Title
Fractal Analysis of Facial Skin Thermogram due to Mental Tasks
Abstract
We studied changes in fractal nature of facial skin thermogram in experiments conducted by two kinds of mental tasks. One of the tasks was associated with arithmetic and logistic mental activities. Another one was in relation with imagination and thinking activities. Performances using the mental tasks appeared to create different facial thermogram patterns that could be characterized quantitatively in the use of fractal dimensions. In our experiments, there was a lower fractal dimension found during arithmetic task in comparison with rest period before task, showing a smoother facial thermal imagery. Whereas in contrast, the task of thinking induced an increase of fractal dimension of the thermal imagery, leading to a more fluctuated facial thermal surface.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384959
SMC
Keywords
Field
DocType
image processing,infrared imaging,fractals,facial skin thermogram,fractal dimensions,arithmetic,fractal analysis,mental tasks,thermal imagery,logistic mental activities,skin,fractal dimension
Fractal analysis,Computer vision,Fractal dimension,Computer science,Fractal,Image processing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2
1062-922X
1-4244-0100-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.72
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tiejun Miao12311.04
Osamu Shimoyama2112.50
Toshiyuki Shimizu319129.19
Mayumi Oyama-Higa43315.63