Concept indexing in multimedia libraries is very useful for users searching and browsing but it is a very challenging research problem as well. Beyond the systems' implementat...
We propose a method for human activity recognition in videos, based on shape analysis. We define local shape descriptors for interest points on the detected contour of the human a...
In this paper, we describe a physical activity classification system using a body sensor network (BSN) consisting of costsensitive tri-axial accelerometers. We focus on workspace...
Natali Ruchansky, Claire Lochner, Elizabeth Do, Tr...
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) is an effective means to estimate the feature function weights of a linear model such that an automated evaluation criterion for measuring syste...
Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ignacio Thayer...
We investigate the tasks of general morphological tagging, diacritization, and lemmatization for Arabic. We show that for all tasks we consider, both modeling the lexeme explicitl...
Ryan Roth, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, Mona T. Diab...