Increasingly, public transportation systems are equipped with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) connected to control centers through wireless networks. Controllers use this infrast...
After two successful years at SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, the third workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) was held conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 20...
Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong...
Recognition of complex activities from surveillance video requires detection and temporal ordering of its constituent "atomic" events. It also requires the capacity to ro...
We present a method that automatically detects chewing events in surveillance video of a subject. Firstly, an Active Appearance Model (AAM) is used to track a subject’s face acr...
This paper introduces Mycrocosm, a microblogging site in which users communicate via statistical graphics, rather than the usual short text statements. Users of Mycrocosm can reco...