Vocal activity detection is an important technology for both automatic speech recognition and automatic speech understanding. In meetings, standard vocal activity detection algori...
Recognition of complex activities from surveillance video requires detection and temporal ordering of its constituent "atomic" events. It also requires the capacity to ro...
For the purpose of Multimodal Meeting Manager Project (M4), an approach based on face and a hand tracking is proposed. The technique essentially includes skin color detection, seg...
A burst is a large number of events occurring within a certain time window. As an unusual activity, it's a noteworthy phenomenon in many natural and social processes. Many da...
We present a new active active recognition scheme (using an uncalibrated camera) based on a new idea, appearancebased aspect graphs. The scheme is robust to background clutter, an...