Experimental Comparison between Event and Global Shutter Cameras.

We compare event-cameras with fast (global shutter) frame-cameras experimentally, asking: "What is the application domain, in which an event-camera surpasses a fast frame-camera?" Surprisingly, finding the answer has been difficult. Our methodology was to test event- and frame-cameras on generic computer vision tasks where event-camera advantages should manifest. We used two methods: (1) a controlled, cheap, and easily reproducible experiment (observing a marker on a rotating disk at varying speeds); (2) selecting one challenging practical ballistic experiment (observing a flying bullet having a ground truth provided by an ultra-high-speed expensive frame-camera).

The use of a CZT detector with robotic systems.

This work is focused on the use of a CZT detector for a radiation mapping with an industrial robotic arm. Measurements were carried out within the RadioRoSo experiment (Radioactive Waste Robotic Sorter), under the umbrella of EU FP7 project ECHORD++. In tests with a dual-arm robot and standard point sources of Cs and Co, a Magnox waste was mimicked.

Validation of a new tool for automatic assessment of tremor frequency from video recordings.

We present a validation study for TremAn--a tool for automatic detection of tremor and measurement of its frequency from video recordings. To assess the validity of TremAn we designed a study consisting of tremor assessment from video, by accelerometry and by clinical evaluation using Fahn-Tolosa-Marin scale. 26 patients with essential tremor and 5 healthy volunteers underwent the examination in four standardized positions with focus on the hand tremor.

Action tremor analysis from ordinary video sequence.

This paper focuses on tremor frequency analysis from the video sequence. In order to analyse the video data, the signal needs to be extracted from the video using the intensity change of the local area in time. Next, the power spectral density is used for the frequency estimate from the signal.

The use of computer vision techniques to augment home based sensorised environments.

Technology within the home environment is becoming widely accepted as a means to facilitate independent living. Nevertheless, practical issues of detecting different tasks between multiple persons within the same environment along with managing instances of uncertainty associated with recorded sensor data are two key challenges yet to be fully solved. This work presents details of how computer vision techniques can be used as both alternative and complementary means in the assessment of behaviour in home based sensorised environments.

Physiological responses of over-wintering common carp (Cyprinus carpio) to disturbance by Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra).

Using a tame animal, the impact of otter (Lutra lutra) disturbance on over-wintering carp (Cyprinus carpio) was monitored in two experiments, 133 and 140 days, respectively, over two consecutive winters (November-April). The level of stress in over-wintering carp exposed to various intensities of disturbance by otters was quantified using biological indicators of stress (cortisol, cortisone, indices of nitrogen, carbohydrate, lipid and mineral metabolism and activity of basic blood plasma enzymes) taken from blood plasma of stocked carp at the end of the winter seasons (when the photoperiod was 12 light:12 dark, respectively, 13L:10D). Moreover, condition (Fulton's coefficient of condition and fat content in muscles) and mortality rate of that carp were measured after over-wintering and also after the subsequent vegetation period.

Parallel image reconstruction using B-spline approximation (PROBER).

A new reconstruction method for parallel MRI called PROBER is proposed. The method PROBER works in an image domain similar to methods based on Sensitivity Encoding (SENSE). However, unlike SENSE, which first estimates the spatial sensitivity maps, PROBER approximates the reconstruction coefficients directly by B-splines.