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IBERAMIA
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Detection of Multiple People by a Mobile Robot in Dynamic Indoor Environments
Detection of multiple people is a key element for social robot design and it is a requirement for effective human-robot interaction. However, it is not an easy task, especially in...
José Alberto Méndez-Polanco, Ang&eac...
UIC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Extracting Social and Community Intelligence from Digital Footprints: An Emerging Research Area
As a result of the recent explosion of sensor-equipped mobile phone market, the phenomenal growth of Internet and social network users, and the large deployment of sensor network i...
Daqing Zhang, Bin Guo, Bin Li, Zhiwen Yu
ICMCS
2009
IEEE
153views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
Audio-visual privacy protection for video conference
Group video-conferencing systems are routinely used in major corporations, hospitals and universities for meetings, tele-medicine and distance learning among participants from very...
M. Vijay Venkatesh, Jian Zhao, L. Profitt, Sen-Chi...
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Creating a context of trust with ICTs: restoring a sense of normalcy in the environment
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of the technology-enabled behavior that took place amongst a citizen population living in a conflict zone. We interviewed 65 Iraqi citi...
Bryan Semaan, Gloria Mark
FGR
2011
IEEE
176views Biometrics» more  FGR 2011»
13 years 1 months ago
Prop-free pointing detection in dynamic cluttered environments
Abstract—Vision-based prop-free pointing detection is challenging both from an algorithmic and a systems standpoint. From a computer vision perspective, accurately determining wh...
Pyry Matikainen, Padmanabhan Pillai, Lily B. Mumme...