Live lecture screencast recording: a proposal to simplify the tasks associated with content production for video-teaching

Se trata de un resumen (Abstract) de la contribución. El acuerdo de transferencia de copyright del trabajo completo es incompatible con el depósito del mismo en RIUMA.Se describe la implementación inicial de un método simplificado de grabación en directo de sesiones de clase en asignaturas de las Escuelas de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Málaga. La simplificación se logra al incorporar en la actividad diaria del aula ciertas características típicas de la grabación en diferido de mini videos docentes. En una configuración mínima se graba únicamente el audio y el video en pantalla de la clase, evitando los desafíos técnicos y las dificultades que implica la grabación de otros elementos como la pizarra. Esto implica el uso de anotaciones en pantalla en tiempo real para reemplazar completamente las anotaciones en la pizarra.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech. I Plan Propio Integral de Docencia. Universidad de Málaga. Universidad de Málaga. Vicerectorado de Personal Docente e Investigador, Proyectos de Innovación Educativa (PIE 17-018

A Review on Deep Learning Techniques for Video Prediction

The ability to predict, anticipate and reason about future outcomes is a key component of intelligent decision-making systems. In light of the success of deep learning in computer vision, deep-learning-based video prediction emerged as a promising research direction. Defined as a self-supervised learning task, video prediction represents a suitable framework for representation learning, as it demonstrated potential capabilities for extracting meaningful representations of the underlying patterns in natural videos. Motivated by the increasing interest in this task, we provide a review on the deep learning methods for prediction in video sequences. We firstly define the video prediction fundamentals, as well as mandatory background concepts and the most used datasets. Next, we carefully analyze existing video prediction models organized according to a proposed taxonomy, highlighting their contributions and their significance in the field. The summary of the datasets and methods is accompanied with experimental results that facilitate the assessment of the state of the art on a quantitative basis. The paper is summarized by drawing some general conclusions, identifying open research challenges and by pointing out future research directions.This work has been funded by the Spanish Government PID2019-104818RB-I00 grant for the MoDeaAS project, supported with Feder funds. This work has also been supported by two Spanish national grants for PhD studies, FPU17/00166, and ACIF/2018/197 respectively

UnrealROX+: An Improved Tool for Acquiring Synthetic Data from Virtual 3D Environments

Synthetic data generation has become essential in last years for feeding data-driven algorithms, which surpassed traditional techniques performance in almost every computer vision problem. Gathering and labelling the amount of data needed for these data-hungry models in the real world may become unfeasible and error-prone, while synthetic data give us the possibility of generating huge amounts of data with pixel-perfect annotations. However, most synthetic datasets lack from enough realism in their rendered images. In that context UnrealROX generation tool was presented in 2019, allowing to generate highly realistic data, at high resolutions and framerates, with an efficient pipeline based on Unreal Engine, a cutting-edge videogame engine. UnrealROX enabled robotic vision researchers to generate realistic and visually plausible data with full ground truth for a wide variety of problems such as class and instance semantic segmentation, object detection, depth estimation, visual grasping, and navigation. Nevertheless, its workflow was very tied to generate image sequences from a robotic on-board camera, making hard to generate data for other purposes. In this work, we present UnrealROX+, an improved version of UnrealROX where its decoupled and easy-to-use data acquisition system allows to quickly design and generate data in a much more flexible and customizable way. Moreover, it is packaged as an Unreal plug-in, which makes it more comfortable to use with already existing Unreal projects, and it also includes new features such as generating albedo or a Python API for interacting with the virtual environment from Deep Learning frameworks.Spanish Government PID2019-104818RB-I00 grant for the MoDeaAS project, supported with Feder funds. This work has also been supported by Spanish national grants for PhD studies FPU17/00166,ACIF/2018/197 and UAFPU2019-13. Experiments were made possible by a generous hardware donation from NVIDIA

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PERSONALITY AND JOB TITLE

Does the position held by an individual in a company fit into his/her personality? The answer to this question is yes. This is because there is significant relationship between the characteristics possessed by a worker which includes his character, personality and way of life, with the current position he/she is holding in an organization. The evolution of man is in accordance with technological advancement, new cultures, social and economic developments, among other phenomena. In other words, the success in the position given to a person will depend largely on his/her personality from a mental and physical point of view. This aim of this paper is to analyze the part of clinical psychology which is associated with human talent through a series of characteristics and personality traits. Personality traits and characteristics are crucial for the proper performance of a worker in a specific job

Interactive Graphical Simulations For Experimental Physics Learning

Se pesenta un material interactivo multimedia desarrollado para contribuir al aprendizaje del campo electrostático de cargas puntuales.Las simulaciones del campo electrostático de conjuntos de cargas eléctricas disponibles en Internet no tienen en cuenta, generalmente, el valor de las cargas. Suelen dibujar un número constante de líneas, lo que a veces genera figuras enmarañadas de difícil interpretación. Algunas simulaciones sí dibujan un número de líneas proporcional al valor de las cargas, pero sólo muestran unos pocos ejemplos y no permiten el desplazamiento de las cargas, es decir, son poco interactivos. El applet presentado aquí se diseñó intentando resolver todas estas limitaciones. La simulación permite al usuario introducir un número arbitrario de cargas eléctricas con los valores (en nC) que considere más oportuno, y visualizar tanto las líneas de campo eléctrico creadas por ese conjunto de cargas como, opcionalmente, las curvas isopotenciales. La simulación permite manipular la posición de las cargas y observar, en tiempo real, cómo se modifican las líneas de campo y de potencial. El número de líneas de campo que salen (positivas) o entran (negativas) de cada carga es proporcional al valor de la misma, lo que permite trabajar el concepto de proporcionalidad entre el flujo del campo electrostático y el número de líneas de campo que atraviesan una superficie cerrada (ley de Gauss). Finalmente, el simulador permite introducir una carga libre y observar la evolución de su trayectoria bajo la influencia del sistema de cargas que hayamos diseñado.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

