Abstract— In this paper we describe the problem of Visual Place Categorization (VPC) for mobile robotics, which involves predicting the semantic category of a place from image me...
By nature, ubiquitous computing applications are intimately intertwined with users' everyday life. This situation is challenging because it requires to make the development of...
Abstract. Various forms of pervasive computing environments are being deployed in an increasing number of areas including healthcare, home automation, and military. This evolution ...
In this paper, we present a system developed for content-based broadcasted news video browsing for home users. There are three main factors that distinguish our work from other si...
In this paper a new approach for activity and dominance modeling in meetings is presented. For this purpose low level acoustic and visual features are extracted from audio and vid...