PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Wojtczuk, P., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., & Chamberlain, T. (2011, August). PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition. Paper presented at SensorDevices 2011

Abstract—In this paper we present our work towards a hand gesture recognition system realised with a passive thermal infrared sensor array. In contrast with the majority of recent research activities into gesture recognition, which focus on the compl... Read More about PIR sensor array for hand motion recognition.

System architectures for infrared pedestrian tracking. (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Walczyk, R., Balazs, A., Armitage, A., & Binnie, D. (2011, June). System architectures for infrared pedestrian tracking. Paper presented at 22nd IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference

This paper describes an FPGA-based implementation of a real-time pedestrian detection and tracking system for infrared (IR) video streams. The system includes hardware accelerators for adaptive background subtraction, morphological filtering and conn... Read More about System architectures for infrared pedestrian tracking..

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..

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..

FPGA implementation of hot spot detection in infrared video. (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Walczyk, R., Armitage, A., & Binnie, D. (2010, June). FPGA implementation of hot spot detection in infrared video. Paper presented at IET Irish Systems & Signals Conference

This paper describes a Hardware Description Language (HDL) based fully customizable module for real-time infrared (IR) hot spot detection and feature extraction from a video stream. The aim of the research was to investigate and evaluate possible sol... Read More about FPGA implementation of hot spot detection in infrared video..

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..

A dynamic connection capability for pervasive adaptive environments using JCSP (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Kosek, A., Syed, A., Kerridge, J., & Armitage, A. (2009, April). A dynamic connection capability for pervasive adaptive environments using JCSP. Paper presented at AISB 2009 Convention

The house, office or warehouse environment is full of devices that make users’ life and work easier. People nowadays use personal computers, laptops, Personal Digital Assistants, mobile phones and many more devices with ease. The mechanism to connec... Read More about A dynamic connection capability for pervasive adaptive environments using JCSP.

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.

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.

An advisory system for the treatment of kidney stones. (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Hardy, J., & Armitage, A. (2005, May). An advisory system for the treatment of kidney stones. Paper presented at Natural Computing Applications Forum

Kidney stones can be treated by a number of methods, some more invasive than others. Increasingly, Shock Wave Lithotripsy (a non-invasive technique) is used in preference to surgery. However, the kidney stones can recur. This study was done in conjun... Read More about An advisory system for the treatment of kidney stones..

Teaching multitasking to electronics and computing students (2001)
Journal Article
Armitage, A. (2001). Teaching multitasking to electronics and computing students. International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, 38, 338-347

Although widely used in the solution of engineering problems, multitasking is conceptually as complicated as parallel processing. A simple system that covers the key features of multitasking in a short time is presented. A description is given of its... Read More about Teaching multitasking to electronics and computing students.