Abstract: Systems and methods for providing interactions between virtual and physical participants are disclosed. A synchronizing computer program receives a physical location and orientation of a physical portal device in a physical environment. The physical portal device includes a monitor and a computer processor executing an augmented reality application. The synchronizing computer program aligns the physical location and orientation with a virtual location and orientation of a virtual portal rendered in a virtual environment. A remote user computer program executed by a remote user electronic device receives the virtual location and orientation from the synchronizing computer program and renders the virtual portal in the virtual environment. The augmented reality application streams augmented reality video of the physical environment from the physical portal device to the remote user computer program, which displays the augmented reality video in the virtual portal.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic redaction of sensitive information from video streams are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for automatic redaction of sensitive information from video streams may include: (1) receiving, by an image processing computer program executed by an electronic device, a video stream of an area; (2) identifying, by the image processing computer program, an object capable of having sensitive information thereon in the video stream of the area; and (3) redacting or obscuring, by the image processing computer program, the object in the video stream.

Abstract: A method for removing uninterested attributes from multi-modality data may include: receiving, by a multi-modality attribute removal computer program executed by an electronic device, multi-modality data comprising a plurality of modalities from a data source, wherein data in each modality are related; receiving, by the multi-modality attribute removal computer program, an uninterested attribute in the multi-modality data to remove; training, by the multi-modality attribute removal computer program, a modality-focused encoder for each modality of the multi-modality data to remove the uninterested attribute using a removal loss and a retention loss for the respective modality; receiving, by the multi-modality attribute removal computer program, a multi-modality data set for processing; and processing, by the multi-modality attribute removal computer program, the multi-modality data set using the modality-focused encoders, wherein the processing results in a processed multi-modality data set with the uninterest

Abstract: A method for removing uninterested attributes from multi-modality data may include: receiving, by a multi-modality attribute removal computer program executed by an electronic device, multi-modality data comprising a plurality of modalities from a data source, wherein data in each modality are related; receiving, by the multi-modality attribute removal computer program, an uninterested attribute in the multi-modality data to remove; training, by the multi-modality attribute removal computer program, a modality-focused encoder for each modality of the multi-modality data to remove the uninterested attribute using a removal loss and a retention loss for the respective modality; receiving, by the multi-modality attribute removal computer program, a multi-modality data set for processing; and processing, by the multi-modality attribute removal computer program, the multi-modality data set using the modality-focused encoders, wherein the processing results in a processed multi-modality data set with the uninterest

Abstract: A barrier device to prevent crawling arthropods such as bedbugs from accessing an item of furniture, said barrier device comprising a furniture riser, a deep fluid-filled moat, and a smooth wall around the moat.

Abstract: A barrier device to prevent crawling arthropods such as bedbugs from accessing an item of furniture, said barrier device comprising a furniture riser, a deep fluid-filled moat, and a smooth wall around the moat.