Robust and accurate people tracking is a key task in many promising computer-vision applications. One must deal with non-rigid targets in open-world scenarios, whose shape and appearance evolve over time. Targets may interact, causing partial or complete occlusions. This paper improves tracking by means of particle ltering, where occlusions are handled considering the target’s predicted traject...

This paper identifies two notions of substitutes for auction and equilibrium analysis. Weak substitutes, which is the usual price-theory notion, guarantees monotonicity of tâtonnement processes and convergence of clock auctions to a pseudoequilibrium, but only strong substitutes, which treats each unit traded as a distinct good with its own price, guarantees that every pseudo-equilibrium is a W...

Blood substitutes are under development for transfusion in place of donor blood during emergencies and lengthy surgeries. The first generation of blood substitutes is currently in clinical trials.

The aim of this study was to investigate the work-rate of substitutes in professional soccer. A computerised player tracking system was used to assess the work-rates of second-half substitutes (11 midfielders and 14 forwards) in a French Ligue 1 club. Total distance, distance covered in five categories of movement intensity and recovery time between high-intensity efforts were evaluated. First-...