United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force

University of Missouri

Filiz Bunyak Ersoy

Kannappan Palaniappan

Gunasekaran Seetharaman

Teresa Lever

Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale

Yunxin Zhao

Rui Wang

System, method and media for quantifying bulbar function of a subject. At a high level, embodiments of the invention measure and quantify bulbar function of a test subject based on video data, audio data, or other sensor data of a subject performing a test of bulbar function, such as speech, swallowing, and orofacial movements. This sensor data is then analyzed to identify key events such as syllable enunciations. Based on one or more characteristics of these key events (such as, for example, their rate, count, assessed accuracy, or trends over time), the bulbar function of the subject can accurately, reliably, and objectively be quantified.

Quantification of bulbar function

A method for static and moving object detection employing a motion computation method based on spatio-temporal tensor formulation, a foreground and background modeling method, and a multi-cue appearance comparison method. The invention operates in the presence of shadows, illumination changes, dynamic background, and both stopped and removed objects.

System and method for static and moving object detection

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Columbia, MO, United States of America

Filiz Bunyak Ersoy