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VLDB
2008
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
PicShark: mitigating metadata scarcity through large-scale P2P collaboration
With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather th...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Manfred H...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Information Agents for Pervasive Sensor Networks
In this paper, we describe an information agent, that resides on a mobile computer or personal digital assistant (PDA), that can autonomously acquire sensor readings from pervasiv...
Alex Rogers, Mike Osborne, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, ...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
PICASSO: Pervasive Information Chronicling, Access, Search, and Sharing for Organizations
Several researchers have pointed out and begun to demonstrate that it is now possible to digitize an entire lifetime of experiences into a pocket-sized storage device, and thus to...
Gopal Pingali, Mark Podlaseck, Sinem Güven
DCC
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Distributed Sampling and Compression of Scenes with Finite Rate of Innovation in Camera Sensor Networks
We study the problem of distributed sampling and compression in sensor networks when the sensors are digital cameras that acquire a 3-D visual scene of interest from different vie...
Nicolas Gehrig, Pier Luigi Dragotti
CVPR
2009
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Recognizing human group activities with localized causalities
The aim of this paper is to address the problem of recognizing human group activities in surveillance videos. This task has great potentials in practice, however was rarely studie...
Ashraf A. Kassim, Bingbing Ni, Shuicheng Yan