New Social Signals in a New Interaction World: The Next Frontier for Social Signal Processing

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Vinciarelli ◽  
Alex Sandy Pentland
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Social Signals ◽  
Social Signal Processing ◽  
Social Signal

scholarly journals Using Social Signals to Predict Shoplifting: A Transparent Approach to a Sensitive Activity Analysis Problem

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 6812
Author(s):  
Shane Reid ◽  
Sonya Coleman ◽  
Philip Vance ◽  
Dermot Kerr ◽  
Siobhan O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Social Signals ◽  
Social Signal Processing ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Current State ◽  
Social Signal ◽  
High Degree

Retail shoplifting is one of the most prevalent forms of theft and has accounted for over one billion GBP in losses for UK retailers in 2018. An automated approach to detecting behaviours associated with shoplifting using surveillance footage could help reduce these losses. Until recently, most state-of-the-art vision-based approaches to this problem have relied heavily on the use of black box deep learning models. While these models have been shown to achieve very high accuracy, this lack of understanding on how decisions are made raises concerns about potential bias in the models. This limits the ability of retailers to implement these solutions, as several high-profile legal cases have recently ruled that evidence taken from these black box methods is inadmissible in court. There is an urgent need to develop models which can achieve high accuracy while providing the necessary transparency. One way to alleviate this problem is through the use of social signal processing to add a layer of understanding in the development of transparent models for this task. To this end, we present a social signal processing model for the problem of shoplifting prediction which has been trained and validated using a novel dataset of manually annotated shoplifting videos. The resulting model provides a high degree of understanding and achieves accuracy comparable with current state of the art black box methods.

scholarly journals Social Signal Processing

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Calvo ◽  
Sidney D'Mello ◽  
Jonathan Gratch ◽  
Arvid Kappas ◽  
Maja Pantic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Social Signal Processing ◽  
Social Signal
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