Social robots have the potential to serve as coaches for public speaking training. To design successful social robots, it is important to understand the expectations and perceptions of prospective users of such robots...
Social robots have the potential to serve as coaches for public speaking training. To design successful social robots, it is important to understand the expectations and perceptions of prospective users of such robots. In this paper, we present thematic analyses of comments made by 168 participants in an online study where participants watched videos of agents in the role of a public speaking coach. The study had a between-participant design with three conditions: two conditions with a humanoid social robot in either (1) active listening mode, i.e., using non-verbal backchanneling, or (2) passive listening mode, and (3) a voice assistant agent. The themes identified and discussed can contribute to the development of social robots and other agents as public speaking coaches.
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted recent attention for sixth-generation (6G) networks due to their low cost and flexible deployment. In order to maximize the ever-increasing data rates, spectral efficienc...
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Time series have numerous applications in finance, healthcare, IoT, and smart city. In many of these applications, time series typically contain personal data, so privacy infringement may occur if they are released di...
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(数字)9798350317152
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(纸本)9798350317169
Time series have numerous applications in finance, healthcare, IoT, and smart city. In many of these applications, time series typically contain personal data, so privacy infringement may occur if they are released directly to the public. Recently, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as the state-of-the-art approach to protecting data privacy. However, existing works on LDP-based collections cannot preserve the shape of time series. A recent work, PatternLDP, attempts to address this problem, but it can only protect a finite group of elements in a time series due to ω-event level privacy guarantee. In this paper, we propose PrivShape, a trie-based mechanism under user-level LDP to protect all elements. PrivShape first transforms a time series to reduce its length, and then adopts trie-expansion and two-level refinement to improve utility. By extensive experiments on real-world datasets, we demonstrate that PrivShape outperforms PatternLDP when adapted for offline use, and can effectively extract frequent shapes.
Optimization is a key technique for maximizing or minimizing functions and achieving optimal cost,gains,energy,mass,and so *** order to solve optimization problems,metaheuristic algorithms are *** of these techniques ...
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Optimization is a key technique for maximizing or minimizing functions and achieving optimal cost,gains,energy,mass,and so *** order to solve optimization problems,metaheuristic algorithms are *** of these techniques are influenced by collective knowledge and natural *** is no such thing as the best or worst algorithm;instead,there are more effective algorithms for certain ***,in this paper,a new improved variant of a recently proposed metaphorless Runge-Kutta Optimization(RKO)algorithm,called Improved Runge-Kutta Optimization(IRKO)algorithm,is suggested for solving optimization *** IRKO is formulated using the basic RKO and local escaping operator to enhance the diversification and intensification capability of the basic RKO *** performance of the proposed IRKO algorithm is validated on 23 standard benchmark functions and three engineering constrained optimization *** outcomes of IRKO are compared with seven state-of-the-art algorithms,including the basic RKO *** to other algorithms,the recommended IRKO algorithm is superior in discovering the optimal results for all selected optimization *** runtime of IRKO is less than 0.5 s for most of the 23 benchmark problems and stands first for most of the selected problems,including real-world optimization problems.
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a 3D printing process widely used in industries such as automotive, healthcare, aerospace, and consumer goods. It creates different 3D objects by adding different layers over one another...
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a 3D printing process widely used in industries such as automotive, healthcare, aerospace, and consumer goods. It creates different 3D objects by adding different layers over one another. AM manufacturing processes are capable enough to produce complex parts, consisting of intricate designs and geometries, characterized by well-established grain structure and properties without expensive tooling in reduced lead time and at low cost. It is a multi-physical process, including various parameters that impact the final product's quality. Moreover, Machine Learning (ML) techniques are suitable approaches aimed at understanding and predicting the complex processes of AM. In this study, an overview of AM and the challenges in the AM is presented, as well as the ML approaches to address the challenges in AM processes are also discussed. The recently introduced ML techniques in AM processes are evaluated explicitly. To be more precise, limited training data, material choice, and standardization regarding data pose major challenges that need to be addressed when applying ML techniques to AM methods.
Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals hold significant potential for gesture recognition and robust prosthetic hand development. However, sEMG signals are affected by various physiological and dynamic factors, inclu...
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Electric vehicles play an important role in the global transition to "Net Zero" and the decarbonisation of point source emissions from road transport, as their market share continues to grow each year. Howev...
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Home hand rehabilitation for stroke is becoming increasingly important due to logistic and financial challenges. Developing Daily-life Integrated Hand-rehabilitation Products (DIHP) aims to enable the application of a...
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In this work, we tackle the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for video action recognition. Our approach, which we call UNITE, uses an image teacher model to adapt a video student model to the target dom...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350353006
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350353013
In this work, we tackle the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for video action recognition. Our approach, which we call UNITE, uses an image teacher model to adapt a video student model to the target domain. UNITE first employs self-supervised pretraining to promote discriminative feature learning on target domain videos using a teacher-guided masked distillation objective. We then perform self-training on masked target data, using the video student model and image teacher model together to generate improved pseudolabels for unlabeled target videos. Our self-training process successfully leverages the strengths of both models to achieve strong transfer performance across domains. We evaluate our approach on multiple video domain adaptation benchmarks and observe significant improvements upon previously reported results.
In this letter, we demonstrated β-Ga2O3 lateral Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) with breakdown voltage (BV) over 10 kV via anode engineering techniques. Postanode deposition annealing (PAA) was implemented to enhance ...
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