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A touchless passive Infrared gesture sensor. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Wojtczuk, P., Binnie, D., Armitage, A., Chamberlain, T., & Giebeler, C. (2013). A touchless passive Infrared gesture sensor. In Proceeding of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Technology (67-68). https://doi.org/10.1145/2508468.2514713

A sensing device for a touchless, hand gesture, user interface based on an inexpensive passive infrared pyroelectric detector array is presented. The 2 x 2 element sensor responds to changing infrared radiation generated by hand movement over the arr... Read More about A touchless passive Infrared gesture sensor..

Room occupancy measurement using low-resolution infrared cameras. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Berger, M., & Armitage, A. (2010). Room occupancy measurement using low-resolution infrared cameras. . https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2010.0521

Measuring room occupancy has always been a desirable endeavour. This could be for security reasons, to save energy or simply for statistical reasons. Recently the use of thermal imaging systems in this area has increased as these systems became cheap... Read More about Room occupancy measurement using low-resolution infrared cameras..

An embedded real-time pedestrian detection system using an infrared camera. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Walczyk, R., Armitage, A., & Binnie, D. (2010). An embedded real-time pedestrian detection system using an infrared camera. In IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2009). https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2009.1716

An FPGA-based implementation of a pedestrian detection system using thermal infrared imaging is presented. The main feature of the processing platform is its ability to detect pedestrians at frame-rate from an infrared video stream. It is designed... Read More about An embedded real-time pedestrian detection system using an infrared camera..

Comparative study on connected component labeling algorithms for embedded video processing systems. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Walczyk, R., Armitage, A., & Binnie, D. (2010). Comparative study on connected component labeling algorithms for embedded video processing systems. In H. Deligiannidis (Ed.), Proceedings of the IPCV'10

The objective of this paper is to carry out a detailed analysis of the most popular connected components labeling (CCL) algorithms for binary images. This study investigates their usability for processing streaming data and suitability for implementa... Read More about Comparative study on connected component labeling algorithms for embedded video processing systems..

JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Kosek, A., Kerridge, J., Syed, A., & Armitage, A. (2009). JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing. In P. H. Welch, H. Roebbers, J. F. Broenink, F. R. M. Barnes, C. G. Ritson, A. T. Sampson, & G. S. Vinter (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2009 - WoTUG-32 (363-373). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-065-0-363

Device and service discovery is a very important topic when considering pervasive environments. The discovery mechanism is required to work in networks with dynamic topology and on limited software, and be able to accept different device descriptions... Read More about JCSP agents-based service discovery for pervasive computing..

Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Jones, T., Lawson, S., Benyon, D., & Armitage, A. (2007). Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions. In Digital Human Modeling (120-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73321-8_14

The research presented here makes a contribution to the understanding of the recognition of biological motion by comparing human recognition of a set of everyday gestures and motions with machine interpretation of the same dataset. Our reasoning is t... Read More about Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions.

Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, T., Armitage, A., Rutter, M., & Binnie, D. (2006). Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction. In ITS World Congress (1-11)

Automated pedestrian sensing and tracking is receiving increasing attention from researchers in a number of areas. Applications are common in security, in urban planning, and in the retail industry. A common approach is to use CCTV and visible image... Read More about Pedestrian sensing with feature extraction..

Working towards identifiable feature extraction from a pedestrian’s gait. (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, T., Armitage, A., Rutter, M., & Binnie, D. (2006). Working towards identifiable feature extraction from a pedestrian’s gait. In 37th UTSG conference

This paper describes our work measuring the movement of pedestrians. We describe our data collection system, processing techniques and introduce our data analysis software system. Our work aims to provide data to improve security and monitoring of... Read More about Working towards identifiable feature extraction from a pedestrian’s gait..

