Evacuation behaviors and emergency communications: An analysis of real-world incident videos

Emergencies such as fires and terrorist attacks pose risks of injuries and fatalities, which can be exacerbated by delayed, ill-informed, or unmanaged responses. Effective emergency communication strategies could be used to better inform people and reduce these risks. This research analyzes videos of real-world emergencies to: (a) identify...

Multimodal information extraction from videos: Automatic creation of highlight clips from political speeches

With the huge amount of data that is collected every day and shared on the internet, many recent studies have focused on methods to make multimedia browsing simple and efficient, investigating techniques for automatic multimedia analysis. This work specifically delves into the case of information extraction from videos, which is still an open...

Effects of offense, defense, and ball possession on mobility performance in wheelchair basketball

The aim of this study was to determine to what extent mobility performance is influenced by offensive or defensive situations and ball possession and to what extent these actions are different for the field positions. From video analysis, the relative duration of the various wheelchair movements during team offense/defense and individual ball...