In this paper we show how a segmentation as preprocessing paradigm can be used to improve the efficiency and accuracy of model search in an image. We operationalize this idea usin...
Gesture recognition is a difficult task in computer vision due to the numerous degrees of freedom of a human hand. Fortunately, human gesture covers only a small part of the theor...
Axel Saalbach, Gunther Heidemann, Holger Bekel, In...
What happens to human-computer "interaction" when the human user is no longer alive? This exploratory paper uses insights from the critical humanist tradition to argue f...
Although they work with two non-humanoid robots located several million miles away, the distributed team that operates the Mars Exploration Rovers demonstrates an uncanny sympathy...
It is of the utmost importance, we argue, to specifically tailor disaster response systems with users' collaboration in mind. Such an approach, building on top of, and extend...