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Perceived impacts of the Fridays for Future climate movement on environmental concern and behaviour in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

Calling for increased action on climate change, Fridays for Future (FFF) quickly gained momentum around the world and became highly visible through strikes and protests in more than 150 countries. Considering its scale and magnitude, questions about the im ...

2023

Elastocapillary menisci mediate interaction of neighboring structures at the surface of a compliant solid

John Martin Kolinski

Surface stress drives long-range elastocapillary interactions at the surface of compliant solids, where it has been observed to mediate interparticle interactions and to alter the transport of liquid drops. We show that such an elastocapillary interaction ...

2023

Technology Strategy in Dynamic Environments: A Computational Analysis of the Automation of Routines, the Organization of AI, and the Evaluation of Technology Risk

Maximilian Wieland Hofer

In this dissertation, I develop theory and evidence to argue that new technologies are central to how firms organize to create and capture value. I use computational methods such as reinforcement learning and probabilistic topic modeling to investigate thr ...

EPFL2022

Do Children Adapt Their Perspective to a Robot When They Fail to Complete a Task?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ana Paiva, Elmira Yadollahi

Spatial understanding and communication are essential skills in human interaction. An adequate understanding of others' spatial perspectives can increase the quality of the interaction, both perceptually and cognitively. In this paper, we take the first st ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Discovering Tonal Profiles with Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss

Music analysis, in particular harmonic analysis, is concerned with the way pitches are organized in pieces of music, and a range of empirical applications have been developed, for example, for chord recognition or key finding. Naturally, these approaches r ...

2021

Accurate Nod and 3D Gaze Estimation for Social Interaction Analysis

Yu Yu

Non-verbal behaviours play an important role in human communication since it can indicate human attention, serve as communication cue in interactions, or even reveal higher level personal constructs. For instance, head nod, a common non-verbal behaviour, c ...

EPFL2020

From human action understanding to robot action execution: how the physical properties of handled objects modulate non-verbal cues

Aude Billard, José Santos-Victor, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis, Nuno Ricardo Ferreira Duarte

Humans manage to communicate action intentions in a non-verbal way, through body posture and movement. We start from this observation to investigate how a robot can decode a human's non-verbal cues during the manipulation of an object, with specific physic ...

IEEE2020

Learning Urban Nightlife Routines from Mobile Data

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Thanh Trung Phan

The use of smartphone sensing for public health studies is appealing to understand routines. We present an approach to learn nightlife routines in a smartphone sensing dataset volunteered by 184 young people (1586 weekend nights with location data captured ...

ACM2020

Training Algorithms for Multiple Object Tracking

Andrii Maksai

Multiple object tracking is a crucial Computer Vision Task. It aims at locating objects of interest in the image sequences, maintaining their identities, and identifying their trajectories over time. A large portion of current research focuses on tracking ...

EPFL2019

Data Summarization with Social Contexts

Karl Aberer, Xia Hu, Tian Guo, Hao Zhuang, Rameez Rahman

While social data is being widely used in various applications such as sentiment analysis and trend prediction, its sheer size also presents great challenges for storing, sharing and processing such data. These challenges can be addressed by data summariza ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

A Sequential Topic Model for Mining Recurrent Activities from Long Term Video Logs

Jean-Marc Odobez, Jagannadan Varadarajan, Rémi Emonet

This paper introduces a novel probabilistic activity modeling approach that mines recurrent sequential patterns called motifs from documents given as word×time count matrices (e.g., videos). In this model, documents are represented as a mixture of sequenti ...

Springer2013

Sequential Topic Models for Mining Recurrent Activities and their Relationships : Application to long term video recordings

Jagannadan Varadarajan

In this thesis, we address the analysis of activities from long term data logs with an emphasis on video recordings. Starting from simple words from video, we progressively build methods to infer higher level scene semantics. The main strategies used to ac ...

EPFL2012

A Probabilistic Approach to Socio-Geographic Reality Mining

Katayoun Farrahi

As we live our daily lives, our surroundings know about it. Our surroundings consist of people, but also our electronic devices. Our mobile phones, for example, continuously sense our movements and interactions. This socio-geographic data could be continuo ...

EPFL2011

Discovering Routines from Large-Scale Human Locations using Probabilistic Topic Models

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Katayoun Farrahi

In this work we discover the daily location-driven routines which are contained in a massive real-life human dataset collected by mobile phones. Our goal is the discovery and analysis of human routines which characterize both individual and group behaviors ...

2011

"Gold standard" coupled-cluster study of acetylene pentamers and hexamers via molecular tailoring approach

Brijesh Kumar Mishra

Due to high scaling order of MP2 and CCSD(T) methods, it is either difficult or at times even impossible to treat even moderately sized molecular systems with elaborate basis sets such as aug-cc-pVXZ (X = D, T, Q). In the present work, several structures o ...

2011

Probabilistic Mining of Socio-Geographic Routines from Mobile Phone Data

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Katayoun Farrahi

There is relatively little work on the investigation of large-scale human data in terms of multimodality for human activity discovery. In this paper we suggest that human interaction data, or human proximity, obtained by mobile phone Bluetooth sensor data, ...

2010

Fisher Kernels and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Models

Emmanuel Eckard

Tasks that rely on semantic content of documents, notably Information Retrieval and Document Classification, can benefit from a good account of document context, i.e. the semantic association between documents. To this effect, the scheme of latent semantic ...

EPFL2010

Modeling and Understanding Flickr Communities through Topic-based Analysis

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

With the increased presence of digital imaging devices there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from passive consumers of media into content creators and have started organizing themselves in ...

2010