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From the pills to environment – Prediction and tracking of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug concentrations in wastewater
PublicationThe extend of environment pollution by pharmaceuticals is in a stage that required more automatic and integrated solutions. The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are one of the most popular pharmaceutical in the world and emerging pollutants of natural waters. The aim of the paper was to check the correlation of the sales data of selected NSAIDs (ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac) and their concentration in the WWTP...
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Target tracking in RIS
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Gaze tracking in multi-display environment
PublicationThis paper presents the basic ideas of eye and gaze tracking in multiple-display environment. The algorithm for display detection and identification is described as well as the rules for gaze interaction in multi display environment. The core of the method is to use special LED markers and eye and scene tracking glasses. Scene tracking camera registers markers position which is then represented as a cloud of points. Analyzing the...
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Piotr Szczuko dr hab. inż.
PeoplePiotr Szczuko received his M.Sc. degree in 2002. His thesis was dedicated to examination of correlation phenomena between perception of sound and vision for surround sound and digital image. He finished Ph.D. studies in 2007 and one year later completed a dissertation "Application of Fuzzy Rules in Computer Character Animation" that received award of Prime Minister of Poland. His interests include: processing of audio and video, computer...
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Eye-tracking Web Usability Research
PublicationIn this paper we present the results of a study that aims to evaluate the usability of three selected web services, based on eye–tracking and thinking aloud techniques. The gathered comments and observations, recapitulated and supported by particular measures, allow us to discover and describe typical user behavior pertaining to given tasks to solve.
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Automatic Tracking with PTZ Cameras
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Servo tracking of targets at sea
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono propozycje systemu sterowania układem śledzącym umieszczonym na okręcie. Przedstawiono dynamikę błędów śledzenia obiektu we współrzędnych LOS (ang., Line - Of - Sight). Zostało wykazane, że regulacja błędów śledzenia LOS jest możliwa przy pomocy sprzężenia feed-forward od prędkości śledzonego obiektu. Ponieważ prędkość ta nie jest mierzalna zastosowano filtr Kalmana w celu jej estymacji. Ponieważ problem...
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Pose-Configurable Generic Tracking of Elongated Objects
PublicationElongated objects have various shapes and can shift, rotate, change scale, and be rigid or deform by flexing, articulating, and vibrating, with examples as varied as a glass bottle, a robotic arm, a surgical suture, a finger pair, a tram, and a guitar string. This generally makes tracking of poses of elongated objects very challenging. We describe a unified, configurable framework for tracking the pose of elongated objects, which...
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Emotion monitoring system for drivers
PublicationThis article describes a new approach to the issue of building a driver monitoring system. Actual systems focus, for example, on tracking eyelid and eyebrow movements that result from fatigue. We propose a different approach based on monitoring the state of emotions. Such a system assumes that by using the emotion model based on our own concept, referred to as the reverse Plutchik’s paraboloid of emotions, the recognition of emotions...
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On Bayesian Tracking and Prediction of Radar Cross Section
PublicationWe consider the problem of Bayesian tracking of radar cross section. The adopted observation model employs the gamma family, which covers all Swerling cases in a unified framework. State dynamics are modeled using a nonstationary autoregressive gamma process. The principal component of the proposed solution is a nontrivial gamma approximation, applied during the time update recursion. The superior performance of the proposed approach...
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Parallel frequency tracking with built-in performance evaluation
PublicationThe problem of estimation of instantaneous frequency of a nonstationary complex sinusoid (cisoid) buried in wideband noise is considered. The proposed approach employs a bank of adaptive notch filters, extended with a nontrivial performance assessment mechanism which automatically chooses the best performing filter in the bank. Additionally, a computationally attractive method of implementing the bank is proposed. The new structure...
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Eye tracking within near-to-eye display
PublicationIn this paper we investigate the effectiveness of the gaze interaction within near-to-eye display. The practical aspect of the paper is about combining an eye tracker with smart glasses. Presented research is related with the eGlasses project, which is focused on the development of an open platform in the form of multisensory electronic glasses and related interaction methods. One of the implemented interaction methods is the one...
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AQUA-DUCT: a ligands tracking tool
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An unorthodox view on the problem of tracking facial expressions
PublicationRecent developments in imaging cameras has opened a new way of analyzing facial expression. We would like to take advantage from this new technology and present a method of imaging and processing images of human face as a response to the particular stimuli. The response in this case is represented by the facial expressions and the stimuli are still images representing six basic emotions according to Eckmann. Working hypothesis...
