Abstract: An information providing device and an information providing method capable of providing information according to a driving load while alleviating or eliminating a sense of discomfort of a user of a vehicle is provided. An information providing device includes an emotion determination unit that determines virtual emotion of a vehicle, and an output control unit that determines one or both of content and an output mode of the information that the output unit is caused to output according to the virtual emotion of the vehicle. The emotion determination unit determines predetermined emotion to be the virtual emotion of the vehicle when a condition that a period in which the traveling state of the vehicle detected by the traveling state detection unit is a predetermined traveling state has continued for a predetermined period or longer is satisfied.

Abstract: A mobile apparatus is provided that includes an image sensor for converting an optical image into an electrical signal. The optical image includes an image of a vehicle license plate. The mobile apparatus includes a license plate detector configured to process the electrical signal to recover information from the vehicle license plate image. Upon capturing of the video that includes the image, a device operation instructor will dynamically determine a highest score of assigned object image scores for each frame of the video generate an operation adjustment control if the determined highest score is less than a predetermined score threshold, which is in turn dynamically displayed during continuous capture of the video by the image sensor.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit to acquire an input image including an object, an extraction unit to extract a region that has been changed from a background image in the input image, as a changing region, a generating unit to generate a change region image in which a pixel value of each pixel represents whether or not a corresponding pixel in the input image belongs to the changing region, an extraction unit to extract a plurality of feature images from the input image as an output of a neural network by inputting a combination of the input image and the change region image to the neural network, and a detection unit to detect a position of the object from the plurality of feature images.

Abstract: Computer systems of a multimedia service provider may utilize an artificial intelligence model to automatically match a video content with an existing video title of a catalog, allowing the provider to efficiently and accurately process a high volume of video content being received. The artificial intelligence model may be proceed by analyzing video frames from the video content to extract features and then determining the relevance of a set of features to a particular video title of the catalog. Based on the relevance determination, the computer system may associate the video content with the particular video title. In cases where no match with an existing title is determined, the artificial intelligence model may create a new video title based in part on the extracted features.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed comprising measuring, with a first scanner, a central part of the visual image, measuring, with a second scanner, a peripheral part of the visual image, calculating, by a processor, a pan-retinal measure of image contrast for an extended area of the retina, and optimizing a pan-retinal visual quality. Methods further comprising optimizing a pan-retinal visual quality are also disclosed. Systems are also disclosed comprising either a scanner or a laser, a non-transitory memory having instructions that, in response to an execution by a processor, the processor receives a first measurement of the central part of the visual image, receives a second measurement of the peripheral part of the visual image, and calculates a pan-retinal measure of image contrast for an extended area of the retina. Methods of manufacturing lenses, including contact lenses are disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device and method for providing a graphic effect corresponding to configuration information of an object displayed on a display of an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display, a memory, and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to control the display to display an image, detect at least one object from the image, and control the display to display detection information corresponding to the at least one object based on configuration information of the at least one object.

Abstract: The present invention is a collation/retrieval system collating a product manufactured by or delivered from a producer or a distributor with a product to be collated comprising: a storage unit that stores an image feature of a predetermined collation area of the product determined in advance at a position relative to a reference section common in every product; a to-be-collated product feature extraction unit that receives an image of the product to be collated and detecting the reference section of the product from the received image to extract an image feature of the collation area determined by reference to the reference section; and a collation unit that collates the stored image feature with the image feature of the collation area of the product to be collated.

Abstract: Color calibration for digital pathology is provided. A standard glass slide is prepared with a specimen having zero or more stains. The specimen is scanned a first time using a hyperspectral imaging system to produce a first digital image having XYZ color values. The specimen is scanned a second time using a digital pathology imaging system to produce a second digital image having RGB color values. The first and second digital images are then registered against each other to align the digital image data. Individual pixels of the first and second images may be combined in the registration process so that the first and second digital images have substantially similar pixel sizes. A lookup table is generated to associate XYZ color values to RGB color values. Once the lookup table has been generated, it can be used to present RGB color on a display using the corresponding XYZ color.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for successive intra block prediction. Methods and apparatus for successive intra block prediction may comprise a matching decoder to generate data that replicates the internal state and/or the decompressed data at the decoder. The apparatus may further comprise a prediction module that utilizes the replicated data to make predictions. The apparatus may then utilize the predicted data and the original, input source data to determine a difference value and encode the difference value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for continuously detecting a hazardous and noxious substance from multiple satellites, and specifically, provides a method and an apparatus for continuously detecting a hazardous and noxious substance from multiple satellites, the method and apparatus: receiving a multi-satellite image which is photographed by a multi-satellite comprising a satellite having an imaging radar (SAR), a satellite having an infrared sensor, and a satellite having an electronic optical sensor; acquiring a reference image, of the satellite having the SAR, including a ground control point of an observed region; extracting a corresponding point between the reference image and the multi-satellite image; implementing the image matching and geometric correction for the multi-satellite image by using the extracted corresponding point; confirming at least one among the brightness value of pixels of the SAR satellite image, the temperature value of pixels of the infrared satellite i

