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Author Wenjuan Gong; Andrew Bagdanov; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Automatic Key Pose Selection for 3D Human Action Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 6th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6169 Issue Pages 290–299
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Abstract This article describes a novel approach to the modeling of human actions in 3D. The method we propose is based on a “bag of poses” model that represents human actions as histograms of key-pose occurrences over the course of a video sequence. Actions are first represented as 3D poses using a sequence of 36 direction cosines corresponding to the angles 12 joints form with the world coordinate frame in an articulated human body model. These pose representations are then projected to three-dimensional, action-specific principal eigenspaces which we refer to as aSpaces. We introduce a method for key-pose selection based on a local-motion energy optimization criterion and we show that this method is more stable and more resistant to noisy data than other key-poses selection criteria for action recognition.
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Publisher Springer Verlag Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-14060-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference AMDO
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ GBR2010 Serial 1317
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Author Susana Alvarez; Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu
Title 3D Texton Spaces for color-texture retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 7th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6111 Issue Pages 354–363
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Abstract Color and texture are visual cues of different nature, their integration in an useful visual descriptor is not an easy problem. One way to combine both features is to compute spatial texture descriptors independently on each color channel. Another way is to do the integration at the descriptor level. In this case the problem of normalizing both cues arises. In this paper we solve the latest problem by fusing color and texture through distances in texton spaces. Textons are the attributes of image blobs and they are responsible for texture discrimination as defined in Julesz’s Texton theory. We describe them in two low-dimensional and uniform spaces, namely, shape and color. The dissimilarity between color texture images is computed by combining the distances in these two spaces. Following this approach, we propose our TCD descriptor which outperforms current state of art methods in the two different approaches mentioned above, early combination with LBP and late combination with MPEG-7. This is done on an image retrieval experiment over a highly diverse texture dataset from Corel.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor A.C. Campilho and M.S. Kamel
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13771-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICIAR
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ ASV2010a Serial 1325
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Author Naveen Onkarappa; Angel Sappa
Title On-Board Monocular Vision System Pose Estimation through a Dense Optical Flow Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 7th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6111 Issue Pages 230-239
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Abstract This paper presents a robust technique for estimating on-board monocular vision system pose. The proposed approach is based on a dense optical flow that is robust against shadows, reflections and illumination changes. A RANSAC based scheme is used to cope with the outliers in the optical flow. The proposed technique is intended to be used in driver assistance systems for applications such as obstacle or pedestrian detection. Experimental results on different scenarios, both from synthetic and real sequences, shows usefulness of the proposed approach.
Address Povoa de Varzim (Portugal)
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13771-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICIAR
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ OnS2010 Serial 1342
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Author Jaume Gibert; Ernest Valveny
Title Graph Embedding based on Nodes Attributes Representatives and a Graph of Words Representation. Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 13th International worshop on structural and syntactic pattern recognition and 8th international worshop on statistical pattern recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6218 Issue Pages 223–232
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Abstract Although graph embedding has recently been used to extend statistical pattern recognition techniques to the graph domain, some existing embeddings are usually computationally expensive as they rely on classical graph-based operations. In this paper we present a new way to embed graphs into vector spaces by first encapsulating the information stored in the original graph under another graph representation by clustering the attributes of the graphs to be processed. This new representation makes the association of graphs to vectors an easy step by just arranging both node attributes and the adjacency matrix in the form of vectors. To test our method, we use two different databases of graphs whose nodes attributes are of different nature. A comparison with a reference method permits to show that this new embedding is better in terms of classification rates, while being much more faster.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor In E.R. Hancock, R.C. Wilson, T. Windeatt, I. Ulusoy and F. Escolano,
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-14979-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference S+SSPR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ GiV2010 Serial 1416
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Author Marco Pedersoli; Jordi Gonzalez; Andrew Bagdanov; Juan J. Villanueva
Title Recursive Coarse-to-Fine Localization for fast Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 11th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6313 Issue II Pages 280–293
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Abstract Cascading techniques are commonly used to speed-up the scan of an image for object detection. However, cascades of detectors are slow to train due to the high number of detectors and corresponding thresholds to learn. Furthermore, they do not use any prior knowledge about the scene structure to decide where to focus the search. To handle these problems, we propose a new way to scan an image, where we couple a recursive coarse-to-fine refinement together with spatial constraints of the object location. For doing that we split an image into a set of uniformly distributed neighborhood regions, and for each of these we apply a local greedy search over feature resolutions. The neighborhood is defined as a scanning region that only one object can occupy. Therefore the best hypothesis is obtained as the location with maximum score and no thresholds are needed. We present an implementation of our method using a pyramid of HOG features and we evaluate it on two standard databases, VOC2007 and INRIA dataset. Results show that the Recursive Coarse-to-Fine Localization (RCFL) achieves a 12x speed-up compared to standard sliding windows. Compared with a cascade of multiple resolutions approach our method has slightly better performance in speed and Average-Precision. Furthermore, in contrast to cascading approach, the speed-up is independent of image conditions, the number of detected objects and clutter.
