Person re-identification is the task of ranking a gallery of automatically detected images of persons using a set of query images. This is challenging due to the different poses, viewpoints, occlusions, camera configurations, image distortions, lighting conditions, image resolutions and imperfect detections, which all affects a person re-identification system’s performance. Recently deeply lear...

In this chapter we review methods that model the transfer a person’s appearance undergoes when passing between two cameras with non-overlapping fields of view. Whereas many recent studies deal with re-identifying a person at any new location and search for universal signatures and metrics, here we focus on solutions for the natural setup of surveillance systems in which the cameras are specific...

The purpose of this research is to develop an interactive device for environment recognition, which uses senses other than vision. At present there is no interactive device with which a person who is visually handicapped can gain an intuitive impression of the external world. Our device, which we have named CyARM, has a mechanism that controls the motion of a visually impaired person's arm acco...

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has been widely available in Ghana since 2004. The aim of this cohort study was to assess the incidences of death, AIDS-defining events and non-AIDS defining events and associated risk factors amongst patients initiating cART in a large treatment centre. Clinical and laboratory data were extracted from clinic and hospital case notes for patients initiat...

An important goal of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) research is to contribute to the quality of life of the elderly and handicapped people and help them to maintain an independent lifestyle with the use of sensors, signal processing and the available telecommunications infrastructure. From this perspective, detection of unusual human activities such as falling person detection is of utmost impor...

Objective: This research was conducted to determine the anxiety levels and coping strategies of the parents who have handicapped children. Methods: Study population included the of parents of 1163 handicapped children who were from 15 rehabilitation centers in a city of, which are working in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education. Of all 405 parents who included in the study and wh...

In this paper we present two voice-operated systems that have been designed for Czech motor-handicapped people to allow them full access to computers and computer based services. The programs, which are named MyVoice and MyDictate, are complementary in their functions. Both employ ASR engines developed in our lab. The former is used primarily as a midsize-vocabulary (up to 10K words) voice comm...