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ECOLOGICAL LIFESTYLES: BENEFITS OF SECOND-HAND PRODUCTS SOLD THROUGH INTERNET PLATFORMS

Environment-friendly lifestyles are becoming more and more popular throughout society. Part of this trend is also connected to the second-hand articles being resold over various Internet platforms. In order to figure out what this could mean in terms of re ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

MEMS Inertial Motion Sensing Watch for Measuring Walking and Running Activities

Kamiar Aminian, Pierre-André Farine, Flavien Bardyn, Benedikt Fasel, Sara Grassi Pauletti, Martin Savary

This paper describes the development of a sport watch, as well as the software and hardware required to design an integrated solution for getting feedback during and after walking and running activities. The developed system is autonomous, so that neither ...

Ieee2016

Dystemo: Distant Supervision Method for Multi-Category Emotion Recognition in Tweets

Pearl Pu Faltings, Valentina Sintsova

Emotion recognition in text has become an important research objective. It involves building classifiers capable of detecting human emotions for a specific application, for example, analyzing reactions to product launches, monitoring emotions at sports eve ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Potential Mechanisms Leading to Overuse Injuries of the Back in Alpine Ski Racing - A Descriptive Biomechanical Study

Benedikt Fasel

Background: Overuse injuries of the back are a common complaint among top athletes and of competitive alpine skiers in particular. However, there is limited understanding about the sport-specific causes of these injuries that is essential for their prevent ...

Sage Publications Inc2015

Realistic modeling of spectator behavior for soccer videogames with CUDA

Eray Molla

Soccer has always been one of the most popular videogame genres. When designing a soccer game, designers tend to focus on the game field and game play due to the limited computational resources, and thus the modelling of virtual spectators is paid less att ...

2011

Euro 2008 in Geneva: A city’s experience organizing a large-scale event. “Examining “friendly” fan and hooligan behaviour in the Fan Zone

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Pascal Pierre André Viot

Large-scale events like the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship (commonly referred to as the Euro) put a great deal of strain on the cities that host them, forcing them to find a provisional balance between the pursuit of everyday activities and the a ...

2009

Gangs et bidonvilles à Caracas: le basket est un sport de combat

Yves Pedrazzini

Dans les bidonvilles de Caracas, les gangs sont rois. Mais plus encore que des associations de "bandits", ils sont des "clubs sportifs" vouant un culte au ballon orange. L'article analyse le rôle de cette pratique sportive de rue sur les dynamiques sociale ...

Vuibert2007

Robust Playfield Segmentation using MAP Adaptation

Jean-Marc Odobez, Mark Barnard

A vital task in sports video annotation is to detect and segment areas of the playfield. This is an important first step in player or ball tracking and detecting the location of the play on the playfield. In this paper we present a technique using statisti ...

2004

Capturing human motion using body-fixed sensors: Outdoor measurement and clinical applications

Kamiar Aminian, Bijan Najafi

Motion capture is mainly based on standard systems using optic, magnetic or sonic technologies. In this paper, the possibility to detect useful human motion based on new techniques using different types of body-fixed sensors is shown. In particular, a comb ...

2004

Video OCR for Sport Video Annotation and Retrieval

Hervé Bourlard, Datong Chen

This paper presents a video OCR system that automatically extracts closed captions from video frames as keywords (or as we called "cues") for building annotations of sport videos. In this system, text regions that contain closed captions are first identifi ...

2001

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