Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for image processing are described. The method may include identifying a face in a first image based on identifying one or more biometric features of the face, determining an angular direction of one or more pixels of the identified face, identifying an anchor point on the identified face, sorting each of one or more pixels of the identified face into one of a set of pixel bins based on a combination of the determined angular direction of the pixel and a distance between the pixel and the identified anchor point, and outputting an indication of authenticity associated with the face based on a number of pixels in each bin.

Abstract: A depth based scanning system can be configured to determine whether pixel depth values of a depth map are within a depth range; determine a component of the depth map comprised of connected pixels each with a depth value within the depth range; replace the depth values of any pixels of the depth map that are not connected pixels; determine whether each pixel of the connected pixels of the component has at least a threshold number of neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range; and for each pixel of the connected pixels of the component, if the pixel is determined to have at least the threshold number of neighboring pixels, replace its depth value with a filtered depth value that is based on the depth values of the neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range.

Abstract: A depth based scanning system can be configured to determine whether pixel depth values of a depth map are within a depth range; determine a component of the depth map comprised of connected pixels each with a depth value within the depth range; replace the depth values of any pixels of the depth map that are not connected pixels; determine whether each pixel of the connected pixels of the component has at least a threshold number of neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range; and for each pixel of the connected pixels of the component, if the pixel is determined to have at least the threshold number of neighboring pixels, replace its depth value with a filtered depth value that is based on the depth values of the neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range.

Abstract: A tester assembled by multiple sets of mechanisms for shear strength-scale effect of a rock joint includes a horizontal loading mechanism, a horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism and a sample installation and lifting table are mounted on a platform on the bottom of a frame, the horizontal loading mechanism and the horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism are respectively located on two sides of the sample installation and lifting table; rock joint sample is divided into an upper portion and a lower portion by a slit, the horizontal loading mechanism is configured to load the upper portion of the multi-scale rock joint sample, and the horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism is configured to support the lower portion of the multi-scale rock joint sample; a vertical loading mechanism is located above the multi-scale rock joint sample, and can be mounted on the frame in a manner of being movable up and down; and the horizontal loading mechanism comprises at least two tangentia

Abstract: A tester assembled by multiple sets of mechanisms for shear strength-scale effect of a rock joint includes a horizontal loading mechanism, a horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism and a sample installation and lifting table are mounted on a platform on the bottom of a frame, the horizontal loading mechanism and the horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism are respectively located on two sides of the sample installation and lifting table; rock joint sample is divided into an upper portion and a lower portion by a slit, the horizontal loading mechanism is configured to load the upper portion of the multi-scale rock joint sample, and the horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism is configured to support the lower portion of the multi-scale rock joint sample; a vertical loading mechanism is located above the multi-scale rock joint sample, and can be mounted on the frame in a manner of being movable up and down; and the horizontal loading mechanism comprises at least two tangentia

Abstract: A method for quantitatively evaluating the anisotropy of joint roughness coefficient of rock joints is provided, comprising the following steps: selecting a joint sample of an engineering rock mass to be analyzed; uniformly arranging rock joint measurement segments in different orientations; recording each joint profile by a profilograph; measuring joint roughness coefficient of each measurement segment; calculating a statistical mean value of the joint roughness coefficients in each orientation under same dimensional conditions, and obtaining a roughness coefficient class ratio in each orientation; transforming each item in the roughness coefficient class ratio by R1(i)=r0(i)1/m; fitting the processed roughness coefficient of the rock joints by anisotropic ellipse function; determining a major axis a and a minor axis b of the anisotropic ellipse, ? representing a direction of rotation, where a ratio of the major axis to the minor axis indicates a difference between the maximum roughness coefficient and the m

Abstract: A gesture recognition system using a skin-color based method combined with motion information to achieve real-time segmentation. A Kalman filter is used to track the centroid of the hand. The palm center, palm bottom, as well as the largest distance from the palm center to the contour from extracted hand mask are computed. The computed distance to a threshold is then compared to decide if the current posture is “open” or “closed.” In a preferred embodiment, the transition between the “open” and “closed” posture to decide if the current gesture is in “select” or “grab” state.

