...Real-Time Hand Tracking for HumanComputer Interaction Ayush Tripathi, Kanishk Puri, Nilesh Srivastava, Prateek Dham (Students) Mrs S.S Dhotre(Professor) Computer Science Department Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra(India) Abstract- The proposed work is part of a project that aims for the control of a mouse based on hand gesture recognition. This goal implies the restriction of real-time response and unconstrained environments. This is basically a vision based skincolour segmentation method for moving hand in real time application [3]. This algorithm is based on three main steps: hand segmentation, hand tracking and gesture recognition from hand features. For the hand segmentation step we use the colour cue due to the characteristic colour values of human [1]. The hands are recognized by the computer using the skin colour as one of the basic features for the hand recognition. The important feature is the accurate segmentation of hands [3]. I. Introduction Nowadays, the majority of the human-computer interaction (HCI) is based on mechanical devices such as keyboards, mouse, joysticks or gamepads. In recent years there has been a growing interest in a class of methods based on computational vision due to its ability to recognise human gestures in a natural way .These methods use as input the images acquired from a camera or from a stereo pair of cameras. The main goal of these algorithms is to measure the hand configuration...
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...Fordism and Taylorism Organizations or work settings in which people are allowed little responsibility for, or control over, the work task. Fordism and Taylorism both involve low-trust work systems; jobs are set up by managers and are geared to machines. Those who carry out work tasks are allowed little autonomy of action can cause worker dissatisfaction and high worker absenteeism, and common industrial conflict Work tends to be structuring. Work serves as a structuring element in people's psychological makeup and the cycle of their daily activities. Provides money (main resource people depends on to meet their needs). Activity Level (provides a basis for the acquisition and exercise of skills and capacities; offers a structured environment in which a person's energies may be absorbed. Variety (provides access to contexts that contrast with domestic surroundings) Structuring one's time (organizes the day and one's time around the rhythm of work; makes time more meaningful. provides a sense of structure in daily activities) Social contacts (provides friendships and opportunities to participate in charred activities with others) Personal Identity (work is usually valued for the sense of stable social identity it offers; self esteem, especially for men, is often bound up with their economic contribution they make to the maintenance of the household Describe phenomon “portfolio.” A professional person who works for many different companies or individuals. Someone...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Initial Essay Submitted to Dr. William Brown in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of EVAN 505-B01 Introduction to Church Planting by Nicholas L. Fonseca May 17, 2015 Contents Introduction 1 Experience in Ministry 1 Conclusion 2 Bibliography 3 Thesis Statement Church is a group of people that are collectively and individually fully devoted to living a Christ like life together, despite the fact that they are imperfect beings. Introduction I attend Ni River Community Church has a population of 500 people whose ages range from infancy to mind 70’s. I am currently an Elder, to be an effective leader and good steward of the office of Elder and to fulfill our Lord Jesus’ command to make disciples I must first apply His direction, teaching, and inspiration to my own life so that I can inspire others to do the same. Experience in Ministry I have served as an Elder for almost two years now and it has been both challenging and rewarding at times. However, recently our church has undergone a serious attack from our enemy the Devil and a horrible tragedy. The old Youth Pastor had an inappropriate relationship with a minor under his charge that resulted in him being sent to jail and being identified as sex offender. This horrible and tragic circumstance has caused the church to experience a lack of trust in the leadership, emotional distress...
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...Hocutt Baptist Church Constitution and By-Laws CONSTITUTION FOR HOCUTT BAPTIST CHURCH OF CLAYTON, NORTH CAROLINA PREAMBLE We declare and establish this constitution for the preservation and security of the principles of our faith so that this body may be governed in an orderly manner. This constitution will preserve the liberties of each individual member of this church and the freedom of action of this body in its relation to other churches of the same faith. ARTICLE 1 – NAME This body shall be known as the Hocutt Baptist Church. The church is located in the town of Clayton, North Carolina in Johnston County. ARTICLE 2 – HISTORY The history of Hocutt Baptist Church began on January 13, 1957, when the church was officially organized. Early efforts date back to November 26, 1956. The 63 charter members met in homes for prayer and discussion concerning the organization of the church. The first services were held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Pulley. After this, permission was given for use of the Clayton Woman’s Club as a temporary place of worship, and the group worshipped there until the completion of the first unit of the building. Many people made sacrificial efforts in the organization of the church. Committees were formed, and much work was accomplished. Rev. J.L. Atkins, first pastor of the church, conferred with the pastor of the First...
