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Face-to-Face Social Activity Detection Using Data Collected with a Wearable Device

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Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2009)

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In this work the feasibility of building a socially aware badge that learns from user activities is explored. A wearable multisensor device has been prototyped for collecting data about user movements and photos of the environment where the user acts. Using motion data, speaking and other activities have been classified. Images have been analysed in order to complement motion data and help for the detection of social behaviours. A face detector and an activity classifier are both used for detecting if users have a social activity in the time they worn the device. Good results encourage the improvement of the system at both hardware and software level.

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  1. Computer Vision Center, Campus UAB, Edifici O, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    Pierluigi Casale, Oriol Pujol & Petia Radeva

  2. Dep. of Applied Mathematics and Analysis, University of Barcelona, Spain

    Pierluigi Casale, Oriol Pujol & Petia Radeva

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  1. Institute of Systems and Robotics, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng.-Polo II, University of Coimbra, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Helder Araujo

  2. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Ana Maria Mendonça

  3. Dept. de Electrónica e Telecomunicações / IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro, Signal Processing Lab, DETI/IEETA, University of Aveiro, 3810–193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Armando J. Pinho

  4. Departamento de Electricidad y Electrónica, Fac. Ciencia y Tecnología - UPV/EHU, Universidad del País Vasco, Apartado 644, 48080, Bilbao, Spain

    María Inés Torres

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Casale, P., Pujol, O., Radeva, P. (2009). Face-to-Face Social Activity Detection Using Data Collected with a Wearable Device. In: Araujo, H., Mendonça, A.M., Pinho, A.J., Torres, M.I. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5524. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02172-5_9

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