Demo: Sword Fight With Smartphones

Visual tools for assisting child pornography investigators

In this paper we investigate the use of visual tools for efficient video search. The different techniques have been implemented in a demo called iDash and several of the techniques are actively used by the Dutch police force in the fight against child pornography.

Demo: Off-the-shelf Bi-directional Visible Light Communication Module for IoT Devices and Smartphones

Demo: Tracking Transit with EasyTracker

EasyTracker is an automated system that assists small public or private transit agencies in deploying bus tracking and arrival time prediction. This demo will showcase how data from GPS sensors embedded in smartphones can be automatically processed in order to accurately estimate routes, bus stop locations, schedules, and make annotated maps with real-time bus tracking and arrival time predicti...

The Fight Against Piracy in Peer-to-Peer Networks: the Sword of Damocles Hanging over ISP's Head?

During the past few years copyright holders and holders of related rights have started to legally challenge peer-to-peer networks. Their latest strategy consists of trying to actively involve Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in this combat, e.g. through the implementation of filters. This development raises legal problems and questions both in terms of the liability of ISPs and the protection ...

An Extensibility Approach for Spatio-temporal Stream Processing Using Microsoft StreamInsight

Integrating spatial operators in commercial data streaming engines has gained tremendous interest in recent years. Whether to support such operators natively or to enable the operator through an extensibility framework is a challenging and interesting debate. In this paper we leverage the Microsoft StreamInsight extensibility framework to support spatial operators enabling developers to integra...