Smart cities are cities that are designed to be more efficient, sustainable, and connected. As our cities grow and become more complex, it's important to find new ways to address the challenges that arise, such as...
Smart cities are cities that are designed to be more efficient, sustainable, and connected. As our cities grow and become more complex, it's important to find new ways to address the challenges that arise, such as security, privacy, and mobility. This is where mobile cloud computing and biometric authentication come in. Mobile cloud computing is a way to provide cloud computing services to mobile devices, which means people can access services and data from anywhere and at any time. Biometric authentication is a method of identifying people based on their unique physical or behavioral characteristics, like fingerprints, facial recognition, or voice recognition. These two technologies can be combined to create a secure and personalized environment for residents and visitors in smart cities. By using mobile devices, IoT devices, wireless sensor networks, and edge computing, we can collect real-time data that can be used for big data analytics and machine learning. This means we can optimize city services, like traffic management, waste management, or energy consumption, and enhance the quality of life for people living in smart cities. However, the use of these technologies also poses significant security and privacy risks, so it's important to design systems that are secure and privacy-preserving. This requires interdisciplinary research and collaboration between experts in different fields. In summary, mobile cloud computing and biometric authentication have the potential to transform smart cities by creating a more secure and personalized environment for residents and visitors. But we must also be mindful of the potential risks and work together to address them.
In this paper, results from a video-based study on the influence of prior information given to users and explanations situationally given by the vehicle itself on trust and perceived intelligence are presented using a...
In this paper, results from a video-based study on the influence of prior information given to users and explanations situationally given by the vehicle itself on trust and perceived intelligence are presented using a simulated autonomous vehicle in an ambiguous driving situation. A 2x2 between-subjects design is chosen with two independent variables ‘prior information’ (extended/short) and ‘explanations’ (yes/no) with users pseudo-randomly assigned to one of the four conditions. Significant results from 189 test persons reveal, that trust depends on how the capabilities of the intelligent vehicle are explained a priori and not on situational explanations, while perceived intelligence is influenced by both variables. Additional interactions of prior information and user gender is noted with respect to perceived intelligence. As one side effect, it is found, that male users felt significantly more safe than female users with also higher ratings of intention to use the vehicle independently of given information and explanations. Another side effect is that situational explanations lead to better ratings of subjective performance, while also here a significant interaction of gender and prior information is noted. Thus, contrary to expectations, a dominant role of continuous situational explanations (Explainable AI) of the intelligent vehicle for increasing trust is not confirmed and the extent of given prior information seems the deciding factor for initial trust building, which is an important aspect for the introduction of new intelligent technology into society. This is remarkable as at the same time perceived intelligence seems to be dependent on both variables. So it appears, that a vehicle being able to explain its actions may well appear more intelligent, but not necessarily appear more trustworthy.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for image acquisition in various applications, and object detection is a crucial task for UAV imagery analysis. However, training accurate object detectors requires a la...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for image acquisition in various applications, and object detection is a crucial task for UAV imagery analysis. However, training accurate object detectors requires a large amount of annotated data, which can be expensive and time-consuming. To address this issue, we propose an active learning framework for single-stage object detectors in UAV images. First, we introduce Diverse Uncertainty Aggregation (DUA), a novel uncertainty aggregation method that aims to select images with a more diverse variety of object classes with high uncertainties. Second, we address the problem of class imbalance by adjusting the uncertainty calculation based on the performance of each class. Third, we illustrate how reducing the number of images for labeling does not necessarily lead to a lower labeling cost. Evaluation of our approach on a common UAV dataset shows that we can perform similarly (within 0.02 0.5mAP) to using the whole dataset while using only 25% of the images and 32% of the labeled objects. It also outperforms Random Selection and some other aggregation methods. Evaluation on VOC2012 show also consistent results utilizing only 25% of the labeling cost to reach a performance within 0.1 0.5mAP of using the whole dataset. Our results suggest that our proposed active learning framework can effectively reduce the annotation cost while improving the performance of singlestage object detectors in UAV image settings. The code is available on: https://***/asmayamani/DUA
Technology is growing in a fast pace in terms of higher technical aspects to meet the requirements of the present industrial revolution. Technically sound human being alone not sufficient to co-op with the industrial ...
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Several recent works seek to develop foundation models specifically for medical applications, adapting general-purpose large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) via continued pretraining on public...
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In a heterogeneous wireless environment, there are many different radio access technologies (RATs), such as Wi-Fi and 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G, which each have a different degree of coverage and processing power to meet var...
In a heterogeneous wireless environment, there are many different radio access technologies (RATs), such as Wi-Fi and 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G, which each have a different degree of coverage and processing power to meet various service requirements. A mobile user may have access to various access networks in such a situation. On the PC of each user, numerous programs with varied Quality of Service (QoS) requirements can operate simultaneously. It would be advantageous for a multi-interface terminal to use two or more interfaces simultaneously in order to improve performance. However, using multiple networks at once could use up more energy than just using one interface. Therefore, energy use must to be taken into account when analyzing the Flow/Interface Relationship (FIA). This paper presents a novel method for choosing the ideal FIA that achieves the best trade-off between all the characteristics taken into account, dubbed Smart Tabu Search (STS). STS considers user preferences, network circumstances, network expenses, application QoS specifications, and battery life of mobile devices. We use simulations and testbed experiments to validate our concept. Professionals are now able to diagnose and monitor patients remotely because to the growing use of healthcare monitoring devices. One of the most frequent occurrences that affects the reliability of information transmission in any network is congestion, which is defined as the unchecked increase in traffic relative to network capacity. With the use of a mesh network, wireless sensors, and some of the most significant models for vital signs, the article aims to provide a realistic simulation environment for a healthcare system. The simulator environment is a helpful tool for assessing the dependability and effectiveness of the healthcare system in a realistic setting. However, the system is not appropriate for real-time applications due to the sluggish network adaption caused by the end-to-end based traffic regulation deci
Air pollution is a significant issue because it burdens human health and the environment. Particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or smaller (PM2.5) can penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream, ser...
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Detection and classification of cells in immunohistochemistry (IHC) images play a vital role in modern computational pathology pipelines. Biopsy scoring and grading at the slide level is routinely performed by patholo...
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Large-scale pre-trained vision-language models allow for the zero-shot text-based generation of 3D avatars. The previous state-of-the-art method utilized CLIP to supervise neural implicit models that reconstructed a h...
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The MURDOC project introduces an application to enhance trustworthiness and explainability in computervision models, focusing on camouflage detection. It aims to address the need for transparent and interpretable AI ...
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