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An unorthodox view on the problem of tracking facial expressions
PublicationRecent developments in imaging cameras has opened a new way of analyzing facial expression. We would like to take advantage from this new technology and present a method of imaging and processing images of human face as a response to the particular stimuli. The response in this case is represented by the facial expressions and the stimuli are still images representing six basic emotions according to Eckmann. Working hypothesis...
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Nonlinear Fuzzy Control System for Dissolved Oxygen with Aeration System in Sequencing Batch Reactor
PublicationBiological processes at a wastewater treatment plant are complex, multivariable, time varying and nonlinear. Moreover, interactions between the components are very strong. Control of dissolved oxygen is one of most important task at the plant. The level of dissolved oxygen in aerobic tanks has significant influence on behaviour and activity of microorganisms at the plant. Air for aerated tanks is supplied by the aeration system...
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Automatic detection of abandoned luggage employing a dual camera system
PublicationA system for automatic detection of events using a system of fixed and PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras is described. Images from the fixed camera are analyzed by means of object detection and tracking. Event detection system uses a set of rules to analyze data on the tracked moving objects and to detect defined events. A PTZ camera is used to obtain a detailed view of a selected object. A procedure for conversion between the pixel...
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Exploiting audio-visual correlation by means of gaze tracking
PublicationThis paper presents a novel means for increasing audio-visual correlation analysis reliability. This is done based on gaze tracking technology engineered at the Multimedia Systems Department of the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. In the paper, the past history and current research in the area of audio-visual perception analysis are shortly reviewed. Then the methodology employing gaze tracking is presented along with the...
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Video content analysis in the urban area telemonitoring system
PublicationThe task of constant monitoring of video streams from a large number of cameras and reviewing the recordings in order to find a specified event requires a considerable amount of time and effort from the system operators and it is prone to errors. A solution to this problem is an automatic system for constant analysis of camera images being able to raise an alarm if a predefined event is detected. The chapter presents various aspects...
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RF Indoor Positioning System Supported by Wireless Computer Vision Sensors
PublicationIn this paper the possibility of increase the accuracy of RF fingerprinting indoor tracking system by the use of additional information from simple vision system is examined. As the distances in signal space differs from ones in real environment the ambiguity in decision process of fingerprinting algorithm can occur when set of closest distances between tag and map points in signal space corresponds to big distances differences...
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Multiregional PI control strategy for dissolved oxygen and aeration system control at biological wastewater treatment plant
PublicationThe dissolved oxygen is a key parameter for biological processes at wastewater treatment plant. The dissolved oxygen tracking problem is one of the most complex and fundamental issue of biological processes. The paper proposes a new multiregional control strategy for dissolved oxygen tracking problem. The aeration system is included in overall control structure. The control mechanism within the operating point area is based on...
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Tonality Estimation and Frequency Tracking of Modulated Tonal Components
PublicationA novel method for tonality estimation and frequency tracking of tonal components modulated in frequency and amplitude is presented. The algorithm detects the local maxima of magnitude spectra corresponding to three contiguous frames of a signal and matches them into the tonal track candidates. The magnitude-based and phase-based methods are used to estimate the frequency jumps between spectrum maxima belonging to the tonal track...
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Automatic Optimization Of Adaptive Notch Filter’s Frequency Tracking
PublicationEstimation of instantaneous frequency of narrowband com- plex sinusoids is often performed using lightweight algo- rithms called adaptive notch filters. However, to reach high performance, these algorithms require careful tuning. The paper proposes a novel self-tuning layer for a recently intr o- ducedadaptive notch filtering algorithm. Analysis shows th at, under Gaussian random-walk type assumptions, the resultin g solution converges...
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Bibliometric approach to tracking the concept of international competitiveness
PublicationThe main aim of paper is to identify the growth pattern in the international competitiveness literature, its core publications and key research domains on the basis of bibliometric data from the years 1945–2015. Citation data is collected from the ISI Web of Science Website, Scopus and Google Scholar, and analysed using HistCite, Pajek and VOSviewer software. Bibliometric indicators, network citation, key-route path methods and...
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An unorthodox view on the problem of tracking facial expressions
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Tracking of the Multimodal Ordering Process in FePd Alloy
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Tracking analysis of a generalized adaptive notch filter
PublicationUogólniony adaptacyjny filtr wycinający służy do identyfikacji obiektów zmieniających się w sposób pseudookresowy. W pracy przedstawiono analizę własności śledzących takiego filtru a także omówiono zasady jego strojenia.
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Multiple frequency tracker with improved tracking Capabilities
PublicationW pracy zaproponowano prostą modyfikację znanego z literatury wieloczęstotliwościowego adaptacyjnego filtra wycinającego, prowadzącą do istotnej poprawy jego charakterystyk nadążania.
