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Large projection screens are increasingly present for everyday use at work. This paper introduces a new reliable system that utilizes spotlight emitted from a laser pointer device, a camera and a projection screen for interaction between human and computer. A camera is placed in a presentation room at a fixed but unknown distance and directed to the projected screen displayed on a wall. Although the...
Semi-supervised learning has recently demonstrated be successful in large scale learning for image classification tasks. Laplacian Support Vector Machines (LapSVM) is one of such approaches applied to this task. However, LapSVM uses a squared hinge loss function for the labeled examples, which is not twice differentiable and may penalize noisy labeled examples too much. Thus, the accuracy decreases...
The modern communication system has made the world a “Global Village” in true sense. However, as the number of users of this communication system is increasing, the challenges are mounting as well. The users send different types of traffic to the network, however it is necessary that the traffic must conform to the specified network parameters otherwise it will be troublesome. In case the sent traffic...
Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN's) has become progressively more attractive and has found its way into a wide variety of applications and systems because of its low-cost, self-organizing behavior and sensing ability in harsh environments. A WSN is a set of nodes arranged into a network. Routing is a vital technology in WSNs. It can be split into two groups namely flat routing and hierarchical...
Researchers are showing more and more interest in the Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) as it is found the most suitable mean for road safety, effective monitoring and control of traffic and global connectivity at all times as desired currently and in the future ahead. VANETs do not face the energy resource constraint which makes them suitable for larger coverage and network life time. However, due...
Acoustic sensors or sensor networks can be efficiently used to spot and observe targets of interest and have the ability to conclude the exact location of an object or event within the sensor network's coverage range. For the detection and spot estimation of shooter, the schemes of gunshot localization require one or more sensing technologies. In current situation the importance of counter sniper...
We present a human action recognition system suitable for very short sequences. In particular, we estimate Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOGs) for the current frame as well as the corresponding dense flow field estimated from two frames. The thus obtained descriptors are then efficiently represented by the coefficients of a Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF). To further speed up the overall...
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