People detection is a fast developing technology with various applications, including surveillance, crowd management and customer behaviour analysis. We present the short history of image-based people detection algorithms, starting from background subtraction and gradient histograms, ending up in the latest publications where color and depth information are combined. The main goal is to find ou...

This paper addresses vision-based people counting under the assumption of an oblique stationary camera setup without any usage of tracking. Our approach is based on motion detection and blob analysis. The estimation of the number of people in the scene is done by accumulating the estimation values of each blob. The blob specific estimation values are computed using four input values: the minimu...

Categorize Emails According to Senders Liwei Wang, Li Du s Abstract People nowadays are overwhelmed by tons of coming emails everyday at work or in their daily life. The large quantities of emails keep causing confusions. Not only spam emails are considered to be ‘junk’, but also unwanted emails (e.g. advertisements) cause people to waste time on reading them. Therefore, it becomes urgent to de...

Do People Invest in Local Public Goods with Long-Term Benefits? Experimental Evidence from a Shanty Town in Peru Thomas de Hoop1, Luuk van Kempen1 and Ricardo Fort2 1Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN) 2Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) Abstract This paper discusses voluntary contributions to health education in a shanty town in Peru, using a new experimental...

Video image has the advantage of large amount of information, good real-time performance and low cost, so automatic people counting based on video image has very high practical value, and many scholars have done a large number of experiments and studies on this and achieved certain achievements. But for scenes with more occlusion and background changing quickly and without obvious rules, it’s d...

Business Process Management is an important management practice for business transformation and organizational change. This paper presents a Business Process Management implementation approach in a large international company. It introduces a process management maturity assessment which was developed to assess the implementation of Business Process Management and the achievements. The maturity ...

Can you imagine a world in which the spread of globalisation meant the world becoming a more just and equitable place? This seems like an impossible dream. All the indications are that the current forms of globalisation are making the world a safe place for unfettered market liberalism and the consequent growth of inequities. This economic globalisation is posing severe threats to both people’s...

In General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a mobile station (MS) is tracked at the cell level during packet transmission, and is tracked at the routing area (RA) level when no packet is delivered. A READY Timer (RT) mechanism was proposed in 3GPP 23.060 to determine when to switch from cell tracking to RA tracking. In this mechanism, a threshold interval is defined. If no packet is delivered withi...

The idea that all humans naturally belong to one of a few biological types or races that evolved in isolation was unchallenged for centuries, but large-scale modern studies failed to associate racial labels with recognizable genetic clusters. Recently, the conclusions of those studies have been questioned by authors who argue that racial classification has objective scientific bases and is indi...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of knowledge management (KM) maturity of credit unions. The application of a maturity model to fifteen credit unions in North America revealed that an overall level of KM maturity of credit unions is at an early stage of development, but there are signs of future improvement. Credit unions attempt to increase their efficiency through KM solu...