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'Come and daunce with me in Irlande': tourism, dance and globalisation
(2003)
O'Connor, Barbara
'Come and daunce with me in Irlande': tourism, dance and globalisation
(2003)
O'Connor, Barbara
http://doras.dcu.ie/14967/
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'From the Russell Library…'
(2009)
Woods, Penny
'From the Russell Library…'
(2009)
Woods, Penny
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In 1808 the following story about a Maynooth student appeared in Watty Cox’s 'Irish Magazine and monthly asylum for neglected biography': A Hungarian, who translated some of Ovid's elegies into Greek verse, travelled through these countries in 1802. He had been in both the English universities, in Edinburgh, and at the College in Dublin [TCD]; at each of which places he conversed with the cleverest men in the Greek and Roman tongues. After spending some time in Dublin College, curiosity led him to Maynooth. It was during the summer recess, and most of the professors were from home. He met a lad about twenty years of age, with whom he entered into conversation. He asked several questions concerning the internal economy of the college; and, among the rest, if there was a professor of Greek on the establishment. The young lad, indignant at the affront offered his Alma Mater, spoke to him in that language with the greatest fluency. The Hungarian was struck with wonder, a...
http://eprints.nuim.ie/1915/
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'Towards a lasting peace'?: the Northern Ireland multi-party agreement, referendum and Assembly elections of 1998
(1998)
Doyle, John
'Towards a lasting peace'?: the Northern Ireland multi-party agreement, referendum and Assembly elections of 1998
(1998)
Doyle, John
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The agreement signed by the Irish and British governments and most of the political parties in Northern Ireland on 10th April 1998 (Good Friday) was a truly historic step. The agreement itself marks the most significant shift in party political positions since the partition of Ireland. This, coupled with the fact that the agreement is open-ended, and indeed under its provisions must develop beyond what is already agreed to survive means that an analysis of the evolution of party political attitudes which led to this agreement is essential in order to understand its significance. The following article gives a brief summary of the key provisions of the agreement, analyses the processes which led the different parties towards a position where agreement was possible and examines the referenda which ratified the agreement North and South and election results to the new Northern Ireland Assembly - the public's first opportunities to pass judgement on the efforts of their politicians.
http://doras.dcu.ie/531/
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'Ulster like Israel can only lose once': Ulster unionism, security and citizenship from the fall of Stormont to the eve of the 1998 Agreement
(2003)
Doyle, John
'Ulster like Israel can only lose once': Ulster unionism, security and citizenship from the fall of Stormont to the eve of the 1998 Agreement
(2003)
Doyle, John
http://doras.dcu.ie/2122/
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"Because It Is My Culture": Technology and Agency in the Overseas U. S. Cultural History Classroom
(2010)
Mancini, J.M.
"Because It Is My Culture": Technology and Agency in the Overseas U. S. Cultural History Classroom
(2010)
Mancini, J.M.
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The article presents the author's reflections on her experiences as a teacher of U.S. history and culture at several universities in England and Ireland, discussing the challenges she faced in teaching the material, her engagement with the different cultural and historical attitudes of the students, and the larger benefits of teaching trans-cultural studies. Comments are given focusing on her course work on the internet and the role of agency in historical studies. Anecdotes are provided describing her experiments in generating and analyzing U.S. cultural media with her students, highlighting its successes and failures.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2340/
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“There are two things that people don’t like to hear about themselves”: the anthropology of Ireland and the Irish view of anthropology
(1996)
Taylor, Lawrence J.
“There are two things that people don’t like to hear about themselves”: the anthropology of Ireland and the Irish view of anthropology
(1996)
Taylor, Lawrence J.
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My title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise publican of southwest Donegal. The year was 1973, and we had been discussing the public relations problems of anthropologists in Ireland. No doubt exaggerating, he told me that, according to his sources, neither of two ethnographers of small islands off the west coast could safely return to his research site. I asked him about a rather technical kinship article by another anthropologist who had conducted fieldwork close by in west Donegal; surely that had not upset anyone? His answer: “There are two things that people don’t like to hear about themselves; one of them is lies and the other’s the truth.”
