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Ambient Diagnostics addresses innovative methods for discovering patterns from affordable devices, such as mobile phones, watches, cameras, and game interfaces, to interpret multimedia data for personal health monitoring and diagnosis. This is the first comprehensive textbook for multidisciplinary innovations in affordable healthcare– from sensory fusion, pattern detection, to classification.
Connecting the Dots
The material in this book combines sensing, pattern recognition, and visual design, and is divided into four parts, which cover fundamentals, multimedia intelligence, pervasive sensors, and crowdsourcing. The author describes basic pattern discovery models, sound, color, motion and video analytics, and pattern discovery from games and social networks. Each chapter contains the material’s main concepts, as well as case studies, and extensive study questions.
Covers Multimedia Intelligence Extensively
Ambient Diagnostics includes concepts for ambient technologies such as point-and-search, the pill camera, active sensing with Kinect, digital human labs, negative and relative feature spaces, and semantic representations. The book also introduces methods for collective intelligence from online video games and social media.
Part I. Fundamentals
Introduction
What is Ambient Diagnostics?
Diagnostic Models
Multimedia Intelligence
Crowd Sourcing
Soft Sensors
Science of Simplicity
Personal Diagnoses
Basic Algorithms
Basic Tools
Summary
Problems
Transformation
Early Discoveries of Heartbeat Patterns
Transforms, Features, and Attributes
Sequential Features
Spatiotemporal Features
Shape Features
Imagery Features
Frequency Domain Features
Multi-Resolution Features
Summary
Problems
Pattern Recognition
Similarities and Distances
Clustering Methods
Classification Methods
Classifier Accuracy Measures
Summary
Problems
Part II. Multimedia Intelligence
Sound Recognition
Microphone Apps
Modern Acoustic Transducers (Microphones)
Frequency Response Characteristics
Digital Audio File Formats
Heart Sound Sensing
Lung Sound Sensing
Snore Meter
Spectrogram (STFT)
Ambient Sound Analysis
Sound Recognition
Recognizing Asthma Sound
Peak Shift
Feature Compression
Regrouping
Noise Issues
Future Applications
Summary
Problems
Color Sensors
Color Sensing
Human Color Vision
Color Sensors
Color Matching Experiments
Color Spaces
Color Segmentation
Color Consistency Calibration
Surface Color Diagnosis
Colorimetric Paper Sensor ¬– Lab on Paper
Colorimetric Smell Sensors
Summary
Problems
Kinect Sensors
The Kinect Revolution
How Does It Work?
Object Tracking
Gesture Alignment
Gesture Recognition
Surface Modeling
Biometric Measurements
Sound Source Location
Summary
Problems
Video Analytics
Object Detection by Motion
Object Tracking
Shape Descriptions
Visualization of Video Data
Activity Recognition
Color and Motion Amplification
Problems
Fatigue Sensing
Diseases- and Treatment-Related Fatigue
Vigilance Theories
The Vigilance Clock
Facial Fatigue Detection
Passive Face Detection
Passive Face Tracking
Active Sensing for Detecting Blinking and Yawning
Summary
Problems
Part III. Pervasive Sensors
Mobile Sensors
Accelerometers
Gyroscope
Magnetic Field Sensor
Orientation Sensor
Touch Gesture Sensors
Environment Sensors
Proximity Sensor
Near Field Communication (NFC) Sensors
GPS Sensors
WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) Sensing
Bluetooth Sensing
Sensory Fusion
Motion Classification
Accessing Sensors on Mobile Phones
Summary
Problems
Body Media
Emerging Wearable Sensors
Body Area Networks (BANs)
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
Epidermal Electronics (Smart Fiber)
Pill Cameras
Summary
Problems
Pocket Microscopes
The Amateur Expert
Sizes of Microoorganisms
Mobile Phone Microscopes
Digital Microscopes
Spectrum Lighting
Observing Yeast Cells
Observing Parasitic Worms
Time-Lapse Video
Laser Holography
Virtual Microscopy
Labeling and Counting
Usability Study
Summary
Problems
Personal Spectrometers
Beer’s Law
Diffraction Grating
DIY Spectrometer
Analytical Algorithm
Urine Sample Test
Crowd Sourcing Spectrometer
Diagnostic Applications
Summary
Problems
Part IV. Crowd Sourcing
Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing in Public Space
Human Body Segmentation
Waist Perimeter and Body Mass Calculations
Fuzzy Diagnostic Heuristics
Digital Human Modeling
Physically Augmented Virtual Human Model
Surface Analysis
Summary
Problems
Games for Diagnosis
Emerging Games for Diagnosis
Anatomy of Game Engines
Networking
Finite State Machine
World Modeling
Motion Capture and Control
Game Displays
Game Development Toolkits
Summary
Problems
Social Media
The Pregnant Man
Relevancy Analysis
Reputation Analysis
Visualizing Social Networks
Correlation Analysis
Summary
Problems
Further Readings
Sample Source Code
Index
Overview
Ambient Diagnostics addresses innovative methods for discovering patterns from affordable devices, such as mobile phones, watches, cameras, and game interfaces, to interpret multimedia data for personal health monitoring and diagnosis. This is the first comprehensive textbook for multidisciplinary innovations in affordable healthcare– from sensory fusion, pattern detection, to classification.
Connecting the Dots
The material in this book ...