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Towards Vision-Based Smart Hospitals: A System for Tracking and Monitoring Hand Hygiene Compliance
One in twenty-five patients admitted to a hospital will suffer from a
hospital acquired infection. If we can intelligently track healthcare staff,
patients, and visitors, we can better understand the sources of such
infections. We envision a smart hospital capable of increasing operational
efficiency and improving patient care with less spending. In this paper, we
propose a non-intrusive vision-based system for tracking people's activity in
hospitals. We evaluate our method for the problem of measuring hand hygiene
compliance. Empirically, our method outperforms existing solutions such as
proximity-based techniques and covert in-person observational studies. We
present intuitive, qualitative results that analyze human movement patterns and
conduct spatial analytics which convey our method's interpretability. This work
is a step towards a computer-vision based smart hospital and demonstrates
promising results for reducing hospital acquired infections.Comment: Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (MLHC
Unsupervised Object Discovery and Tracking in Video Collections
This paper addresses the problem of automatically localizing dominant objects
as spatio-temporal tubes in a noisy collection of videos with minimal or even
no supervision. We formulate the problem as a combination of two complementary
processes: discovery and tracking. The first one establishes correspondences
between prominent regions across videos, and the second one associates
successive similar object regions within the same video. Interestingly, our
algorithm also discovers the implicit topology of frames associated with
instances of the same object class across different videos, a role normally
left to supervisory information in the form of class labels in conventional
image and video understanding methods. Indeed, as demonstrated by our
experiments, our method can handle video collections featuring multiple object
classes, and substantially outperforms the state of the art in colocalization,
even though it tackles a broader problem with much less supervision
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