Video Analytics for Audience Measurement: First International Workshop, VAAM 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, August 24, 2014. Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Cosimo Distante, Sebastiano Battiato, Andrea Cavallaro (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 165
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8811 Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed contest reports of the 1st International Workshop, VAAM 2014, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2014. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of state of the art methods for audience measurements in retail and Digital Signage, end-users attraction, and stimulate the creation of appropriate benchmark dataset to be used as reference for the development of novel audience measurement algorithms. Papers are invited under the following topics: demographics and modeling consumer behaviour.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Applications of Video Analytics in Media Planning, Trade and Shopper Marketing....Pages 3-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Pervasive Retail Strategy Using a Low-Cost Free Gaze Estimation System....Pages 23-39
Face Re-Identification for Digital Signage Applications....Pages 40-52
Evaluation of LBP and HOG Descriptors for Clothing Attribute Description....Pages 53-65
Features Descriptors for Demographic Estimation: A Comparative Study....Pages 66-85
Comparison of Facial Alignment Techniques: With Test Results on Gender Classification Task....Pages 86-96
Multi-view Face Detection with One Classifier for Video Analytics Systems....Pages 97-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Online Audience Measurement System Based on Machine Learning Techniques....Pages 111-122
Modelling In-Store Consumer Behaviour Using Machine Learning and Digital Signage Audience Measurement Data....Pages 123-133
Shopper Behaviour Analysis Based on 3D Situation Awareness Information....Pages 134-145
Shopper Analytics: A Customer Activity Recognition System Using a Distributed RGB-D Camera Network....Pages 146-157
Back Matter....Pages 159-159

✦ Subjects

Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Graphics; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity