Abstract: A system for detection of a vehicle that blocks an ambulance while the ambulance is responding to an emergency call. The system includes a camera mounted on the ambulance that captures images or video of the surrounding area. A processor, such as an edge computing device with a graphical processing unit (GPU), analyzes the captured data to identify vehicles obstructing the ambulance's path. The system can identify both a leading violating vehicle that directly blocks the ambulance and a primary violating vehicle further ahead that may be causing the obstruction. The system also includes a communication unit to transmit data to a web-based portal or a cloud-based AI engine for further analysis and action.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method and system for detecting surface changes in a geographical area over time is disclosed. The method includes encoding pre- and post-event images using frozen features of Segment Anything Model (SAM), processing encoded embeddings by a change modeler, processing change embeddings by a change prompter, decoding change embeddings and prompt embeddings using SAM to obtain change masks which include the detected changes.

Abstract: A light intensity monitoring system, a light intensity monitor and a method for monitoring light intensity the light intensity monitor attached to a vehicle roof. The light intensity monitor includes light sensors which measure light intensity at a top wall and two sidewalls and records the location of the vehicle at precise time intervals using a global positioning sensor. A microcontroller within the monitor compiles the measured data into communications packets, which include light intensity measurements and the corresponding vehicle location for each measurement period. These packets are then wirelessly transmitted to a remote computing device using either a wireless network communications unit or a dual-mode near-field communications unit. The remote device receives the data and utilizes a mapping application to display the various light intensity levels, expressed in lux, with the location of the measurement.

Abstract: A method of determining a target of a subject's gaze from an image of the subject within a scene is disclosed. The method comprises analyzing the image and determining information associated with the image. A processor configured to analyze the image and determine information associated with the image is also disclosed. Finally, a non-transitory computer readable storage device comprising computer executable instructions for determining a target of a subject's gaze is disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is a method and/or system that facilitates offline sharing and verifying digital identity claims among NFC enabled portable smart devices that are enabled by enabling applications. The enabled portable smart-devices store, verify and share identity, peer to peer and offline. Each identity claim is digitally signed by an identity issuing authority, and the claim can be verified to reliably detect tampering of the claim and thus brings trust in the process of claim sharing and verifying the identity/credentials embodied in the claim. Either Blockchain or non-blockchain, as the backend system of the method/system, can be used, via an inter-operable middleware layer, for onboarding claim holders, claim verifiers, and claim issuers, and for creating/issuing, for managing digital identity claims. NFC, as the communication protocol, facilitates secure data sharing among the NFC-enabled devices.

Abstract: A system and method includes a textual document search engine. The method initializes the textual document search engine by inputting, into a memory, a very large number of documents, where each document has textual sentences, and each sentence of each document has m semantic embedding vectors. The method maps the m semantic embedding vectors to 1-dimensional vectors of Hilbert numbers using a Hilbert curve transformation, constructs an index table with the 1-dimensional vectors, and stores the index table in the memory. The index table is used for efficient search by inputting a full query document, which has embedding vectors corresponding to sentences in the query document, where the query embedding vectors are mapped into 1-dimensional vectors of Hilbert numbers using Hilbert curve transformation. The index table is searched using the Hilbert numbers and candidate documents are retrieved that are similar to the query document based on the Hilbert numbers.

Abstract: A system and method measures in real time the reputation of products or services based on customer reviews and social media mentions. The method includes cyclically refining a search to collect, using a natural language processing (NLP) model, data relating to the products or services, and simultaneously recognizing product/service aspects and classifying sentiment for the collected data, using a single multi-task machine learning model.

Abstract: Provided are computer-implemented technologies of authenticating documents. The technologies use a set of photo images (or videos), taken under a certain illumination condition and from a set of distinct tilting angles, on one or more security/ID features of one or more documents of a document genre whose authenticity is ascertained, to train an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine learning program to build a learned model. The learned model, through the said training, attains a set of angular responses of the document genre under the illumination condition which encode a set of descriptive information about each of the one or more security/ID features of the document genre under the illumination condition. The learned model, then, is applied to authenticate, one by one, a number of target documents of the document genre whose authenticity is unknown and to be determined.

Abstract: A tailgating detection system and method includes a single monocular camera, an embedded computer system for determining a tailgating event based on images captured by the camera, the determining of the tailgating event including detecting and tracking wheels of front and tailgating vehicle candidates and determining respective speeds relative to a speed of a vehicle that the camera is mounted and using frame rate of the camera, a location determining device for determining the location where the tailgating event occurred, and a communication unit for transmitting a notification of the tailgating event including the location where the tailgating event occurred.

