The SenseCam is a wearable camera that automatically takes photos of the wearer’s activities, generating thousands of images per day. Automatically organising these images for efficient search and retrieval is a challenging task, but can be simplified by providing semantic information with each photo, such as the wearer’s location during capture time. We propose a method for automatically deter...

At present, online shopping is typically a search-oriented activity where a user gains access to products which best match their query. Instead, we propose a surf-oriented online shopping paradigm, which links associated products allowing users to ”wander around” the online store and enjoy browsing a variety of items. As an initial step in creating this experience, we constructed a prototype of...

Software to interpret tandem mass spectra, entitled Method for Analyzing Patterns in Spectra (MAPS), has been developed to provide substructure information for an automated compound identification system, This software consists of several program modules which manipulate databases of tandem mass spectra and substructure information, generate substructure identification rules, and apply these ru...

This paper is a study on real-time object tracking algorithm using depth information of the Kinect and fast speeded up robust feature(SURF) algorithm. Depth information of the Kinect is used to overcome the disadvantage which continuously adaptive meanshift(Camshift) and Meanshift have of illumination and noise. Because processing time of SURF algorithm is faster than that of scale invariant fe...

Information status plays an important role in discourse processing. According to the hearer’s common sense knowledge and his comprehension of the preceding text, a discourse entity could be old, mediated or new. In this paper, we propose an attention-based LSTM model to address the problem of fine-grained information status classification in an incremental manner. Our approach resembles how hum...

Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior – both in family size and in the spacing of births – has changed. While in the 1985 SFS family size wa...

Everyone is aware of the special relationship that man has with the coast; from the beginning of mankind, humans have been attracted to the littoral zone for the construction of settlements and the use of its resources. Subsequently, humans have evolved, leaving an increasingly large footprint on this medium. Hence, there is a need to deepen our knowledge to protect against the threat that we o...

These working notes paper present the contribution of the UPC team to the Hyperlinking sub-task of the Search and Hyperlinking Task in MediaEval 2013. Our contribution explores the potential of a solution based only on visual cues. In particular, every automatically generated shot is represented by a keyframe. The linking between video segments is based on the visual similarity of the keyframes...

A novel real-time local visual feature, namely FAST+LBP, is proposed in this paper for omnidirectional vision. It combines the advantages of two computationally simple operators by using Features from Accelerated Segment Test (FAST) as the feature detector and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) operator as the feature descriptor. The matching experiments of the panoramic images from the COLD database ...