Floor control is a scheme used by people to organize speaking turns in multi-party conversations. Identifying the floor control shifts is important for understanding a conversati...
Many applications in surveillance, monitoring, scientific discovery, and data cleaning require the identification of anomalies. Although many methods have been developed to iden...
Median-shift is a mode seeking algorithm that relies on
computing the median of local neighborhoods, instead of
the mean. We further combine median-shift with Locality
Sensitive...
When monitoring sensory data (e.g., from a wearable device) the context oftentimes changes abruptly: people move from one situation (e.g., working quietly in their office) to ano...
Near-duplicate image detection is a critical task in copyright protection. More challenging than the common similarity search, this task requires not only the retrieval of the top...