Program for 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications

Time Sala Napoleonica Session

Monday, July 15
09:50 am-10:00 am Opening Session  
10:00 am-11:00 am 1A: Assisted Living  
11:00 am-11:30 am   Break
11:30 am-01:00 pm 1B: Human-Computer Interface  
01:00 pm-02:00 pm   Lunch
02:00 pm-03:30 pm 1C: Virtual Design Environments  
03:30 pm-04:00 pm   Break
04:00 pm-06:00 pm 1D: Haptics and Robotics  

Tuesday, July 16
09:00 am-11:00 am 2A: Medical Applications  
11:00 am-11:30 am   Break
11:30 am-01:00 pm 2B: Psycology Applications  
01:00 pm-02:00 pm   Lunch
02:00 pm-03:30 pm 2C: Fault Detection  
03:30 pm-04:00 pm   Break
04:00 pm-06:00 pm 2D: Monitoring  
08:00 pm-11:00 pm   Dinner

Wednesday, July 17
09:00 am-11:00 am 3A: Industrial Applications  
11:00 am-11:30 am   Break
11:30 am-12:30 pm 3B: Communications  
12:30 pm-01:30 pm 3C: Biology Applications  
01:30 pm-02:30 pm   Lunch

Monday, July 15

Monday, July 15, 09:50 - 10:00

Opening Sessiongo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica

Monday, July 15, 10:00 - 11:00

1A: Assisted Livinggo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
Multilevel Simulation of Daily Activities: Why and How?
Balázs Kormányos and Béla Pataki (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
An Indoor Position Tracking Technique based on Data Fusion for Ambient Assisted Living
Payam Nazemzadeh (San Raffaele Scientific Institure, Italy); Daniele Fontanelli and David Macii (University of Trento, Italy)

Monday, July 15, 11:00 - 11:30

Breakgo to top

Monday, July 15, 11:30 - 13:00

1B: Human-Computer Interfacego to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
An Infrared-Based Depth Camera for Gesture-Based Control of Virtual Environments
Dan Ionescu, Viorel Suse, Cristian Gadea, Bogdan Solomon and Bogdan Ionescu (University of Ottawa, Canada); Shahidul Islam (Mgestyk Technologies, Canada)
Facial Expression Cloning with Fuzzy Set Clustering
Patrick J Santos and Emil M. Petriu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
A Bayesian-Learning Technique for Automatic Pre-emptive Loads Through I/O Devices Via The Mouse Pointer
Dalila B. Megherbi (Unversity of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)

Monday, July 15, 13:00 - 14:00

Lunchgo to top

Monday, July 15, 14:00 - 15:30

1C: Virtual Design Environmentsgo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
A Software-in-the-Loop Simulation of an Intelligent MicroSatellite within a Virtual Environment
Kaveh Hassani and Won-Sook Lee (University of Ottawa, Canada)
A Novel Virtual Environment for Molecular System Design
Rajab Alsayegh, Charalampos Makatsoris and Leonid Paramonov (Brunel University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Accurate 3D Fingerprint Virtual Environment for Biometric Technology Evaluations and Experiment Design
Ruggero Donida Labati, Angelo Genovese and Vincenzo Piuri (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Fabio Scotti (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

Monday, July 15, 15:30 - 16:00

Breakgo to top

Monday, July 15, 16:00 - 18:00

1D: Haptics and Roboticsgo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
A fuzzy model relating vibrotactile signal characteristics to haptic sensory evaluations
Liviu-Cristian Dutu (Université de Savoie, Romania); Gilles Mauris (LISTIC - University Savoie Mont Blanc, France); Philippe Bolon (University of Savoie, France); Stéphanie Dabic (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France); Jean-Marc Tissot (Valeo Annemasse, France)
Development of a low cost dataglove based on arduino for virtual reality applications
Lucas Silva (UFRN, Brazil); Rummenigge Dantas (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte ­ Brasil, Brazil); André Pantoja and Antonio Pereira (UFRN, Brazil)
The Extraction of Key Posture Frames from the Video of 3-D Motion of a Human
Chih-Lyang Hwang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Adaptive Visual Tracking via Learning Detector of Specific Landmarks
Chih-Lyang Hwang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

Tuesday, July 16

Tuesday, July 16, 09:00 - 11:00

2A: Medical Applicationsgo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
Automatic ECG artifact removal in the real-time SEMG recording system
Yong Hu (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Haptic Simulation of Bone Drilling Based on Hybrid 3D Part Representation
Yonghua Chen (Hong Kong University, Hong Kong)
Ensemble Learning of Colorectal Cancer Survival Rates
Chris Roadknight (Nottingham University Malaysia Campus, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Uwe Aickelin (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); John Scholfield (University of Nottingham, Malaysia); Lindy Durrant (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Intelligent SVM Based Food Intake Measurement System
Parisa Pouladzadeh and Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada); Tarik Arici (Sehir University, Turkey)

