Seán Gaines

• Director of International Projects at Vicomtech

Market uptake of the results from security research projects has been an area of concern since long time ago. When the ASGARD project was conceived back in 2014, the main goal of the project was “to support LEA Technological Autonomy, by building a sustainable, long-lasting community formed by LEAs, Researchers, and Industry that will create (at li...

The question of the capacity of artificial intelligence to make moral decisions has been a key focus of investigation in robotics for decades. This question has now become pertinent to automated vehicle technologies, as a question of understanding the capacity of artificial driving intelligence to respond to unavoidable road traffic accidents. Arti...

Technology roadmapping provides a strategic tool to help companies develop an outside-in view and challenge their current competitive perspectives. In this paper, the authors describe the roadmapping process, which is aligned, with the research and development (R&D) strategy of an applied research centre. This process is based in an adapted combina...

Computer vision methods for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) must be developed considering the strong requirements imposed by the industry, including real-time performance in low cost and low consumption hardware (HW), and rapid time to market. These two apparently contradictory requirements create the necessity of adopting careful develop...

Currently there are only few available language resources for French. Additionally there is a lack of available language models for for tasks such as Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) which makes difficult building natural language processing systems for this language. This paper presents a new publicly available supervised Apache...

The automatic analysis of opinions, which usually receives the name of opinion mining or sentiment analysis, has gained a great importance during the last decade. This is mainly due to the overgrown of online content in the Internet. The so-called aspect based opinion mining systems aim to detect the sentiment at \aspect level (i.e. the precise fea...

The efficient detection and tracking of persons in videos has widrespread applications, specially in CCTV systems for surveillance or forensics applications. In this paper we present a new method for people detection and tracking based on the knowledge of the perspective information of the scene. It allows alleviating two main drawbacks of existing...

Currently there are a many companies offering Content Analytics and Social Internet Mining services for the purposes of Opinion Mining and Reputation Management. A high percentage of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are active offering niche solutions to specific segments of the market and/or domains. However, acquiring or developing the base qu...

This demonstration shows the integration of video analysis and search tools to facilitate the interactive retrieval of video segments depicting specific activities from surveillance footage. The implementation was developed by members of the SAVASA project for participation in the interactive surveillance event detection (SED) task of TRECVid 2012....

reputación. Un alto por-centaje de pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) ofrecen soluciontes específicas a un sector o dominio industrial. Sin embargo, la adquisición de la necesaria tec-nología básica para ofrecer tales servicios es demasiado compleja y constituye un sobrecoste demasiado alto para sus limitados recursos. El objetivo del proyecto eu...

Sentiment analysis has been extensively investigated during the last years mainly for English language. Currently, existing approaches can be split into two main groups: methods based on the combination of lexical resources and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques; and machine learning approaches. This paper introduces the use of lexical da...

The Internet presents a problem for the protection of intellectual property. Those who create content must be adequately compensated for the use of their works. Rights agencies who monitor the use of these works exist in many jurisdictions. In the traditional broadcast environment this monitoring is a difficult task. With Internet Protocol Televisi...

The Internet presents a problem for the protection of intellectual property. Those who create content must be adequately compensated for the use of their works. Rights agencies who monitor the use of these works exist in many juristictions. In the traditional broadcast environment this monitoring is a difficult task. With Internet Protocol Televisi...