A comparison of video and infrared based tracking of pedestrian movements. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., Kukla, R., Willis, A., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., & Lei, L. (2005). A comparison of video and infrared based tracking of pedestrian movements. In S. P. Hoogendoom, S. Luding, P. H. L. Bovy, M. Schreckenberg, & D. E. Wolf (Eds.), Traffic and granular flow 03 (383-392). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28091-X_37

We provide a comparison of the relative merits of video and infrared based methods for collecting pedestrian movements from the real world and also from experimental environments. We describe the underlying technological basis of both methods and the... Read More about A comparison of video and infrared based tracking of pedestrian movements..

Tracking pedestrians using visible and infrared systems (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Armitage, A., Binnie, D., Chamberlain, T., Nilsson, M., & Rutter, M. (2005). Tracking pedestrians using visible and infrared systems. In Universities Transport Study Group conference (1-9)

In this paper, we will describe a number of research projects at Napier University on pedestrian tracking. This work started with systems based on ordinary cameras working at visible wavelengths. This work has expanded to include infrared imaging sys... Read More about Tracking pedestrians using visible and infrared systems.

Monitoring the movement of pedestrians using low-cost infrared detectors: initial findings. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., Lei, L., & Sumpter, N. (2004). Monitoring the movement of pedestrians using low-cost infrared detectors: initial findings.

Monitoring the movement of pedestrians in everyday environments is difficult, especially if accurate data are required. Typically, data pertaining to the origins and destinations of pedestrians as they move around a space can be obtained only by eith... Read More about Monitoring the movement of pedestrians using low-cost infrared detectors: initial findings..

Measuring pedestrian trajectories with low cost infrared detectors: Preliminary results. (2003)
Conference Proceeding
Armitage, A., Binnie, D., Kerridge, J., & Lei, L. (2003). Measuring pedestrian trajectories with low cost infrared detectors: Preliminary results. In E. R. Galea (Ed.), Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics: 2nd International Conference held at the Old Naval College, University of Greenwich, London, 20-22 August 2003 (101-110)

The accurate measurement of pedestrian trajectories has been difficult to achieve in environments other than carefully controlled laboratories. Traditional techniques include direct observation, and analysis of recorded video footage. The Transport R... Read More about Measuring pedestrian trajectories with low cost infrared detectors: Preliminary results..

A novel method for the performance modelling of a gas transmission compressor. (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Henderson, D., Armitage, A., & Pearson, W. N. (2002). A novel method for the performance modelling of a gas transmission compressor.

This paper presents the application of feed forward neural networks to the performance modeling of a gas transmission compressor. Results of compressor model testing suggest that compressor speed can be estimated to within ± 2.5 %. The neural net... Read More about A novel method for the performance modelling of a gas transmission compressor..

A novel method for the performance control of a gas transmission compressor. (2002)
Conference Proceeding
Pearson, W. N., Armitage, A., & Henderson, D. (2002). A novel method for the performance control of a gas transmission compressor.

This paper presents the application of feed forward neural networks to the performance control of a gas transmission compressor. It is estimated that a global saving in compressor fuel gas of 1% could prevent the production of 6 million tonnes of CO2... Read More about A novel method for the performance control of a gas transmission compressor..

Infrared sensing using pyroelectric polymers (1997)
Conference Proceeding
Armitage, A., Benjamin, K., Setiadi, D., Weller, H., & Binnie, D. (1997). Infrared sensing using pyroelectric polymers. In A. T. Augousti, & N. M. White (Eds.), Sensors & their Applications VIII (297-302)

This paper describes a programme of work intended to develop inexpensive infrared imagers. The technology is based on the pyroelectric effect in the polymer PVDF, and a copolymer of VDF and TrFE. Early work used films of the polymer on simple cerami... Read More about Infrared sensing using pyroelectric polymers.

Lifelong Learning - getting started. (1997)
Conference Proceeding
Armitage, A., Gupta, N. K., & Rae, G. (1997). Lifelong Learning - getting started. In 8th Annual EAEEIE Conference, 1997