17 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Vladimir Iashin, Weidi Xie, Esa Rahtu, Andrew Zisserman
The objective of this paper is audio-visual synchronisation of general videos 'in the wild'. For such videos, the events that may be harnessed for synchronisation cues may be spatially small and may occur only infrequently during a many seconds-long video clip, i.e. the synchronisation signal is 'sparse in space and…
Ellen M. Howard, Danielle Ropar, Roger Newport, Bahar Tunçgenç
Interpersonal synchrony is a fundamental part of human social interaction, with known effects on facilitating social bonding. Moving in time with another person facilitates prosocial behaviour, however, it is unknown if the degree of synchronisation predicts the degree of social bonding. Similarly, while people readily…
Marta del Olmo, Carolin Ector, Hanspeter Herzel
Biological systems are fundamentally rhythmic, with oscillations emerging at multiple scales, from intracellular gene circuits to organ-level coordination. Many of these rhythms, including the circadian clock, arise from feedback-driven genetic networks that interact to produce coherent temporal organisation. In this…
Gerard Hotho, Dietrich von Bonin, Daniel Krüerke, Ursula Wolf + 1 more
'Dirk Cysarz'] Slow breathing at 0.1 Hz (i.e., 6 cycles per minute, cpm) leads to strong cardiovascular oscillations. However, the impact of breathing below 6 cpm is rarely addressed. We investigated the influence of OM chanting, an ancient Indian mantra, with approx. 3 respiratory cpm (0.05 Hz) on the synchronisation…
Parvinder Solanki, Noufal Jaseem, Michal Hajdušek, Sai Vinjanampathy
Progress on the study of synchronisation in quantum systems has been largely driven by specific examples which resulted in several examples of frequency entrainment as well as mutual synchronisation. Here we study quantum synchronisation by utilising Liouville space perturbation theory. We begin by clarifying the role…
Praneet Prakash, Xue Jiang, Luke Richards, Zoe Schofield + 4 more
Soil fungi are important decomposers of organic matter and play crucial roles in the biogeochemical cycles in the soil. Many species of fungi grow in the form of branched networks. While there have been investigations on the growth and architecture of the fungal networks, their growth dynamics in space and time is…
Martin Starman, Fabian Kirchner, Martin Held, Catriona Eschke + 4 more
Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) have become indispensable tools for modern research laboratories, facilitating data management, collaboration, and documentation of scientific experiments. However, the proliferation of diverse ELN platforms poses challenges for researchers who need to seamlessly exchange data between…
Nikhil Phaniraj, Rahel K. Brügger, Judith M. Burkart
Synchronisation is widespread in animals, and studies have often emphasised how this seemingly complex phenomenon can emerge from very simple rules. However, the amount of flexibility and control that animals might have over synchronisation properties, such as the strength of coupling, remains underexplored. Here, we…
Venkatesh S. Kadandale, Juan F. Montesinos, Gloria Haro
In this paper, we address the problem of lip-voice synchronisation in videos containing human face and voice. Our approach is based on determining if the lips motion and the voice in a video are synchronised or not, depending on their audiovisual correspondence score. We propose an audio-visual crossmodal…
Adrien Gregorj, Zeynep Yücel, Francesco Zanlugo, Takayuki Kanda
Gait synchronisation of pedestrians is influenced by a range of factors, including biomechanical properties like leg length, environmental elements such as presence of obstacles and cognitive aspects like sensory feedback. Studying gait data collected in ecological contexts offers unique insights into these numerous…
Tazzio Tissot, Mike Levin, Chris Buckley, Richard Watson
How do multiple active components at one level of organisation create agential wholes at higher levels of organisation? For example, in organismic development, how does the multi-scale autonomy of the organism arise from the interactions of the molecules, cells and tissues that an organism contains? And, in the major…
Marta M. N. Bieńkiewicz, Stefan Janaqi, Pierre Jean, Benoît G. Bardy
The ability to synchronise with other people is a core socio-motor competence acquired during human development. In this study we aimed to understand the impact of individual emotional arousal on joint action performance. We asked 15 mixed-gender groups (of 4 individuals each) to participate in a digital, four-way…
Andrew Lewis-Pye, Ittai Abraham
View synchronisation is an important component of many modern Byzantine Fault Tolerant State Machine Replication (SMR) systems in the partial synchrony model. Roughly, the efficiency of view synchronisation is measured as the word complexity and latency required for moving from being synchronised in a view of one…
Miaomin Wang, Zuo Zhu, Ki Young Koo, James Brownjohn
This paper presents the development of a time-synchronised wireless vision sensor network using the global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The sensor network, named the flexible vision network (FVN), offers significant advantages over existing wired or wireless time-synchronised vision sensor networks. These…
James Tooby, Steve Rowson, Kevin Till, David Allan + 13 more
'Melanie Dawn Bussey' 'Dario Cazzola' 'Éanna Falvey' 'Kenzie Friesen' 'Andrew J. Gardner' 'Cameron Owen' 'Gregory Roe' 'Thomas Sawczuk' 'Lindsay Starling' 'Keith Stokes' 'Gregory Tierney' 'Ross Tucker' 'Ben Jones'] Purpose Head acceleration events (HAEs) are a growing concern in contact sports, prompting two rugby…
Pranav Minasandra, Frants H. Jensen, Andrew S Gersick, Kay E Holekamp + 2 more
Animal activity patterns are highly variable and influenced by internal and external factors, including social processes. Quantifying activity patterns in natural settings can be challenging, as it is difficult to monitor animals over long time periods. Here, we developed and validated a machine-learning based…
Martín Esparza-Iaizzo, Irene Vigué-Guix, Manuela Ruzzoli, Mireia Torralba + 1 more
Shifts in spatial attention are associated with variations in alpha-band (α, 8–14 Hz) activity, specifically in inter-hemispheric imbalance. The underlying mechanism is attributed to local α-synchronisation, which regulates local inhibition of neural excitability, and fronto-parietal synchronisation reflecting…