How Can and Would People Protect From Online Tracking?

Online multiple people tracking-by-detection in crowded scenes

Multiple people detection and tracking is a challenging task in real-world crowded scenes. In this paper, we have presented an online multiple people tracking-by-detection approach with a single camera. We have detected objects with deformable part models and a visual background extractor. In the tracking phase we have used a combination of support vector machine (SVM) person-specific classifie...

How many people would benefit from a smart wheelchair?

Independent mobility is important, but some wheelchair users find operating existing manual or powered wheelchairs difficult or impossible. Challenges to safe, independent wheelchair use can result from various overlapping physical, perceptual, or cognitive symptoms of diagnoses such as spinal cord injury, cerebrovascular accident, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and cerebral...

Would judicial consent for assisted dying protect vulnerable people?

In The BMJ this week, two experts discuss whether the Assisted Dying Bill, to be debated at the House of Commons next month, would provide adequate protection for vulnerable people from harm. The new Bill, presented by Mr Rob Marris MP, proposes legislation that would allow doctors to help terminally ill and mentally competent adults to die by prescribing drugs that patients would administer th...

How we can better protect children from abuse and neglect.

How to Protect Peer-to-Peer Online Games from Cheats

Recently, P2P (peer-to-peer) online game systems have attracted a great deal of public attention. They work without central servers, thus, the maintenance and organization costs have been drastically reduced. However, in P2P systems, it is difficult for game creators to prevent cheats by malicious players, due to the lack of trusted servers. In order to solve the problem, we propose a practical...