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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Human actions"”.
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Recognising and localising human actions
Human action recognition in challenging video data is becoming an increasingly important research area. Given the growing number of cameras and robots pointing their lenses at humans, the need for automatic recognition of human actions arises, promising Google-style video search and automatic video …
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Appearance-based motion recognition of human actions
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Recognizing simple human actions by exploiting regularities in pose sequences
The human visual system represents a very complex and important part of brain activity, occupying a very significant portion of the cortex resources. It enables us to see colors, detect motion, perceive dimensions and distance. It enables us to solve a very wide range of problems such as image …
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Toddlers' reasoning about the origins of human actions, emotions, and knowledge
… as well as their tendency to explain and predict human actions and emotions in terms of pre-existing mental states. Based on empirical findings obtained to date, it is believed that children come to understand human desires before they acquire a similar understanding of beliefs. In addition, it …
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Anomaly detection and prediction of human actions in a video surveillance environment
… of these surveillance systems are still run by human operators, who are prone to mistakes and may need some help from the surveillance systems themselves in detection of anomalous activities. This dissertation attempts to address these suggestions by combining the fields of image understanding …
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An Inquiry Into the Role of History Textbooks in Improving Understanding of Human Actions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:32:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0006951.pdf: 10958193 bytes, checksum: 9e196140a086fd87c65ae15acf71d50b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1953
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Quantifying the environmental impact on individuals' well-being in risk analysis
… environment affect society in ways that exceed human and property losses. Environmental damages caused by disasters are often continuous, influencing a broader portion of society, and might continually affect future generations moreso than the acute impacts associated with human health risks. As …
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The immanent life of things : embodiment, materiality, and agency in Virginia Woolf’s “A sketch of the past,” and To the lighthouse
… agency that material objects hold in, and via, human actions, encounters, and relationships. This agency comes about, or is manifested, through the ways in which these human actions, encounters, and relationships communicate emotion and affect. The material entities participate in such human …
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Embodied Interactions for Spatial Design Ideation: Symbolic, Geometric, and Tangible Approaches
… recognition and the subsequent interpretation of human actions into design intent.
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Predictive vision
… learn to anticipate the visual future, forecast human actions, and recognize ambient sounds.
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Interpreting human activity from electrical consumption data through non-intrusive load monitoring
… signal. Third, it provides awareness of human activity within a network. Each device has an electrical fingerprint, and specific devices imply associated human actions. From voltage and current measurements at a single point on the network, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) …
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The psychological underpinnings of collective climate action
… Many people already perceive the risk that human actions are driving increasingly catastrophic climate impacts, but only a few are taking actions such as asking governments for climate policy, educating peers, and implementing community-based models of ecological transition. This …
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The man with the movie camera : an event-driven approach to architectural design
… of physical material space in relation to human events that take place inside it. This thesis introduces the notion of event-driven architectural design, and implements an experimental digital tool that automatically constructs a cinematic representation of human characters and events in a …
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Feature Flocks : accurate pattern discovery in multivariate signals
… real-world events in low-level data with no human labeling. By identifying "flocks" of features that repeat in the same temporal arrangement, we learn to recognize such diverse phenomena as human actions, power consumption patterns, and spoken words with up to 96% precision and recall. Our …
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Computational formulation, modeling and evaluation of human-robot team training techniques
… robots and training people to perform human-robot collaborative tasks, drawing upon insights from practices widely used in human teams. First, we design and evaluate human-robot cross-training, a strategy used and validated for effective human team training. Cross-training is an …
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Learning Activities From Human Demonstration Videos
… approaches to observe and learn activities from human demonstration videos. We specifically focus on using first-person and close up videos for learning new activities, rather than traditional third-person videos that have static and global fields of view. Since the specific objective of these …
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Arkadia in transition: exploring late Bronze Age and early Iron Age human landscape
… an exploration of different aspects of the human experience such as religion, death and burial and the everyday. The ways in which these aspects can and usually are interpreted are considered, followed by a number of case studies, which are employed to explore how human actions were embedded …
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Effects of Students' Identity Salience on Their Attitudes Toward and Experience in Face-to-face Peer Collaborative Learning Activities
… identity salience. Identities are motivators of human actions that impact an individual's self-esteem and behavioral tendencies (Stryker, 1968). An individual has three identity aspects that are related to different behavioral tendencies: individual, relational, and collective aspects. The …
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A View of the Valley: The 1913 Flood in West Indianapolis
… that natural resources were unlimited and that humans must master the landscape. From the founding of Indianapolis in 1821 until the flood of 1913, a series of uncoordinated human actions related to settlement and growth of the city took place. Despite noble intentions of progress and …
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Modeling analyses and data in human reliability
… of operation failures accomplished by human operators in a degraded mode. For this purpose, EDF, the French producer of electricity, developed a method that models failures of human actions, by means of a systematic determination of scenarios corresponding to different failure modes. …
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