An audio-visual localisation and tracking system for meeting scenarios is presented which draws its inspiration from neurobiological processing. Meetings are recorded by a KEMAR binaural manikin and a single camera placed directly above the manikin. Source localisation from the binaural audio and face, object and motion locations from the video frames are used as input to two linked neural osci...

An audio-visual localisation and tracking system for meeting scenarios is presented which draws its inspiration from neurobiological processing. Meetings are recorded by a KEMAR binaural manikin and a single camera placed directly above the manikin. Source localisation from the binaural audio and face, object and motion locations from the video frames are used as input to two linked neural osci...

Beam column joint failure has been linked to the partial or whole collapse of reinforced structures, according information gathered during seismic reconnaissance. Under stress, a single beam only limited impact, but beam-column junction might lead structure. The resulting economic damage and human casualties are substantial. Hence, keeping from coming apart is crucial. Recent earthquakes have c...

this paper describes experimental and numerical investigations on two specimens of frames composed of steel reinforced concrete beam and angle-steel concrete column under horizontal low cyclic loading. based on the test results, the relationship curves of the horizontal load-displacement and the failure modes are acquired. meanwhile the hysteretic behaviors, skeleton curves, stiffness degradati...

The usefulness of FrameNet is affected by its limited coverage and non-standard semantics. This paper presents some strategies based on Linguistic Linked Open Data to fully exploit and broaden its coverage. These strategies lead to the creation of a novel resource, Framester, which serves as a hub between FrameNet, WordNet, VerbNet, BabelNet, DBpedia, Yago, DOLCE-Zero, as well as other resource...

In this study, the progressive collapse potential of seismically designed steel plate shear wall (SPSW) systems is investigated using the alternate path method, and their performances are compared with those of the conventional special moment frame (SMF) systems. Nonlinear static and dynamic analyses are conducted to follow the progressive collapse of the structures, and their ability of absorb...

in this paper, a new method for determining position and orientation of a coordinate system using its image is presented. this coordinate system is a three dimensional non-orthogonal system in respect to the two dimensional and orthogonal camera coordinate system.  in real world, it’s exactly easy to select three directions on an object so that they don’t be orthogonal and on a plane. the image...