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PDA -- Remote Display Interaction Framework
2008
This paper discusses the design of a PDA-driven remote display control system which was designed for a pervasive computing scenario. Our solution enables a PDA to perform as an interaction device (such as keyboard or mouse) to operate applications which are using remote displays. Our system consists of two components: one devoted to pair users and remote display according to their relative position, and one to provide the PDA with appropriate graphical interfaces and ad-hoc communication protocols. Besides a case study on the use of remote displays during a course with in our department, this paper discusses system highlights, components, and experiments as for standard multimedia and offic…
Collective Reasoning over Shared Concepts for the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily
2013
In this chapter, collective intelligence principles are applied in the context of the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily (ALS - Atlante Linguistico Siciliano), an interdisciplinary research focusing on the study of the Italian language as it is spoken in Sicily, and its correlation with the Sicilian dialect and other regional varieties spoken in Sicily. The project has been developed over the past two decades and includes a complex information system supporting linguistic research; recently it has grown to allow research scientists to cooperate in an integrated environment to produce significant scientific advances in the field of ethnologic and sociolinguistic research. An interoperable infrastruc…
Bright Pupil Detection in an Embedded, Real-Time Drowsiness Monitoring System
2010
Driver’s drowsiness is stated as an important cause of road and highway accidents. Therefore, the development of a system for monitoring the driver’s level of fatigue is desirable in order to prevent accidents. The paper presents the design and the implementation of a system able to find and evidence the drowsiness level of a driver in an ordinary motor vehicle, in order to prevent car accidents. The system, made up of a car installed infrared video camera connected to the Celoxica RC203E FPGA based board, is able to perform a real time video stream processing. The system exploits the “bright pupil” phenomenon produced by the retina, that reflects the 90% of the incident light when a radiat…
Piecewise planar underwater mosaicing
2015
A commonly ignored problem in planar mosaics, yet often present in practice, is the selection of a reference homography reprojection frame where to attach the successive image frames of the mosaic. A bad choice for the reference frame can lead to severe distortions in the mosaic and can degenerate in incorrect configurations after some sequential frame concatenations. This problem is accentuated in uncontrolled underwater acquisition setups as those provided by AUVs or ROVs due to both the noisy trajectory of the acquisition vehicle — with roll and pitch shakes — and to the non-flat nature of the seabed which tends to break the planarity assumption implicit in the mosaic construction. These…
360° Tracking Using a Virtual PTZ Camera
2017
Object tracking using still or PTZ cameras is a hard task for large spaces and needs several devices to completely cover the area or to track multiple subjects. The introduction of \(360^{\circ }\) camera technology offers a complete view of the scene in a single image and can be useful to reduce the number of devices needed in the tracking problem. In this paper we present a framework using \(360^{\circ }\) cameras to simulate an unlimited number of PTZ cameras and to be used for tracking. The proposed method to track a single target process an equirectangular view of the scene and obtains a model of the moving object in the image plane. The target is tracked analyzing the next frame of th…
Midground Object Detection in Real World Video Scenes,
2007
Traditional video scene analysis depends on accurate background modeling to identify salient foreground objects. However, in many important surveillance applications, saliency is defined by the appearance of a new non-ephemeral object that is between the foreground and background. This midground realm is defined by a temporal window following the object's appearance; but it also depends on adaptive background modeling to allow detection with scene variations (e.g., occlusion, small illumination changes). The human visual system is ill-suited for midground detection. For example, when surveying a busy airline terminal, it is difficult (but important) to detect an unattended bag which appears…
A visual framework to support collaborative coding activities
2019
In this paper, we present a framework named SIRENE, a Web-based visual programming environment, where teachers and students can collaboratively interact, using a flexible and versatile definition of visual programming code instead of pre-established rules. After the description of the architecture of the SIRENE framework, the preliminary results of a pilot trial with secondary school students will be presented; these results will lead to the final remarks and directions for further developments.
La lunga marcia verso la libertà sindacale del “comparto sicurezza”
2020
Il saggio analizza l’evoluzione dei diritti sindacali nel “comparto sicurezza” (forze armate e di polizia) all’insegna di una prospettiva multilivello: dopo una disamina delle fonti sovranazionali (convenzioni OIL, Cedu e Carta Sociale Europea) e del dettato costituzionale, la ricerca si sofferma sulla libertà sindacale di militari e poliziotti alla luce del quadro normativo e giurisprudenziale di riferimento. Nonostante dal finire degli anni ’70 l’ordinamento militare e quello della Polizia di Stato si siano progressivamente aperti ai diritti collettivi, permangono numerosi profili di criticità, come il regime di separatezza sindacale, il divieto di sciopero e la mancata emanazione di una …
Right for conciliation and family welfare
2015
By enhancing some of the solutions proposed in a previous study on female work and family needs, the essay focuses on the role of family as a privileged forum to reconcile family plans and professional careers. The research aims at proposing a convergence of social family policies (macro-choice) and the choices shared among individual family members (micro-choice). The article, therefore, examines the policies carried out by some European states to support families and the different models of social support to the family in Europe, including the one that has recently inspired the Job's act in Italy. Through a (re) reading of some constitutional principles on the family social factor and an …
Brevi note sulla qualificazione giuridica dei beni costituenti la rete ferroviaria
2015
The paper synthetically describes how Italian courts and scholars interpret- ed the legal transformations occurred to the railway market, and notably to the rail-network’s infrastructure components property regulation, since the end of the twentieth century. The authors refute the (prevailing) opinion assuming a substantial continuity between the current stage of regulation and the regime of public property provided by the 1942 civil code; they show the reasons why, on the contrary, the rail-network components have to be considered as goods sub- ject to private property law both on the formal and the substantial floor. For this purpose, the paper emphasizes how the public interests aimed by…