Multimodal Behavior Analysis in the Wild

Multimodal Behavior Analysis in the Wild
Author: Xavier Alameda-Pineda
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128146028

Multimodal Behavioral Analysis in the Wild: Advances and Challenges presents the state-of- the-art in behavioral signal processing using different data modalities, with a special focus on identifying the strengths and limitations of current technologies. The book focuses on audio and video modalities, while also emphasizing emerging modalities, such as accelerometer or proximity data. It covers tasks at different levels of complexity, from low level (speaker detection, sensorimotor links, source separation), through middle level (conversational group detection, addresser and addressee identification), and high level (personality and emotion recognition), providing insights on how to exploit inter-level and intra-level links. This is a valuable resource on the state-of-the- art and future research challenges of multi-modal behavioral analysis in the wild. It is suitable for researchers and graduate students in the fields of computer vision, audio processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and social signal processing. - Gives a comprehensive collection of information on the state-of-the-art, limitations, and challenges associated with extracting behavioral cues from real-world scenarios - Presents numerous applications on how different behavioral cues have been successfully extracted from different data sources - Provides a wide variety of methodologies used to extract behavioral cues from multi-modal data

Intelligent Image and Video Analytics

Intelligent Image and Video Analytics
Author: El-Sayed M. El-Alfy
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2023-04-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000851907

Video has rich information including meta-data, visual, audio, spatial and temporal data which can be analysed to extract a variety of low and high-level features to build predictive computational models using machine-learning algorithms to discover interesting patterns, concepts, relations, and associations. This book includes a review of essential topics and discussion of emerging methods and potential applications of video data mining and analytics. It integrates areas like intelligent systems, data mining and knowledge discovery, big data analytics, machine learning, neural network, and deep learning with focus on multimodality video analytics and recent advances in research/applications. Features: Provides up-to-date coverage of the state-of-the-art techniques in intelligent video analytics. Explores important applications that require techniques from both artificial intelligence and computer vision. Describes multimodality video analytics for different applications. Examines issues related to multimodality data fusion and highlights research challenges. Integrates various techniques from video processing, data mining and machine learning which has many emerging indoors and outdoors applications of smart cameras in smart environments, smart homes, and smart cities. This book aims at researchers, professionals and graduate students in image processing, video analytics, computer science and engineering, signal processing, machine learning, and electrical engineering.

Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis

Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis
Author: Mei Chen
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0128149736

Are you a computer scientist working on image analysis? Are you a biologist seeking tools to process the microscopy data from image-based experiments? Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis provides a comprehensive and in-depth discussion of modern computer vision techniques, in particular deep learning, for microscopy image analysis that will advance your efforts. Progress in imaging techniques has enabled the acquisition of large volumes of microscopy data and made it possible to conduct large-scale, image-based experiments for biomedical discovery. The main challenge and bottleneck in such experiments is the conversion of "big visual data" into interpretable information. Visual analysis of large-scale microscopy data is a daunting task. Computer vision has the potential to automate this task. One key advantage is that computers perform analysis more reproducibly and less subjectively than human annotators. Moreover, high-throughput microscopy calls for effective and efficient techniques as there are not enough human resources to advance science by manual annotation. This book articulates the strong need for biologists and computer vision experts to collaborate to overcome the limits of human visual perception, and devotes a chapter each to the major steps in analyzing microscopy images, such as detection and segmentation, classification, tracking, and event detection. Discover how computer vision can automate and enhance the human assessment of microscopy images for discovery Grasp the state-of-the-art approaches, especially deep neural networks Learn where to obtain open-source datasets and software to jumpstart his or her own investigation

Computer Communication, Networking and IoT

Computer Communication, Networking and IoT
Author: Suresh Chandra Satapathy
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811919763

This book features a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC 2021) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, India, on November 26 – 27, 2021. The book is organized in two volumes and discusses advanced and multi-disciplinary research regarding the design of smart computing and informatics. It focuses on innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence, and sustainability that can be applied to provide practical solutions to a number of problems in society, the environment and industry. Further, the book also addresses the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in various disciplines of science, technology, and healthcare.

