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...
The use of blogs to track and comment on real world (political, news, entertainment) events is growing. Similarly, as more individuals start relying on the Web as their primary in...
The problem of automated visual surveillance has spawned a lively research area, with 2005 seeing three conferences or workshops and special issues of two major journals devoted to...
We present a novel scheme for indexing "hot spots" in conversations, such as poster sessions, based on the reaction of the audience. Specifically, we focus on laughters ...
— This paper is motivated by the real world problem of search and rescue by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider the problem of tracking a static target from a bird’sey...
Andrew Colquhoun Symington, Sonia Waharte, Simon J...