An electronic device, computer program product, and method avoids presenting certain objects during a video communication session. During a video communication session with second electronic device(s), a controller of an electronic device identifies baseline image(s) from an image stream provided by an image capturing device of the electronic device. The baseline image includes a primary image portion of participant(s) and including a scene of objects within the foreground or background of participant (s), during an initial portion of the video communication session. The controller monitors the image stream for a subsequent detection of the primary image portion and of non-participant(s) or object(s) as a secondary image portion that is not included within the baseline image(s). The controller responds to detecting the secondary image portion subsequently appearing within the image stream by communicating, to the one or more second electronic devices, a substitute image stream that does not present the secondary image portion.

A computerized system and method for user interface management provides an augmented reality-based experience that delivers real-time visual cues to a cognitively impaired person, that monitors visual recognition performance, and that provides visual recognition training based on observed visual recognition performance. The system uses image/facial recognition to identify persons/places/objects encountered by a person/dementia sufferer and captured by a camera of a computing device, retrieves information associated with identified person/place/object, and displays retrieved information associated with identified person/place/object to the person/dementia sufferer via the device, e.g., in an augmented reality overlay to an image captured by the camera. The information may identify the identified person's relationship with dementia sufferer and other pertinent details. Accordingly, for example, a person with cognitive impairment can quickly assess who is approaching them, based on facial recognition.

Provided is a server device with which a participant in a conference can easily acquire information pertaining to another participant. The server device is provided with an acquisition unit and an information provision unit. The acquisition unit acquires a profile of each of a plurality of users using a conference assistance system. The information provision unit provides, to a first participant participating in a conference from among a plurality of users, a profile pertaining to a second participant participating in the same conference as that in which the first participant is participating.

There is provided a computer implemented method of extracting information about a person. Incoming sensor signals for monitoring people within a field of view of a sensor system are received and processed. In response to detecting a person located within a notification region, an output device outputs a notification to the detected person. Processing of the incoming sensor signals continues in order to monitor behaviour patterns of the person and determine from his behaviour patterns whether he is currently in a consenting or non-consenting state. An extraction function attempts to extract information about the person irrespective of his determined state. A sharing function determines whether or not to share an extracted piece of information about the person with a receiving entity in accordance with his determined state, the information not being shared unless and until it is subsequently determined that the person is in the consenting state.

A method for learning representations from clouds of points data includes encoding clouds of points data into at least one representation by creating at least one tensor representation out of the clouds of points data. The method further includes using a loss function that utilizes a noisy reconstruction for reducing overfitting.

An upper-level integrated processing device recognizes an inquiry, generates a search request in a primitive form to be output to each of the individual AI search devices in response to the inquiry, receives an individual reply and the probability thereof corresponding to the search request in the primitive form from a plurality of individual AI search devices, normalizes the probabilities of the individual replies from the individual AI search devices to acquire normalized probabilities, and generates an inquiry reply corresponding to the individual replies and the normalized probabilities thereof, and the lower-level individual AI search device searches Individual AI database using artificial intelligence in response to reception of the search request in the primitive form, acquires an individual reply and the probability thereof, and outputs the same in the primitive form to the integrated processing device. The upper-level devices output reply using a plurality of AI search devices in combination.

A surveillance apparatus (100) includes a feature value storage apparatus (200) that associates and stores a feature value of a person belonging to the same group, a detection unit (102) that detects an approach of a person not belonging to the same group to the person belonging to the same group within a reference distance by processing a captured image by using the feature value, and an output unit (104) that performs a predetermined output by using a detection result of the detection unit (102).

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display control unit that displays, on a screen, a map of a search area, a camera icon indicating a location of a surveillance camera in the map, and a person image of a search target person; an operation receiving unit that receives an operation of superimposing, on the screen, one of the person image or the camera icon on the other; and a processing request unit that requests a matching process between the person image and a surveillance video captured by the surveillance camera corresponding to the camera icon based on the operation.

Biometric gallery management is performed by association one or more wireless identifiers that correspond to one or more mobile devices (such as smart phones, tablet computing devices, cellular telephones, wearable devices, smart watches, fitness monitors, digital media players, medical devices, and/or other mobile computing devices) that people carry with digital representations of biometrics corresponding to the people. Wireless identifiers corresponding to mobile devices proximate to a biometric reader device may be monitored. Upon detection of wireless identifiers corresponding to mobile devices proximate to the biometric reader device, the associated digital representations of biometrics may be loaded from a main gallery into one or more local galleries, which may then be used to perform one or more biometric identifications and/or verifications.

A first frame of time of flight (TOF) data including projection off data and infrared data is obtained, and after determining that a data block satisfying that a number of data points with values greater than a first threshold is greater than a second threshold is present in the infrared data, TOF data for generating a first frame of a TOF image is obtained based on a difference between the infrared data and the projection off data. Because the data block satisfying the number of data points with values greater than the first threshold is greater than the second threshold is an overexposed data block, and the projection off data is TOF data acquired by a TOF camera with a TOF light source being off, the difference between the infrared data and the projection off data can correct the overexposure, improving quality of the first frame of the TOF image.