Tuesday, July 16, 11:00 - 11:30

Breakgo to top

Tuesday, July 16, 11:30 - 13:00

2B: Psycology Applicationsgo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
Inferential Measurements for Situation Awareness
Prapa Rattadilok and Andrei V. Petrovski (Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Conceptual Model for e-Learners Performance Improvement based on Game Theory
Khaled M. Suwais (Arab Open University, Saudi Arabia); Ayham Fayyoumi (Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia); Anis Zarrad (University of Ottawa, Canada)
The Impact of Motion in Virtual Environments on Memorization Performance
Polina Häfner, Christina Vinke and Victor Häfner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany); Wolfgang Schotte (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Jivka Ovtcharova (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)

Tuesday, July 16, 13:00 - 14:00

Lunchgo to top

Tuesday, July 16, 14:00 - 15:30

2C: Fault Detectiongo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
Machine Fault Detection During Transient Operation Using Measurement Denoising
Yu Zhang and Chris Bingham (University of Lincoln, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhijing Yang (Guangdong University of Techonology, P.R. China); Michael Gallimore (University of Lincoln, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jill Stewart (School of Engineering, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Sensor Fault Detection and Diagnosis Based on SOMNNs for Steady-State and Transient Operation
Yu Zhang, Chris Bingham and Michael Gallimore (University of Lincoln, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhijing Yang (Guangdong University of Techonology, P.R. China); Jun Chen (Brayford Pool Campus & School of Engineering, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Probing while driving for oil well surface profile measurement
Yonghua Chen (Hong Kong University, Hong Kong); Qingyou Liu and Tao Ren (Southwest Petroleum University, Hong Kong)

Tuesday, July 16, 15:30 - 16:00

Breakgo to top

Tuesday, July 16, 16:00 - 18:00

2D: Monitoringgo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
The SEMONT information network for intelligent EM field continuous monitoring
Dragan Kljajic (Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
A Proactive Risk-Aware Robotic Sensor Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection
Jamieson McCausland (University of Ottawa & Larus Technologies, Canada); George Di Nardo, Rafael Falcon and Rami Abielmona (Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada); Voicu Groza and Emil M. Petriu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Monitoring experiments using mobile devices - A practice case with Android
Jesús L. Muros-Cobos, Juan Antonio Holgado-Terriza and Miguel Cabrerizo-Vilchez (University of Granada, Spain)
Measurement Uncertainty on Smart Phone
Maria Grazia D'Elia (University of Salerno, Italy); Antonio Del Giudice (University of Salerno & ENEA, Italy); Giorgio Graditi (ENEA, Italy); Vincenzo Paciello (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy)

Tuesday, July 16, 20:00 - 23:00

Dinnergo to top

Wednesday, July 17

Wednesday, July 17, 09:00 - 11:00

3A: Industrial Applicationsgo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
Kalman Filter-based compensation of disturbance forces and torques for AGVs
Gerasimos Rigatos (Industrial Systems Institute, Greece); Pierluigi Siano and Giovanni Ingenito (University of Salerno, Italy)
Low-Cost Neuro-Fuzzy Control Solution for Servo Systems with Variable Parameters
Alexandra-Iulia Stinean (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania); Stefan Preitl (“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania); Radu-Emil Precup, Claudia-Adina Dragos and Mircea-Bogdan Radac (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania); Emil M. Petriu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
A Virtual Environment for the Simulation of 3D Wood Strands in Multiple View Systems for the Particle Size Measurements
Ruggero Donida Labati, Angelo Genovese and Vincenzo Piuri (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Fabio Scotti (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
An ANN Based System for Forecasting Ship Roll Motion
Fernando Lopez Peña and Marcos Miguez Gonzalez (University of A Coruña, Spain); Vicente Díaz Casás (Universidade da Coruña, Spain); Richard J. Duro (Universidad de la Coruña, Spain); Daniel Pena Agras (University of A Coruña, Spain)

Wednesday, July 17, 11:00 - 11:30

Breakgo to top

Wednesday, July 17, 11:30 - 12:30

3B: Communicationsgo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
Fuzzy Entropies by Adequacy and Non-Adequacy Applied to the Analysis of Combs Spectra Stability
Javier Fernando Botia Valderrama (University of Antioquia & UdeA, Colombia); Ana Cárdenas Soto (University of Antioquia, Colombia); Hernán Yepes Montoya (HUAWEI Technologies co, Colombia); Gladys Quintero (UdeA, Colombia)
An Empirical Study based on a Fuzzy Logic System to Assess the QoS/QoE Correlation for Layered Video Streaming
Mohammed Alreshoodi (Qassim University, Saudi Arabia); John Woods (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, July 17, 12:30 - 13:30

3C: Biology Applicationsgo to top

Room: Sala Napoleonica
Computational Intelligence based Construction of a Body Condition Assessment System for Cattle
Rafael Tedín and Jose A. Becerra (University of A Coruña, Spain); Richard J. Duro (Universidad de la Coruña, Spain); Fernando Lopez Peña (University of A Coruña, Spain)
An Efficient Comparative Machine Learning-based Metagenomics Binning Technique Via using Random Forest
Helal Saghir (Ceenter for Computer Machine/Human Intelligence Networking Distributed Systems, USA); Dalila B. Megherbi (Unversity of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)

Wednesday, July 17, 13:30 - 14:30

Lunchgo to top