Vision Models for High Dynamic Range and Wide Colour Gamut Imaging

Vision Models for High Dynamic Range and Wide Colour Gamut Imaging
Author: Marcelo Bertalmío
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2019-11-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0128138955

To enhance the overall viewing experience (for cinema, TV, games, AR/VR) the media industry is continuously striving to improve image quality. Currently the emphasis is on High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) technologies, which yield images with greater contrast and more vivid colours. The uptake of these technologies, however, has been hampered by the significant challenge of understanding the science behind visual perception. Vision Models for High Dynamic Range and Wide Colour Gamut Imaging provides university researchers and graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, vision science, as well as industry R&D engineers, an insight into the science and methods for HDR and WCG. It presents the underlying principles and latest practical methods in a detailed and accessible way, highlighting how the use of vision models is a key element of all state-of-the-art methods for these emerging technologies. - Presents the underlying vision science principles and models that are essential to the emerging technologies of HDR and WCG - Explores state-of-the-art techniques for tone and gamut mapping - Discusses open challenges and future directions of HDR and WCG research

Spectral Geometry of Shapes

Spectral Geometry of Shapes
Author: Jing Hua
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2019-10-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0128138424

Spectral Geometry of Shapes presents unique shape analysis approaches based on shape spectrum in differential geometry. It provides insights on how to develop geometry-based methods for 3D shape analysis. The book is an ideal learning resource for graduate students and researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied mathematics who have an interest in 3D shape analysis, shape motion analysis, image analysis, medical image analysis, computer vision and computer graphics. Due to the rapid advancement of 3D acquisition technologies there has been a big increase in 3D shape data that requires a variety of shape analysis methods, hence the need for this comprehensive resource.

Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2021)

Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2021)
Author: Amit Joshi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 787
Release: 2022-06-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811900957

This book contains best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2021: Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference will be held at Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, during December 17–18, 2021. The book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorithms and data analytics, and IT security. The book is presented in two volumes.

Advances in Computer Graphics

Advances in Computer Graphics
Author: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2021-10-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030890295

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2021, held virtually in September 2021. The 44 full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 131 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topics: computer animation; computer vision; geometric computing; human poses and gestures; image processing; medical imaging; physics-based simulation; rendering and textures; robotics and vision; visual analytics; VR/AR; and engage.

Emotion, Personality and Cultural Aspects in Crowds

Emotion, Personality and Cultural Aspects in Crowds
Author: Rodolfo Migon Favaretto
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030220788

This practically-focused book presents a computational model for detection and analysis of pedestrian features in crowds from video sequences. The study of human behavior is a subject of great scientific interest and probably an inexhaustible source of research. The analysis of pedestrians and groups in crowds is relevant in several areas of application, such as security, entertainment, environmental and public spaces planning and social sciences. Cultural and personality aspects are attributes that can influence personal behavior and affect the group in which individuals belong. In this sense, we consider different ways of characterizing individuals and groups in crowds with respect to their relationship with the geometrical space and time. We discuss and describe an approach to extract and analyse, from the Computer Science point of view, emotions, personalities and cultural aspects from crowds and groups of pedestrians, using Computer Vision techniques. Extracting characteristics from real pedestrians and crowds, benefits other areas, such as: architecture and design (planning spaces to maximize pedestrian and group-environment fit); security and surveillance (design of evacuation plans considering characteristics of the crowds and detection of abnormal events); entertainment (more realistic crowds in movies and games reproducing characteristics from real pedestrians and crowds); social sciences (understanding of human behavior), among others. A big challenge in this area of research is the comparison with real life data. In this book, we successfully compared the results of the proposed approach with Psychology literature, where several studies aimed to analysis human behavior.

Deep Learning through Sparse and Low-Rank Modeling

Deep Learning through Sparse and Low-Rank Modeling
Author: Zhangyang Wang
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 012813660X

Deep Learning through Sparse Representation and Low-Rank Modeling bridges classical sparse and low rank models—those that emphasize problem-specific Interpretability—with recent deep network models that have enabled a larger learning capacity and better utilization of Big Data. It shows how the toolkit of deep learning is closely tied with the sparse/low rank methods and algorithms, providing a rich variety of theoretical and analytic tools to guide the design and interpretation of deep learning models. The development of the theory and models is supported by a wide variety of applications in computer vision, machine learning, signal processing, and data mining. This book will be highly useful for researchers, graduate students and practitioners working in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, signal processing, optimization and statistics. - Combines classical sparse and low-rank models and algorithms with the latest advances in deep learning networks - Shows how the structure and algorithms of sparse and low-rank methods improves the performance and interpretability of Deep Learning models - Provides tactics on how to build and apply customized deep learning models for various applications