Person-oriented approaches within a multi-level perspective

Multi Person Tracking Within Crowded Scenes

This paper presents a solution to the problem of tracking people within crowded scenes. The aim is to maintain individual object identity through a crowded scene which contains complex interactions and heavy occlusions of people. Our approach uses the strengths of two separate methods; a global object detector and a localised frame by frame tracker. A temporal relationship model of torso detect...

Comparing multi-level modeling approaches

As the range of modelling approaches that claim to be “multi-level” diversifies, there is growing debate in the literature about what multi-level modelling actually is and what form supporting languages and infrastructures should take. However, there is no consensus yet on how this debate should be framed and what objective criteria should be used to evaluate different approaches. It is clear f...

Sophisticated/Well-Educated Person from Avicenna’s Perspective

Sophisticated/Well-Educated Person from Avicenna’s Perspective*   A. Sohbatloo** M.R. Aahanchiyaan, Ph.D.*** B. Sha’bani Varaki, Ph.D.**** A.R. Saadeghzaadeh Ghamsari, Ph.D.*****   A basic question asked by many philosophers has been about the criteria by which a person’s sophistication is measured and the characteristics by which a sophisticated/well educated person is identified. Given...

New Multi-biometric Approaches for Improved Person Identification

by Kyong I. Chang Multiple modality biometric approaches are proposed integrating two-dimensional face appearance with ear appearance, three-dimensional face shape, and the pattern of heat emission on face. A single source biometric recognition method, such as face, has been shown to improve its identification rate by incorporating other biometric sources. The investigation of multi-modal biome...

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