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Research Theme: Sensors & Mobility

Until recently, computers and therefore our information systems were mostly deaf and blind. All information about the real physical or social world had to be manually entered into these systems. In the last several years, however, this situation began to change. First, enterprise systems are routinely capturing data reflecting many of the central processes of the business.  Second, many kinds of physical sensors have become available and are being integrated with business applications. Third, the Web has become a very rich source of information for businesses. Each source requires different types of “sensors” – data analysis for business process data, physical sensors to report on physical world, and text processing for unstructured documents. In reality, the sensors of all three kinds provide only partial coverage of the areas of business interest and in many cases the collected information is probabilistic and noisy. The focus of our research in this area is the collection, interpretation and integration of heterogeneous and noisy information from multiple sources.

Projects

Some of our recent projects include:

bulletVisual Shelf Monitoring
bulletActivity Monitoring
bulletBehavior Monitoring
bullet Multiple Sensor Indoor Surveillance
bulletIntelligent Cargo Security
bulletOnline Health Services
bulletReality Mining: Employs new visualization tools designed to help process information, browse reality and make decisions in the future.

People

bulletRobin Groenevelt
bulletFredrik Linaker
bulletMarion Mesnage
bulletAgata Opalach
bulletYounes Souilmi

 

Publications

A Bayesian Framework for Robust Reasoning from Sensor Networks
V.A. Petrushin, R. Ghani and A.V. Gershman
2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security
March 21-23, 2005
Stanford University
Abstract | Paper

Multiple-Camera People Localization in a Cluttered Environment
G. Wei, V.A. Petrushin and A. V. Gershman
Proc. Fifth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining MDM/KDD 2004, pp. 52-60
August 22, 2004
Seattle, WA

Adaptive Algorithms for Pitch-synchronous Speech Signal Segmentation
V. A. Petrushin
Proc. Ninth International Conference “Speech and Computer” (SPECOM’04), pp.146-153
September 20-22, 2004
St. Petersburg, Russia
PaperPaper
[PDF, 265K]

Developing Audio Processing Agents for Multi-Agent Mpeg-7 Enabled Environment
M. Li, G. Wei, V.A. Petrushin and I.K. Sethi
Proceedings of the Forth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining MDM/KDD 2003,
pp.1 – 7
August 27, 2003
Washington, D.C., USA
Abstract | PaperPaper
[PDF, 168K]

The Community of Multimedia Agents
G. Wei, V.A. Petrushin and A.V. Gershman
In O.R. Zaïane, S.J. Simoff and Ch. Djeraba
Mining Multimedia and Complex Data, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Volume 2797 pp. 149 – 163
2003

Pitch-synchronous Speech Signal Segmentation and its Applications
V.A. Petrushin
In V. Matousek, P. Mautner (Eds.)
Text, Speech and Dialogue, Sixth International Conference (TSD 2003)
Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2807, 2003, pp. 321 - 326
September, 2003
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Abstract | PaperPaper
[PDF, 89K]

Indexing and Retrieval of Music via Gaussian Mixture Models
V. Kulesh, I.K. Sethi and V.A. Petrushin
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Content Based Multimedia Indexing, pp.201 - 205
September 22 – 24, 2003
Rennes, France
Abstract | PaperPaper
[PDF, 543K]