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Several functional neuroimaging studies had been performed to explore the sensorimotor function for motor imagery and passive movement, but there is scanty work that investigated the cortical activation pattern for passive movement using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). This study investigated the cortical activation pattern from fNIRS data of 8 healthy subjects performing motor imag...Show More
This study investigated the possibility of using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during right- and left-hand motor imagery tasks to select an optimum set of electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes for a brain computer interface. fNIRS has better spatial resolution allowing areas of brain activity to more readily be identified. The ReliefF algorithm was used to identify the most relia...Show More
Recently, a number of studies have demonstrated that thermal infrared (IR) imagery offers a promising alternative to visible imagery in face recognition problems due to its invariance to visible illumination changes. However, thermal IR has other limitations including that it is opaque to glass. As a result, thermal IR imagery is very sensitive to facial occlusion caused by eyeglasses. Fusion of t...Show More
This paper reported initial findings on the effects of environmental noise and auditory distractions on the performance of mental state classification based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) signals recorded from the prefrontal cortex. Characterization of the performance losses due to environmental factors could provide useful information for the future development of NIRS-based brain-computer ...Show More
Multispectral imaging in the visible and near infrared spectra helps reduce color variations in the face due to changes in illumination source types and directions. Thermal infrared imaging provides useful signatures of the face that is insensitive to ambient lighting through the measurement of heat energy radiated from the object. This paper introduces the use of multispectral imaging and thermal...Show More
The Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Agency has successfully completed a Technical Demonstration Program (TDP) to assess the "Military Utility of Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery ". This required developing a sensor, the airborne infrared imaging spectrometer (AIRIS), and collecting in-flight imagery data. The AIRIS instrument was designed with flexibility and modularity in mind, allow...Show More
In this paper, we investigate human repetitive activity properties from thermal infrared imagery, where human motion can be easily detected from the background regardless of lighting conditions and colors of the human surfaces and backgrounds. We employ an efficient spatiotemporal representation for human repetitive activity recognition, which represents human motion sequence in a single image whi...Show More
Many previous studies have demonstrated the viability of estimating advective ocean surface currents from sequential infrared satellite imagery using the maximum cross-correlation (MCC) technique when applied to 1.1-km-resolution Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) thermal infrared imagery. Applied only to infrared imagery, cloud cover and undesirable viewing conditions (gaps in satel...Show More
Brain-computer interface (BCI), which enables direct control of computers and external devices through brain activity, holds significant promise for rehabilitating individuals with motor dysfunctions. However, problems such as low accuracy and non-stationarity of physiological signals remain. In this study, we propose a hybrid BCI using electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared spectroscopy (...Show More
Spatial resolution is the main specification of satellite imagery quality, including the thermal infrared imagery. Many technical restrictions opposed to realize the high spatial resolution imagers of thermal infrared band. The software-based method for imagery spatial resolution enhancement is presented. The method used two sub-pixel shifted images that contain time-invariant thermal emissivity d...Show More
Motor Imagery-based Brain Computer Interface (MI-BCI) is a typical active BCI with a main focus on motor intention identification. Hybrid motor imagery (MI) decoding methods that based on multi-modal fusion of Electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), especially deep learning-based methods, become popular in recent MI-BCI studies. However, the fusion strategy ...Show More
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive functional brain imaging device, which measures hemodynamic responses induced by brain activities. In this paper we collect NIRS signals associated with motor imagery and rest states, and analyze these signals with wavelet analysis. To our best knowledge, wavelet analysis method has not been used for hemodynamic response of motor imagery, althoug...Show More
The role and the potentialities of high-resolution infrared thermography, combined to bio-heat modelling, have been largely described in the last years in a wide variety of biomedical applications. Quantitative assessment over time of the cutaneous temperature and/or of other biomedical parameters related to the temperature (e.g., cutaneous blood flow, thermal inertia, sympathetic skin response) a...Show More
This study investigated the effects of image guidance on uni- and bi-manual movements using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a pivotal wearable system for optical neuroimaging. We analyzed fNIRS signals from seven participants performing three motor tasks: left finger tapping, right finger tapping, and finger crossing under three conditions: motor execution, motor imagery, and guided...Show More
The ability of high-resolution imaging systems to resolve small-scale structure on the ocean surface suggests the possibility of using characteristics of Langmuir circulation to map the surface mixed-layer depth and near-surface current. We illustrate this using synthetic aperture radar and infrared imagery that are collected across the edge of the Gulf Stream (GS), which reveals surfactant streak...Show More
TUBIN is a microsatellite mission tasked with the detection of high-temperature events from low-Earth orbit. Launched in June 2021, it employs a sensor suite consisting of two microbolometer focal plane arrays sensitive in the thermal infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as a complementary camera sensitive in the visible range. Thermal anomalies are detected within readings of th...Show More
One of the difficulties in search and rescue missions is finding a small target, such as a person, in a large cluttered area. Airborne hyperspectral cameras are now being deployed to aid in this SAR mission. Motivated by the successes of such systems, we define a hyperspectral model of human skin in the visible and near infrared regions of the spectra so we can exploit knowledge gained during the ...Show More
We present a comprehensive performance analysis of multiple appearance-based face recognition methodologies, on visible and thermal infrared imagery. We compare algorithms within and between modalities in terms of recognition performance, false alarm rates and requirements to achieve specified performance levels. The effect of illumination conditions on recognition performance is emphasized, as it...Show More
Thermal infrared cameras using an imaging array, do have similar geometric conditions like perspective photos. So a geo-reference of the determined object temperatures is possible by means of orthophotos. A sufficient geometric accuracy requires the knowledge of the image geometry which is not available by the factory. A first test of the used ThermScan camera by self calibration with bundle block...Show More
Brain-computer interface (BCI) based on speech imagery can decode users’ verbal intent and help people with motor disabilities communicate naturally. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a commonly used brain signal acquisition method. Asynchronous BCI can response to control commands at any time, which provides great convenience for users. Task state detection, defined as identifying ...Show More
Infrared sensors are widely utilized on manned and unmanned systems due to their ability to operate during low light conditions as well as their target discrimination capability. Machine vision algorithms that operate on infrared imagery (e.g. target detection, obstacle detection, target tracking) can significantly increase the effectiveness of platforms and the autonomy of unmanned systems. The c...Show More
This paper proposes a stacked conditional Generative Adversarial Network-based method for Near InfraRed (NIR) imagery colorization. We propose a variant architecture of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that uses multiple loss functions over a conditional probabilistic generative model. We show that this new architecture/loss-function yields better generalization and representation of the gener...Show More
This paper proposes a method of drunkenness detection based on analysis of thermal infrared facial images. The method consists of the following processing stages: (a) thermal infrared image acquisition; (b) Pulse-Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) image segmentation; (c) feature selection using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm cascaded with the Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) algorit...Show More