The United States armed forces could be considered the world's most powerful military force. However, in modern conflicts, techniques of asymmetric warfare (terrorism) wreak havoc on the inflexible, regardless of technological or numerical advantage. In order to be more effective, the US military must improve its counter-terrorism (CT) capabilities and flexibility. In this light, the authors mo...

This article describes a method for people counting in public transportation. In this particular scenario, various body poses corresponding to holding handrails must be accounted for. Kinect sensor mounted vertically has been employed to acquire a database of images of 1-5 persons and an algorithm based on maxima detection and head candidates filtering has been devised for robust people countin...

This paper deals with an application of image sequence analysis. In particular, it addresses the problem of determining the number of people who get into and out of a train carriage when it’s crowded and background and/or illumination might change. The proposed system analyses image sequences and processes them using an algorithm based on the use of several morphological tools and optical flow mo-

The objective of the study is to find out the effect of specific table tennis training on the selected skill performance variables of school boys.For this study, twenty school boys were randomly selected from the S.S.M. Lakshmiammal Matric.Hr.Sec.School. Komarapalayam, Namakkal, Tamilnadu. The selected subjects were considered as only one group. The following criterion variables were selected f...

People detection and tracking are important in many situations where robots and humans work and live together. But unlike targets in traditional tracking problems, people typically move and act under the constraints of their environment. The probabilities and frequencies for when people appear, disappear, walk or stand are not uniform but vary over space making human behavior strongly place-dep...

Object tracking in video sequences has found several different applications, such as surveillance, advanced interface, virtual reality, movement analysis, among others. However, the broadness of the spectrum of application is not caused by the existence of a general approach for object tracking. The inexistent generalization requires developers to build algorithms over several premises, in orde...

Introduction People detection and tracking is an important and fundamental component for many robots, interactive systems and intelligent vehicles. Previous works have used cameras and 2D and 3D range finders for this task. In this paper, we present a 3D people detection and tracking approach using RGB-D data. Given the richness of the data, we learn target appearance models for the purpose of ...

Pedestrian tracking plays a crucial role in security and intelligent video surveillance. Occlusion handling is a challenging concern in tracking multiple people. Adaptive, advanced solutions are required to accurately track pedestrians for video surveillance purposes. This paper presents a novel method of tracking multiple people in occlusion conditions. In this study, we developed a combined c...

‘Human factor’ is one of the most relevant and crucial aspects of software development projects management. Aiming at the performance improvement for software processes in organizations, a new model has been developed to diagnose people related processes. This new model is People-CMM and represents a complementary solution to CMM. On the other hand, existing estimation models in Software Engine...