Abstract: An Arabic information extraction apparatus includes one or more processors configured to: receive a query comprising a long query or a short query; extract, using one or more language models, a named entity and a keyword from the query to generate extracted information; classify, using one or more classification models, the query to generate a classified query; convert the classified query and the extracted information into a dense vector representation; and determine and output a similarity match between the dense vector representation and a document vector representation of a knowledge base comprising an Islamic law document.

Abstract: A system, apparatus and method of embedded ego vehicle speed estimation apparatus, including a car-mounted monocular camera for capturing a sequence of video frames of an outdoor scene from a moving car, where the outdoor scene includes a road, as a camera channel, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured with a single-shot network and a 3D convolutional neural network (3D-CNN), the single-shot network segments features of the road in the video frame sequence and generates a masked-attention map for the segmented road features, a concatenation circuit concatenates the masked-attention map as an additional channel to the camera channel to generate a masked-attention input, and the 3D-CNN network receives the masked-attention input and generates an estimated speed of the ego vehicle based on displacement of the segmented road features in the video sequences.

Abstract: A stackable, non-contact device for operating elevator buttons is described. The non-contact device includes a servo mechanism with a dual-arm configured to press either of two elevator buttons. Two proximity sensors are configured to register the approach of a finger touch of either proximity sensor, which commands the servo mechanism to press the corresponding elevator button. The stackable, non-contact device includes a microcontroller configured to receive near field communications from a mobile application, which includes commands for pressing a specific elevator button.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media to automatically generate source code for simple object application protocol (SOAP) web services are described. The method can include selecting a type of web service and a web service. The method can also include selecting one or more inputs or one or more outputs corresponding to the type of the selected web service. The method can further include defining one or more conditions for the one or more outputs. The method can also include automatically generating a source code file for the web service based on one or more of the type of web service, the one or more inputs, the one or more outputs, or the one or more conditions, and deploying the source code file to a server. The method can further include generating a document that lists one or more specifications of the web service.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating an inspection schedule includes one or more processors configured to: receive one or more schedule requests comprising inspector features, establishment features, and penalty features; generate inspector information for an inspector model based on the inspector features; generate establishment information, comprising a probability of imposing a penalty on an establishment of the establishment features, for an establishment model based on the establishment features and the penalty features; and generate, for an inspector of the inspector features using a violation model, the inspection schedule based on the inspector information and the establishment information.

Abstract: An Edge encapsulated method and system for real-time detection of a double parking vehicle blocking parked vehicles by capturing images using a mounted monocular camera then processing using two Semi-Supervised Object Detection (sSOD) stages, that is trained with partly labeled and mostly unlabeled data to optimize the model parameters for the detection problem, gathered by capturing video from moving vehicle passing through multiple different vehicle types and parking systems with unconfined location.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium are described to capture, detect, and recognize faces using machine learning and a single-stage face detector. A method to determine live faces from spoof 2D and spoof 3D images using a liveness score as well as a method to classify faces using machine learning deep convolutional neural networks is also described.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for identifying similar record elements to a query, the method including receiving a query, determining an index for the query, generating candidate records from a reference list to match the query based on the index and applying any one or any combination of a q-gram filter, a length filter, and a shared character count (SCC) filter, determining similarity scores of each of the candidate records identifying records from among the candidate records having a similarity score greater than or equal to a threshold, selecting data records similar to the query based on sorting the selected records according to respective similarity scores, and outputting one or more of the selected data records.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media to automatically generate source code for simple object application protocol (SOAP) web services are described. The method can include selecting a type of web service and a web service. The method can also include selecting one or more inputs or one or more outputs corresponding to the type of the selected web service. The method can further include defining one or more conditions for the one or more outputs. The method can also include automatically generating a source code file for the web service based on one or more of the type of web service, the one or more inputs, the one or more outputs, or the one or more conditions, and deploying the source code file to a server. The method can further include generating a document that lists one or more specifications of the web service.

Abstract: A grafting device including a rootstock holding unit and a scion holding unit both provided in a main body and relatively movable in a predetermined direction, at least one of the rootstock holding unit and the scion holding unit includes: a hand module including: a grip portion configured to be openable and closable for gripping a stem of a plant; reciprocating portions an operating rod and a slide plate provided between the grip portion and the main body and capable of reciprocating; a motion converting portion configured to convert reciprocation of the reciprocating portion into an opening/closing motion of the grip portion; and a biasing means configured to bias the reciprocating portion in any one direction of the reciprocating movement; and a drive means provided in the main body and configured to drive the reciprocating portion in a direction opposite to a biasing direction by the biasing means.