This paper presents a new method for 3D action recognition with skeleton sequences (i.e., 3D trajectories of human skeleton joints). The proposed method first transforms each skeleton sequence into three clips each consisting of several frames for spatial temporal feature learning using deep neural networks. Each clip is generated from one channel of the cylindrical coordinates of the skeleton sequence. Each frame of the generated clips represents the temporal information of the entire skeleton sequence, and incorporates one particular spatial relationship between the joints. The entire clips include multiple frames with different spatial relationships, which provide useful spatial structural information of the human skeleton. We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to learn long-term temporal information of the skeleton sequence from the frames of the generated clips, and then use a Multi-Task Learning Network (MTLN) to jointly process all frames of the generated clips in parallel to incorporate spatial structural information for action recognition. Experimental results clearly show the effectiveness of the proposed new representation and feature learning method for 3D action recognition.Comment: CVPR 201

This paper presents a new representation of skeleton sequences for 3D action recognition. Existing methods based on hand-crafted features or recurrent neural networks cannot adequately capture the complex spatial structures and the long-term temporal dynamics of the skeleton sequences, which are very important to recognize the actions. In this paper, we propose to transform each channel of the 3D coordinates of a skeleton sequence into a clip. Each frame of the generated clip represents the temporal information of the entire skeleton sequence and one particular spatial relationship between the skeleton joints. The entire clip incorporates multiple frames with different spatial relationships, which provide useful spatial structural information of the human skeleton. We also propose a multitask convolutional neural network (MTCNN) to learn the generated clips for action recognition. The proposed MTCNN processes all the frames of the generated clips in parallel to explore the spatial and temporal information of the skeleton sequences. The proposed method has been extensively tested on six challenging benchmark datasets. Experimental results consistently demonstrate the superiority of the proposed clip representation and the feature learning method for 3D action recognition compared to the existing techniques.

A highly efficient P-SSHI based rectifier for piezoelectric energy harvesting is presented in this paper. The proposed rectifier utilizes the voltages at the two ends of the piezoelectric device (PD) to detect the polarity change of the current produced by the PD. The inversion process of the voltage across the PD is automatically controlled by diodes along the oscillating network. In contrast to prior works, the proposed rectifier exhibits several advantages in terms of efficiency, circuit simplicity, compatibility with commercially available PDs, and standalone operation. Experimental results show that the proposed rectifier can provide a 5.8X boost in harvested energy compared to the conventional full wave bridge rectifier.

This letter presents SkeletonNet, a deep learning framework for skeleton-based 3D action recognition. Given a skeleton sequence, the spatial structure of the skeleton joints in each frame and the temporal information between multiple frames are two important factors for action recognition. We firstly extract body-part based features from each frame of the skeleton sequence. Compared to the original coordinates of the skeleton joints, the proposed features are translation, rotation and scale invariant. To learn robust temporal information, instead of treating the features of all frames as a time series, we transform the features into images and feed them to the proposed deep learning network which contains two parts, one to extract general features from the input images, while the other to generate a discriminative and compact representation for action recognition. The proposed method is tested on SBU kinect interaction dataset, CMU dataset and the large scale NTU RGB+D dataset and achieves state-of-the-art performance.

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In this work, we present a high-performance smart electronic nose (E-nose) system consisting of a multiplexed tin oxide (SnO) nanotube sensor array, read-out circuit, wireless data transmission unit, mobile phone receiver, and data processing application (App). Using the designed nanotube sensor device structure in conjunction with multiple electrode materials, high-sensitivity gas detection and discrimination have been achieved at room temperature, enabling a 1000 times reduction of the sensor's power consumption as compared to a conventional device using thin film SnO. The experimental results demonstrate that the developed E-nose can identify indoor target gases using a simple vector-matching gas recognition algorithm. In addition, the fabricated E-nose has achieved state-of-the-art sensitivity for H and benzene detection at room temperature with metal oxide sensors. Such a smart E-nose system can address the imperative needs for distributed environmental monitoring in smart homes, smart buildings, and smart cities.

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Coral reefs exhibit significant within-class variations, complex between-class boundaries and inconsistent image clarity. This makes coral classification a challenging task. In this paper, we report the application of generic CNN representations combined with hand-crafted features for coral reef classification to take advantage of the complementary strengths of these representation types. We extract CNN based features from patches centred at labelled pixels at multiple scales. We use texture and color based hand-crafted features extracted from the same patches to complement the CNN features. Our proposed method achieves a classification accuracy that is higher than the state-of-art methods on the MLC benchmark dataset for corals.