Advanced Technologies for Human-Computer Interfaces in Mixed Reality

As human beings, we trust our five senses, that allow us to experience the world and communicate. Since our birth, the amount of data that every day we can acquire is impressive and such a richness reflects the complexity of humankind in arts, technology, etc. The advent of computers and the consequent progress in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence showed how large amounts of data can contain some sort of “intelligence” themselves. Machines learn and create a superimposed layer of reality. How data generated by humans and machines are related today? To give an answer we will present three projects in the context of “Mixed Reality”, the ideal place where Reality, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are increasingly connected as long as data enhance the digital experiences, making them more “real”. We will start with BRAVO, a tool that exploits the brain activity to improve the user’s learning process in real time by means of a Brain-Computer Interface that acquires EEG data. Then we will see AUGMENTED GRAPHICS, a framework for detecting objects in the reality that can be captured easily and inserted in any digital scenario. Based on the moments invariants theory, it looks particularly designed for mobile devices, as it assumes a light concept of object detection and it works without any training set. As third work, GLOVR, a wearable hand controller that uses inertial sensors to offer directional controls and to recognize gestures, particularly suitable for Virtual Reality applications. It features a microphone to record voice sequences that then are translated in tasks by means of a natural language web service. For each project we will summarize the main results and we will trace some future directions of research and development

Advances in Autism Research

This book represents one of the most up-to-date collections of articles on clinical practice and research in the field of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The scholars who contributed to this book are experts in their field, carrying out cutting edge research in prestigious institutes worldwide (e.g., Harvard Medical School, University of California, MIND Institute, King’s College, Karolinska Institute, and many others). The book addressed many topics, including (1) The COVID-19 pandemic; (2) Epidemiology and prevalence; (3) Screening and early behavioral markers; (4) Diagnostic and phenotypic profile; (5) Treatment and intervention; (6) Etiopathogenesis (biomarkers, biology, and genetic, epigenetic, and risk factors); (7) Comorbidity; (8) Adulthood; and (9) Broader Autism Phenotype (BAP). This book testifies to the complexity of performing research in the field of ASD. The published contributions underline areas of progress and ongoing challenges in which more certain data is expected in the coming years. It would be desirable that experts, clinicians, researchers, and trainees could have the opportunity to read this updated text describing the challenging heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various new social phenomena. Many countries have been making efforts to understand these phenomena and find answers on how to put the development of artificial intelligence on the right track to support the common good of people and societies. These attempts require interdisciplinary actions, covering not only science disciplines involved in the development of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction but also close cooperation between researchers and practitioners. For this reason, the main goal of the MIDI conference held on 9-10.12.2021 as a virtual event is to integrate two, until recently, independent fields of research in computer science: broadly understood artificial intelligence and human-technology interaction

