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We study the perception of ambiance of places captured in social media images by both machines and crowdworkers. This task is challenging due to the subjective nature of the ambiance construct as well as the large variety in layout, style, and visual chara ...
IEEE2018Coopetition and Ecosystems: Case of Amazon.com
Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska
Business and innovation ecosystems involve complex interdependencies among various actors. The concept of ecosystem is useful for analyzing strategies in which competitors are also considered as complementary partners. To make this explicit, we use SEAM – ...
Routledge2018Hirability in the wild: Analysis of online conversational video resumes
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen
Online social media is changing the personnel recruitment process. Until now, resumes were among the most widely used tools for the screening of job applicants. The advent of inexpensive sensors combined with the success of online video platforms has enabl ...
2016Looking at Cities in Mexico with Crowds
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani
Mobile and social technologies are providing new opportunities to document, characterize, and gather impressions of urban environments. In this paper, we present a study that examines urban perceptions of three cities in central Mexico (Guanajuato, Leon an ...
ACM2015Privacy in Mini-drone Based Video Surveillance
Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto
Mini-drones are increasingly used in video surveillance. Their areal mobility and ability to carry video cameras provide new perspectives in visual surveillance which can impact privacy in ways that have not been considered in a typical surveillance scenar ...
2015Impact of Mini-drone based Video Surveillance on Invasion of Privacy
Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto
An increase in adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of daily lives, raises public concern about an intrusion into individual privacy. New sensing and surveillance technologies, such as mini-drones, threaten to eradicate boundaries of priv ...
2015Near-Optimally Teaching the Crowd to Classify 
Andreas Krause, Amin Karbasi, Ilija Bogunovic
How should we present training examples to learners to teach them classification rules? This is a natural problem when training workers for crowdsourcing labeling tasks, and is also moti- vated by challenges in data-driven online educa- tion. We propose a ...
2014C3P: Context-Aware Crowdsourced Cloud Privacy
Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman
Due to the abundance of attractive services available on the cloud, people are placing an increasing amount of their data online on different cloud platforms. However, given the recent large-scale attacks on users data, privacy has become an important issu ...
Springer-Verlag Berlin2014Survey of Web-based Crowdsourcing Frameworks for Subjective Quality Assessment
The popularity of the crowdsourcing for performing various tasks online increased significantly in the past few years. The low cost and flexibility of crowdsourcing, in particular, attracted researchers in the field of subjective multimedia evaluations and ...
2014Coopetition within and between value networks – a typology and a modelling framework
This study develops a typology of coopetition in value networks, wherein a distinction is made based on two factors. Firstly, whether coopetition takes place inside a particular value network (i.e., intra-value network coopetition) or between value network ...
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