The influence of the type of breastfeeding on middle ear conditions in infants

Infants should be submitted to hearing screening upon birth, and for the results to be complete, it is necessary to assess middle ear conditions. OBJECTIVE: To check whether the type of breastfeeding in infants between zero and four months can impact middle ear conditions my means an ENT assessment and acoustic immittance comparing neonates who were submitted to hearing screening with those who failed it. Materials and METHODS: Otoacoustic emissions (OAE) was carried out in 60 infants between zero and four months. They were distributed in two groups; group I had the infants with OAE and those infants in group II did not have OAE. They were submitted to tympanometry with a 1000 Hz test tone and ENT assessment. RESULTS: Bottle fed infants or those who were fed in a mixed way had more changes to their audiometry and ENT assessment, with a statistically significant difference. The breastfed infants had a higher occasion of normal tympanometries and normal otorhinolaryngological assessment, with statistically significant difference. CONCLUSION: We then concluded that those breastfed implants had less ENT changes and as well as less acoustic immittance change, thus enabling OAEs. Breastfeeding alone can be considered a protection factor against middle ear changes.Os lactentes devem ser submetidos à triagem auditiva ao nascimento e, para que os resultados sejam completos, é necessário avaliar as condições de orelha média. OBJETIVO: Verificar se o tipo de amamentação em lactentes de zero a quatro meses tem influência nas condições de orelha média por meio da avaliação otorrinolaringológica e das medidas de imitância acústica, comparando neonatos que passaram na triagem auditiva com os que falharam. MATERIAL E MÉTODO: Realizaram-se emissões otoacústicas (EOA) em 60 lactentes de zero a quatro meses. Foram distribuídos em dois grupos, sendo grupo I lactentes com EOA presente e grupo II lactentes com EOA ausente. Foram submetidos à timpanometria, com tom teste de 1000 Hz e avaliação otorrinolaringológica. RESULTADOS: Os lactentes que eram alimentados por mamadeira exclusiva ou aleitamento misto apresentaram mais alterações na timpanometria e na avaliação otorrinolaringológica, com diferença estatisticamente significante. Os com aleitamento materno apresentaram maior ocorrência de timpanogramas normais e avaliação otorrinolaringológica normal, com diferença estatisticamente significante. CONCLUSÃO: Concluiu-se que os lactentes que receberam aleitamento materno apresentaram menos alterações na avaliação otorrinolaringológica e nas medidas de imitância acústica, permitindo, assim, que as EOA estivessem presentes. O aleitamento materno exclusivo poderia ser considerado como fator de proteção contra alterações da orelha média.UNIFESP-EPMUNIFESP, EPMSciEL

Techno-Functional Properties of New Andean Ingredients: Maca (Lepidium meyenii) and Amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus)

[EN] The use of flours derived from Andean products could be an alternative flour. Molecules with a potential beneficial effect on human health have been reported in maca (Lepidium meyenii) (dietary fibre, Mg, Ca, K, functional polysaccharides, etc.) and amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus) (squalene, linoleic acid, P, Ca, K, Mg, dietary fibre, etc.). However, from an industrial point of view, these new ingredients must be characterized in their techno-functional properties. The objective of this work was to analyze the techno-functional parameters of the amaranth and maca flours (NW) and whole (W) flours, in terms of water holding capacity (WHC, g/g), oil holding capacity (OHC, g/g), swelling capacity (SC, mL/g), foaming capacity (FC, %) and emulsifying capacity (EC, mL). The particle size of flours was also analyzed. The results indicated that the highest values for WHC were obtained in maca flour (NW) with 2.45 g of retained water/g of sample. The highest values of OHC were observed for NW flours (around 1.02 g of absorbed oil/g of sample). Meanwhile, for the variables FC and EC, the highest values were obtained for amaranth (NW) with 16.67% and amaranth (W) with 139.44 mL, respectively. Therefore, the results obtained allow us to consider the incorporation of these types of flours to different food products, knowing their effect on WHC, OHC, EC, and pH, and therefore being able to modify the processes concerning the traditional ones. This is especially interesting in the case of the meat products elaboration process in which these parameters could be critical, with the addition of these type of flours.Alarcon-Garcia, MA.; Perez-Alvarez, JA.; López-Vargas, JH.; Pagán Moreno, MJ. (2021). Techno-Functional Properties of New Andean Ingredients: Maca (Lepidium meyenii) and Amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus). Proceedings. 70(1):1-7. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods_2020-07744S1770