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MTA
2010
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Performing content-based retrieval of humans using gait biometrics
In order to analyse surveillance video, we need to efficiently explore large datasets containing videos of walking humans. At survei llance-image resolution, the human walk (their ...
Sina Samangooei, Mark S. Nixon
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The Tower of Babel did not fail
Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Paul Adamczyk, Munawar Hafiz
P2P
2010
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
WhatsUp: News, From, For, Through, Everyone
—WHATSUP (WUP) is a new form of electronic news. It is personalized and decentralized. Users receive news and have the ability to express their interest in it. This opinion, in t...
A. Boutet, Davide Frey, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Mar...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Predicting mobility events on personal devices
High-end mobile phones are quickly becoming versatile sensing platforms, capable of continuously capturing the dynamic context of their owners through various sensors. A change in...
Arjan J. H. Peddemors, Henk Eertink, Ignas G. Niem...
PUC
2010
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Mobile phone-based pervasive fall detection
Falls are a major health risk that diminishes the quality of life among the elderly people. The importance of fall detection increases as the elderly population surges, especially ...
Jiangpeng Dai, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, Zhaohui Sh...