In video surveillance, person re-identification refers to recognizing individuals of interest from faces captured across a network of video cameras. Face recognition in such applications is challenging because faces are captured with limited spatial and temporal constraints. In addition, facial models for recognition are commonly designed using limited reference samples from faces captured unde...

arising of loss entitles the third party to the compensation. in this respect, more often than not, the entitlement of the third party finds its justification based on voluntary principles and sometimes based on involuntary ones. if the third party cannot find defense based on voluntary principles, he or she has to resort to involuntary ones. the possibility of multiple compensation methods cou...

Person identification is a well studied problem in the last two decades. In a typical automated person identification scenario, the system always contains the prior knowledge, either person-based model or reference mugshot, of the person-of-interest. However, the challenge of automated person identification would increase by multiple folds if the prior information is not available. In today’s w...

This study examined dissociations between brain networks involved in theory of mind, which is needed for guessing others' mental states, and the self, which might constitute the basis for theory of mind's development. We used event-related fMRI to compare a condition that required participants to guess the mental state of a subject featured in first-person perspective sentences (1stPP condition...

The increasing use of CT/MR devices in forensic analysis motivates the need to present forensic findings from different sources in an intuitive reference visualization, with the aim of combining 3D volumetric images along with digital photographs of external findings into a 3D computer graphics model. This model allows a comprehensive presentation of forensic findings in court and enables compa...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to analyse the clinical decision making strategies of GPs with regard to the whole range of problems encountered in everyday work. METHODS A prospective questionnaire study was carried through, where 16 General practitioners in Sweden registered consecutively 378 problems in 366 patients. RESULTS 68.3% of the problems were registered as somatic, 5.8% as ...

Previous work has shown that the abstract use of the prepositions in and on retains spatial meaning, such as containment and support that includes the control relationship between a located object (the figure) and a reference object (the ground). We extend these ideas to the case of metaphorical descriptions of emotion in Spanish – some of them featuring the emotion as a located entity in the p...

One can speak about context only with reference to something (no definition of context out of context): the context of an object, the context of interaction, the context of a problem solving, etc. However, only the context of interaction between agents seems of interest because it is in this context that other contexts are referenced or evolve. For example, if an object, as a telephone, could p...

Falls are major causes of mortality and morbidity in the elderly. The existing CCD-camera based solutions require time for installation, camera calibration and are not generally cheap. In this paper we show how to achieve automatic fall detection using Kinect sensor. The person is segmented on the basis of the updated depth reference images. Afterwards, the distance of the person to the ground ...

Things in the real world, which surrounds us, do not come as singularity, rather we find them associated. These relationships occur in various forms, for example a person and a car owned by that very person are things associated via the ownership association. When designing a database for an application, we have to identify and model things pertaining to the application and their relationships....