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2043/
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1916 in 2006
(2008)
Conway, Brian
1916 in 2006
(2008)
Conway, Brian
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What was meant to be a direct and serious threat to British rule in Ireland in 1916 became a small-scale skirmish on the streets of Dublin that had little impact beyond the capital city. But the actions of the men and women who were behind the Easter Rising have an important claim on Irish collective memory. That the nationalist rhetoric of the now famous 1916 martyrs was wrapped in a religious idiom, and appealed to this-worldly as well as otherworldly sentiment, helped to ensure its place in posterity. For all the importance of this event in our collective memory though, it has not always been remembered as it was on Easter Sunday 2006, when the Irish state organised an elaborate official commemoration of the tragic and ill-fated rising, the first such event since 1966.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/3067/
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3D perception of numerical hologram reconstructions enhanced by motion and stereo
(2010)
Näsänen, Risto; Naughton, Thomas J.; Colomb, Tristan; Emery, Yves
3D perception of numerical hologram reconstructions enhanced by motion and stereo
(2010)
Näsänen, Risto; Naughton, Thomas J.; Colomb, Tristan; Emery, Yves
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We investigated the question of how the perception of 3D information of digital holograms reconstructed numerically and presented on conventional displays depends on motion and stereoscopic presentation. Perceived depth in an adjustable random pattern stereogram was matched to the depth in holographic objects. The objects in holograms were a microscopic biological cell and a macroscopic coil. Stereoscopic presentation increased perceived depth substantially in comparison to non-stereoscopic presentation. When stereoscopic cues were weak or absent e.g. because of blur, motion increased perceived depth considerably. However, when stereoscopic cues were strong, the effect of motion was small. In conclusion, for the maximisation of perceived 3D information of holograms on conventional displays, it seems highly beneficial to use the combination of motion and stereoscopic presentation.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2327/
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802.11 Wireless LAN Multiplayer Game Capacity and Optimization
(2009)
Qi, Hanghang; Malone, David; Botvich, Dmitri
802.11 Wireless LAN Multiplayer Game Capacity and Optimization
(2009)
Qi, Hanghang; Malone, David; Botvich, Dmitri
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Real-time multiplayer games are a popular application of networks and as IEEE 802.11 wireless networks are widely used, games are expected to be widely played on wireless networks. However, 802.11 networks with the normal MAC (DCF) may present some challenges when supporting real-time games traffic. In this work, we present a theoretical model which can predict the performance and capacity of 802.11 WLAN for Quake 4, a real-time FPS game. Using the wireless network game model, we derive throughput, delay, jitter and MOS (mean opinion score) as the number of game clients increases in the WLAN and predict that the capacity of a default 802.11b wireless network can support around 10 players for Quake 4. In 802.11e networks, QoS (quality of service) is provided with 4 configurable MAC layer parameters. With the network game model, we show that with proper TXOP configuration at the AP and game server, the network can be optimized and its capacity improves to around 15 players.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2216/
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A Capability Maturity Framework for Sustainable Information and Communication Technology
(2011)
Donnellan, Brian; Sheridan, Charles; Curry, Edward
A Capability Maturity Framework for Sustainable Information and Communication Technology
(2011)
Donnellan, Brian; Sheridan, Charles; Curry, Edward
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Researchers estimate that information and communication technology (ICT) is responsible for at least 2 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Furthermore, in any individual business, ICT is responsible for a much higher percentage of that business's GHG footprint. Yet researchers also estimate that ICT can provide business solutions to reduce its GHG footprint fivefold. However, because the field is new and evolving, few guidelines and best practices are available. To address this issue, a consortium of leading organizations from industry, the nonprofit sector, and academia has developed and tested a framework for systematically assessing and improving SICT capabilities. The Innovation Value Institute (IVI; http://ivi.nuim.ie) consortium used an open-innovation model of collaboration, engaging academia and industry in scholarly work to create the SICT-Capability Maturity Framework (SICT-CMF), which is discussed in this paper.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/3016/
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A comparative framework: how broadly applicable is a 'rigorous' critical junctures framework?
(2009)
Hogan, John; Doyle, David
A comparative framework: how broadly applicable is a 'rigorous' critical junctures framework?
