Enhancing Human Resilience: monitoring, sensing, and feedback

The development of miniaturized monitoring technology represents the greatest opportunity for advancing Resilience and Mental Health in over a century. All experts of the Resilience- and Mental Health domain are contending with a significant mental health burden, e.g. almost half of all work disability across different branches is now related to...

Authorship Analysis on Dark Marketplace Forums

Anonymity networks like Tor harbor many underground markets and discussion forums dedicated to the trade of illegal goods and services. As they are gaining in popularity, the analysis of their content and users is becoming increasingly urgent for many different parties, ranging from law enforcement and security agencies to financial institutions...

Let's share a story: Socially enhanced multimedia storytelling

An online multimedia storytelling ecosystem comprised of user applications, a collaborative storyauthoring engine, social context integration, and socially aware media services offers a mdium for inormation sharing and social storytelling about live events. User-generated audio-visual content is becoming the most popular medium for information...

Fast re-ranking of visual search results by example selection

In this paper we present a simple, novel method to use state-of-the-art image concept detectors and publicly available image search engines to retrieve images for semantically more complex queries from local databases without re-indexing of the database. Our low-key, data- driven method for associative recognition of unknown, or more elaborate,...

Retrieving relevant and interesting tweets during live television broadcasts

The use of social TV applications to enhance the experience of live event broadcasts has become an increasingly common practice. An event profile, defined as a set of keywords relevant to an event, can help to track messages related to these events on social networks. We propose an event profiler that retrieves relevant and interesting tweets in...

Interactive detection of incrementally learned concepts in images with ranking and semantic query interpretation

The number of networked cameras is growing exponentially. Multiple applications in different domains result in an increasing need to search semantically over video sensor data. In this paper, we present the GOOSE demonstrator, which is a real-time general-purpose search engine that allows users to pose natural language queries to retrieve...

Let's share a story: Socially-enhanced multimedia storytelling

User-generated audio-visual content is becoming the most popular medium for information sharing and social storytelling around a live event. This paper introduces an online multimedia storytelling ecosystem comprised of purpose-built user applications, a collaborative story authoring engine, social context integration, and social-aware media...

Privacy and user trust in context-aware systems

Context-aware systems (CAS) that collect personal information are a general trend. This leads to several privacy considerations, which we outline in this paper. We present as use-case the SWELL system, which collects information from various contextual sensors to provide support for well-being at work. We address privacy from two perspectives: 1...

Needle custom search recall-oriented search on the web using semantic annotations

Web search engines are optimized for early precision, which makes it difficult to perform recall-oriented tasks using these search engines. In this article, we present our tool Needle Custom Search. This tool exploits semantic annotations of Web search results and, thereby, increase the efficiency of recall-oriented search tasks. Semantic...

Foraging Online Social Networks

A concise and practical introduction is given on Online Social Networks (OSN) and their application in law enforcement, including a brief survey of related work. Subsequently, a tool is introduced that can be used to search OSN in order to generate user profiles. Both its architecture and processing pipeline are described. This tool is meant as...

Recall Oriented Search on the Web using Semantic Annotations

Web search engines are optimized for early precision, which makes it difficult to perform recall oriented tasks with them. In this article, we propose several ways to leverage semantic annotations and, thereby, increase the efficiency of recall oriented search tasks, with a focus on forensic investigation. Semantic annotations, such as temporal...