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A modeling framework for the estimation of optimal CO2 emission taxes for private transport
(2011)
In this paper, a novel modeling framework is proposed for the estimation of optimal CO2 emission taxes for urban traffic. The framework is based on a bi-level model comprising a combined equilibrium model with elastic ...
Real-time human segmentation in infrared videos
(2011)
In this paper, a new approach to real-time people segmentation through processing images captured by an infrared camera is introduced. The approach starts detecting human candidate blobs processed through traditional image ...
Mobile robot localization through identifying spatial relations from detected corners
(2011)
In this paper, the Harris corner detection algorithm is applied to images captured by a time-of-flight (ToF) camera. In this case, the ToF camera mounted on a mobile robot is exploited as a gray-scale camera for localization ...
Sensor-driven agenda for intelligent home care of the elderly
(2012)
The exponential increase of home-bound persons who live alone and are in need of continuous monitoring requires new solutions to current problems. Most of these cases present illnesses such as motor or psychological ...
The impact of soft computing for the progress of artificial intelligence
(2011)
This special issue encompasses five papers devoted to the different existing relationships between soft computing branches and classical artificial intelligence. The issue originated from the ?50 years of artificial ...
Model-driven engineering techniques for the development of multi-agent systems
(2012)
Model-driven engineering (MDE), implicitly based upon meta-model principles, is gaining more and more attention in software systems due to its inherent benefits. Its use normally improves the quality of the developed systems ...
A survey of video datasets for human action and activity recognition
(2013)
Vision-based human action and activity recognition has an increasing importance among the computer vision community with applications to visual surveillance, video retrieval and human?computer interaction. In recent years, ...
Awareness marks: adaptive services through user interactions with augmented objects
(2011)
The ambient intelligence paradigm involves one important challenge: to be adaptive to users and context through simple and natural interactions. To meet this goal, it is important to associate data with relevant everyday ...
Road accessibility and articulation of metropolitan spatial structures: the case of Madrid (Spain)
(2014)
In the last few decades, rapid growth in mobility has facilitated the progressive inclusion of distant places in metropolitan processes, modifying traditional metropolitan areas into polycentric urban structures. The paper ...
On the identification and establishment of topological spatial relations by autonomous systems
(2014)
Human beings use spatial relations to describe many daily tasks in their language. For a mobile robot to be useful in daily life, it is necessary to have navigation algorithms capable of identifying and establishing spatial ...