Publications by authors named "Guillermo Camara-Chavez"

Automatic violence detection in video surveillance is essential for social and personal security. Monitoring the large number of surveillance cameras used in public and private areas is challenging for human operators. The manual nature of this task significantly increases the possibility of ignoring important events due to human limitations when paying attention to multiple targets at a time.

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Recognition using ear images has been an active field of research in recent years. Besides faces and fingerprints, ears have a unique structure to identify people and can be captured from a distance, contactless, and without the subject's cooperation. Therefore, it represents an appealing choice for building surveillance, forensic, and security applications.

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Article Synopsis
  • An electrocardiogram (ECG) measures heart electrical activity and is commonly used to detect heart diseases due to its simplicity and non-invasive nature.
  • The study reviews current automated ECG-based methods for heartbeat classification, covering signal preprocessing, segmentation techniques, feature description, and learning algorithms, while also highlighting key databases for evaluation.
  • It concludes with a discussion on the limitations of existing methods, future challenges, and proposes a workflow for evaluating new research in this area.
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