Kvaliteedi hindamine tähelepanu abil

Väitekirja elektrooniline versioon ei sisalda publikatsiooneMasintõlge on saanud osaks mitte ainult keeleteadlaste ja professionaalsete tõlkijate, vaid peaaegu kõigi elust. Enamik inimesi, kes on kasutanud masintõlget, on kohanud naljakaid ja kohati täiesti valesid tõlkeid, mis lause tähendust täielikult moonutavad. Seega peame peale masintõlke mudeli kasutama hindamismehhanismi, mis teavitab inimesi tõlgete kvaliteedist. Loomulikult saavad professionaalsed tõlkijad masintõlke väljundit hinnata ja vajadusel toimetada. Inimeste märkuste kasutamine veebipõhiste masintõlkesüsteemide tõlgete hindamiseks on aga äärmiselt kulukas ja ebapraktiline. Seetõttu on automatiseeritud tõlkekvaliteedi hindamise süsteemid masintõlke töövoo oluline osa. Kvaliteedihinnangu eesmärk on ennustada masintõlke väljundi kvaliteeti, ilma etalontõlgeteta. Selles töös keskendusime kvaliteedihinnangu mõõdikutele ja käsitleme tõlkekvaliteedi näitajana tähelepanumehhanismi ennustatud jaotusi, mis on üks kaasaegsete neuromasintõlke (NMT) süsteemide sisemistest parameetritest. Kõigepealt rakendasime seda rekurrentsetel närvivõrkudel (RNN) põhinevatele masintõlkemudelitele ja analüüsisime pakutud meetodite toimivust juhendamata ja juhendatud ülesannete jaoks. Kuna RNN-põhised MT-süsteemid on nüüdseks asendunud transformeritega, mis muutusid peamiseks tipptaseme masintõlke tehnoloogiaks, kohandasime oma lähenemisviisi ka transformeri arhitektuurile. Näitasime, et tähelepanupõhised meetodid sobivad nii juhendatud kui ka juhendamata ülesannete jaoks, kuigi teatud piirangutega. Kuna annotatsiooni andmete hankimine on üsna kulukas, uurisime, kui palju annoteeritud andmeid on vaja kvaliteedihinnangu mudeli treenimiseks.Machine translation has become a part of the life of not only linguists and professional translators, but almost everyone. Most people who have used machine translation have come across funny and sometimes completely incorrect translations that turn the meaning of a sentence upside down. Thus, apart from a machine translation model, we need to use a scoring mechanism that informs people about the quality of translations. Of course, professional translators can assess and, if necessary, edit the machine translation output. However, using human annotations to evaluate translations of online machine translation systems is extremely expensive and impractical. That is why automated systems for measuring translation quality are a crucial part of the machine translation pipeline. Quality Estimation aims to predict the quality of machine translation output at run-time without using any gold-standard human annotations. In this work, we focused on Quality Estimation methods and explored the distribution of attention—one of the internal parameters of modern neural machine translation systems—as an indicator of translation quality. We first applied it to machine translation models based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and analyzed the performance of proposed methods for unsupervised and supervised tasks. Since transformer-based machine translation models had supplanted RNN-based, we adapted our approach to the attention extracted from transformers. We demonstrated that attention-based methods are suitable for both supervised and unsupervised tasks, albeit with some limitations. Since getting annotation labels is quite expensive, we looked at how much annotated data is needed to train a quality estimation model.https://www.ester.ee/record=b549935

Assessment of monthly rain fade in the equatorial region at C & KU-band using measat-3 satellite links

C & Ku-band satellite communication links are the most commonly used for equatorial satellite communication links. Severe rainfall rate in equatorial regions can cause a large rain attenuation in real compared to the prediction. ITU-R P. 618 standards are commonly used to predict satellite rain fade in designing satellite communication network. However, the prediction of ITU-R is still found to be inaccurate hence hinder a reliable operational satellite communication link in equatorial region. This paper aims to provide an accurate insight by assessment of the monthly C & Ku-band rain fade performance by collecting data from commercial earth stations using C band and Ku-band antenna with 11 m and 13 m diameter respectively. The antennas measure the C & Ku-band beacon signal from MEASAT-3 under equatorial rain conditions. The data is collected for one year in 2015. The monthly cumulative distribution function is developed based on the 1-year data. RMSE analysis is made by comparing the monthly measured data of C-band and Ku-band to the ITU-R predictions developed based on ITU-R’s P.618, P.837, P.838 and P.839 standards. The findings show that Ku-band produces an average of 25 RMSE value while the C-band rain attenuation produces an average of 2 RMSE value. Therefore, the ITU-R model still under predicts the rain attenuation in the equatorial region and this call for revisit of the fundamental quantity in determining the rain fade for rain attenuation to be re-evaluated

SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION PATTERN DUE TO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IN KAMPONG HOUSE

ABSTRACT Kampung houses are houses in kampung area of the city. Kampung House oftenly transformed into others use as urban dynamics. One of the transfomation is related to the commercial activities addition by the house owner. It make house with full private space become into mixused house with more public spaces or completely changed into full public commercial building. This study investigate the spatial transformation pattern of the kampung houses due to their commercial activities addition. Site observations, interviews and questionnaires were performed to study the spatial transformation. This study found that in kampung houses, the spatial transformation pattern was depend on type of commercial activities and owner perceptions, and there are several steps of the spatial transformation related the commercial activity addition. Keywords: spatial transformation pattern; commercial activity; owner perception, kampung house; adaptabilit