Chimp optimization algorithm (ChOA) is a newly proposed meta-heuristic algorithm inspired
by chimps' individual intelligence and sexual motivation in their group hunting. The …

The automatic recognition of sound events by computers is an important aspect of emerging
applications such as automated surveillance, machine hearing and auditory scene …

Research on event-based processing and analysis of media is receiving an increasing
attention from the scientific community due to its relevance for an abundance of applications …

In this paper we describe our TRECVID 2005 experiments. The UvA-MediaMill team
participated in four tasks. For the detection of camera work (runid: A CAM) we investigate the …

Indoor localization is crucial to enable context-aware applications, but existing solutions
mostly require a user to carry a device, so as to actively sense location-discriminating …

Automatic sound recognition (ASR) is a remarkable field of research in recent years. The
ability to automatically recognize sound events through computers in a complex audio …

In the context of the Internet of Things, sound sensing applications are required to run on
embedded platforms where notions of product pricing and form factor impose hard …

Forests play a fundamental role in preserving the environment and fighting global warming.
Unfortunately, they are continuously reduced by human interventions such as deforestation …

Environmental sound signals are multi-source, heterogeneous, and varying in time. Many
systems have been proposed to process such signals for event detection in ambient …

Speech media, that is, digital audio and video containing spoken content, has blossomed in
recent years. Large collections are accruing on the Internet as well as in private and …