(2009)
Hogan, John; Doyle, David
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The paper tests Hogan and Doyle's (2007, 2008) framework for examining critical junctures. This framework sought to incorporate the concept of ideational change in understanding critical junctures. Until its development, frameworks utilized in identifying critical junctures were subjective, seeking only to identify crisis, and subsequent policy changes, arguing that one invariably led to the other, as both occurred around the same time. Hogan and Doyle (2007, 2008) hypothesized ideational change as an intermediating variable in their framework, determining if, and when, a crisis leads to radical policy change. Here we test this framework on cases similar to, but different from, those employed in developing the exemplar. This will enable us determine whether the framework's relegation of ideational change to a condition of crisis holds, or, if ideational change has more importance than is ascribed to it by this framework. This will also enable us determined if the framework...
http://doras.dcu.ie/2079/
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A Fault Diagnosis Mechanism for a Proactive Maintenance Scheme for Wireless Systems
(2008)
Walsh, Barbara; Farrell, Ronan
A Fault Diagnosis Mechanism for a Proactive Maintenance Scheme for Wireless Systems
(2008)
Walsh, Barbara; Farrell, Ronan
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This paper presents the fault diagnosis mechanism for a proactive maintenance scheme for wireless systems which is aimed at reducing the high operational costs encountered in the wireless industry by decreasing maintenance costs and system downtime. An on-line monitoring system, based on the aforementioned fault diagnosis mechanism, is used to identify performance degradation, as well as its possible sources, so as to ensure that maintenance occurs only when necessary.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/1396/
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A Geographer's View of the 2009 Local Elections
(2009)
Kavanagh, Adrian
A Geographer's View of the 2009 Local Elections
(2009)
Kavanagh, Adrian
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http://eprints.nuim.ie/2966/
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A Highly Nonlinear Differentially 4 Uniform Power Mapping That Permutes Fields of Even Degree
(2010)
Bracken, Carl; Leander, Gregor
A Highly Nonlinear Differentially 4 Uniform Power Mapping That Permutes Fields of Even Degree
(2010)
Bracken, Carl; Leander, Gregor
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Functions with low differential uniformity can be used as the s-boxes of symmetric cryptosystems as they have good resistance to differential attacks. The AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) uses a differentially- 4 uniform function called the inverse function. Any function used in a symmetric cryptosystem should be a permutation. Also, it is required that the function is highly nonlinear so that it is resistant to Matsui’s linear attack. In this article we demonstrate that the highly nonlinear permutation f(x) = x22k+2k+1, discovered by Hans Dobbertin [7], has differential uniformity of four and hence, with respect to differential and linear cryptanalysis, is just as suitable for use in a symmetric cryptosystem as the inverse function.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2635/
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A hybrid technique for face detection in color images
(2005)
Cooray, Saman H.; O'Connor, Noel E.
A hybrid technique for face detection in color images
(2005)
Cooray, Saman H.; O'Connor, Noel E.
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In this paper, a hybrid technique for face detection in color images is presented. The proposed technique combines three analysis models, namely skin detection, automatic eye localization, and appearance-based face/nonface classification. Using a robust histogram-based skin detection model, skin-like pixels are first identified in the RGB color space. Based on this, face bounding-boxes are extracted from the image. On detecting a face bounding-box, approximate positions of the candidate mouth feature points are identified using the redness property of image pixels. A region-based eye localization step, based on the detected mouth feature points, is then applied to face bounding-boxes to locate possible eye feature points in the image. Based on the distance between the detected eye feature points, face/non-face classification is performed over a normalized search area using the Bayesian discriminating feature (BDF) analysis method. Some subjective evaluation results are presented on ...
http://doras.dcu.ie/235/
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A low complexity hardware architecture for motion estimation
(2006)
Larkin, Daniel; Muresan, Valentin; O'Connor, Noel E.
A low complexity hardware architecture for motion estimation
(2006)
Larkin, Daniel; Muresan, Valentin; O'Connor, Noel E.
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This paper tackles the problem of accelerating motion estimation for video processing. A novel architecture using binary data is proposed, which attempts to reduce power consumption. The solution exploits redundant operations in the sum of absolute differences (SAD) calculation, by a mechanism known as early termination. Further data redundancies are exploited by using a run length coding addressing scheme, where access to pixels which do not contribute to the final SAD value is minimised. By using these two techniques operations and memory accesses are reduced by 93.29% and 69.17% respectively relative to a systolic array implementation.
