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The primary aim of this special session is to inform the conference's interdisciplinary audience about the state-of-the-art in developmental studies of action and language interactions. Action and language develop in parallel, impacting each other, and as such, bootstrap action, social, and cognitive development. We will present recent empirical evidence on developmental dependencies between visual...
This paper presents a multiple feature fusion method using topic model for social image visualization. Images in social media are represented from several aspects such as their visual information and tags. The proposed method extracts low-level features from social images and their tags and calculates their integrated high-level features. Specifically, the proposed method applies multilayer multimodal...
The propagation and influence is an important problem for online social network. In this paper, we develop a visualization toolkit for online social network propagation and influence analysis and predication which can not only present the main trend of the propagation and influence, but also can present them in multiple views e.g., time and location distribution. Considering the existing works mostly...
POLAR is an experimental test-bed visualisation tool for Patterns of Life analysis, developed on the basis of knowledge elicitation with stakeholders. It uses multiple and coordinated views for exploring geo-temporal datasets. The system has three modes of interaction for addressing different kinds of PoL questions. It supports the exploration of movement patterns with resolutions ranging from intercontinental...
In an open Trusted Desktop Grid system, users can voluntarily participate in order to share resources. Thereby, computational trust is used to isolate malicious agents. Since a fully self-organised solution can suffer in emergent situations like the trust-breakdown scenario, we investigate an additional normative entity to guide the overall system behaviour by still keeping the autonomy of all agents...
A frequency domain algorithm using the image anisotropic is proposed for visual saliency in this paper. Based on the SSS algorithm, we generate 8 saliency maps corresponding 8 Gaussian kernels. Then, use the Renyi entropy to divide these saliency maps into two classes and select one optimal map for each class. Finally, combine these two optimal maps for the finally saliency map. The experimental comparison...
The goal of image retargeting is to change the resolution and aspect ratio of an image to fit it into different display devices. We achieve it by representing an image as a triangular mesh in 2D space and viewing each triangle edge as a spring. Through deforming the spring system, we can implicitly retarget the image to its new size. To build the spring system, we firstly run a saliency detection...
The goal of this study is to explore the advantages of representing natural images with the cortical Layer-4 processing, which is the first step in visual information processing performed by the cerebral cortex of the brain. A cortical module, a macrocolumn, receives input from a small visual field and its Layer 4 performs a nonlinear transform of this input to generate its pluripotent representation...
Dyslexia is a learning disability affecting the ability to process written and sometimes even spoken language. It affects educational opportunities of about 10% of children, regardless of their intelligence. One of the main challenges is to be able to identify Dyslexia in preschoolers. To this aim we have developed a set of serious games that are the core of this demo. Our games have been created...
In this work, we propose haptic-based bilateral tele-operation for quad-rotor vehicles by using Internet communication infrastructure. The idea is to introduce shared autonomy to increase remote operation and manipulation capacity of the vehicle in uncertain flying environments. The design couples ground and remote sites by position and velocity signals of the master haptic and slave quad-rotor vehicle...
Students nowadays learn differently from their forefathers. Therefore, there is a need for the educators to identify the way the students learn. This research aims to study the major learning styles of students from different engineering programmes and their differences in University Tenaga Malaysia. This paper will also report on the analyses of types of learning styles of the students.
Labeling children's play behavior is an important process in children's social behavior analysis which is traditionally done by experienced coders. With the growing volume of data, automatic methods for labeling are increasingly required. This paper presents a novel method to label children's social behavior automatically in peer-play scenarios based on visual attention and mutual interaction computation...
Mining multivariate time series data by clustering is an important research topic. Time series can be clustered by standard approaches like k-means, or by advanced methods such as subspace clustering and triclustering. A problem with these new methods is the lack of a general evaluation scheme that can be used by researchers to understand and compare the algorithms, publications on new algorithms...
Concepts in Formal Languages and Theory of Computation remain to be vague and complicated for students undergoing undergraduate computer sciences programmes. Moreover, the volume of learning content delivered as mere lectures in a course semester also causes disinterest among students studying these courses in tier-3 engineering institutions. Considering the present generation students and their learning...
In today's social context, the role of designers has been shifting gradually with design evolution. Along with the proposition of design thinking, service design and transformation design, designers work more with people than merely for people. And that makes designers play the role of facilitators more in the design processes to promote co-design with various stakeholders for solutions and strategies...
The universal multiple outlier hypothesis testing problem is studied in two settings. In the first setting, each outlier can be arbitrarily distributed, and the number of outliers is fixed and known. In the second setting, the number of outliers is unknown at the outset. Nothing is known about the typical and outlier distributions other than that they are different and have full supports. For the...
When resizing image, effective means should not only consider geometric constraints, but also handle according to the image content. It is the fact that the image content in the middle is not more attractive than at the edge necessarily, the image resizing means on the basis of content is turning into a new hotspot in the image processing domain. Image resizing is also known as image retargeting....
In our paper we would like to present a three-dimensional model of a virtual library created by exploiting the capabilities of the Virtual Collaboration Arena (VIRCA) system. Based on the classification system elaborated by Callimachus we focus on the field of Greek poetry and drama in the 3rd century BC, and select some illustrious ancient authors and texts for the content of a virtual library. In...
The influence of computer science in society is very common today, particularly in education. This article describes a report of an experience in the area of disability, and how it integrated university, organizations and government. The personal experience of the author with your SEN (Special Educational Needs) daughter allowed to create the project AINIDIU (Intelligent Agent for Children with Visual...
According to reliable online sources for Africa, access to the internet in 2011 was 16%, and there were 600 million Africans without access to electricity. Yet there are very few low-tech initiatives aimed at bridging this e-learning divide. One such initiative, for Nigeria, was funded by the Commonwealth of Learning in 2011/12: the use of audiovision for in-service teacher training. Audiovision (a...
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