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...Legal Issues in Ministry Pierce Grayson Monday, June 21, 2010 Yorba Linda Calvary Baptist Church Scandal Accountability is something that we all need to experience in our lives. It’s great for people struggling with addictions and in need of prayer and support. It's also a safeguard against other kinds of temptations that the Yorba Linda Calvary Baptist Church in Yorba Linda, California experienced the late 1990s. The senior pastor Richard Cunningham and his son, who later became the senior pastor, Philip Cunningham, were charged with theft, fraud and forgery when they took over 3.1 million dollars from the church's, and the church's private school's, bank accounts for their own personal expenses including luxury homes and cars. The church secretary Mandy DiAddezio testified that, "Philip Cunningham at times paid his personal credit card using school funds, booking them as travel expenses, and would book payments for his dry-cleaning bill as janitorial expenses. But he also put his own money into the school account when it was low, she said". Philip also paid his children's college tuition with the funds from the church's school's bank account while saying that the church board had approved it. The problem with this is that, according to a former board member at the church, the board only met 2-3 times a year and they were never given proper financial statements or documents to look over. It was always hand-written on a piece of paper...
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...A Little Book for New Theologians by Kelly M. Kapic brought many unhappy church related memories to the surface that had been either forgotten or pushed aside. At the time of their occurrence, no doubt I probably questioned the purpose or “organized religion” and possibly even uttered the phrase “does a Christian really need to go to church?” Once such event occurred about five years ago. I was asked to be the associate pastor for a church plant. The church planter was a friend of mine whom I worked with previously at another church. For as long as I knew this man, he wanted to be a lead pastor. Finally the opportunity presented itself. The plan was simple – meet people in our community, begin a home Bible study, and grow from there. However, my friend quickly fell away from his servant position and was blinded by finally being in lead position. He skipped the home Bible study part entirely and rented a building we couldn’t afford so we could have “real church” and “look good” to those around us. My dear friend became obsessed with appearance and power instead of serving the needs of those around us, something he had done so well with for years. He believed if we looked good, the people would flock to us. As his appointed associate pastor I tried speaking to him about the matter, but he wasn’t willing to listen. Sadly, we parted ways after a few attempted conversations, both as partners in this church plant and as friends. I was not free from blame. I too...
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...Called to Serve, Saved to Serve, Living on Mission with God: During a recent trip to Mexico City, I had the opportunity to visit a church planted by a church planter who was trained by the Bible League. The church has been using our Project Philip program as a way of mobilizing members more effectively to reach their families and communities for Christ. A woman by the name of Gabriella Villa and her husband were two of those people reached through this outreach. (at the church plant we attended) .*they joined the church and went through the Project Philip program as a members of a church *they started working with families sharing the word of God with them through the use of Project Philip. *They had just finished working with a family of 5 when - Another couple came to the Pastor seeking for help with their marriage and significant family issues- issues of violence, drug addiction and gang affiliations. * pastor asks Gabriela and her husband to use God's Word and PP training to help them * couple's marriage falling apart, drug issues, violence, etc. Tearing family apart * the family their lives were transformed, using the Word of God and PP. Gabriella said that since you had become a believer, she had always wanted to share her faith, but felt inadequate. Now having gone through PP, feels equipped to share her faith and God's word so much more effectively. Now also, she and her husband, who together own a business- intend use PP to reach out to their employees...
