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Context-awareness for mobile sensing: a survey and future directions
The evolution of smartphones together with increasing computational power have empowered developers to create innovative context-aware applications for recognizing user related social and cognitive activities in any situation and at any location. The existence and awareness of the context provides the capability of being conscious of physical environments or situations around mobile device users. This allows network services to respond proactively and intelligently based on such awareness. The key idea behind context-aware applications is to encourage users to collect, analyze and share local sensory knowledge in the purpose for a large scale community use by creating a smart network. The desired network is capable of making autonomous logical decisions to actuate environmental objects, and also assist individuals. However, many open challenges remain, which are mostly arisen due to the middleware services provided in mobile devices have limited resources in terms of power, memory and bandwidth. Thus, it becomes critically important to study how the drawbacks can be elaborated and resolved, and at the same time better understand the opportunities for the research community to contribute to the context-awareness. To this end, this paper surveys the literature over the period of 1991-2014 from the emerging concepts to applications of context-awareness in mobile platforms by providing up-to-date research and future research directions. Moreover, it points out the challenges faced in this regard and enlighten them by proposing possible solutions
Target-Tailored Source-Transformation for Scene Graph Generation
Scene graph generation aims to provide a semantic and structural description
of an image, denoting the objects (with nodes) and their relationships (with
edges). The best performing works to date are based on exploiting the context
surrounding objects or relations,e.g., by passing information among objects. In
these approaches, to transform the representation of source objects is a
critical process for extracting information for the use by target objects. In
this work, we argue that a source object should give what tar-get object needs
and give different objects different information rather than contributing
common information to all targets. To achieve this goal, we propose a
Target-TailoredSource-Transformation (TTST) method to efficiently propagate
information among object proposals and relations. Particularly, for a source
object proposal which will contribute information to other target objects, we
transform the source object feature to the target object feature domain by
simultaneously taking both the source and target into account. We further
explore more powerful representations by integrating language prior with the
visual context in the transformation for the scene graph generation. By doing
so the target object is able to extract target-specific information from the
source object and source relation accordingly to refine its representation. Our
framework is validated on the Visual Genome bench-mark and demonstrated its
state-of-the-art performance for the scene graph generation. The experimental
results show that the performance of object detection and visual relation-ship
detection are promoted mutually by our method
Human Motion Trajectory Prediction: A Survey
With growing numbers of intelligent autonomous systems in human environments,
the ability of such systems to perceive, understand and anticipate human
behavior becomes increasingly important. Specifically, predicting future
positions of dynamic agents and planning considering such predictions are key
tasks for self-driving vehicles, service robots and advanced surveillance
systems. This paper provides a survey of human motion trajectory prediction. We
review, analyze and structure a large selection of work from different
communities and propose a taxonomy that categorizes existing methods based on
the motion modeling approach and level of contextual information used. We
provide an overview of the existing datasets and performance metrics. We
discuss limitations of the state of the art and outline directions for further
research.Comment: Submitted to the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR),
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A Survey on Joint Object Detection and Pose Estimation using Monocular Vision
In this survey we present a complete landscape of joint object detection and
pose estimation methods that use monocular vision. Descriptions of traditional
approaches that involve descriptors or models and various estimation methods
have been provided. These descriptors or models include chordiograms,
shape-aware deformable parts model, bag of boundaries, distance transform
templates, natural 3D markers and facet features whereas the estimation methods
include iterative clustering estimation, probabilistic networks and iterative
genetic matching. Hybrid approaches that use handcrafted feature extraction
followed by estimation by deep learning methods have been outlined. We have
investigated and compared, wherever possible, pure deep learning based
approaches (single stage and multi stage) for this problem. Comprehensive
details of the various accuracy measures and metrics have been illustrated. For
the purpose of giving a clear overview, the characteristics of relevant
datasets are discussed. The trends that prevailed from the infancy of this
problem until now have also been highlighted.Comment: Accepted at the International Joint Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition (CCVPR) 201
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