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Hand-hygiene compliance and contacts of health-care workers largely determine the potential paths of pathogen transmission in hospital wards. We explored how the combination of data collected by two automated infrastructures based on…

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This paper proposes a method for utilizing thermal features of the hand for the purpose of presentation attack detection (PAD) that can be employed in a hand biometrics system's pipeline. By envisaging two different operational modes of our…

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Thermal cameras are an important tool for agricultural research because they allow for non-invasive measurement of plant temperature, which relates to important photochemical, hydraulic, and agronomic traits. Utilizing low-cost thermal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Heesup Yun , Sassoum Lo , Christine H. Diepenbrock , Brian N. Bailey , J. Mason Earles

The paper describes a method for measuring the thermal diffusivity of materials having a high thermal conductivity. The apparatus is rather simple and low-cost, being therefore suitable in a laboratory for undergraduate students of…

Physics Education · Physics 2014-01-15 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

Quantitative thermal imaging has the potential of reliable temperature measurement across an entire field-of-view. This non-invasive technique has applications in aerospace, manufacturing and process control. However, robust temperature…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-27 Jamie McMillan , Aaron Whittam , Maciej Rokosz , Rob Simpson

Wearable cameras are increasingly used as an observational and interventional tool for human behaviors by providing detailed visual data of hand-related activities. This data can be leveraged to facilitate memory recall for logging of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Soroush Shahi , Farzad Shahabi , Rama Nabulsi , Glenn Fernandes , Aggelos Katsaggelos , Nabil Alshurafa

This work combines the principles of the heat spreader method and imaging capability of the thermoreflectance measurements to measure the in-plane thermal conductivity of thin-films without the requirement of film suspension or multiple…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 T. Zhu , D. H. Olson , P. E. Hopkins , M. Zebarjadi

Telehealth is an increasingly critical component of the health care ecosystem, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rapid adoption of telehealth has exposed limitations in the existing infrastructure. In this paper, we study and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Kailas Vodrahalli , Roxana Daneshjou , Roberto A Novoa , Albert Chiou , Justin M Ko , James Zou

We propose a novel hand-object contact detection system based on grasp quality metrics extracted from object and hand poses, and evaluated its performance using the DexYCB dataset. Our evaluation demonstrated the system's high accuracy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Thanh Vinh Nguyen , Akansel Cosgun

Approximately 10% of newborns need some assistance to start breathing and 5\% proper ventilation. It is crucial that interventions are initiated as soon as possible after birth. Accurate documentation of Time of Birth (ToB) is thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jorge García-Torres , Øyvind Meinich-Bache , Siren Rettedal , Kjersti Engan

Our team are developing a new online test that analyses hand movement features associated with ageing that can be completed remotely from the research centre. To obtain hand movement features, participants will be asked to perform a variety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Guan Huang , Son N. Tran , Quan Bai , Jane Alty

We introduce BeaMsteerX (BMX), a novel mmWave hand hygiene gesture recognition technique that improves accuracy in longer ranges (1.5m). BMX steers a mmWave beam towards multiple directions around the subject, generating multiple views of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Isura Nirmal , Wen Hu , Mahbub Hassan , Elias Aboutanios , Abdelwahed Khamis

Reliable and accurate characterization of the electrocaloric effect is necessary to understand the intrinsic properties of materials. To date, several methods have been developed to directly measure the electrocaloric effect. However, each…

We introduce a technique based on infrared thermal emission, termed depth thermography, that can remotely measure the temperature distribution beneath the surface of certain objects. Depth thermography utilizes the thermal-emission spectrum…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yuzhe Xiao , Chenghao Wan , Alireza Shahsafi , Jad Salman , Mikhail A. Kats

Vital signs such as pulse rate and breathing rate are currently measured using contact probes. But, non-contact methods for measuring vital signs are desirable both in hospital settings (e.g. in NICU) and for ubiquitous in-situ health…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Mayank Kumar , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ashutosh Sabharval

Since late 2019, the global spread of COVID-19 has affected people's daily life. Temperature is an early and common symptom of Covid. Therefore, a convenient and remote temperature detection method is needed. In this paper, a non-contact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Kamrul H Foysal , Bipasha Kundu , Jo Woon Chong

Washing hands is one of the most important ways to prevent infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Unfortunately, medical staff does not always follow the World Health Organization (WHO) hand washing guidelines in their everyday work. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Maksims Ivanovs , Roberts Kadikis , Martins Lulla , Aleksejs Rutkovskis , Atis Elsts

Hand-tagged training data is essential to many machine learning tasks. However, training data quality control has received little attention in the literature, despite data quality varying considerably with the tagging exercise. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Leslie Barrett , Michael W. Sherman

Cryosurgery employs a safe and relatively simple technique of exposure and is an advantageous and highly rated method. For its effective application, it is necessary to control both the volume of the expanding freezing zone and volumetric…

Breathing rate is a vital health metric that is an invaluable indicator of the overall health of a person. In recent years, the non-contact measurement of health signals such as breathing rate has been a huge area of development, with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Robyn Maxwell , Timothy Hanley , Dara Golden , Adara Andonie , Joseph Lemley , Ashkan Parsi