scholarly journals Hip Positioning and Sitting Posture Recognition Based on Human Sitting Pressure Image

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 426
Author(s):  
Qilong Wan ◽  
Haiming Zhao ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Peng Xu

Bad sitting posture is harmful to human health. Intelligent sitting posture recognition algorithm can remind people to correct their sitting posture. In this paper, a sitting pressure image acquisition system was designed. With the system, we innovatively proposed a hip positioning algorithm based on hip templates. The average deviation of the algorithm for hip positioning is 1.306 pixels (the equivalent distance is 1.50 cm), and the proportion of the maximum positioning deviation less than three pixels is 94.1%. Statistics show that the algorithm works relatively well for different subjects. At the same time, the algorithm can not only effectively locate the hip position with a small rotation angle (0°–15°), but also has certain adaptability to the sitting posture with a medium rotation angle (15°–30°) or a large rotation angle (30°–45°). Using the hip positioning algorithm, the regional pressure values of the left hip, right hip and caudal vertebrae are effectively extracted as the features, and support vector machine (SVM) with polynomial kernel is used to classify the four types of sitting postures, with a classification accuracy of up to 89.6%.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (18) ◽  
pp. 6246
Author(s):  
Wenyu Cai ◽  
Dongyang Zhao ◽  
Meiyan Zhang ◽  
Yinan Xu ◽  
Zhu Li

As the intensity of work increases, many of us sit for long hours while working in the office. It is not easy to sit properly at work all the time and sitting for a long time with wrong postures may cause a series of health problems as time goes by. In addition, monitoring the sitting posture of patients with spinal disease would be beneficial for their recovery. Accordingly, this paper designs and implements a sitting posture recognition system from a flexible array pressure sensor, which is used to acquire pressure distribution map of sitting hips in a real-time manner. Moreover, an improved self-organizing map-based classification algorithm for six kinds of sitting posture recognition is proposed to identify whether the current sitting posture is appropriate. The extensive experimental results verify that the performance of ISOM-based sitting posture recognition algorithm (ISOM-SPR) in short outperforms that of four kinds of traditional algorithms including decision tree-based (DT), K-means-based (KM), back propagation neural network-based (BP), self-organizing map-based (SOM) sitting posture recognition algorithms. Finally, it is proven that the proposed system based on ISOM-SPR algorithm has good robustness and high accuracy.


Author(s):  
Jing Qi ◽  
Kun Xu ◽  
Xilun Ding

AbstractHand segmentation is the initial step for hand posture recognition. To reduce the effect of variable illumination in hand segmentation step, a new CbCr-I component Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is proposed to detect the skin region. The hand region is selected as a region of interest from the image using the skin detection technique based on the presented CbCr-I component GMM and a new adaptive threshold. A new hand shape distribution feature described in polar coordinates is proposed to extract hand contour features to solve the false recognition problem in some shape-based methods and effectively recognize the hand posture in cases when different hand postures have the same number of outstretched fingers. A multiclass support vector machine classifier is utilized to recognize the hand posture. Experiments were carried out on our data set to verify the feasibility of the proposed method. The results showed the effectiveness of the proposed approach compared with other methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6872
Author(s):  
Chien-Sheng Liu ◽  
Yi-Hsuan Lin ◽  
Chiu-Nung Yeh

In keeping with consumers’ preferences for electromagnetic motors of ever smaller power consumption, it is necessary to improve the power efficiency of the electromagnetic motors used in unmanned aerial vehicles and robots without sacrificing their performance. Three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) spherical motors have been developed for these applications. Accordingly, this study modifies the 3-DOF spherical motor proposed by Hirata’s group in a previous study (Heya, A.; Hirata, K.; Niguchi, N., Dynamic modeling and control of three-degree-of-freedom electromagnetic actuator for image stabilization, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 2018, 54, 8207905.) to accomplish a 3-DOF spherical motor for camera module with higher torque output in the large rotation angle. The main contribution of this study is to improve the static torque in the X- and Y-axes with an improved electromagnetic structure and a particular controlling strategy. In the structural design, eight symmetrical coils with specific coil combination are used instead of conventional four symmetrical coils. In this study, the development of the proposed 3-DOF spherical motor was constructed and verified by using a 3D finite-element method (3D FEM). The simulation results show that the proposed 3-DOF spherical motor has higher torque output in the large rotation angle when compared to the original 3-DOF spherical motor.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Xu ◽  
Genke Yang ◽  
Jiliang Luo ◽  
Jianan He

