection systems have generally been used primarily for non-masked faces, which include relevant facial characteristics such as the ears, chin, lips, nose, and eyes. Masks are necessary to cover faces in many situations, such as pandemics, crim...
In the last decade, face-recognition and -verification methods based on deep learning have increasingly used deeper and more complex architectures to obtain state-of-the-art (SOTA) accuracy. Hence, these architectures are limited to powerful devices...
This paper introduces a lightweight and accessible interaction system for treadmill-based video games, relying solely on facial tracking via a smartphone’s front camera. The system enables real-time estimation of running cadence and directional...
This pilot study aimed to implement and assess the performance of an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) mobile phone app in the real-time detection of caries lesions on bitewing radiographs (BWRs) with the use of a back-facing mobile phone vid...
Facial authentication has gained widespread adoption as a biometric authentication method, offering a convenient alternative to traditional password-based systems, particularly on mobile devices equipped with front-facing cameras. While this technolo...
The privacy of users and information are becoming increasingly important with the growth and pervasive use of mobile devices such as wearables, mobile phones, drones, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Today many of these mobile devices are equipp...
Face liveness detection is a critical preprocessing step in face recognition for avoiding face spoofing attacks, where an impostor can impersonate a valid user for authentication. While considerable research has been recently done in improving the ac...
While it is common for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users to use mobile devices to search for information, little research has explored the accessibility issues they encounter in their interactions with information retrieval systems, in particul...
Communication media have become the primary way of interaction thanks to the discovery and innovation of many new technologies. One of the most widely used communication systems today is video streaming, which is constantly evolving. Such communicati...
The global pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has highlighted the need for remote healthcare services. This study aimed to evaluate the concurrent validity and reliability of tele-assessment using 3D motion analysis and video confere...
High-speed internet has boosted clients’ traffic needs. Content caching on mobile edge computing (MEC) servers reduces traffic and latency. Caching with MEC faces difficulties such as user mobility, limited storage, varying user preferences, an...
Recently, the usage of 360-degree videos has prevailed in various sectors such as education, real estate, medical, entertainment and more. The development of the Virtual World “Metaverse” demanded a Virtual Reality (VR) environment with h...
New accessible learning methods delivered through mobile mixed reality are becoming possible in education, shifting pedagogy from the use of two dimensional images and videos to facilitating learning via interactive mobile environments. This is espec...
This paper aims to present the development, challenges, and obstacles faced when creating two reduced complexity utility applications for Android mobile devices. The purpose of this paper is to present the challenges behind the development of these a...
A new artificial intelligence-based approach is proposed by developing a deep learning (DL) model for identifying the people who violate the face mask protocol in public places. To achieve this goal, a private dataset was created, including different...
The cognitive state of a person can be categorized using the circumplex model of emotional states, a continuous model of two dimensions: arousal and valence. The purpose of this research is to select a machine learning model(s) to be integrated into...
Recent advancements of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) pose emerging yet serious privacy risks threatening digital media’s integrity and trustworthiness, specifically digital video, through synthesizing hyper-realistic images and videos,...
This paper describes the development of an application for mobile devices under the iOS platform which has the objective of monitoring patients with alterations or affections from cardiac pathologies. The software tool developed for mobile devices pr...
Face recognition systems have been widely adopted for user authentication in security systems due to their simplicity and effectiveness. However, spoofing attacks, including printed photos, displayed photos, and replayed video attacks, are critical c...
As the demand for high-quality video streaming applications continues to rise, multi-access edge computing (MEC)-assisted streaming schemes have emerged as a viable solution within the context of HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS). These schemes aim to en...
To ensure the effectiveness of online teaching, educators must understand students’ learning progress. This study proposes LWKD-ViT, a framework designed to accurately capture students’ emotions during online courses. The framework is bui...
This study developed an information and communication technology-based mobile application to administer cognitive behavioral therapy to community-dwelling older adults with insomnia. First, the content of the application was determined through a syst...
The revolutionary breakthroughs in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are extensively being harnessed across a diverse range of domains, e.g., forensic science, healthcare, virtual assistants, cybersecurity, and robotics. On the f...
Locating a missing child or elderly person in a large gathering through face recognition in videos is still challenging because of various dynamic factors. In this paper, we present an intelligent mechanism for tracking missing persons in an unconstr...
Heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (fR) can be estimated by processing videos framing the upper body and face regions without any physical contact with the subject. This paper proposed a technique for continuously monitoring HR and fR via a multi-R...
