Indoor positioning systems (IPS) use sensors and communication technologies to locate
objects in indoor environments. IPS are attracting scientific and enterprise interest because …

The promise of being able to be inside another world might be resolved by Virtual Reality. It
wouldn't be naïve to assume that we will be able to enter and completely feel another world …

Microsoft Kinect had a key role in the development of consumer depth sensors being the
device that brought depth acquisition to the mass market. Despite the success of this sensor …

The proportion of individuals with depression has rapidly increased along with the growth of
the global population. Depression has been the currently most prevalent mental health …

In this chapter, we propose a comparison between two techniques for one-shot person re-
identification from soft biometric cues. One is based upon a descriptor composed of features …

For years, the games, except their entertaining aspect, have acquired an educational
character. In recent decades, games have evolved and we were led up to the electronic …

In this work, we describe a novel method for creating 3D models of persons freely moving in
front of a consumer depth sensor and we show how they can be used for long-term person …

During the last three years after the launch of the Microsoft Kinect® in the end-consumer
market we have become witnesses of a small revolution in computer vision research …

This novel work is aimed at the study of emotion recognition from gestures using Kinect
sensor. The Kinect sensor along with Software Development Kit (SDK) generates the human …

This paper discusses the nature and limits of player embodiment within digital games. We
identify a convergence between everyday bodily actions and activity within digital …