Coarse head pose estimation of construction equipment operators to formulate dynamic blind spots

Several hundred workers die in construction in the United States every year because equipment operators are unable to see their fellow workers during operation of their vehicle. In this paper we propose a step towards improving this situation by providing an automated method based on range imaging for estimating the coarse head orientation of a construction equipment operator. This research utilizes commercially-available low resolution range cameras to measure the continuously changing field-of-view (FOV) of an equipment operator in outdoor construction. This paper presents a methodology to measure so-called dynamic blind spot maps. The dynamic blind spot map is then projected on a known static equipment blind spot map that already exists to each construction vehicle. A robust computational coarse head pose estimation algorithm and results to three different pieces of construction equipment and multiple operators are presented. The developed method has the potential in automatically determining the spaces around vehicles that are currently not in the field-of-view of the vehicle operator thus providing eventually additional means and technology for improving safety in construction.     

Effect of change management capability in real-time environment: an information orientation perspective in supply chain management

Supply chain management (SCM) is an important strategic tool that requires careful planning and management. While the availability of real-time information is a critical aspect of an SCM system, it possesses a potential to disrupt supply chain participants. Thus, the success of an SCM system hinges on how well participants deal with changes taking place in a real-time environment. This study adopts the concept of the real-time enterprise to understand the role of change management on SCM performance based on the concept of the information orientation. The study empirically validated the role of change management on SCM performance.     

基于GIS组件的地下管线系统的设计与实现

目前城市的地下管线错综复杂,传统的人工管理方式已不能满足行政管理部门的决策和各专业管线单位的管理需要。为此文章在对地理信息系统研究的分析的基础上,分析了地下管理系统的开发模式和实现技术,确定了基于GIS组件二次开发的控件和算法,设计并实现了城市地下管线信息系统,在实际的应用中取得了较好的效果。     

Improving content visibility for high‐ambient‐illumination viewable display and energy‐saving display

Abstract— Nowadays, low‐contrast viewing of LC displays (LCDs) occurs very often, which includes the viewing of mobile LCDs at high ambient illumination and the viewing of LCDs at low‐power mode. These cases result in low‐content visibility and low contrast, leading to an unpleasant viewing experience. In this paper, a technique to improve the perceived contrast and visibility of images at low‐contrast viewing conditions is proposed. The proposed approach enhances image brightness with content and ambient adaptive image brightening and highlights visual parts and boundaries with non‐photorealistic rendering. The proposed technique enables longer battery life for mobile LC devices and makes mobile LC devices viewable at high ambient illumination. It also enables TVs with extreme low‐power consumption and smart‐grid responsive TVs.     

基于障碍物群的k全局相异最优有序路径查询

提出障碍k全局相异最优有序路径的查询问题,利用可视图的思想给出近似查询算法,通过作用集与障碍角度点的引入有效地减少构造可视图障碍对象的数量,分析查询点和数据点构成的线段与可视图的顶点和弧的关系,减少内部障碍路径的计算次数,实现算法的全面优化。实验结果表明,该算法具有较好的性能。     

一种新的协议安全性分析方法

对安全协议的本质求同和存异进行讨论,在保证协议正确性的前提下,以“挑战一响应”为协议分析的基本单位,提出一种利用集合运算分析协议安全性的方法,对Needham-Schroeder协议和Needham-Schroeder-Lowe协议的分析和验证结果表明,该方法具有较好的可行性和有效性。     

Users' psychological perception and perceived readability of wearable devices for elderly people

As the population of elderly people in society rises, the importance of technology to assist health management is growing with the demographic shift. Wearable personal computing has been the common solution proposed by related projects to fulfil the needs of elderly people. These add-on devices are attached to the users, and result in uneasiness or discomfort while wearing them in public areas. In this study, three common wearing positions – wrist, upper arm, and neck – were investigated in terms of psychological perception and perceived readability. Twenty-four Taiwanese participants in Miaoli area were asked to wear the designed prototypes for a certain time. The participants completed questionnaires and participated in an open-ended interview. Data of psychological perceptions, visibility, and readability about wearable devices were collected. The results evidenced that the personal attributes of gender, smart device user, and requirement for medical care affect the psychological perception and user attitudes. The statistical results indicated significant differences in elderly people's attitudes towards wearable devices attached to different parts of the body. The wrist was the most favourable location to attach a wearable device.     

互连寄生电容器中屏蔽导体的快速判断

应用层次式Ｚ缓冲区可视性算法的思想,实现了一种互连寄生电容器中屏蔽导体的快速判断算法,能准确地确定对电容值影响较小的导体,并加以消除,当用边界元法提取甚多环境导体对关键路径产生的寄生电容时,可在满足计算精度的条件下,显著地提高计算速度。     

Identification and sizing of the entirely visible rocks from a 3D surface data segmentation of laboratory rock piles

Once segmentation of 3D surface data of a rock pile has been performed, the next task is to determine the visibility of the surface rocks. A region boundary-following algorithm that accommodates irregularly spaced 3D coordinate data is presented for determining this visibility. We examine 3D surface segmentations of laboratory rock piles and determine which regions in the segmentation correspond to entirely visible rocks, and which correspond to overlapped or partially visible rocks. This is a significant distinction as it allows accurate size determination of entirely visible rocks, separate handling of partially visible rocks, and prevents erroneous bias resulting from mishandling partially visible rocks as smaller entirely visible rocks. Literature review indicates that other rock pile sizing techniques fail to make this distinction. The rock visibility results are quantified by comparison to manual surface classifications of the laboratory piles and the size results are quantified by comparison to the sieve size.