Step and activity detection based on the orientation and scale attributes of the SURF algorithm

Autoren: Chadly Marouane, Andre Ebert, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien Abstract: In recent years, the importance of location-based services and indoor positioning systems increased significantly for both, research and industry. Visual localization systems have the advantage of not depending on dedicated infrastructure and thus they are interesting for navigation within buildings. While there are already approaches which are using…

Visual odometry using motion vectors from visual feature points

Autoren: Chadly Marouane, Marco Maier, Alexander Leupold, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien   Abstract: In recent years, location-based services and indoor positioning systems gained increasing importance for both, research and industry. Visual localization systems have the advantage of not being dependent on dedicated infrastructure and thus are especially interesting for navigation within buildings. While there are already approaches…

KeyPocket Business – Mobile Authentisierung im Unternehmensalltag

Autoren: Chadly Marouane, Benno Rott Abstract: Immer mehr Anwendungen und digitale Dienste verlagern sich in die Cloud, insbesondere im Unternehmenskontext. Dadurch entstehen neue Anforderungen an die Sicherheit. Zwar bieten viele Systeme im Web ein detailliertes Sicherheitskonzept, der Zugang zu diesen Diensten wird jedoch meist durch ein einfaches Kennwort geschützt. Insbesondere im Unternehmensumfeld werden hohe Anforderungen…

KeyPocket – Improving Security and Usability for Provider Independent Login Architectures with Mobile Devices

Autoren: André Ebert, Chadly Marouane, Benno Rott, Martin Werner Abstract: Nowadays, many daily duties being of a private as well as of a business nature are handled with the help of online services. Due to migrating formerly local desktop applications into clouds (e.g., Microsoft Office Online, etc.), services become available by logging in into a…

SURFLogo – Mobile Tagging with App Icons

Autoren: Chadly Marouane, Andre Ebert Abstract: Mobile tagging became more and more popular in commercials, magazines, newspapers, and other applications during the last years. In context of commercials, a bar code containing the advertisers internet address is often used to refer a customer to related online content. Due to their robustness as well as their…

Marktplätze im Umbruch – Digitale Strategien für Services im Mobilen Internet

Alle Branchen befinden sich derzeit in derselben Situation: Unternehmen bedienen ihre Kunden oft noch über konventionelle Kanäle, obwohl viel mehr Kenntnis und Erreichbarkeit vorhanden ist. Technisch ist es möglich, den Ort des Kunden zu bestimmen, die Situation, in der er sich befindet. Mit diesem Wissen kann man reagieren: personalisiert können Leistungen des Unternehmens angeboten werden,…

SURFtogether: Towards Context Proximity Detection Using Visual Features

Autoren: Marco Maier, Chadly Marouane, Manuel Klette, Florian Dorfmeister, Philipp Marcus, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien Abstract: With the now near ubiquity of smart mobile devices and the advent of new wearable computing devices like Google Glass, context-aware computing applications are becoming more and more feasible. We propose a new concept coined Context-Proximity Awareness aimed at identifying closely…