Academic Articles & Research Papers

Application of Electronic Learning by Utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Methods in Natural Sciences Subjects (IPA) in Elementary School Students Grade 3

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) has stopped all aspects of human life, including the world of education. The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Indonesia has stopped face-to-face teaching and learning activities in schools, repla...

Enhancing vocational training in corrections: A type 1 hybrid randomized controlled trial protocol for evaluating virtual reality job interview training among returning citizens preparing for community re-entry

The Michigan Department of Corrections operates the Vocational Villages, which are skilled trades training programs set within prisons that include an immersive educational community using virtual reality, robotics, and other technologies t...

Marine Robots Mapping the Present and the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of the Deep

Underwater cultural heritage sites are subject to constant change, whether due to natural forces such as sediments, waves, currents or human intervention. Until a few decades ago, the documentation and research of these sites was mostly don...

Virtual Reality-Based Center of Mass-Assisted Personalized Balance Training System

Poststroke hemiplegic patients often show altered weight distribution with balance disorders, increasing their risk of fall. Conventional balance training, though powerful, suffers from scarcity of trained therapists, frequent visits to cli...

Digital Analysis Methods in Business-Processes and Projects in Digital Twins at Investment-Construction Companies

The article analyzes modeling of investment-construction company work from graph models to digital analogues. Such analysis is necessary in order to build economically grounded twin of the investment-construction company. The need to use ad...

Vlad - Virtual Reality Application for Treatment of Psychosomatic Conditions: A report at final stage of software validation process

The present work aims to demonstrate that Virtual Reality (VR) can investigate several pathologies, in this case the treatment of all phenomena which interrupt the relationship between cognition and representation, such as defences in psych...

A bibliometric review of unilateral neglect: Trends, frontiers, and frameworks

BACKGROUND: Owing to the adverse effects of unilateral neglect (UN) on rehabilitation outcomes, fall risk, and activities of daily living, this field has gradually got considerable interest. Notwithstanding, there is presently an absence of...

Applications and outcomes of virtual reality in inpatient psychiatry: A systematic review.

Lightweight Road Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion for Blind Guiding Scenarios

Image segmentation is a crucial technology for environmental perception, and it is widely used in various scenarios such as autonomous driving and virtual reality. With the rapid development of technology, computer vision-based blind guidin...

Effectiveness of virtual reality exposure therapy in improving body dissatisfaction and shape-related concerns in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa: a controlled, randomized, superiority trial.

A human activity recognition method based on Vision Transformer

Abstract Human activity recognition has a wide range of applications in various fields, such as video surveillance, virtual reality and human–computer intelligent interaction. It has emerged as a significant research area in computer vision...

Deep Learning and Bidirectional Optical Flow Based Viewport Predictions for 360° Video Coding

The rapid development of virtual reality applications continues to urge better compression of 360° videos owing to the large volume of content. These videos are typically converted to 2-D formats using various projection techniques i...

Designing Virtual Reality Game-Based Learning for Computational Thinking Competency Development: Evidence from Vocational Education.

Discriminative feature encoding for intrinsic image decomposition

Abstract Intrinsic image decomposition is an important and long-standing computer vision problem. Given an input image, recovering the physical scene properties is ill-posed. Several physically motivated priors have been used to restrict th...

MAT-Fly: An Educational Platform for Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Aimed to Detect and Track Moving Objects

The main motivation of this work is to propose a simulation approach for a specific task within the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) field, i.e., the visual detection and tracking of arbitrary moving objects. In particular, it is described MAT...

The psychological impact of the Metaverse

Abstract The Metaverse is no revolution, but another step in the evolution of the internet. Today we can observe various 3D virtual worlds with different focuses and purposes, like meeting spaces, education, or classic gaming. Most of these...

A Novel Methodology for Human Kinematics Motion Detection Based on Smartphones Sensor Data Using Artificial Intelligence

Kinematic motion detection aims to determine a person’s actions based on activity data. Human kinematic motion detection has many valuable applications in health care, such as health monitoring, preventing obesity, virtual reality, daily li...

Review: Deep Learning on 3D Point Clouds

A point cloud is a set of points defined in a 3D metric space. Point clouds have become one of the most significant data formats for 3D representation and are gaining increased popularity as a result of the increased availability of acquisi...

Gaze Point Estimation via Joint Learning of Facial Features and Screen Projection

In recent years, gaze estimation has received a lot of interest in areas including human–computer interface, virtual reality, and user engagement analysis. Despite significant advances in convolutional neural network (CNN) techniques, direc...

Applying the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model to a Virtual Reality-Assisted Cognitive Health Education Intervention to Promote Screening Uptake: Qualitative Study.