http://doras.dcu.ie/229/
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A methodology for validating artifact removal techniques for fNIRS
(2011)
Sweeney, Kevin; Ayaz, Hasan; Ward, Tomas; Izzetoglu, Meltem; McLoone, Sean; Onaral, Banu
A methodology for validating artifact removal techniques for fNIRS
(2011)
Sweeney, Kevin; Ayaz, Hasan; Ward, Tomas; Izzetoglu, Meltem; McLoone, Sean; Onaral, Banu
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fNIRS recordings are increasingly utilized to monitor brain activity in both clinical and connected health settings. These optical recordings provide a convenient measurement of cerebral hemodynamic changes which can be linked to motor and cognitive performance. Such measurements are of clinical utility in a broad range of conditions ranging from dementia to movement rehabilitation therapy. For such applications fNIRS is increasingly deployed outside the clinic for patient monitoring in the home. However, such a measurement environment is poorly controlled and motion, in particular, is a major source of artifacts in the signal, leading to poor signal quality for subsequent clinical interpretation. Artifact removal techniques are increasingly being employed with an aim of reducing the effect of the noise in the desired signal. Currently no methodology is available to accurately determine the efficacy of a given artifact removal technique due to the lack of a true reference for the un...
http://eprints.nuim.ie/3644/
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A psycholinguistic exploration of focus of attention in second language learning based on recent research findings from the field of motor skill learning
(2009)
Kelly-Coll, Clare
A psycholinguistic exploration of focus of attention in second language learning based on recent research findings from the field of motor skill learning
(2009)
Kelly-Coll, Clare
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Significant findings from motor skill learning research provide evidence that focus of attention (FOA), induced through instruction, impacts on performance and learning (Wulf, 2007). External FOA instructions, which direct focus to the effect of actions, enhance performance compared with internal focus instructions which direct focus towards the body. The objective of this explorative study is to investigate whether FOA as operationalised in the Wulf model can be transferred and replicated in the context of second language learning (SLL). Two cross-linguistic studies were conducted to investigate the effects of focus instructions on two sample populations comprising a total of 140 adult L2 learners of English. The experiments, run on E-Prime, involved grammaticality judgements and vocabulary learning conducted under practice and test conditions. Subjects were assigned to one of three instructional groups: baseline, internal or external-focus and accuracy and response times were anal...
http://doras.dcu.ie/14882/
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A religion that endures: the medieval legacy in Irish popular piety
(2005)
Ryan, Salvador
A religion that endures: the medieval legacy in Irish popular piety
(2005)
Ryan, Salvador
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There is a story told about a boy who wanted a bicycle for Christmas and who prayed earnestly to God, promising, in return, that he would be good for a whole month. He soon thought better of pledging such a long period of virtue and revised it to a week and, finally, to a single day. Realising that he might not have the necessary resources even for that length of time, he chose an alternative approach. Seeing a statue of the Virgin on top of the mantelpiece he took it down and wrapped it in a towel, addressing God once more in the words ‘If you ever want to see your mother again …’ We may remember hearing such a tale recounted at parish missions or novenas, conducted by members of religious orders in our youth, or on other occasions as part of an homiletic ice-breaker. Yet, many may not realise that the story itself has a long history. In a poem entitled Bláth an Mhachaire Muire (Mary’s Field-flower) by sixteenth-century Irish bardic poet, Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh, a version of this ...
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2305/
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A Sociological Study of Addiction: Power and Social Change from the "rock bottom up"
(2009)
Doyle, Patricia
A Sociological Study of Addiction: Power and Social Change from the "rock bottom up"
(2009)
Doyle, Patricia
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In this study the subject of addiction/recovery is used to ‘test’ the conceptual ideas of Margaret Archer (1996) and Thomas Smith (1995). Both are systems theorists’ and both engage in cause and effect analysis. As they hold contrasting views on how personal and cultural change takes place this study is an attempt to establish the direction of causal influence on social change as it applies to the history of addiction/recovery from each author’s perspective. By firstly examining the history of ideas (cultural system) from a critical realist perspective followed by an exploration of how the recovering community came to believe these ideas in the first place we are given a glimpse of the external (Archer,1996) and internal (Smith, 1995) constraints that the recovering community has confronted over time. Archer is keen to address the varying degrees of freedom and constraint agency confronts at both the cultural system and socio-cultural systems level over time. From her perspective th...
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2262/
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A Spectrum of Colors: Investigating the Temporal Frequency Characteristics of the Human Visual System Using a System Identification Approach
(2006)
Lalor, Edmund C.; Reilly, Richard B.; Pearlmutter, Barak A.; Foxe, John J.
