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Interactive Data Acquisition System based on Hand Tracking to evaluate Children's Cognitive Abilities

  • Ekaterina, Ten;Lee, Suk-Ho
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.108-114
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    • 2022
  • Autism (ASD) is a mental disorder characterized by a pronounced deficit in personal, social, speech, and other aspects of development and communication skills. Since autism is a complex developmental disorder that requires a lot of effort to recognize, this research was conducted to develop an interactive data Acquisition System and detect the first signs of ASD in children. The proposed system presents several variants of the tasks in an entertaining form, using hand tracking. Hand tracking is used to attract children's attention and interest them more to achieve more accurate results. The creation of the system is based on such libraries as OpenCV, PyGame, TensorFlow, and Mediapipe. The ultimate goal of the paper is to obtain data on the disease of autism in children for use in further diagnosis by medical experts.

A Semantic Diagnosis and Tracking System to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 (COVID-19 확산 방지를 위한 시맨틱 진단 및 추적시스템)

  • Xiang, Sun Yu;Lee, Yong-Ju
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.611-616
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    • 2020
  • In order to prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 virus in big cities, this paper proposes a semantic diagnosis and tracking system based on Linked Data through the cluster analysis of the infection situation in Seoul, South Korea. This paper is mainly composed of three sections, information of infected people in Seoul is collected for the cluster analysis, important infected patient attributes are extracted to establish a diagnostic model based on random forest, and a tracking system based on Linked Data is designed and implemented. Experimental results show that the accuracy of our diagnostic model is more than 80%. Moreover, our tracking system is more flexible and open than existing systems and supports semantic queries.

Contact Tracking Development Trend Using Bibliometric Analysis

  • Li, Chaoqun;Chen, Zhigang;Yu, Tongrui;Song, Xinxia
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.359-373
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    • 2022
  • The new crown pneumonia (COVID-19) has become a global epidemic. The disease has spread to most countries and poses a challenge to the healthcare system. Contact tracing technology is an effective way for public health to deal with diseases. Many experts have studied traditional contact tracing and developed digital contact tracking. In order to better understand the field of contact tracking, it is necessary to analyze the development of contact tracking in the field of computer science by bibliometrics. The purpose of this research is to use literature statistics and topic analysis to characterize the research literature of contact tracking in the field of computer science, to gain an in-depth understanding of the literature development status of contact tracking and the trend of hot topics over the past decade. In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, we conducted a bibliometric study in this paper. The study uses data collected from the Scopus database. Which contains more than 10,000 articles, including more than 2,000 in the field of computer science. For popular trends, we use VOSviewer for visual analysis. The number of contact tracking documents published annually in the computer field is increasing. At present, there are 200 to 300 papers published in the field of computer science each year, and the number of uncited papers is relatively small. Through the visual analysis of the paper, we found that the hot topic of contact tracking has changed from the past "mathematical model," "biological model," and "algorithm" to the current "digital contact tracking," "privacy," and "mobile application" and other topics. Contact tracking is currently a hot research topic. By selecting the most cited papers, we can display high-quality literature in contact tracking and characterize the development trend of the entire field through topic analysis. This is useful for students and researchers new to field of contact tracking ai well as for presenting our results to other subjects. Especially when comprehensive research cannot be conducted due to time constraints or lack of precise research questions, our research analysis can provide value for it.

Communication Support System for ALS Patient Based on Text Input Interface Using Eye Tracking and Deep Learning Based Sound Synthesi (눈동자 추적 기반 입력 및 딥러닝 기반 음성 합성을 적용한 루게릭 환자 의사소통 지원 시스템)

  • Park Hyunjoo;Jeong Seungdo
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 2024
  • Accidents or disease can lead to acquired voice dysphonia. In this case, we propose a new input interface based on eye movements to facilitate communication for patients. Unlike the existing method that presents the English alphabet as it is, we reorganized the layout of the alphabet to support the Korean alphabet and designed it so that patients can enter words by themselves using only eye movements, gaze, and blinking. The proposed interface not only reduces fatigue by minimizing eye movements, but also allows for easy and quick input through an intuitive arrangement. For natural communication, we also implemented a system that allows patients who are unable to speak to communicate with their own voice. The system works by tracking eye movements to record what the patient is trying to say, then using Glow-TTS and Multi-band MelGAN to reconstruct their own voice using the learned voice to output sound.

