In this paper, we present a new solution to the problem of multi-camera tracking with non-overlapping fields of view. The identities of moving objects are maintained when they are traveling from one camera to another. Appearance information and spatio-temporal information are explored and combined in a maximum a posteriori (MAP) framework. In computing appearance probability, a two-layered hist...

A well-known result due to Vickery gives a mechanism for selling a number of goods to interested buyers in a way that achieves the maximum social welfare. In practice, a problem with this mechanism is that it requires the buyers to specify a large number of values. In this paper we study the problem of designing optimal mechanisms subject to constraints on the complexity of the bidding language...

For a flexible camera-to-camera tracking of multiple objects we model the object’s behavior with a Bayesian network and combine it with the multiple hypothesis framework that associates observations with objects. Bayesian networks offer a possibility to factor complex, joint distributions into a product of intuitive conditional densities describing and predicting the object’s path. Yet, these m...

A model of sentence-picture integration developed by Carpenter and Just (1975) predicts that picturesentence integration ease/difficulty depends on picturesentence match/mismatch respectively. Recent findings by Underwood, Jebbet, and Roberts (2004), however, fail to find a match/mismatch difference for serial picture-sentence presentation in a sentence verification study. In a sentence compreh...

Non-overlapping multi-camera visual object tracking typically consists of two steps: single camera object tracking and inter-camera object tracking. Most of tracking methods focus on single camera object tracking, which happens in the same scene, while for real surveillance scenes, inter-camera object tracking is needed and single camera tracking methods can not work effectively. In this paper,...

The emergence of the internet has led to a whole range of possibilities to not only collect large, but also highly specified text corpora for linguistic research. This paper introduces the Multilingual Affective Soccer Corpus. MASC is a collection of soccer match reports in English, German and Dutch. Parallel texts are collected manually from the involved soccer clubs’ homepages with the aim of...

The creation of electron-positron pair by a photon and the bremsstrahlung of an electron in a medium are considered in high-energy region, where influence of the multiple scattering on the processes (the Landau-PomeranchukMigdal (LPM) effect) becomes essential. The pair photoproduction probability is calculated with an accuracy up to the ”next to leading logarithm”. The integral characteristics...

Process flexibility and adaptability is essential in environments where the processes are prompt to changes and variations. Process learning is a possible approach for automatically discovering from process log data those process paths that yielded good outcomes and suggesting appropriate process model modifications to enhance future process performance in such environments. We discuss and esta...

We view match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g., classifications, XML schemas) and produces a mapping between the nodes of these graphs that correspond semantically to each other. Semantic matching is based on two ideas: (i) we discover mappings by computing semantic relations (e.g., equivalence, more general); (ii) we determine semantic relations by analyzing the meanin...