Person re-identification consists in recognizing an individual that has already been observed over a network of cameras. It is a novel and challenging research topic in computer vision, for which no reference framework exists yet. Despite this, previous works share similar representations of human body based on part decomposition and the implicit concept of multiple instances. Building on these...

The application of Networked Virtual Environment (NVE) technology on mobile devices is an emerging area in research. The marketing potential for these types of applications, when deployed on mobile networks is huge, both for entertainment and professional use. This statement can be verified when observing the popularity of these types of applications on the PC platform. Traditionally, mobile de...

There is intense interest about human factors issues in interactive computer systems for life-critical applications, industrial/commercial uses, and personal computing in the office or home. Primary design goals include proper functionality, adequate reliability, suitable cost, and adherence to schedule. Measurable human factors issues include time to learn, speed of performance, rate of errors...

This study proposes an innovation Laser-Driven Interactive System (LaDIS), utilizing general IWBs (Interactive Whiteboard) didactics, to support student learning for rural and developing regions. LaDIS is a system made to support traditional classroom practices between an instructor and a group of students. This invention effectively transforms a general projection screen into an IWBs. Accompan...

Grid computing presents two major challenges for deploying large scale applications across wide area networks gathering volunteers PC and clusters/parallel computers as computational resources: security and fault tolerance. This paper presents a lightweight Grid solution for the deployment of multi-parameters applications on a set of clusters protected by firewalls. The system uses a hierarchic...

In this paper, we present a new solution to the problem of person re-identification. Person re-identification means to match observations of the same person across different time and possibly different cameras. The appearance based person re-identification must deal with several challenges such as variations of illumination conditions, poses and occlusions. Our proposed method inspires from the...

High capacity of transmission lines (Ethernet in particular) is much higher than what imposed by MIDI today. So it is possible to use capturing interfaces with high-speed and high-resolution, thanks to the OSC protocol, for musical synthesis (either in realtime or non real-time). These new interfaces offer many advantages, not only in the area of musical composition with use of sensors but also...

With the growing power and shrinking cost of personal computers, the availability of fast ethernet interconnections, and public domain software packages, it is now possible to combine them to build desktop parallel computers (named Beowulf or PC clusters) at a fraction of what it would cost to buy systems of comparable power from supercomputer companies. This led us to build and assemble our ow...

Many highly reliable products have two or more performance characteristics (PCs). The PCs may be independent or dependent each other. If they are dependent, it is very important to find the joint distribution function of the PCs. In this paper, suppose that a product has two PCs and the PCs degradation can be governed by Gamma process. And the dependence of the PCs can be described by copula fu...

The importance of network-ready personal devices in collaborative systems is becoming apparent. The participants of a collaborative environment use mobile devices to overcome the physical constraint of using a conventional PC. However, the integration of disparate devices like mobile devices and PCs is difficult, because of the connectivity and the computing power limitations of a mobile device...