PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition
Presentation / Conference
Wojtczuk, P., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., & Chamberlain, T. (2011, August)
PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition. Paper presented at SensorDevices 2011, Nice, France
Abstract—In this paper we present our work towards a hand gesture recognition system realised with a passive thermal infrared sensor array. In contrast with the majority of re...
Room occupancy measurement using low-resolution infrared cameras.
Conference Proceeding
Berger, M., & Armitage, A. (2010)
Room occupancy measurement using low-resolution infrared cameras. https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2010.0521
Measuring room occupancy has always been a desirable endeavour. This could be for security reasons, to save energy or simply for statistical reasons. Recently the use of therm...
JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing.
Conference Proceeding
Kosek, A., Kerridge, J., Syed, A., & Armitage, A. (2009)
JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing. In P. H. Welch, H. Roebbers, J. F. Broenink, F. R. M. Barnes, C. G. Ritson, A. T. Sampson, & G. S. Vinter (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2009 - WoTUG-32, (363-373). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-065-0-363
Device and service discovery is a very important topic when considering pervasive environments. The discovery mechanism is required to work in networks with dynamic topology a...
System architectures for infrared pedestrian tracking.
Presentation / Conference
Walczyk, R., Balazs, A., Armitage, A., & Binnie, D. (2011, June)
System architectures for infrared pedestrian tracking. Paper presented at 22nd IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Trinity College, Dublin
This paper describes an FPGA-based implementation of a real-time pedestrian detection and tracking system for infrared (IR) video streams. The system includes hardware acceler...
Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions
Conference Proceeding
Jones, T., Lawson, S., Benyon, D., & Armitage, A. (2007)
Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions. In Digital Human Modeling. , (120-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73321-8_14
The research presented here makes a contribution to the understanding of the recognition of biological motion by comparing human recognition of a set of everyday gestures and ...
A dynamic connection capability for pervasive adaptive environments using JCSP
Presentation / Conference
Kosek, A., Syed, A., Kerridge, J., & Armitage, A. (2009, April)
A dynamic connection capability for pervasive adaptive environments using JCSP. Paper presented at AISB 2009 Convention, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh
The house, office or warehouse environment is full of
devices that make users’ life and work easier. People nowadays use personal computers, laptops, Personal Digital Assistan...
An advisory system for the treatment of kidney stones.
Presentation / Conference
Hardy, J., & Armitage, A. (2005, May)
An advisory system for the treatment of kidney stones. Paper presented at Natural Computing Applications Forum
Kidney stones can be treated by a number of methods, some more invasive than others. Increasingly, Shock Wave Lithotripsy (a non-invasive technique) is used in preference to s...
Tracking pedestrians using visible and infrared systems
Conference Proceeding
Armitage, A., Binnie, D., Chamberlain, T., Nilsson, M., & Rutter, M. (2005)
Tracking pedestrians using visible and infrared systems. In Universities Transport Study Group conference, 1-9
In this paper, we will describe a number of research projects at Napier University on pedestrian tracking. This work started with systems based on ordinary cameras working at ...
FPGA implementation of hot spot detection in infrared video.
Presentation / Conference
Walczyk, R., Armitage, A., & Binnie, D. (2010, June)
FPGA implementation of hot spot detection in infrared video. Paper presented at IET Irish Systems & Signals Conference, Cork
This paper describes a Hardware Description Language (HDL) based fully customizable module for real-time infrared (IR) hot spot detection and feature extraction from a video s...
Comparative study on connected component labeling algorithms for embedded video processing systems.
Conference Proceeding
Walczyk, R., Armitage, A., & Binnie, D. (2010)
Comparative study on connected component labeling algorithms for embedded video processing systems. In H. Deligiannidis (Ed.), Proceedings of the IPCV'10
The objective of this paper is to carry out a detailed analysis of the most popular connected components labeling (CCL) algorithms for binary images. This study investigates t...