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Significant body point labeling and tracking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper, a method is presented to label and track anatomical landmarks (e.g., head, hand/arm, feet), which are referred to as significant body points (SBPs), using implicit body models.
Tjahjadi, Tardi, Azhar, Faisal
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Effect of Head Posture Education and Chin tuck Exercises on Head and Neck Alignment of Students with Forward Head Posture [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Paramedical Science and Rehabilitation
Purpose:Maintaining proper posture during childhood contributes to the preservation of postural patterns into adulthood. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of head posture education and chin-tuck exercises on head and neck alignment in ...
A Besharati, A Shamsi Majelan
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Emotional body language displayed by artificial agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Complex and natural social interaction between artificial agents (computer-generated or robotic) and humans necessitates the display of rich emotions in order to be believable, socially relevant, and accepted, and to generate the natural emotional ...
Beck, A.   +6 more
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Effects of the combined swimming, corrective and aqua gymnastics programme on body posture of preschool age children

open access: yesJournal of Health Sciences, 2013
Introduction: This research paper is aimed at identifying the possible effects that the implementation of the combined kinesiological programs of swimming and hydro-kinesiological therapy may have on the body posture in preschool children.
Aldvin Torlaković   +3 more
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Improving posture classification accuracy for depth sensor-based human activity monitoring in smart environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Smart environments and monitoring systems are popular research areas nowadays due to its potential to enhance the quality of life. Applications such as human behaviour analysis and workspace ergonomics monitoring are automated, thereby improving well ...
Yuen, Pong C.   +9 more
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Physiotherapists’ knowledge about the diagnosis, treatment and physical activity of patients with idiopathic scoliosis

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine
Idiopathic scoliosis (IS) is a three-dimensional spinal deformity with an unknown etiology which, when left untreated, can have negative health consequences.
Piotr Wójcik   +5 more
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Role of physical fitness and functional movement in the body posture of children with overweight/obesity

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is known to negatively impact body posture with severe consequences for the musculoskeletal system. Physical performance could play a positive role in the body posture conformation of these children, but there is little ...
Molina-Garcia, P   +11 more
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Multi-score Learning for Affect Recognition: the Case of Body Postures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
An important challenge in building automatic affective state recognition systems is establishing the ground truth. When the groundtruth is not available, observers are often used to label training and testing sets.
Bianchi-Berthouze, N   +5 more
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Effect of manual osteopathic techniques on the autonomic nervous system, respiratory system function and head-cervical-shoulder complex—a systematic review

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine
BackgroundOsteopathic manual techniques are now widely used in medicine worldwide. At present, there are no clear conclusions regarding the possibility of affecting the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), respiratory system and head-cervical ...
Jakub Stępnik   +4 more
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