Electronic component recognition plays an important role in industrial production, electronic manufacturing, and testing. In order to address the problem of the low recognition recall and accuracy of traditional image recognition technologies (such as principal component analysis (PCA) and support vector machine (SVM)), this paper selects multiple deep learning networks for testing and optimizes the SqueezeNet network. The paper then presents an electronic component recognition algorithm based on the Faster SqueezeNet network. This structure can reduce the size of network parameters and computational complexity without deteriorating the performance of the network. The results show that the proposed algorithm performs well, where the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (ROC) and Area Under the Curve (AUC), capacitor and inductor, reach 1.0. When the FPR is less than or equal 10 − 6   level, the TPR is greater than or equal to 0.99; its reasoning time is about 2.67 ms, achieving the industrial application level in terms of time consumption and performance.


Author(s):  
Hedieh Sajedi ◽  
Mehran Bahador

In this paper, a new approach for segmentation and recognition of Persian handwritten numbers is presented. This method utilizes the framing feature technique in combination with outer profile feature that we named this the adapted framing feature. In our proposed approach, segmentation of the numbers into digits has been carried out automatically. In the classification stage of the proposed method, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) are used. Experimentations are conducted on the IFHCDB database consisting 17,740 numeral images and HODA database consisting 102,352 numeral images. In isolated digit level on IFHCDB, the recognition rate of 99.27%, is achieved by using SVM with polynomial kernel. Furthermore, in isolated digit level on HODA, the recognition rate of 99.07% is achieved by using SVM with polynomial kernel. The experiments illustrate that applying our proposed method resulted higher accuracy compared to previous researches.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 180160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-hong Yang ◽  
Huai-ying Fang ◽  
Ren-cheng Zhang ◽  
Kai Yang

Arc faults in low-voltage electrical circuits are the main hidden cause of electric fires. Accurate identification of arc faults is essential for safe power consumption. In this paper, a detection algorithm for arc faults is tested in a low-voltage circuit. With capacitance coupling and a logarithmic detector, the high-frequency radiation characteristics of arc faults can be extracted. A rapid method for computing the current waveform slope characteristics of an arc fault provides another characteristic. Current waveform periodic integral characteristics can be extracted according to asymmetries of the arc faults. These three characteristics are used to develop a detection algorithm of arc faults based on multiinformation fusion and support vector machine learning models. The tests indicated that for series arc faults with single and combination loads and for parallel arc faults between metallic contacts and along carbonization paths, the recognition algorithm could effectively avoid the problems of crosstalk and signal loss during arc fault detection.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 2613-2618

Among the most dangerous of cancers found in human beings, skin cancer is the prevalent one. These are of various forms. The most sporadic among them is melanoma. Early phase identification of melanoma will be helpful in curing it. Intensive skin exposure to UV radiation is the principal cause of melanoma. In this article, along with other techniques for extracting features (LDP [Local Directional Patterns], LBP [Local Binary Patterns], Convolutional Neural Networks [CNN]), we have used an SVM classifier for the study of melanoma skin photos. Such suggested algorithms are best graded when opposed to other recognition schemes. The LBP and LDP gives us means to extract features; these figures are subsequently used for identification of derived features from these methods or algorithms and classified or separated by the SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier. For many of the classifications of melanoma skin images using these algorithms, we have accuracy nearly above 80 %, whereby the LBP system together with the SVM classifier was the most powerful attribute extraction tool of the three with their polynomial kernel type. Thus using this algorithm-classifier, the melanoma skin lesion images can be detected and diagnosed by the doctors in its early stage itself, resultantly, helping save lives.


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