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ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Distributional Semantics in Technicolor
Our research aims at building computational models of word meaning that are perceptually grounded. Using computer vision techniques, we build visual and multimodal distributional ...
Elia Bruni, Gemma Boleda, Marco Baroni, Nam-Khanh ...
FGR
2011
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Visualisation and prediction of conversation interest through mined social signals
— This paper introduces a novel approach to social behaviour recognition governed by the exchange of non-verbal cues between people. We conduct experiments to try and deduce dist...
Dumebi Okwechime, Eng-Jon Ong, Andrew Gilbert, Ric...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
HeatWave: thermal imaging for surface user interaction
We present HeatWave, a system that uses digital thermal imaging cameras to detect, track, and support user interaction on arbitrary surfaces. Thermal sensing has had limited exami...
Eric Larson, Gabe Cohn, Sidhant Gupta, Xiaofeng Re...
DAGSTUHL
2006
14 years 1 months ago
Cognitive Vision: Integrating Symbolic Qualitative Representations with Computer Vision
We describe the challenge of combining continuous computer vision techniques and qualitative, symbolic methods to achieve a system capable of cognitive vision. Key to a truly cogni...
Anthony G. Cohn, David C. Hogg, Brandon Bennett, V...
EUROSSC
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Transforming Daily Life Objects into Tactile Interfaces
This article describes a few techniques to transform daily life objects into tactile interfaces, and presents the implementation details for three objects chosen as example: a ligh...
Alain Crevoisier, Cédric Bornand
ICRA
2005
IEEE
166views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Cooperative Fire Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
– The paper presents a framework for cooperative fire detection by means of a fleet of heterogeneous UAVs. Computer vision techniques are used to detect and localize fires from i...
Luis Merino, Fernando Caballero, J. Ramiro Martine...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Posture classification in a multi-camera indoor environment
Posture classification is a key process for analyzing the people's behaviour. Computer vision techniques can be helpful in automating this process, but cluttered environments...
Rita Cucchiara, Andrea Prati, Roberto Vezzani