New approaches for surveillance tasks

Optimal Camera Placement for Automated Surveillance Tasks

Camera placement has an enormous impact on the performance of vision systems, but the best placement to maximize performance depends on the purpose of the system. As a result, this paper focuses largely on the problem of task-specific camera placement. We propose a new camera placement method that optimizes views to provide the highest resolution images of objects and motions in the scene that ...

Toward Spatial Queries for Spatial Surveillance Tasks

Surveillance systems are largely focused on the movement, storage, and review of video and audio streams. The recent shift from human monitoring toward automated interpretation presages a fundamental change in our relationship with surveillance systems. Despite this shift, the state of the art has so far remained trapped by the notion of a sensor stream. That is, the systems being sold today st...

More than just logic tasks: New Approaches to understanding Reasoning

New Directions Reasoning research has long been associated with paper and pencil tasks in which peoples’ reasoning skills are judged against established normative conventions (e.g., Logic). In this way researchers have tried to assess the extent to which we can think rationally, and of course how we deviate from normative conventions. The “fruit flies” of this domain have been the Wason selecti...

New therapeutical approaches for the treatment of malignant Melanoma

New approaches to tuberculosis surveillance in nonhuman primates.

Despite significant progress in reducing the incidence of tuberculosis in nonhuman primates (NHPs) maintained in captivity, outbreaks continue to occur in established colonies, with potential serious consequences in human exposures, animal losses, disruption of research, and costs related to disease control efforts. The intradermal tuberculin skin test (TST) using mammalian old tuberculin (MOT)...