Address Crete (Greece)
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-15566-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ECCV
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ PGB2010 Serial 1438
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Author Carles Fernandez; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca
Title Automatic Learning of Background Semantics in Generic Surveilled Scenes Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 11th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6313 Issue II Pages 678–692
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Abstract Advanced surveillance systems for behavior recognition in outdoor traffic scenes depend strongly on the particular configuration of the scenario. Scene-independent trajectory analysis techniques statistically infer semantics in locations where motion occurs, and such inferences are typically limited to abnormality. Thus, it is interesting to design contributions that automatically categorize more specific semantic regions. State-of-the-art approaches for unsupervised scene labeling exploit trajectory data to segment areas like sources, sinks, or waiting zones. Our method, in addition, incorporates scene-independent knowledge to assign more meaningful labels like crosswalks, sidewalks, or parking spaces. First, a spatiotemporal scene model is obtained from trajectory analysis. Subsequently, a so-called GI-MRF inference process reinforces spatial coherence, and incorporates taxonomy-guided smoothness constraints. Our method achieves automatic and effective labeling of conceptual regions in urban scenarios, and is robust to tracking errors. Experimental validation on 5 surveillance databases has been conducted to assess the generality and accuracy of the segmentations. The resulting scene models are used for model-based behavior analysis.
Address Crete (Greece)
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-15551-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ECCV
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ FGR2010 Serial 1439
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Author Cesar Isaza; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Toward the Detection of Urban Infrastructures Edge Shadows Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 12th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6474 Issue I Pages 30–37
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Abstract In this paper, we propose a novel technique to detect the shadows cast by urban infrastructure, such as buildings, billboards, and traffic signs, using a sequence of images taken from a fixed camera. In our approach, we compute two different background models in parallel: one for the edges and one for the reflected light intensity. An algorithm is proposed to train the system to distinguish between moving edges in general and edges that belong to static objects, creating an edge background model. Then, during operation, a background intensity model allow us to separate between moving and static objects. Those edges included in the moving objects and those that belong to the edge background model are subtracted from the current image edges. The remaining edges are the ones cast by urban infrastructure. Our method is tested on a typical crossroad scene and the results show that the approach is sound and promising.
Address Sydney, Australia
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor eds. Blanc–Talon et al
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-17687-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ACIVS
Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ ISR2010 Serial 1458
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Author Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; Josep Llados; Jean-Yves Ramel; Thierry Brouard
Title A Fuzzy-Interval Based Approach For Explicit Graph Embedding, Recognizing Patterns in Signals, Speech, Images and Video Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6388 Issue Pages 93–98
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Abstract We present a new method for explicit graph embedding. Our algorithm extracts a feature vector for an undirected attributed graph. The proposed feature vector encodes details about the number of nodes, number of edges, node degrees, the attributes of nodes and the attributes of edges in the graph. The first two features are for the number of nodes and the number of edges. These are followed by w features for node degrees, m features for k node attributes and n features for l edge attributes — which represent the distribution of node degrees, node attribute values and edge attribute values, and are obtained by defining (in an unsupervised fashion), fuzzy-intervals over the list of node degrees, node attributes and edge attributes. Experimental results are provided for sample data of ICPR2010 contest GEPR.
