20 Result(s)
within
Computer Science
Ying-**a Liao
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Location-Based Services for Tourism Industry: An Empirical Study
To cope with the fact of high competitiveness in tourism industry, some travel agencies are adopting the strategy of providing relatively more abundant and higher quality services to their clients. Since prior...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A User Study on the Adoption of Location Based Services
Based on the end user’s exact location, providing useful information and location based services (LBS) through wireless pervasive devices at right place and right time could be beneficial to both businesses an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Darwin Approximation to Maxwell’s Equations
Maxwell’s equations are the foundation of electromagnetics, its extensive applications make computational electromagnetics a new rapidly growing subject. However, since the electric and the magnetic fields are...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Center Point Detection of Fingerprint Based on Direction Mean Value Difference
Directional pattern is a representation of original fingerprint image. This paper proposes one algorithm based on direction mean value difference to detect fingerprint center point. To realize this algorithm m...
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A Multi-layer Model for Face Aging Simulation
Face aging simulation is a very complex and challenging task and interests many researchers in the fields of psychology, computer graphics and computer vision due to its widely applications. In this paper, we ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Simulation and Analysis of Space Object Visibility Based on Space-Based Optics Surveillance
The visibility analysis model of space object based on space-based optics surveillance is derived from constraints including the earth masking, the earth shadow, the sunlight and the field of view. According t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hybrid Multimodal Deformable Registration with a Data-Driven Deformation Prior
Deformable registration for images with different contrast-enhancement and hence different structure appearance is extremely challenging due to the ill-posed nature of the problem. Utilizing prior anatomical k...
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Registration of Pre-Operative CT and Non-Contrast-Enhanced C-Arm CT: An Application to Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) has proven to be an effective minimal-invasive alternative to traditional open-heart valve replacement surgery. Despite the success of contrast enhanced C-arm CT...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Use of Online Corpora as Reference Resources for Revision Tasks in Writing
The current study reports on an experiment with 60 Chinese college students, aiming to explore the effects of using online corpora BFSU CQP web for revision tasks in EFL writing. Quantitative data about the 60...
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Intensity contrast masks for gender classification
This work develops effective masks for AdaBoost-based gender classification. A set of intensity contrast masks around small regions of two neighbor pixels is proposed. The design exploits the sharp intensity c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementation of a Low-Rate Linear Step FM Transceiver on a Software Defined Radio Platform
Linear FM (Chirp) signals have the merits of constant envelope and insusceptibility to significant carrier frequency offset which particularly suit for low-power low-rate communications. However, the fully dig...
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Stability of fully discrete schemes with interpolation-type fractional formulas for distributed-order subdiffusion equations
Two fully discrete methods are investigated for simulating the distributed-order sub-diffusion equation in Caputo’s form. The fractional Caputo derivative is approximated by the Caputo’s BDF1 (called L1 early)...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploiting Attention for Visual Relationship Detection
Visual relationship detection targets on predicting categories of predicates and object pairs, and also locating the object pairs. Recognizing the relationships between individual objects is important for desc...
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Gesture recognition based on an improved local sparse representation classification algorithm
The sparse representation classification method has been widely concerned and studied in pattern recognition because of its good recognition effect and classification performance. Using the minimized \(l_{1}\)l1 ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
FairNN - Conjoint Learning of Fair Representations for Fair Decisions
In this paper, we propose FairNN a neural network that performs joint feature representation and classification for fairness-aware learning. Our approach optimizes a multi-objective loss function which (a) learns...
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SuPoolVisor: a visual analytics system for mining pool surveillance
Cryptocurrencies represented by Bitcoin have fully demonstrated their advantages and great potential in payment and monetary systems during the last decade. The mining pool, which is considered the source of B...
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Music recommender using deep embedding-based features and behavior-based reinforcement learning
With the rapid increase of digital music on online music platforms, it has become difficult for users to find unknown but interesting songs. Although many collaborative filtering or content based recommendatio...
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An Optimized Scaffolding Algorithm for Unbalanced Sequencing
Genome assembly based on NGS reads usually includes the following two steps: (1) Convert the reads into k-mers of a certain length, construct a de Bruijn graph according to the overlaps between the k-mers, and fi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bridging Technostress and Perceived Value: Why Middle-Aged and Elderly People Resist Using Chronic Diseases Management Apps
This paper aims to explore the causes of resistance to using chronic disease management APPs in middle-aged and elderly people. By integrating technostress theory and status quo bias (SQB) theory, a conceptual...
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SAIH: A Scalable Evaluation Methodology for Understanding AI Performance Trend on HPC Systems
Novel artificial intelligence (AI) technology has expedited various scientific research, e.g., cosmology, physics, and bioinformatics, inevitably becoming a significant category of workload on high-performance...
