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Indoor Activity Detection and Recognition for Sport Games Analysis

Activity recognition in sport is an attractive field for computer vision research. Game, player and team analysis are of great interest and research topics within this field emerge with the goal of automated analysis. The very specific underlying rules of sports can be used as prior knowledge for the recognition task and present a constrained environment for evaluation. This paper describes recognition of single player activities in sport with special emphasis on volleyball. Starting from a per-frame player-centered activity recognition, we incorporate geometry and contextual information via an activity context descriptor that collects information about all player's activities over a certain timespan relative to the investigated player. The benefit of this context information on single player activity recognition is evaluated on our new real-life dataset presenting a total amount of almost 36k annotated frames containing 7 activity classes within 6 videos of professional volleyball games. Our incorporation of the contextual information improves the average player-centered classification performance of 77.56% by up to 18.35% on specific classes, proving that spatio-temporal context is an important clue for activity recognition.Comment: Part of the OAGM 2014 proceedings (arXiv:1404.3538

ART. XXIX–The Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye:

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BUSINESS ENGLISH PROJECTS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Based on the results of a needs analysis carried out among the former students of the Technical University of Budapest a project based Business English course has been designed and implemented by the staff of the English Department. The paper discusses the rationale behind project work as well as the process of practical course design. It also describes a case study - the implementation of a project, which proved to be motivating and rewarding both for the students and the teacher

Toward a Posthumanist Ethics of Qualitative Research in a Big Data Era

I would like to thank Leland Glenna for inviting me to contribute to the international expert workshop on ‘Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big-Data Era’, held in December 2016, Washington D.C., and to the US National Science Foundation for funding my participation. Thanks also to two anonymous reviewers for their very helpful and constructive feedback on an earlier version of this article, and to Arielle Hesse for editorial assistance. Final thanks go to Karolina Kazimierczak for ongoing productive conversations about posthumanist philosophies.Peer reviewedPostprin

Visualization of Vibrant Cities and Regions – Identification, Design and Development of 3D-GIS Applications and Modules

Facing a continuous state of transition and herewith connected financial, societal and ecological challenges such as the climate or demographic change (United Nations 2013), cities try to integrate innovative information and communication technologies in order to optimize administrative processes, legitimize decision making and to involve all relevant local actors into processes of public relevance. In this context 3D-GIS-models offer various not yet exploited potentials for all named levels of interest. This paper presents an overview over existing application fields for 3D-GIS-solutions, further proposing a categorization in order to be able to develop and implement target-oriented solutions. Moreover, this paper presents the project activities of the Fraunhofer IAO, the city of Cologne and the provider of geo-information-services ESRI, designing and developing end-user oriented applications for the 3D-GIS-tool CityEngine. Therefore various city departments such as the agencies for city planning, traffic and environment were involved in an iterative process in order to identify potential application fields and their benefits within the administrative work as well as their andvantages regarding existing solutions and processes. Aditionally, the particpants decided upon a set of focus applications to be developed within the project. Therefore, this document will concentrate on the potential benefits of the identified and cooperatively designed application fields, further outlining the first steps of the deleopment phase of the citizen particpiation application

‘The past was never simply there to begin with and the future is not simply what will unfold’ : a posthumanist performative approach to qualitative longitudinal research

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(η5-Cyclo­penta­dien­yl)(propionitrile-κN)bis­(triphenyl­phosphine-κP)ruthenium(II) trifluoro­methane­sulfonate

The title compound, [Ru(C5H5)(C3H5N)(C18H15P)2]CF3SO3, forms yellow crystals with a distinctly hemimorphic habit. It contains a half-sandwich complex of ruthenium with a three-legged piano-stool geometry, with Ru—P = 2.3585 (4) and 2.3312 (4) Å, and Ru—N = 2.0422 (15) Å as the legs. The CF3SO3 − anion is anchored in the crystal lattice by C—H⋯O and C—H⋯F hydrogen bonds, with C⋯F,O distances starting at 3.125 (2) Å

Eterno retorno (Apokatastasis)

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An infant La Tène grave from Lang, Styria, Austria. On miniature objects in East Alpine area

An infant grave excavated in Lang, Styria, Austria, had a small axe as a grave gift in addition to a ceramic urn. Another grave from the cemetery of Dobova (Slovenia), where also a child was buried, contained small objects in the form of an axe and a spearhead as well as a set of four vessels. In addition to these two graves, there are more graves known in the southeastern Alps, where small objects were given as grave goods. These graves are discussed in terms of the function and symbolism of these small objects and compared in a broader context with the northeastern Austrian region and the graves from the Dürrnberg