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Publisher Springer, Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-17710-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ LLR2010 Serial 1459
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Author Jaume Gibert; Ernest Valveny; Horst Bunke
Title Graph of Words Embedding for Molecular Structure-Activity Relationship Analysis Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6419 Issue Pages 30–37
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Abstract Structure-Activity relationship analysis aims at discovering chemical activity of molecular compounds based on their structure. In this article we make use of a particular graph representation of molecules and propose a new graph embedding procedure to solve the problem of structure-activity relationship analysis. The embedding is essentially an arrangement of a molecule in the form of a vector by considering frequencies of appearing atoms and frequencies of covalent bonds between them. Results on two benchmark databases show the effectiveness of the proposed technique in terms of recognition accuracy while avoiding high operational costs in the transformation.
Address Sao Paulo, Brazil
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-16686-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CIARP
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ GVB2010 Serial 1462
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Author Muhammad Anwer Rao; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title Color Contribution to Part-Based Person Detection in Different Types of Scenarios Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6855 Issue II Pages 463-470
Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Color
Abstract Camera-based person detection is of paramount interest due to its potential applications. The task is diffcult because the great variety of backgrounds (scenarios, illumination) in which persons are present, as well as their intra-class variability (pose, clothe, occlusion). In fact, the class person is one of the included in the popular PASCAL visual object classes (VOC) challenge. A breakthrough for this challenge, regarding person detection, is due to Felzenszwalb et al. These authors proposed a part-based detector that relies on histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) and latent support vector machines (LatSVM) to learn a model of the whole human body and its constitutive parts, as well as their relative position. Since the approach of Felzenszwalb et al. appeared new variants have been proposed, usually giving rise to more complex models. In this paper, we focus on an issue that has not attracted suficient interest up to now. In particular, we refer to the fact that HOG is usually computed from RGB color space, but other possibilities exist and deserve the corresponding investigation. In this paper we challenge RGB space with the opponent color space (OPP), which is inspired in the human vision system.We will compute the HOG on top of OPP, then we train and test the part-based human classifer by Felzenszwalb et al. using PASCAL VOC challenge protocols and person database. Our experiments demonstrate that OPP outperforms RGB. We also investigate possible differences among types of scenarios: indoor, urban and countryside. Interestingly, our experiments suggest that the beneficts of OPP with respect to RGB mainly come for indoor and countryside scenarios, those in which the human visual system was designed by evolution.
Address Seville, Spain
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Berlin Heidelberg Editor P. Real, D. Diaz, H. Molina, A. Berciano, W. Kropatsch
Language English Summary Language english Original Title Color Contribution to Part-Based Person Detection in Different Types of Scenarios
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-23677-8 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CAIP
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RVL2011b Serial 1665
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Author Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Mireia Burnat; Steven Jansen; Jordi Martinez-Vilalta
Title Structure-Preserving Smoothing of Biomedical Images Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5702 Issue Pages 427-434
Keywords non-linear smoothing; differential geometry; anatomical structures segmentation; cardiac magnetic resonance; computerized tomography.
Abstract Smoothing of biomedical images should preserve gray-level transitions between adjacent tissues, while restoring contours consistent with anatomical structures. Anisotropic diffusion operators are based on image appearance discontinuities (either local or contextual) and might fail at weak inter-tissue transitions. Meanwhile, the output of block-wise and morphological operations is prone to present a block structure due to the shape and size of the considered pixel neighborhood. In this contribution, we use differential geometry concepts to define a diffusion operator that restricts to image consistent level-sets. In this manner, the final state is a non-uniform intensity image presenting homogeneous inter-tissue transitions along anatomical structures, while smoothing intra-structure texture. Experiments on different types of medical images (magnetic resonance, computerized tomography) illustrate its benefit on a further process (such as segmentation) of images.
