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Recognizing Human Activities from Physical and Virtual Worlds
PhD Thesis Proposal Defence Title: "Recognizing Human Activities from Physical and Virtual Worlds" by Mr. Hao HU ABSTRACT: Recognizing the activities, goals and intentions underlying human actions has become an extensive research topic since early 1980s. Although many new technologies and methods have been proposed to tackle activity recognition problems, deploying activity recognition systems in the real world still encounters many practical problems. In this proposal, we aim to study problems regarding recognizing human activities in the physical world and also discuss some possible extensions of bridging the information gap between sensor data in the physical world and social activities in the virtual world. We start by surveying related works in these two areas followed by a study of several challenging problems in the area of sensor-based activity recognition. We also discuss one scenario which helps inferring human demographics in the physical world by using the data of online social check-in activities in the virtual world. Preliminary results of these problems are also presented and discussed. Date: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 Time: 10:00am - 12:00noon Venue: Room 3501 lifts 25/26 Committee Members: Prof. Qiang Yang (Supervisor) Dr. Raymond Wong (Chairperson) Prof. Dit-Yan Yeung Dr. Ke Yi **** ALL are Welcome ****