Human body motions, including gait information, are a promising biometrics resource. In this paper, the human silhouette is segmented into seven components for visual surveillance applications, namely, head, arm, body...
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Human body motions, including gait information, are a promising biometrics resource. In this paper, the human silhouette is segmented into seven components for visual surveillance applications, namely, head, arm, body, thigh, front-leg, back-leg, and feet. The legs are classified as front-leg or back-leg because of the bipedal walking style: during walking, the left-leg and the right-leg are in front or at the back in turn. The motions of the individual components and of a number of combinations of components are then studied for gender recognition. For HumanID recognition under different cases, the performances of and underlying links amongst the seven human gait components are analyzed.
It is important for Web services developers to know "under the hood" aspects of Web services technology for both creating and consuming them. To fulfill this need, we have developed WSExplorer, a tool for te...
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It is important for Web services developers to know "under the hood" aspects of Web services technology for both creating and consuming them. To fulfill this need, we have developed WSExplorer, a tool for teaching Web services concepts and its building blocks. It facilitates hands-on experimentation with the inquiry aspect of UDDI registries, obtaining and analyzing WSDL documents, invoking Web service operations, and examining SOAP requests and responses. This paper begins with a brief introduction to Web services so that the paper is self-contained. Next, we describe how WSExplorer can be used in distributed computing and related courses to learn the underlying technical aspects of Web services. We discuss motivation, rationale, and approach for the exercises that we have designed for use in these courses. More specifically, the exercises explore: discovering Web services using UDDI registry; understanding the structure of a WSDL document; understanding how XML schemas are written by examining the WSDL schema; verifying that a retrieved WSDL document is valid against its schema; identifying operations and I/O message formats supported by a Web service; locating the operations identified by the WSDL analyzer in the corresponding WSDL document; examining SOAP requests/responses and validating them against the corresponding WSDL; and interacting with Web services developed by other students in the class.
Rapidly increasing storage device capacities at ever decreasing costs have resulted in mushrooming of publicly available large data sets on the Web. In this paper, we describe a novel approach to teaching relational d...
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Rapidly increasing storage device capacities at ever decreasing costs have resulted in mushrooming of publicly available large data sets on the Web. In this paper, we describe a novel approach to teaching relational database course by using such data repositories. We demonstrate our approach using the *** product database, though the approach is generic and is applicable to other data repositories. The Amazon database is supposedly the largest product database ever in existence. We have used the Amazon Web Services API and .NET/C# application to extract a subset of the product database to enhance student learning in a relational database course. This realistic data served various activities of the course and provided a rich backdrop to demonstrate more interesting features of SQL and Oracle cost-based query optimization. Central to the course is a semester-long team project. We discuss the details of data extraction from ***, conceptual and logical data modeling, logical and physical database design, database creation and data loading, database querying, and database application development.
An increasing number of conferences, symposia, workshops, journals and books address the subject of emotions and their role in Human-computer Interaction, including workshops at the last two HCI conferences. The need ...
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From 28 May to 1 June 2007, a seminar on ‘information Visualization–Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation’ took place at the International Conference and Research Center for Co...
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From 28 May to 1 June 2007, a seminar on ‘information Visualization–Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation’ took place at the International Conference and Research Center for computerscience, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany. One important aim of this seminar was to bring together researchers and practitioners from information Visualization and related fields, as well as from application areas, for lively discussion and interaction. The seminar allowed critical reflection on actual research efforts, the state of field, evaluation challenges, and other important topics. This report summarizes the event.
A electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, concerning epileptic seizures, is proposed. First, segments of the EEG signals are analyzed using a time-frequency distribution and then, several features are extracted for eac...
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A electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, concerning epileptic seizures, is proposed. First, segments of the EEG signals are analyzed using a time-frequency distribution and then, several features are extracted for each segment, representing the energy distribution over the time-frequency plane. Those features are used as an input in an artificial neural network (ANN), which provides the final classification of the EEG segments (existence of epileptic seizure or not). The evaluation results are very promising, indicating overall accuracy from 89.4% to 99%.
In this work, we propose a method for the automated expert system creation. The method is based on the integration of global knowledge (i.e. knowledge from the field experts) and local knowledge (i.e. knowledge derive...
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In this work, we propose a method for the automated expert system creation. The method is based on the integration of global knowledge (i.e. knowledge from the field experts) and local knowledge (i.e. knowledge derived from the available data) in a single inference engine. Starting from an initial set of rules (expert's knowledge) and an annotated dataset, data mining is performed to the dataset and a second set of rules is acquired. Both of them are integrated into a single set of rules. Fuzzy modeling is then applied to the rules, transforming them into a fuzzy model, and finally, an optimization technique is used to tune the fuzzy model's parameters. The method is applied to a medical domain problem, the cardiac arrhythmic beat classification and satisfactory results have been obtained. The method experiences several advantages compared to approaches based solely on expert's knowledge or mined knowledge while the ability to interpret the decisions made from the created fuzzy expert system is a major advantage compared to "black box" approaches.
Microarray technology provides a powerful tool for the quantification of the expression level for a large number of genes simultaneously. Image analysis is a crucial step for data extraction of microarray gene express...
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Microarray technology provides a powerful tool for the quantification of the expression level for a large number of genes simultaneously. Image analysis is a crucial step for data extraction of microarray gene expression experiments. In this paper we propose a supervised method for the segmentation of microarray images. The Bayes classifier is employed for a pixel by pixel classification. The proposed method classifies the pixels of the image in two classes, foreground and background pixels. For this task, an informative set of features is used from both, green and red channels. The method is evaluated using a set of 5184 spots (consisting of ~15000000 pixels), from the Stanford Microarray database (SMD) and the reported classification accuracy is 82%.
In this work we present a supervised method to assist the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) based on functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI). The method consists of five stages: a) preprocessing of fMRI da...
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In this work we present a supervised method to assist the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) based on functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI). The method consists of five stages: a) preprocessing of fMRI data to remove non-task related variability, b) modeling the way in which the BOLD response depends on stimulus, c) feature extraction from fMRI data, d) feature selection and e) classification using the Random Forests algorithm. The proposed method is evaluated using data from 41 subjects (14 young adults, 14 non demented older adults and 13 demented older adults).
Bloom's taxonomy of the cognitive domain and the SOLO taxonomy are being increasingly widely used in the design and assessment of courses, but there are some drawbacks to their use in computerscience. This paper ...
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Bloom's taxonomy of the cognitive domain and the SOLO taxonomy are being increasingly widely used in the design and assessment of courses, but there are some drawbacks to their use in computerscience. This paper reviews the literature on educational taxonomies and their use in computerscience education, identifies some of the problems that arise, proposes a new taxonomy and discusses how this can be used in application-oriented courses such as programming.
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