This paper describes an algorithm for segmenting and classifying human activities from video sequences of a shopping center. These activities comprise entering or exiting a shop, passing, or browsing in front of shop windows. The proposed approach recognizes these activities by using a priori knowledge of the layout of the shopping view. Human actions are represented by a bank of switch dynamic...

Social media is currently the center of technological innovations and research. The plethora of actionable data made available by modern social networks has brought forth the need for use of intelligent algorithms that can process such volumes of data. Group shopping websites are one of the innovations of such social existence of the web. Many websites such as groupon, livingsocial, dealster, b...

considering rapid growth and migration, higher accumulation of communities along with the high number of shopping trips in mega cities such as tehran brings environmental consequences like excessive amounts of energy use, air pollution and massive urban congestions in all urban trips ending to shopping areas. the present study has been performed in tehran, capital of iran in 2009-2010. with the...

Every day, emergencies endanger people who are at risk of injury and, in worse cases, death. It is even when another person responsible for the loss human life. In recent years, we have encountered attacks on places where a large number gather, such as concerts, shopping malls, or Christmas markets. This work focuses logistics process evacuating population finding booby-trapped explosive system...

Purpose: This paper identifies those attributes of created and evolved retail agglomeration formats that have a substantial impact on overall attractiveness from the consumers' point of view. From an agglomeration management perspective primary areas of concern are identified and suggestions to increase the competitiveness of diverse agglomeration formats are presented. Design/methodology: Thro...

Interest in underground space development is increasing owing to overcrowding urban areas, and this trend expected continue the future. Therefore, there exists a need systematically establish manage information on spaces. This includes both physical status, that indicates location or shape of space, status property rights related ownership use space. In study, technique register an entire shopp...