Touching Pigs Segmentation and Tracking Verification Using Motion Information (움직임 정보를 이용한 근접 돼지 분리와 추적 검증)

  • Park, Changhyun;Sa, Jaewon;Kim, Heegon;Chung, Yongwha;Park, Daihee;Kim, Hakjae
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.135-144
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    • 2018
  • The domestic pigsty environment is highly vulnerable to the spread of respiratory diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease because of the small space. In order to manage this issue, a variety of studies have been conducted to automatically analyze behavior of individual pigs in a pig pen through a video surveillance system using a camera. Even though it is required to correctly segment touching pigs for tracking each pig in complex situations such as aggressive behavior, detecting the correct boundaries among touching pigs using Kinect's depth information of lower accuracy is a challenging issue. In this paper, we propose a segmentation method using motion information of the touching pigs. In addition, our proposed method can be applied for detecting tracking errors in case of tracking individual pigs in the complex environment. In the experimental results, we confirmed that the touching pigs in a pig farm were separated with the accuracy of 86%, and also confirmed that the tracking errors were detected accurately.

Implementation to human-computer interface system with motion tracking using OpenCV (OpenCV를 이용한 눈동자 모션인식을 통한 의사소통 시스템 구현)

  • Heo, Seung Won;Lee, Seung Jun;Lee, Hee Bin;Yu, Yun Seop
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.700-702
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    • 2018
  • In this abstract, introduces a system that enables communication by tracking the pupils of Lou Gehrig's disease patients who are unable to move their bodies. Face and eye pupil tracking perform using OpenCV, and eye movement recognition and character selection by eye movement is obtained using Python. In this paper, you will use the webcams, track your eyes, determine eye movements based on the coordinates of your pupils, and print characters that meet your preferences. It can easily output text messages using Bluetooth.

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A Study on Eye Tracking Techniques using Wearable Devices (웨어러블향(向) 시선추적 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Jaehyuck Jang;Jiu Jung;Junghoon Park
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2023
  • The eye tracking technology is widespread all around the society, and is demonstrating great performances in both preciseness and convenience. Hereby we can glimpse new possibility of an interface's conduct without screen-touching. This technology can become a new way of conversation for those including but not limited to the patients suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, who are paralyzed each part by part of the body and finally cannot help but only moving eyes. Formerly in that case, the patients were given nothing to do but waiting for the death, even being unable to communicate with there families. A new interface that harnesses eyes as a new means of communication, although it conveys great difficulty, can be helpful for them. There surely are some eye tracking systems and equipment for their exclusive uses on the market. Notwithstanding, several obstacles including the complexity of operation and their high prices of over 12 million won($9,300) are hindering universal supply to people and coverage for the patients. Therefore, this paper suggests wearable-type eye tracking device that can support minorities and vulnerable people and be occupied inexpensively and study eye tracking method in order to maximize the possibility of future development across the world, finally proposing the way of designing and developing a brought-down costed eye tracking system based on high-efficient wearable device.

Molecular imaging of atherosclerosis using reporter gene system

  • Yoo, Ran Ji;Lee, Kyochul;Kang, Joo Hyun;Lee, Yong Jin
    • Journal of Radiopharmaceuticals and Molecular Probes
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.26-31
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    • 2018
  • Macrophages play a key role in atherosclerotic plaque formation, but their participation has been discerned largely via ex vivo analyses of atherosclerotic lesions. Therefore, we aimed to identify atherosclerosis on noninvasive in vivo imaging using reporter gene system. This study demonstrated that recruitment of macrophages could be detected in atherosclerotic plaques of Apolipoprotein E knockout (ApoE-/-) mice with a sodium iodide symporter (NIS) gene imaging system using $^{99m}Tc-SPECT$. This novel approach to tracking macrophages to atherosclerotic plaques in vivo could have applications in studies of arteriosclerotic vascular disease.

COVID-19 recommender system based on an annotated multilingual corpus

  • Barros, Marcia;Ruas, Pedro;Sousa, Diana;Bangash, Ali Haider;Couto, Francisco M.
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.24.1-24.7
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    • 2021
  • Tracking the most recent advances in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related research is essential, given the disease's novelty and its impact on society. However, with the publication pace speeding up, researchers and clinicians require automatic approaches to keep up with the incoming information regarding this disease. A solution to this problem requires the development of text mining pipelines; the efficiency of which strongly depends on the availability of curated corpora. However, there is a lack of COVID-19-related corpora, even more, if considering other languages besides English. This project's main contribution was the annotation of a multilingual parallel corpus and the generation of a recommendation dataset (EN-PT and EN-ES) regarding relevant entities, their relations, and recommendation, providing this resource to the community to improve the text mining research on COVID-19-related literature. This work was developed during the 7th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH7).