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...CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CREATIVE CONCEPTS PAGE DECLARATION 2 1 MAIN RESEARCH ISSUE 3 2 RESEARCH CRITERIA 3 3 EXTENT OF RESEARCH ISSUE 3 4 POPULATION 4 5 ASSUMPTIONS/SUB-ISSUES 4 6 GOAL/OBJECTIVE 5 7 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 5 8 THEORETICAL APPROACH 5 9 RESEARCH DESIGN 8 10 DATA COLLECTION 10 11 DATA ANALYSIS 13 12 QUALITATIVE FINDINGS 17 13 CONCLUSION 27 14 SELF ASSESSMENT AND SELF REFLECTION 28 SOURCES CONSULTED 29 I, the undersigned, hereby declare that this is my own and personal work, except where the work(s) or publications of others have been acknowledged by means of reference techniques. I have read and understood Tutorial Letter CMNALLE/301 regarding technical and presentation requirements, referencing techniques and plagiarism. Name: YB Student number: Date: 01/04/2016 A witness name: M B MAIN RESEARCH ISSUE To explore and describe by means of a cross sectional content analysis of eight different creative concepts and their characteristics applied in eight different advertisements selected from Women’s Health and YOU published in 2012 and 2010 respectively. RESEARCH CRITERIA 2.1 Relevance * The main premise of the approach is the study of content. Documents are studied to understand culture, they can be conceptualized as the process and the array of objects, symbols, and meanings that make up social reality shared...
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...as network behavioral heuristics. Employ anti-malware software and signature auto-update features or have administrators manually push updates to all machines on a daily basis. After applying an update, automated systems should verify that each system has received its signature update. Configure laptops, workstations, and servers so that they will not auto-run content from USB tokens (i.e., "thumb drives"), USB hard drives, CDs/DVDs, Firewire devices, external serial advanced technology attachment devices, mounted network shares, or other removable media. If the devices are not required for business use, they should be disabled. Configure systems so that they conduct an automated anti-malware scan of removable media when it is inserted. All e-mail attachments entering the organization's e-mail gateway should be scanned and blocked if they contain malicious code or file types unneeded for the organization's business. This scanning should be done before the e-mail is placed in the user's inbox. This includes e-mail content filtering and web content filtering. Apply anti-virus scanning at the Web Proxy gateway. Content filtering for file-types should be applied at the perimeter. Deploy features and toolkits such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), products that provide sandboxing (e.g., run browsers in a VM), and other techniques that prevent...
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...1 The Effect of Prediction on Depth of Encoding Student X name University of New South Wales 2 Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of prediction on depth of encoding. Participants (N=136) were given sentence stems and instructed to think of a word to finish the sentence. The full sentence was then completed with either a predictive or a nonpredictive word, and a recognition test given to see how well each word was retained in memory. Out of the three hypotheses, the results supported stronger encoding of predictive words over non-predictive words or the prediction itself. It was suggested this could be due to predictive words forming a more elaborate memory trace, which then integrated better with existing mental categories. 3 The Effect of Prediction on Depth of Encoding When reading a sentence, the mind can form a prediction about which word should come next. Yet it is not clear how this prediction affects the encoding of the actual word that completes the sentence. A word that fulfils the prediction could be better encoded than one that violates it, simply because it forms a smoother fit, or because the mind was already prepared for it. Alternatively, the violation itself might create a stronger impact, leading to better encoding. A third possibility also exists: that the prediction overwrites the encoding of the actual word, regardless of its congruency. One of the most enduring theories of encoding is the levels of processing framework...
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...philosophy. Primarily, Open Source fosters creativity. Software products can often require an overwhelming amount of code for one individual or even a few individuals to write, especially if all that code needs to be original so that it does not infringe on another person’s copyright. This may not be a problem for large companies with armies of engineers. But this can be an insurmountable hurdle for individuals or smaller groups. Open source licensing enables developers not only by providing sets of code that can be appropriated towards their final vision, but it also enables others to actively contribute to or improve upon another developer’s product. A great metaphor for the effect of Open Source is Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons license, which achieves the same goals as open source software licenses. Much like encyclopedia volumes, which are collections of articles that contribute to the whole set, software products may be seen as a collection of coded functions. Traditionally, each article of an encyclopedia is written by a small number of employees of the encyclopedia company. Then came Wikipedia. Any person can contribute to almost any article. The result became a go-to resource that cannot be matched in depth, breadth or currentness by any one publisher. Likewise, any of the information may be used freely by any reader as long as they comply with the Attribution and Share Alike...