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Multiple Cues-Based Robust Visual Object Tracking Method
PublicationVisual object tracking is still considered a challenging task in computer vision research society. The object of interest undergoes significant appearance changes because of illumination variation, deformation, motion blur, background clutter, and occlusion. Kernelized correlation filter- (KCF) based tracking schemes have shown good performance in recent years. The accuracy and robustness of these trackers can be further enhanced...
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Surgical tool tracking by on-line selection of structural correlation filters
PublicationIn visual tracking of surgical instruments, correlation filtering finds the best candidate with maximal correlation peak. However, most trackers only consider capturing target appearance but not target structure. In this paper we propose surgical instrument tracking approach that integrates prior knowledge related to rotation of both shaft and tool tips. To this end, we employ rigid parts mixtures model of an instrument. The rigidly...
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Underwater Navigation System Based on Doppler Shifts of a Continuous Wave
PublicationThe paper describes a concept of an underwater navigation system designed to determine the location and speed of its ROVs or divers. Conducted by the Department of Marine Electronic Systems at the Gdansk University of Technology for several years, research has focused on navigation systems which determine positions on the basis of Doppler shifts of echo signals reflected from a moving object. This article presents a different version...
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Comparison of Tracking Methods in Respect of Automation of Animal Behavioral Test
PublicationAutomation in experiments carried out on animals is getting more and more important in research. Computers take over laborious and time-consuming activities like recording and analysing images of experiment scene. The first step in an image analysis is finding and distinguishing between the observed animals, and then tracking all objects during the experiment. In this paper four tracking methods are presented. Quantitative and...
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Cartographic Representation of Route Reconstruction Results in Video Surveillance System
PublicationThe video streams available in a surveillance system distributed on the wide area may be accompanied by metadata are obtained as a result of video processing. Many algorithms applied to surveillance systems, e.g. event detection or object tracking, are strictly connected with localization of the object and reconstruction of its route. Drawing related information on a plan of a building or on a map of the city can facilitate the...
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Increasing the Efficiency of Ontology Alignment by Tracking Changes in Ontology Evolution
PublicationIn this paper we present a development of our ontology alignment framework based on varying semantics of attributes. Emphasising the analysis of explicitly given descriptions of how attributes change meanings they entail while being included within different concepts have been proved useful. Moreover, we claim that it is consistent with the intuitive way how people see the real world and how they find similarities and correspondences...
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AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZATION OF ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTER’S FREQUEN CY TRACKING
PublicationEstimation of instantaneous frequency of narrowband com- plex sinusoids is often performed using lightweight algo- rithms called adaptive notch filters. However, to reach high performance, these algorithms require careful tuning. The paper proposes a novel self-tuning layer for a recently intr o- ducedadaptive notch filtering algorithm. Analysis shows th at, under Gaussian random-walk type assumptions, the resultin g solution converges...
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Objectivization of audio-video correlation assessment experiments
PublicationThe purpose of this paper is to present a new method of conducting an audio-visual correlation analysis employing a head-motion-free gaze tracking system. First, a review of related works in the domain of sound and vision correlation is presented. Then assumptions concerning audio-visual scene creation are shortly described. The objectivization process of carrying out correlation tests employing gaze-tracking system is outlined....
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Counting and tracking vehicles using acoustic vector sensors
PublicationA method is presented for counting vehicles and for determining their movement direction by means of acoustic vector sensor application. The assumptions of the method employing spatial distribution of sound intensity determined with the help of an integrated 3D intensity probe are discussed. The intensity probe developed by the authors was used for the experiments. The mode of operation of the algorithm is presented in conjunction...
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Targed tracking with adaptive fusionof multiple sensor measurements.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono metodę adaptacyjnej selekcji pomiarów z wielu radarów wykorzystywanych w procesie integracji pomiarów dla śledzenia obserwowanego obiektu. W przypadku dużego zróżnicowania dokładności pomiarów pochodzących z różnych radarów, rezultaty integracji pomiarów nie różnią się znacząco od wyników śledzenia opartego na pomiarach z najbardziej dokładnego źródła.
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MTS pilot tone tracking for "wow" distortion determination
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia nowy algorytm do wyznaczania charakterystyki kołysania dźwięku na podstawie śledzenia zmian tonu pilota MTS. Śledzenie zmian częstotliwości nośnej tonu MTS pozwala określić zmienną w czasie głębokość pasożytniczych modulacji częstotliwości będących konsekwencją kołysania. Na tej podstawie tworzona jest charakterystyka zniekształcenia. Proponowany algorytm bazuje na zaproponowanej wcześniej metodzie śledzenie...