Abstract: A simulate segmentation method of cylinder and pie cake digital models utilizes a three-dimensional model and a reference point to cope with various shapes of the nuclear reactor structures. The segmentation simulation of the nuclear reactor structure is conducted with genetic algorithm. The segmentation simulation of the nuclear reactor structure is achieved by using the genetic algorithm to perform a double selection mechanism on the cross-sectional area of the nuclear reactor structure to select the optimal configuration of the segmentation, thus minimizing the cross-sectional areas of the nuclear reactor structure. The cutter segments the nuclear reactor structure based on the optimal configuration of the segmentation, thereby achieving the purpose of minimizing the attrition rate of a cutter and segmenting the nuclear reactor structure.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image obtained by capturing a real space using an image capturing unit, an estimation unit configured to, based on a feature extracted from the image, estimate a position of the image capturing unit, a generation unit configured to, based on the feature and the estimated position of the image capturing unit, generate a map of the feature in the real space, a parameter acquisition unit that acquires an environmental parameter indicating an environment of the real space, a recording unit that records a first environmental parameter acquired at a first time point when the map is generated, in association with the map, and a determination unit configured to, based on the first environmental parameter and a second environmental parameter acquired at a second time point after the first time point, determine whether the map can be used.

Abstract: The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for forming a dataset configured for learning a function. The function is configured to classify 2D images according to predetermined types of 3D arrangement with respect to objects visible in the 2D images. The method comprising for each respective type of 3D arrangement, constructing 3D scenes each comprising 3D modeled objects arranged according to the respective type of 3D arrangement, generating 2D images each representing a respective 2D perspective of a respective constructed 3D scene where visible 3D modeled objects are among the 3D modeled objects of the respective constructed 3D scene which are arranged according to the respective type of 3D arrangement, and adding to the dataset training patterns each including a respective generated 2D image and information indicative of the respective type of 3D arrangement. Such a method improves 2D image classification.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a frame memory that saves a cyclic image of an immediately preceding frame as a reference image; and a processor comprising hardware. The processor is configured to: decompose an input image into a plurality of resolution images; set, as a base image, an image having a lower resolution than the input image among the plurality of resolution images and that detects a motion vector between the base image and the reference image; subject the reference image to motion compensation on the basis of the motion vector to generate a motion-compensated image; combine the base image with the motion-compensated image to generate a noise-reduced base image that serves as a new cyclic image; and combine the noise-reduced base image with the resolution image or resolution images other than the base image among the plurality of resolution images.

Abstract: A radiographic imaging system and imaging method that improves image quality of a combined image including a defective region caused by a structural object of a radiation detection apparatus are provided. The radiographic imaging system, which includes a plurality of radiation detection apparatuses that detect radiation and a combining processing unit that combines a plurality of radiographic images acquired from the plurality of radiation detection apparatuses to generate a combined image, corrects a pixel value of a correction target pixel of a region in which a structural object of a radiation detection apparatus is included in the combined image using a pixel value of a pixel in a range predetermined with reference to the correction target pixel of a region in which the structural object is not included in the combined image.

Abstract: An image processing system for processing image data includes an image processing apparatus configured to process the image data to generate a hologram image; and a first memory and a second memory that store the image data. The image processing apparatus performs a first process and a second process in parallel, wherein the first process includes reading first data from the first memory and writing the first data to the second memory, and the second process includes reading second data from the second memory and writing the second data to the first memory.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an insole for a shoe. The method includes providing instructions to a person to attain a first pose; capturing a first three-dimensional image of a first foot of the person in the first pose; providing instructions to the person to attain a second pose, wherein the second pose is different from the first pose; capturing a second three-dimensional image of a second foot of the person in the second pose; generating a first three-dimensional model of the first foot from the first three-dimensional image; generating a second three-dimensional model of the second foot from the second three-dimensional model; manufacturing a first insole for the first foot based on the first three-dimensional model of the first foot; and manufacturing a second insole for the second foot based on the second three-dimensional model of the second foot.

Abstract: An information providing device and an information providing method capable of providing information according to a driving load while alleviating or eliminating a sense of discomfort of a user of a vehicle is provided. An information providing device includes an emotion determination unit that determines virtual emotion of a vehicle, and an output control unit that determines one or both of content and an output mode of the information that the output unit is caused to output according to the virtual emotion of the vehicle. The emotion determination unit determines predetermined emotion to be the virtual emotion of the vehicle when a condition that a period in which the traveling state of the vehicle detected by the traveling state detection unit is a predetermined traveling state has continued for a predetermined period or longer is satisfied.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a memory and processing circuitry. The memory is configured to store a plurality of neural networks corresponding to a plurality of imaging target sites, respectively, the neural networks each including an input layer, an output layer, and an intermediate layer between the input layer and the output layer, and each generated through learning processing with multiple data sets acquired for the corresponding imaging target site. The processing circuitry is configured to process first data into second data using, among the neural networks, the neural network corresponding to the imaging target site for the first data, wherein the first data is input to the input layer and the second data is output from the output layer.

Abstract: A first light projector projects first slit light that spreads in the width direction of a vehicle in a direction other than a direction parallel to a contact ground surface. A second light projector projects second slit light that spreads in the width direction of the vehicle in a direction parallel to the contact ground surface. An obstacle detection unit detects an obstacle using a captured image of an area surrounding the vehicle where the first slit light and the second slit light are projected.