Dynamic and vulnerable, coastal zones face multiple hazards such as storms, flooding, and erosion, posing serious risks to populations and ecosystems. Continuous observation of coastal processes, particularly shoreline evolution, is therefore essenti...
As intelligent transportation systems continue to advance, on-board surveillance video has become essential for train safety and intelligent scheduling. However, high-resolution video transmission faces bandwidth limitations, and existing deep learni...
Every one of us has a unique manner of communicating to explore the world, and such communication helps to interpret life. Sign language is the popular language of communication for hearing and speech-disabled people. When a sign language user intera...
Blended learning models have been extensively used in foreign language environments to extend in-class time as well as reinforce in-class explanations. Among these models, the increasing popularity of flipped learning has given rise to transformative...
Background: Although access to nature is demonstrated to benefit health and wellbeing, adults with mobility impairments and/or low energy often face barriers in accessing nature environments and nature-based programs. This study aimed to examine the...
Pedestrian movement is woven into the fabric of urban regions. With more people living in cities than ever before, there is an increased need to understand and model how pedestrians utilize and move through space for a variety of applications, rangin...
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the world, and businesses are struggling to create a new and effective working environment for their employees. Employees worldwide have moved from traditional face-to-face meetings to remote working using...
10 July 2024
Women seeking care during the perinatal period often face delays or long waits at healthcare facilities due to lack of providers and/or resources, leading to sub-optimal outcomes. We implemented a program whereby patients with concerns could receive...
The purpose of video game tutorials is to help players easily understand new game mechanics and thereby facilitate chances of early engagement with the main contents of one’s game. The mobile game market (i.e., phones and tablets) faces importa...
Optical access networks, metro networks and mobile data networks are facing rapidly evolving demands, not only is it essential to satisfy the unyielding need for increased user bandwidths, but future networks must also support the growing wide variat...
Nowadays, we are observing a rapid development of UAV-based monitoring systems, which are faced with more and more new tasks, such as high temporal resolution and high spatial resolution of measurements, or Artificial Intelligence on board. This pape...
How are transgender athletes understood in popular discourse? This paper adapts and merges Glaser and Strauss’ 1967 Grounded Theory Method with computerized Automated Text Analysis to provide clarity on large-n datasets comprised of social medi...
This study investigates how virtual communication differs from in-person interaction across physiological and behavioral domains, with the goal of informing future interface design. Using a naturalistic setup, we recorded multimodal biosignals, inclu...
Pig counting is an important task in pig sales and breeding supervision. Currently, manual counting is low-efficiency and high-cost and presents challenges in terms of statistical analysis. In response to the difficulties faced in pig part feature de...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-based Person Re-Identification (ReID) is a novel field. Person ReID is the task of identifying individuals across different frames or views, often in surveillance or security contexts. At the same time, UAVs enhance pe...
In recent years, the proliferation of forged videos, known as deepfakes, has escalated significantly, primarily due to advancements in technologies such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), diffusion models, and Vision Language Models (VLMs). T...
In an era marked by digital transformation and political polarization, the European Union faces significant challenges in maintaining effective communication and public trust. This study examines the European Parliament’s use of Threads and X (former...
Prior work on automated methods demonstrated that it is possible to recognize pain intensity from frontal faces in videos, while there is an assumption that humans are very adept at this task compared to machines. In this paper, we investigate whethe...
In recent years, global mobile data traffic has seen an unprecedented increase. This is due to worldwide usage of smart devices, availability of fast internet connections, and the popularity of social media. The Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are, t...
21 February 2014
Power wheelchairs (PWCs) can have a positive impact on user well-being, self-esteem, pain, activity and participation. Newly developed intelligent power wheelchairs (IPWs), allowing autonomous or collaboratively-controlled navigation, could enhance...
This study advances artificial intelligence by pioneering the classification of human emotions (for patients) with a healthcare mobile robot, anticipating human–robot interaction for humans (patients) admitted in hospitals or any healthcare env...
Due to the emergence of various new applications, such as short videos and online games, higher requirements of their computing and storage capacity are demanded of mobile networks. The traditional cloud computing paradigm has the shortcomings of lar...
Virtual Reality (VR) is a kind of interactive experience technology. Human vision, hearing, expression, voice and even touch can be added to the interaction between humans and machine. Lip reading recognition is a new technology in the field of human...
Age estimation from face images has attracted much attention due to its favorable and many real-world applications such as video surveillance and social networking. However, most existing studies usually learn a single kind of age feature and ignore...
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