Event-driven Video Awareness Providing Physical Security

The Video Event Awareness Workbench (VEAW) analyzes surveillance video from thousands of video cameras and automatically detects complex events in near-real-time-at pace with their input video streams. For events of interest to security personnel, VEAW generates and routes alerts and related video evidence to subscribing security personnel. Complex event processing in VEAW is driven by user-authored awareness specifications comprised of inter-connected spatio-temporal stream and statistical operators that consume and produce events described in VEAW’s surveillance ontology. In this paper we introduce VEAW’s event driven architecture and describe its solutions for automating video surveillance, including the orchestration of continuous and tasked video analysis algorithms (e.g., for entity tracking and identification), fusion of events from multiple sources in an installation-specific “world” model, and proactive information gathering to deal with missing or incomplete information (this is done by tasking video analysis algorithms and security personnel to provide it). We also discuss how VEAW deals with late arriving information (due to out-of-band video analysis tasks and overhead), as well as a related resource optimization aimed at minimizing computation costs. We illustrate the benefits of VEAW by illustrating its application on the automation of real-world security policies.     

Interactive Paper as a Mobile Client for a Multi-channel Web Information System

We describe how interactive paper can be used together with a multi-channel web information system to build a platform for experimenting with multi-modal context-aware mobile information services. As an application, we present a tourist guide for visitors to an international festival that was developed to investigate alternative modes of information delivery and interaction in mobile environments. The guide is based around a set of interactive paper documents—an event brochure, map and bookmark. The brochure and map are augmented with digital services by using a digital pen to activate links and a text-to-speech engine for information delivery. The digital pen is also used for data capture of event ratings and reviews. The bookmark provides access to advanced searches and ticket reservations. We describe the architecture and operation of the system, highlighting the challenges of extending a web information system to support both the generation of the paper documents and the interaction from these documents, alongside more traditional access channels. Finally, we discuss the range of context-aware interactions that is supported by our platform.     

Hibernate技术在基于GIS数据库中的应用研究

空间信息的存储和处理问题是地理信息系统(GIS)的核心问题.对空间数据和属性数据的统一存储管理已成为必然趋势.本文通过对GIS中海量数据的存储方式进行研究,指出对象-关系型的数据库存储方式是空间数据库的发展方向.在此基础上讨论了Hibernate技术与GIS数据库的结合,使用Hibernate技术将关系数据库中空间数据和属性数据进行封装,屏蔽了数据库底层操作,使得程序员可以用面向对象的思想随意操纵数据库,在利用了关系数据库的快速检索、查询能力的同时也增强了数据的一致性和可移植性.     

MCORE: a context-sensitive recommendation system for the mobile Web

Abstract: Recommendation systems for the mobile Web have focused on endorsing particular types of content to users. Today, mobile service providers have a more direct recommendation channel, namely the short messaging service. Therefore, mobile service providers should consider both the timing and context of recommendation messages (push messages) that are sent to users. Mobile service providers can learn context-specific user preferences by analysing mobile Web use logs and user responses to push messages. In this paper, we present a context-sensitive recommendation system that can be used to select the optimal context in which to send recommendation messages. We call this system the mobile context recommender system (MCORE). We compared user responses to push messages delivered in and out of suitable contexts as determined by MCORE. The precision of push messages delivered within a suitable context was higher than that of messages delivered outside of one.     

Context-aware handoff middleware for transparent service continuity in wireless networks

Advances in wireless networking and content delivery are enabling new challenging provisioning scenarios where a growing number of users access continuous services, e.g., audio/video streaming, while moving among different points of attachment to the Internet, possibly with different connectivity technologies, e.g., Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular 3G. That calls for novel middlewares capable of dynamically personalizing service provisioning to the characteristics of client environments, in particular to discontinuities in wireless resource availability due to handoffs. The paper proposes a novel middleware solution, called Mobile agent-based Ubiquitous multimedia Middleware (MUM), that performs effective and context-aware handoff management to transparently avoid service interruptions during both horizontal and vertical handoffs. MUM exploits the full visibility of wireless connections available and their handoff implementations (handoff awareness), of service quality requirements and handoff-related quality degradations (QoS awareness), and of network topology and local resource availability (location awareness); that visibility enables MUM to provide original solutions for handoff prediction, multimedia continuity via adaptive data buffering/pre-fetching, and proactive re-addressing/rebinding.     

高精度曲面建模与实时空间模拟

为了弥补地理信息系统不能进行实时动态模拟的缺陷,通过QR矩阵分解,将高精度曲面建模HASM4的矩阵表达转换为求解系数矩阵为上三角矩阵和下三角矩阵的两个方程组。在此基础上,实时空间模拟问题被抽象为动态加点问题和动态减点问题,建立了适用于实时模拟的HASM5。数值实验结果表明,HASM5的加点模拟只需要对新采样点形成的矩阵进行矩阵分解;而HASM5的减点模拟只需要取原有矩阵的子矩阵计算即可。     

"数字南海"空间数据仓库构建技术研究

"数字南海"系统是包含五十多种专题数据源,几十种数据格式的软件系统。本文研究从"数字南海"的实际情况出发,提出了"数字南海"空间数据仓库构建策略,对开发的管理系统进行了介绍,并指出了"数字南海"系统研究的下一步工作重点,为系统的实现确定目标,并为数字南海系统的使用以及南海问题的研究理清脉络。     

一种基于阵列信号处理的短波侦察系统的设计及实现

本文研究并实现了一个集宽带搜索、宽带测向、跳频搜索、窄带测向、窄带分析等功能于一体的短波阵列信号侦察系统.该系统采用阵列天线和短波射频信号低通采样的软件无线电结构,结合先进的空间谱估计、波束形成、零点对准等阵列信号处理技术,使新的短波侦察接收机与传统接收机相比,大大改善了整体性能.现场试验表明,本文设计的阵列信号处理系统性能优良、信号处理算法有效.     

一种空间子信道分配算法及其分块设计——基于多用户MIMO/OFDM系统

MIMO-OFDM是未来宽带无线通信接口的有效架构.本文提出了一种基于多用户MIMO-OFDM系统的空间子信道分配算法,以获取最大的系统吞吐量为目标,推导了子载波分配准则,给出了相应的算法流程;为了减小计算量,本文进一步提出了基于时频块的简化设计.仿真结果表明,该算法具有良好的性能,有效地提高了系统的传输速率.     

空间轴对称目标三维姿态测量方法的研究

提出一种双目视觉测量空间轴对称目标姿态的新方法,应用线性方法获取轴对称目标在像面的轴线,通过两像面轴线与各自光心所成的平面相交,得到被测目标的轴线的方向矢量,进行三维姿态测量,避免了传统姿态测量中左右像面目标特征点的特征匹配或灰度匹配。模拟实验结果表明:该方法姿态角测量误差小于0.5°;且计算速度快,结果稳定,能够满足实时处理的要求。