Mining actionlet ensemble for action recognition with depth cameras | Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Micromachines | Free Full-Text | WiFi-Aided Magnetic Matching for Indoor Navigation with Consumer Portable Devices | HTML
This paper presents a WiFi-aided magnetic matching (MM) algorithm for indoor pedestrian navigation with consumer portable devices. This algorithm reduces both the mismatching rate (i.e., the rate of matching to an incorrect point that is more than 20 m away from the true value) and computational load of MM by using WiFi positioning solutions to limit the MM search space. Walking tests with Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 smartphones in two different indoor environments (i.e., Environment #1 with abundant WiFi APs and significant magnetic features, and Environment #2 with less WiFi and magnetic information) were conducted to evaluate the proposed algorithm. It was found that WiFi fingerprinting accuracy is related to the signal distributions. MM provided results with small fluctuations but had a significant mismatch rate; when aided by WiFi, MM’s robustness was significantly improved. The outcome of this research indicates that WiFi and MM have complementary characteristics as the former is a point-by-point matching approach and the latter is based on profile-matching. Furthermore, performance improvement through integrating WiFi and MM depends on the environment (e.g., the signal distributions of magnetic intensity and WiFi RSS): In Environment #1 tests, WiFi-aided MM and WiFi provided similar results; in Environment #2 tests, the former was approximately 41.6% better. Our results supported that the WiFi-aided MM algorithm provided more reliable solutions than both WiFi and MM in the areas that have poor WiFi signal distribution or indistinctive magnetic-gradient features.
MSIWarp: A General Approach to Mass Alignment in Mass Spectrometry Imaging | Analytical Chemistry
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a technique that provides comprehensive molecular information with high spatial resolution from tissue. Today, there is a strong push toward sharing data sets through public repositories in many research fields where MSI is commonly applied; yet, there is no standardized protocol for analyzing these data sets in a reproducible manner. Shifts in the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) of molecular peaks present a major obstacle that can make it impossible to distinguish one compound from another. Here, we present a label-free m/z alignment approach that is compatible with multiple instrument types and makes no assumptions on the sample’s molecular composition. Our approach, MSIWarp (https://github.com/horvatovichlab/MSIWarp), finds an m/z recalibration function by maximizing a similarity score that considers both the intensity and m/z position of peaks matched between two spectra. MSIWarp requires only centroid spectra to find the recalibration function and is thereby readily applicable to almost any MSI data set. To deal with particularly misaligned or peak-sparse spectra, we provide an option to detect and exclude spurious peak matches with a tailored random sample consensus (RANSAC) procedure. We evaluate our approach with four publicly available data sets from both time-of-flight (TOF) and Orbitrap instruments and demonstrate up to 88% improvement in m/z alignment.
US Patent for Method, apparatus, server and system for vital sign detection and monitoring Patent (Patent # 10,735,298 issued August 4, 2020) - Justia Patents Search
Methods, apparatus and systems for detecting and monitoring vital signs and other periodic motions of an object are disclosed. In one example, a system for monitoring object motion in a venue is disclosed. The system comprises a transmitter, a receiver, and a vital sign estimator. The transmitter is located at a first position in the venue and configured for transmitting a wireless signal through a wireless multipath channel impacted by a pseudo-periodic motion of an object in the venue. The receiver is located at a second position in the venue and configured for: receiving the wireless signal through the wireless multipath channel impacted by the pseudo-periodic motion of the object in the venue, and obtaining at least one time series of channel information (TSCI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the wireless signal. The vital sign estimator is configured for: determining that at least one portion of the at least one TSCI in a current sliding time window is associated with the pseudo-periodic motion of the object in the venue, and computing a current characteristics related to the pseudo-periodic motion of the object in the current sliding time window based on at least one of: the at least one portion of the at least one TSCI in the current sliding time window, at least one portion of the at least one TSCI in a past sliding time window, and a past characteristics related to the pseudo-periodic motion of the object in the past sliding time window.
Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy (2D-COS) for Analysis of Spatially Resolved Vibrational Spectra - Peter Lasch, Isao Noda, 2019
The last two decades have seen tremendous progress in the application of two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2D-COS) as a versatile analysis method for da...
Surface-based brain imaging analysis offers the advantages of preserving the topology of cortical activation, increasing statistical power of group-level statistics, estimating cortical thickness, and visualizing with ease the pattern of activation across ...