Address Münster, Germany
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-03766-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CAIP
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GHB2009 Serial 1527
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Author Debora Gil; Petia Radeva
Title Curvature Vector Flow to Assure Convergent Deformable Models for Shape Modelling Type Book Chapter
Year 2003 Publication Energy Minimization Methods In Computer Vision And Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal LNCS
Volume 2683 Issue Pages 357-372
Keywords Initial condition; Convex shape; Non convex analysis; Increase; Segmentation; Gradient; Standard; Standards; Concave shape; Flow models; Tracking; Edge detection; Curvature
Abstract Poor convergence to concave shapes is a main limitation of snakes as a standard segmentation and shape modelling technique. The gradient of the external energy of the snake represents a force that pushes the snake into concave regions, as its internal energy increases when new inexion points are created. In spite of the improvement of the external energy by the gradient vector ow technique, highly non convex shapes can not be obtained, yet. In the present paper, we develop a new external energy based on the geometry of the curve to be modelled. By tracking back the deformation of a curve that evolves by minimum curvature ow, we construct a distance map that encapsulates the natural way of adapting to non convex shapes. The gradient of this map, which we call curvature vector ow (CVF), is capable of attracting a snake towards any contour, whatever its geometry. Our experiments show that, any initial snake condition converges to the curve to be modelled in optimal time.
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Publisher Springer, Berlin Place of Publication Lisbon, PORTUGAL Editor Springer, B.
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-40498-8 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes IAM;MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GIR2003b Serial 1535
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Author Naveen Onkarappa; Angel Sappa
Title Space Variant Representations for Mobile Platform Vision Applications Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6855 Issue II Pages 146-154
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Abstract The log-polar space variant representation, motivated by biological vision, has been widely studied in the literature. Its data reduction and invariance properties made it useful in many vision applications. However, due to its nature, it fails in preserving features in the periphery. In the current work, as an attempt to overcome this problem, we propose a novel space-variant representation. It is evaluated and proved to be better than the log-polar representation in preserving the peripheral information, crucial for on-board mobile vision applications. The evaluation is performed by comparing log-polar and the proposed representation once they are used for estimating dense optical flow.
Address Seville, Spain
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor P. Real, D. Diaz, H. Molina, A. Berciano, W. Kropatsch
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-23677-8 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CAIP
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number NaS2011; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 1686
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Author Mario Rojas; David Masip; Jordi Vitria
Title Automatic Detection of Facial Feature Points via HOGs and Geometric Prior Models Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6669 Issue Pages 371-378
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Abstract Most applications dealing with problems involving the face require a robust estimation of the facial salient points. Nevertheless, this estimation is not usually an automated preprocessing step in applications dealing with facial expression recognition. In this paper we present a simple method to detect facial salient points in the face. It is based on a prior Point Distribution Model and a robust object descriptor. The model learns the distribution of the points from the training data, as well as the amount of variation in location each point exhibits. Using this model, we reduce the search areas to look for each point. In addition, we also exploit the global consistency of the points constellation, increasing the detection accuracy. The method was tested on two separate data sets and the results, in some cases, outperform the state of the art.
Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA
Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RMV2011a Serial 1731
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Author Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title Human Activity Recognition from Accelerometer Data using a Wearable Device Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6669 Issue Pages 289-296
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Abstract Activity Recognition is an emerging field of research, born from the larger fields of ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing and multimedia. Recently, recognizing everyday life activities becomes one of the challenges for pervasive computing. In our work, we developed a novel wearable system easy to use and comfortable to bring. Our wearable system is based on a new set of 20 computationally efficient features and the Random Forest classifier. We obtain very encouraging results with classification accuracy of human activities recognition of up to 94%.
Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Vitria, Jordi; Sanches, João Miguel Raposo; Hernández, Mario
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ CPR2011a Serial 1735
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