A Spectrum of Colors: Investigating the Temporal Frequency Characteristics of the Human Visual System Using a System Identification Approach
(2006)
Lalor, Edmund C.; Reilly, Richard B.; Pearlmutter, Barak A.; Foxe, John J.
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Noise input signals are commonly used in both linear and nonlinear system identification of physiological systems. This method can be applied to electrophysiological analysis of the human visual system by controlling the modulation of the contrast of a checkerboard stimulus using a pre-computed noise waveform. In this study we describe how one can obtain an estimate of the linear impulse response of the visual system using noise waveforms. Furthermore, we examine the impulse responses obtained using noise signals with different frequency characteristics, in an attempt to investigate the temporal frequency characteristics of the human visual system. We show that noise signals with frequency content greater than 15 Hz are more effective at evoking these responses than those with little or no power at high frequencies.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2048/
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A statistical approach for robust polyp detection in CT colonography
(2005)
Chowdhury, Tarik A.; Ghita, Ovidiu; Whelan, Paul F.
A statistical approach for robust polyp detection in CT colonography
(2005)
Chowdhury, Tarik A.; Ghita, Ovidiu; Whelan, Paul F.
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In this paper we describe the development of a computationally efficient computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm based on the statistical features derived from the local colonic surface that are used for the detection of colonic polyps in computed tomography (CT) colonography. The candidate surface voxels were detected and clustered using the surface normal intersection, convexity test, region growing and Hough transform. The main objective of this paper is the selection of the statistical features that optimally capture the convexity of the candidate surface and consequently provide a high discrimination between local surfaces defined by polyps and folds. The developed polyp detection scheme is computationally efficient (typically takes 3.9 minute per dataset) and shows 100% sensitivity for phantom polyps greater than 5 mm and 87.5% sensitivity for real polyps greater than 5 mm with an average of 4.05 false positives per dataset
http://doras.dcu.ie/4671/
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A surface mountable glucose fuel cell for medical implants
(2007)
Kerzenmacher, S.; Sumbharaju, R.; Ducrée, Jens; Zengerle, R.; von Stetten, F.
A surface mountable glucose fuel cell for medical implants
(2007)
Kerzenmacher, S.; Sumbharaju, R.; Ducrée, Jens; Zengerle, R.; von Stetten, F.
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We present an enzymeless, surface mountable glucose fuel cell based on abiotic catalysts. The device is intended as an energy harvesting implantable power supply for low power medical implants and sensors. After 50 days of operation in physiological glucose solution the fuel cell exhibited a stable performance of 1.1 muW/cm2. The demonstrated lifetime of our glucose fuel cell therefore already exceeds the maximum lifetime reported for devices based on enzymatic catalysts. This renders the concept a promising approach for the development of autonomous and sustainable power supply systems for long- term medical implants.
http://doras.dcu.ie/15469/
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A systematic analysis of equivalence in multistage networks
(2002)
Collier, Martin
A systematic analysis of equivalence in multistage networks
(2002)
Collier, Martin
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Many approaches to switching in optoelectronic and optical networks decompose the switching function across multiple stages or hops. This paper addresses the problem of determining whether two multistage or multihop networks are functionally equivalent. Various ad-hoc methods have been used in the past to establish such equivalences. A systematic method for determining equivalence is presented based on properties of the link permutations used to interconnect stages of the network. This method is useful in laying out multistage networks, in determining optimal channel assignments for multihop networks, and in establishing the routing required in such networks. A purely graphical variant of the method, requiring no mathematics or calculations, is also described.
http://doras.dcu.ie/15511/
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A unified system for segmentation and tracking of face and hands in sign language recognition
(2006)
Awad, George M.; Han, Junwei; Sutherland, Alistair
A unified system for segmentation and tracking of face and hands in sign language recognition
(2006)
Awad, George M.; Han, Junwei; Sutherland, Alistair
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This paper presents a unified system for segmentation and tracking of face and hands in a sign language recognition using a single camera. Unlike much related work that uses colour gloves, we detect skin by combining 3 useful features: colour, motion and position. These features together, represent the skin colour pixels that are more likely to be foreground pixels and are within a predicted position range. We extend the previous research in occlusion detection to handle occlusion between any of the skin objects using a Kalman filter based algorithm. The tracking improves the segmentation by reducing the search space and the segmentation enhances the overall tracking process. The algorithm is tested on several video sequences from a standard database and can provide a very low error rate
http://doras.dcu.ie/225/
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