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Human action recognition has recently become one of the popular research topics in the computer vision community. Various 3D-CNN based methods have been presented to tackle both the spatial and temporal dimensions in the task of video action recognition with competitive results. However, these methods have suffered some fundamental limitations such as lack of robustness and generalization, e.g., how does the temporal ordering of video frames affect the recognition results? This work presents a n...

Businesses in and around Kingstown are currently buzzing as customers prepare for the festive season. Thoughts of stock levels and manpower are front of business owners and managers’ mind. Both staff and stock are equally important as you could lose business if you have stock but insufficient staff to sell or if you have staff but insufficient stock. Particularly during busy seasons, the jobs of frontline employees could be taxing …

Growing your understanding of directed attention, and what wears it down, is a first step to reclaiming control over your attention.

An IIT Delhi study has shown that experiencing nature helps us overcome distractions and build focus. It has demonstrated that the human brain has been designed to love nature.