A kinematic, imaging and electromyography dataset for human muscular manipulability index prediction.

Human Muscular Manipulability is a metric that measures the comfort of an specific pose and it can be used for a variety of applications related to healthcare. For this reason, we introduce KIMHu: a Kinematic, Imaging and electroMyography dataset for Human muscular manipulability index prediction. The dataset is comprised of images, depth maps, skeleton tracking data, electromyography recordings and 3 different Human Muscular Manipulability indexes of 20 participants performing different physical exercises with their arm. The methodology followed to acquire and process the data is also presented for future replication. A specific analysis framework for Human Muscular Manipulability is proposed in order to provide benchmarking tools based on this dataset.

A comparative study of registration methods for RGB-D video of static scenes.

The use of RGB-D sensors for mapping and recognition tasks in robotics or, in general, for virtual reconstruction has increased in recent years. The key aspect of these kinds of sensors is that they provide both depth and color information using the same device. In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of the most important methods used in the literature for the registration of subsequent RGB-D video frames in static scenarios. The analysis begins by explaining the characteristics of the registration problem, dividing it into two representative applications: scene modeling and object reconstruction. Then, a detailed experimentation is carried out to determine the behavior of the different methods depending on the application. For both applications, we used standard datasets and a new one built for object reconstruction.

Autonomous Growing Neural Gas for applications with time constraint: optimal parameter estimation.

This paper aims to address the ability of self-organizing neural network models to manage real-time applications. Specifically, we introduce fAGNG (fast Autonomous Growing Neural Gas), a modified learning algorithm for the incremental model Growing Neural Gas (GNG) network. The Growing Neural Gas network with its attributes of growth, flexibility, rapid adaptation, and excellent quality of representation of the input space makes it a suitable model for real time applications. However, under time constraints GNG fails to produce the optimal topological map for any input data set. In contrast to existing algorithms, the proposed fAGNG algorithm introduces multiple neurons per iteration. The number of neurons inserted and input data generated is controlled autonomous and dynamically based on a priory or online learnt model. A detailed study of the topological preservation and quality of representation depending on the neural network parameter selection has been developed to find the best alternatives to represent different linear and non-linear input spaces under time restrictions or specific quality of representation requirements.