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EBE: elastic blob ensemble for coarse human tracking
PublicationProponujemy nowy probabilistyczny algorytm śledzenia oparty na elastycznym zespole kropelkowym (EBE), który ma zastosowanie przy śledzeniu obiektów elastycznych. Wynikiem jest wskazówka nt. zgrubnego ruchu w postaci lokalizacji i orientacji obiektu wraz z lokalizacją kropelki. Głównym założeniem jest to, że orientacja całego obiektu nie zmienia się znacznie między sąsiednimi klatkami. Dyskretna przestrzeń rozwiązań jest tworzona...
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On the use of instantaneous complex frequency for pitch and formant tracking.
PublicationW pracy opisano algorytm śledzenia częstotliwości podstawowej i formantów mowy z wykorzystaniem zespolonej pulsacji chwilowej. Działanie algorytmu przetestowano na nagraniach polskich samogłosek, których wysokość zmieniała się płynnie. Wyniki testów wraz z porównaniem działania opisanej metody i metody predykcji liniowej zawarto w artykule.
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Improvement of time difference of arrival measurements resolution by using fractional delay filters in a direct sequence-code division multiple access radionavigation system
PublicationThis study presents a method of improving time measurements resolution in a direct sequence-code division multiple access receiver by using a fine code tracking loop based on fractional delay filtering of a despreading sequence. It briefly describes the structure of a generic digital code tracking loop and the proposed modification which allows to measure time difference of arrival values with the subsample resolution, together...
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Multimodal system for diagnosis and polysensory stimulation of subjects with communication disorders
PublicationAn experimental multimodal system, designed for polysensory diagnosis and stimulation of persons with impaired communication skills or even non-communicative subjects is presented. The user interface includes an eye tracking device and the EEG monitoring of the subject. Furthermore, the system consists of a device for objective hearing testing and an autostereoscopic projection system designed to stimulate subjects through their...
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Nonlinear fuzzy control of the dissolved oxygen in activated sludge processes
PublicationWastewater treatment plant is generally a complex, multivariable, time varying and nonlinear large scale industrial system. Moreover, interactions between the components are very strong. The dissolved oxygen tracking problem is one of the most complex and fundamental issues of biological processes. Air for the aerated tanks is supplied by aeration system (blowers, pipes, diffusers). It is a complex dynamic system. The new control...
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LRIT - a novel system of vessels monitoring for maritime security and safety
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono propozycję architektury przyszłego, globalnego systemu monitorowania statków LRIT (Long Range ship's Identification and Tracking) podlegających konwencji SOLAS. Przedstawiono i scharakteryzowano poszczególne komponenty systemu ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem aspektów radiokomunikacyjnych.
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Tracking of the broadband source of the underwater noise in the very shallow water conditions
PublicationThe paper contains the result s, both theoretical and experimental , connected with the tracking of the underwater noise source as small ships, pontoon , diver and so on. The pro blem of security in the shallow water area is the challenge for underwater acousticians. In this paper there is take n into account the detection of the sources that move on the surface of the sea or underwater in shallow...
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Objectivization of Audio-Visual Correlation analysis
PublicationSimultaneous perception of audio and visual stimuli often causes the concealment or misrepresentation of information actually contained in these stimuli. Such effects are called the ''image proximity effect'' or the ''ventriloquism effect'' in literature. Until recently, most research carried out to understand their nature was based on subjective assessments. The Authors of this paper propose a methodology based on both subjective...
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Performance evaluation of the parallel object tracking algorithm employing the particle filter
PublicationAn algorithm based on particle filters is employed to track moving objects in video streams from fixed and non-fixed cameras. Particle weighting is based on color histograms computed in the iHLS color space. Particle computations are parallelized with CUDA framework. The algorithm was tested on various GPU devices: a desktop GPU card, a mobile chipset and two embedded GPU platforms. The processing speed depending on the number...
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Resolving Conflicts in Object Tracking in Video Stream Employing Key Point Matching
PublicationA novel approach to resolving ambiguous situations in object tracking in video streams is presented. The proposed method combines standard tracking technique employing Kalman filters with global feature matching method. Object detection is performed using a background subtraction algorithm, then Kalman filters are used for object tracking. At the same time, SURF key points are detected only in image sections identified as moving...
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Using Eye-tracking to get information on the skills acquisition by the radiology residents
PublicationThis paper describes the possibility of monitoring the progress of knowledge and skills acquisition by the students of radiology. It is achieved by an analysis of a visual attention distribution patterns during image-based tasks solving. The concept is to use the eye-tracking data to recognize the way how the radiographic images are read by recognized experts, radiography residents involved in the training program, and untrained...