14 Result(s)
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English
Computer Science
Computer Graphics
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
M. **gliang
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Communication Design for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge. Languages, Tools, Technologies, Collaborative Processes for Museum Education
This paper sets out to report an articulated research-action process, which started with some educational-scientific experiments carried out in a collaborative effort between the disciplines of design, multime...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Pollicina Project: A Collaborative and Educational Social Suite to Build Cultural Itineraries
The Pollicina project is aimed at defining a collaborative coordinated learning environment, called Educational Social Network, to allow students to elaborate thematic cultural paths on the territory. The topi...
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Situated Analytics
This chapter introduces the concept of situated analytics that employs data representations organized in relation to germane objects, places, and persons for the purpose of understanding, sensemaking, and decisio...
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Fiber Tracking in Traumatic Brain Injury: Comparison of 9 Tractography Algorithms
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause widespread and long-lasting damage to white matter. Diffusion weighted imaging methods are uniquely sensitive to this disruption. Even so, traumatic injury often disrupts...
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A 3D Tracker for Ground-Moving Objects
Multi-object tracking is a major area of research because of its wide application scope. In this paper we describe a set of improvements, toward video surveillance context, to the multi-object tracker proposed...
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Simulation of the Abdominal Wall and Its Arteries after Pneumoperitoneum for Guidance of Port Positioning in Laparoscopic Surgery
During laparoscopic surgery, the trocar insertion can injure arteries of the abdominal wall. Although these arteries are visible in a preoperative computed tomography [CT] with contrast medium, it is difficult...
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Towards Person Identification and Re-identification with Attributes
Visual identification of an individual in a crowded environment observed by a distributed camera network is critical to a variety of tasks including commercial space management, border control, and crime preve...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementation and Analysis of JPEG2000 System on a Chip
This paper presents a novel implementation of the JPEG2000 standard as a system on a chip (SoC). While most of the research in this field centers on acceleration of the EBCOT Tier I encoder, this work focuses ...
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Retrieval of 3D Polygonal Objects Based on Multiresolution Signatures
In this paper we present a method for retrieving 3D polygonal objects by using two sets of multiresolution signatures. Both sets are based on the progressive elimination of object’s details by iterative proces...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visualizing Translation Variation: Shakespeare’s Othello
Recognized as great works of world literature, Shakespeare’s poems and plays have been translated into dozens of languages for over 300 years. Also, there are many re-translations into the same language, for e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Little Big Difference: Gender Aspects and Gender-Based Adaptation in Educational Games
Computer games are tremendously successful and this is why the potential of using this medium for educational purposes is increasingly recognized and researched. However, as new learning technologies need to b...
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Developments in Affect Detection from Text in Open-Ended Improvisational E-Drama
We report progress on adding affect-detection to an existing program for virtual dramatic improvisation, monitored by a human director. To partially automate the directors’ functions, we have partially impleme...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Haptic Interaction System for Co-evolution with Reactive Virtual Human
Interactions that provide motivating activities, and perform mutual feedback truly in human-scale spaces, were not suggested in any studies. In this paper, we propose and implement a haptic interaction system ...
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Ambient Intelligence Through Agile Agents
The vision of ambient intelligence is one where the populas is supported in the conductance of their everyday lives through the pro-active, opportunistic support of non-intrusive computing devices offering int...
