Occupancy estimation is becoming an increasingly popular research topic, as solutions can be deployed both to the challenges of demand-driven ambient comfort control applications, and to the challenges of building safety and security. With this article, the authors aim to estimate the number of...

Current transfer learning models study the source data for future target inferences within a major view, the whole source data should be used to explore the shared knowledge structure. However, human resources are constrained, the source domain data is collected as a whole in the real scene....

Video shot boundary detection (SBD) or video cut detection is one of the fundamental processes of video-processing with respect to semantic understanding, contextual information accumulation, labeling, content-based information retrieval and many more applications, such as video surveillance and...

With the popularity of smart devices, it has become impossible for traditional human-computer interaction techniques to accommodate people's needs. This article proposes an iOS-based three dimensional (3D) gesture recognition system, gathering users' specific gestures from their handheld smart...

The environments of pervasive computing are open and dynamic. In order to ensure the dynamic discovery of services evolving in a heterogeneous and dynamic environment, specific extensions to WSDL, known as A-WSDL are suggested. These extensions permit to a service provider to define the context...

Multiagent systems have been a fascination for research community and are often seen as an intelligent solution to many complex real world problems. Researchers have been active in the domain since last three decades and many developments pertaining to theoretical design and practical...

The continuous evolution of Next Generation Internet (NGI) amplifies the demand for efficient and secure communication capable of responding effectively to the challenges posed by the emerging applications. For secure communication between two sensor nodes, a secret key is needed. Cryptographic...

The mobile environment in MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc Networks) itself is a major constraint to deal with, and assuring reliability on the top of that strengthens the problem more. This paper which is entirely an extension of the authors' previous work based on trust based group formation using Fuzzy...

In this paper, a new real-time approach for audio recognition of waterbird species in noisy environments, based on a Texas Instruments DSP, i.e. TMS320C6713 is proposed. For noise estimation in noisy water bird's sound, a tonal region detector (TRD) using a sigmoid function is introduced. This...

This paper is targeted at issues including traditional stovepipe data center, low utilization of IT equipment and data resources as a result of rigid IT structure, high maintenance costs and high energy consumption in system operation. By taking Beijing Municipal Committee of Transport (BMCT)'s...