Crowdsourcing, a distributed human problem-solving paradigm is an active research area
which has attracted significant attention in the fields of computer science, business, and …

Vegetation phenology controls the seasonality of many ecosystem processes, as well as
numerous biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks. Phenology is also highly sensitive to climate …

Local administrations and governments aim at leveraging wireless communications and
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to manage the city infrastructures and enhance the …

Since Jeff Howe introduced the term Crowdsourcing in 2006, this human-powered problem-
solving paradigm has gained a lot of attention and has been a hot research topic in the field …

Recent results on structured learning methods have shown the impact of structural
information in a wide range of pattern recognition tasks. In the field of document image …

Having artificial agents to autonomously produce human-like behaviour is one of the most
ambitious original goals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and remains an open problem …

This paper presents an image database of historical handwritten marriages records stored in
the archives of Barcelona cathedral, and the corresponding meta-data addressed to …

Snow is important for local to global climate and surface hydrology, but spatial and temporal
heterogeneity in the extent of snow cover make accurate, fine-scale mapping and monitoring …

Existing machine learning models have proven to fail when it comes to their performance for
minority groups, mainly due to biases in data. In particular, datasets, especially social data …

RFID based technology plays an important role in healthcare environments by providing a
better drug management system by overcoming the current challenges associated with it. In …