In this paper the acoustic event detection and classification system that has been developed at Athens Information Technology is presented. This system relies on the use of severa...
Learning patterns of human behavior from sensor data is extremely important for high-level activity inference. We show how to extract and label a person’s activities and signi...
Abstract. In this paper we give a new model for foreground-background-shadow separation. Our method extracts the faithful silhouettes of foreground objects even if they have partly...
In this paper we face the problem of partitioning the news videos into stories, and of their classification according to a predefined set of categories. In particular, we propose ...
Francesco Colace, Pasquale Foggia, Gennaro Percann...
The use of HMM (Hidden Markov Models) for speech recognition has been successful for various applications in the past decades. However, the use of continuous HMM (CHMM) for melody...