Person re-identification is an important task in video surveillance systems. It can be formally
defined as establishing the correspondence between images of a person taken from …

Multimodal biometric systems have emerged as highly successful new approach to combat
problems of unimodal biometric system such as intraclass variability, interclass similarity …

Person re-identification (ReID) is a popular topic of research. Almost all existing ReID
approaches employ local and global body features (eg, clothing color and pattern, body …

Detecting carried objects is one of the requirements for developing systems to reason about
activities involving people and objects. We present an approach to detect carried objects …

A backpack is a type of carried object (CO) widely used for various purposes because of its
practicality. Various valuable items such as wallets, laptops, cameras, and cellphones may …

The internet is a vast and rapidly changing landscape. For every new algorithm invented to
increase the security and reliability of our society, an adversarial group coalesces in …

Video surveillance systems are of a great value for public safety. They are used as an
effective tool for crime prevention and as an" after the fact" forensic tool. Many automatic …

This dissertation focuses on researching the LRFR task in several aspects. First, we
contribute two face datasets, the VBOLO dataset and the NDFaceReID dataset which was …

Estimation of physiological vital signs such as the Heart Rate (HR) has attracted a lot of
attention due to the increase interest in health monitoring. The most common HR estimation …

Although current augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) systems are facing
advanced and immersive experience in the entertainment industry with countless media …