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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Analysis of ED Line Algorithm in Urban Street-View Dataset
Building detection in urban street view scenarios is becoming an important aspect of Computer Vision applications. In this paper we present an analysis of EDLine and Edge Drawing algorithms in a street-view da...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TMBuD: A Dataset for Urban Scene Building Detection
Building recognition and 3D reconstruction of human made structures in urban scenarios has become an interesting and actual topic in the image processing domain. For this research topic the Computer Vision and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Standardised Questionnaires in Usability Evaluation. Applying Standardised Usability Questionnaires in Digital Products Evaluation
The usability evaluation plays a crucial role in the human-computer interaction. It is one of the basic elements used to verify the user interface quality and also, the quality of the system, as a whole. The ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Edge Detection Operator for Identifying Buildings in Augmented Reality Applications
Augmented Reality is an environment-enhancing technology, widely applied in many domains, such as tourism and culture. One of the major challenges in this field is precise detection and extraction of building ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Augmented Reality Lenses for Smart City Data: The Case of Building Permits
While open government data published by central and local authorities worldwide is considered to be the new oil that fuels society, it is only truly useful when it is processed, interlinked and used in applica...
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Article
Optimizing the parameters for in situ fabrication of hybrid Al-Al2O3 composites
A new powder metallurgy technique was developed in order to increase the reinforcement proportion of aluminum with two different fractions of Al2O3. Aluminum powders were mixed with 20 % vol of alumina particles ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MOOCs in Higher Education—Flipped Classroom or a New Smart Learning Model?
This paper presents concepts and experiences of the flipped classroom method based on integrating OER and massive open online course (MOOCs) into traditional higher education in Romania. A study case on integr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CVLA: Integrating Multiple Analytics Techniques in a Custom Moodle Report
Increased usage of information technologies in educational tasks resulted in a high volume of data that can be exploited to offer practical insight in the learning process. In this paper, we proposed a system ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Ontology Oriented Approach for E-Learning Objects Design and Improvement
A Semantic Web is one of the most emerging research areas nowadays. Ontology is a formal specification of the particular domain that describes a set of objects and properties that the objects might have. The d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Value of Video Lectures in the Classroom - UPT Study Case
As teachers, we have the responsibility to assist students in understanding the basic concepts and details (when necessary) upon a subject. We must offer them the right materials to achieve the information and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrating Linked Data in Mobile Augmented Reality Applications
Mobile devices are currently the most popular way of delivering ubiquitous augmented reality experiences. Traditionally, content sources for mobile augmented reality applications can be seen as isolated silos ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Relevant Aspects for the Integration of Linked Data in Mobile Augmented Reality Applications for Tourism
Mobile augmented reality applications have seen tremendous growth in recent years and tourism is one of the fields in which this set of technologies has been proved to be a natural fit. Augmented reality has t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Usability Evaluation of a LMS Mobile Web Interface
The growth in the use of mobile devices in everyday life determined an increasing demand to access educational information using mobile technology. Nevertheless, most existing computer based Learning Managemen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interdisciplinarity in e-Learning Platforms Based on Textual Annotation
Interdisciplinarity will become, not only a way of content restructuring, but also a new way to organize learning. This paper proposes a framework for building ontology for e-learning and aims for a navigation...
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Chapter
Ideas and Concepts of ViCaDiS – A Virtual Learning Environment for Digital Students
The main purpose of the Virtual Campus for Digital Students – ViCaDiS Project (2007–2009) is to assist international cooperation in learning by using social media and open source applications. ViCaDiS facilita...
