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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Human versus machine in the topic distillation task
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
ICMI
2004
Springer
235views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
Multimodal detection of human interaction events in a nursing home environment
In this paper, we propose a multimodal system for detecting human activity and interaction patterns in a nursing home. Activities of groups of people are firstly treated as intera...
Datong Chen, Robert Malkin, Jie Yang
MMAS
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Designing Emergency Guidance in a Social Interaction Platform
Future computing systems interact with a large number of users moving around buildings and streets. In this paper, we propose an example of such systems and how to evaluate ubicomp...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toru Ishida
PRICAI
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Classifying Human Actions Using an Incomplete Real-Time Pose Skeleton
Currently, most human action recognition systems are trained with feature sets that have no missing data. Unfortunately, the use of human pose estimation models to provide more des...
Patrick Peursum, Hung Hai Bui, Svetha Venkatesh, G...
ICMI
2003
Springer
93views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
A multi-modal approach for determining speaker location and focus
This paper presents a multi-modal approach to locate a speaker in a scene and determine to whom he or she is speaking. We present a simple probabilistic framework that combines mu...
Michael Siracusa, Louis-Philippe Morency, Kevin Wi...