Abstract: A system and method for effectively implementing a stroboscopic visual effect with a television device includes a strobe engine that analyzes video data to create a sequence of stroboscopic images based upon motion information from the video data. The television utilizes a display manager to present the stroboscopic images and the video data on a display device during a strobe display mode. A processor device of the television typically controls the operations of the strobe engine and the display manager to implement the stroboscopic visual effect.

Abstract: A system for performing an image categorization procedure includes an image manager with a keypoint generator, a support region filter, an orientation filter, and a matching module. The keypoint generator computes initial descriptors for keypoints in a test image. The support region filter and the orientation filter perform respective filtering procedures upon the initial descriptors to produce filtered descriptors. The matching module compares the filtered descriptors to one or more database image sets for categorizing said test image. A processor of an electronic device typically controls the image manager to effectively perform the image categorization procedure.

Abstract: A gesture recognition system and method that inputs videos of a moving hand and outputs the recognized gesture states for the input sequence. In each image, the hand area is segmented from the background and used to estimate parameters of all five fingers. The system further classifies the hand image as one of the postures in the pre-defined database and applies a geometric classification algorithm to recognize the gesture. The system combines a skin color model with motion information to achieve real-time hand segmentation performance, and considers each dynamic gesture as a multi-dimensional volume and uses a geometric algorithm to classify each volume.

Abstract: A system for performing an image categorization procedure includes an image manager with a keypoint generator, a support region filter, an orientation filter, and a matching module. The keypoint generator computes initial descriptors for keypoints in a test image. The support region filter and the orientation filter perform respective filtering procedures upon the initial descriptors to produce filtered descriptors. The matching module compares the filtered descriptors to one or more database image sets for categorizing said test image. A processor of an electronic device typically controls the image manager to effectively perform the image categorization procedure.

Abstract: A system and method for effectively implementing a stroboscopic visual effect with a television device includes a strobe engine that analyzes video data to create a sequence of stroboscopic images based upon motion information from the video data. The television utilizes a display manager to present the stroboscopic images and the video data on a display device during a strobe display mode. A processor device of the television typically controls the operations of the strobe engine and the display manager to implement the stroboscopic visual effect.

Abstract: A gesture recognition system and method that inputs videos of a moving hand and outputs the recognized gesture states for the input sequence. In each image, the hand area is segmented from the background and used to estimate parameters of all five fingers. The system further classifies the hand image as one of the postures in the pre-defined database and applies a geometric classification algorithm to recognize the gesture. The system combines a skin color model with motion information to achieve real-time hand segmentation performance, and considers each dynamic gesture as a multi-dimensional volume and uses a geometric algorithm to classify each volume.

Abstract: A gesture recognition system using a skin-color based method combined with motion information to achieve real-time segmentation. A Kalman filter is used to track the centroid of the hand. The palm center, palm bottom, as well as the largest distance from the palm center to the contour from extracted hand mask are computed. The computed distance to a threshold is then compared to decide if the current posture is “open” or “closed.” In a preferred embodiment, the transition between the “open” and “closed” posture to decide if the current gesture is in “select” or “grab” state.

Abstract: The apparatus generates simulated strobe effects in the form of video or still image output in response to receipt of a video stream, and without the need of additional strobe hardware. Videos of a moving target object are categorized into one of multiple categories, from which a strobe generation process is selected. In one mode, the two categories comprise target objects with either small motion or large motions in relation to the frame size. Interoperation between image registration and cloning are utilized to produce simulated strobe motion videos or pictures. Motion segmentation is applied to the foreground object in each image frame, and a foreground mask is updated as each checkpoint is reached along the object trajectory, such as in response to time differences between checkpoints. Potential applications include special features for camcorders, digital cameras, or computer software.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a temperature differential panel with conductors made of different metals or alloys. With thermoelectric couple effects the panel and device can generate power by temperature difference. The temperature differential panel comprises a sheet-like insulation (3); and a current power generation device (2) consists of a plurality of first conductors (20) and second conductors (21) made of different metals or alloys, the first conductors (20) and second conductors (21) are disposed to a top and a bottom of the sheet-like insulation (3) respectively; each of both ends of the first conductors (20) are connected to each of both ends of the second conductors (21) respectively to form electric charging points (22a, 22b).