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...------------------------------------------------- Archived Voice ------------------------------------------------- A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Computer Studies Philippine Christian University – Manila City Campus ------------------------------------------------- In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of ASSOCIATE IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Martin Joseph D. Abao October 2012 THESIS ABSTRACT ------------------------------------------------- Title : Archived Voice Proponent : Martin Joseph D. Abao Year : October 2012 Course : Associate in Computer Technology ------------------------------------------------- Adviser : ------------------------------------------------- The study answers the demographic profile of the students, disabled people, programmers, professionals, computer-literate and foreigners/linguistic in terms of year level, company, course, position, language spoken and their age; the problems encountered by the respondents in terms of: Making documents and paper works, Understanding the application’s environment; the benefits and opportunities of the respondents by using the Archived Voice like changing of the application’s environment into different languages, making documents, and paper works in an easy way, time and speed constraints in using the application; and the evaluation of the respondents about the...
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...customized headers and footers that the word processor will put at the top and bottom of every page. The word processor automatically keeps track of page numbers so that the correct number appears on each page. Layout: Allows you to specify different margins within a single document and to specify various methods for indenting paragraphs. Merges: Allows you to merge text from one file into another file. This is particularly useful for generating many files that have the same format but different data. Generating mailing labels is the classic example of using merges. Spell checker: A utility that allows you to check the spelling of words. It will highlight any words that it does not recognize. Tables of contents and indexes: Allows you to automatically create a table of contents and index based on special codes that you insert in the document. Thesaurus: A built-in thesaurus that allows you to search for synonyms without leaving the word processor. Windows: Allows you to edit two or more documents at the same time. Each document appears in a separate window. This is particularly valuable when working on a large project that consists of several different...
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...add on the cover page. To replace the logo on the cover page or in the header, or the photo on the cover page, start by selecting it. When you do, you see a bar across the top—click the icon on that bar to select your own logo or image for replacement. Word automatically sizes and formats your image to fit the space allotted. The table of contents that follows picks up any text that you format using Heading 1 through Heading 3 styles. To update the table after you add your own information to the document, click in the table of contents and then click the Update button on the bar that appears across the top of it. Note: Body text such as the paragraphs above are formatted using the default Normal syle. This paragraph is formatted using the style named Normal - Space After to create the space between the executive summary and the table of contents. Contents Executive Summary 2 Heading 1 3 Heading 2 3 Heading 3 3 Heading 2 3 Heading 1 4 Heading 2 4 Heading 2 4 Heading 1 This template uses a few tables to create the page structure that follows. A host table consisting of just two columns and one row enables the sidebar content to sit beside the text, tables, and diagram on the left without any complicated positioning required. Nested tables (a nested table is just one table inside another) in both the left and right column enable you to place text beside the SmartArt graphic, provide the small financial table...
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...This note shows you how to set up a table of contents that can be generated and updated quickly and easily, even for the longest and most complex documents. Using styles The key to creating a quick and easy contents page is to use Word’s built-in heading styles, that is, Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 etc. Once you have applied these styles to the headings in your document, you can use Word’s Table of Contents function to do all the hard work for you. For more information on using styles see Making your documents look good: using MS Word the easy way. Creating a basic table of contents Once you have applied heading styles, you can create your table of contents: Click where you want the contents to appear. From the menu, select Insert – Reference – Index and Tables. The Index and Tables dialog box displays. Click the Table of Contents tab. Creating a table of contents quickly in Word Creating a table of contents quickly in Word The Print Preview box on the left shows you how your table of contents will look. The settings for your contents appear below the preview box. You will find that most of the options you need are already selected. B.2-N-3568-2007 Your contents will show page numbers, have right-aligned page numbers, and a tab leader (the character that appears between the contents entry and the page number). You can change the tab leader if you wish, for example you may want a different one, or no tab leader at all. Word shows...
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