Comparative Study of the Mobile Learning Architectures

International audienceWith the emergence of mobile devices (Smart Phone, PDA, UMPC, game consoles, etc.), learning is changing from electronic learning (e-Learning) to mobile learning (m-learning). In fact, due to the mobility feature, it seems that the m-learning have to be adapted with the change within the context. Several researches addressed this issue and implemented a mobile learning environment to prove its usefulness and feasibility in various domains. In this article, we conduct a comparative study between a list of mobile learning architectures and methods that are presented in the literature. The performance of these architectures is evaluated based on several criteria, such as the adaptation management, which is an important parameter for the management and customization of the learning resources for the learners, as well as the environment, which is a core part of mobile learning systems

Design of a Hand Pose Recognition System for Mobile and Embedded Devices

Today, smart devices such smart watches and smart cell phones are becoming ever-present in all fields that influence the quality of life of the modern people. These on-board systems have revolutionized the behavior of human beings and especially their way of communicating. In this context and to improve the experience of using these devices, we aim to develop a system that recognizes hand poses in the air by a smart device.  In this work, the system is based on Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) features and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The impact of using HOG and SVM on mobile devices is studied. To carry out this study, we used an improved version of the "NUS I" dataset and obtained a recognition rate of approximately 94%. In addition, we conducted run speed experiments on various mobile devices to study the impact of this task on this embedded platform. The main contribution of this work is to test the impact of using the HOG descriptor and the SVM classifier in terms of recognition rate and execution time on low-end smartphones.Today, smart devices such smart watches and smart cell phones are becoming ever-present in all fields that influence the quality of life of the modern people. These on-board systems have revolutionized the behavior of human beings and especially their way of communicating. In this context and to improve the experience of using these devices, we aim to develop a system that recognizes hand poses in the air by a smart device.  In this work, the system is based on Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) features and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The impact of using HOG and SVM on mobile devices is studied. To carry out this study, we used an improved version of the "NUS I" dataset and obtained a recognition rate of approximately 94%. In addition, we conducted run speed experiments on various mobile devices to study the impact of this task on this embedded platform. The main contribution of this work is to test the impact of using the HOG descriptor and the SVM classifier in terms of recognition rate and execution time on low-end smartphones

Face Identification Using Data Augmentation Based on the Combination of DCGANs and Basic Manipulations

International audienceRecently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become a central subject of discussion in computer vision for a broad range of applications, including image classification and face recognition. Compared to existing conventional machine learning methods, deep learning algorithms have shown prominent performance with high accuracy and speed. However, they always require a large amount of data to achieve adequate robustness. Furthermore, additional samples are time-consuming and expensive to collect. In this paper, we propose an approach that combines generative methods and basic manipulations for image data augmentations and the FaceNet model with Support Vector Machine (SVM) for face recognition. To do so, the images were first preprocessed by a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Net (DCGAN) to generate samples having realistic properties inseparable from those of the original datasets. Second, basic manipulations were applied on the images produced by DCGAN in order to increase the amount of training data. Finally, FaceNet was employed as a face recognition model. FaceNet detects faces using MTCNN, 128-D face embedding is computed to quantify each face, and an SVM was used on top of the embeddings for classification. Experiments carried out on the LFW and VGG image databases and ChokePoint video database demonstrate that the combination of basic and generative methods for augmentation boosted face recognition performance, leading to better recognition results

Towards an Automatic Text Comprehension for the Arabic Question-Answering: Semantic and Logical Representation of Texts

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Using the Web as an Efficient Source for Building an Arabic Corpus: Presentation and Evaluation

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Towards a Web-based Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for the Layered Evaluation of Interactive Adaptive Systems

IF=3.078International audienceThe choice of suitable evaluation methods for the layered evaluation of Interactive Adaptive Systems (IAS) needs the consideration of different factors, leading to a multi-criteria decision analysis problem. This paper proposes the first step toward a Web-based Multi-Criteria Decision Support System (MCDSS). Our proposal is based on a recent multi-criteria decision method called ELECTRE TRI-B-H (Elimination and Choice Translating Reality) to guide the layered evaluation of IAS. The goal is to support the choice of appropriate evaluation methods for individual layers taking into account constraints of the layered evaluation and the individual layers. The appropriateness of each evaluation method is analyzed for the layered evaluation in general and each layer in particular. The use of ELECTRE TRI-B-H method allows decomposing a decision problem into intermediate sub-problems through a hierarchy model and sorting alternative evaluation methods at different levels of the hierarchy. A case study of an adaptive hypermedia system is presented; in this study, the ELECTRE TRI-B-H method has been applied to select the most suitable evaluation methods for each of its layers taking into account the layered evaluation context. The promising results show the feasibility of the proposed approach, leading to various research perspective

A Preliminary Study for Building an Arabic Corpus of Pair Questions-Texts from the Web: AQA-Webcorp

International audienceWith the development of electronic media and the heterogeneity of Arabic data on the Web, the idea of building a clean corpus for certain applications of natural language processing, including machine translation, information retrieval, question answer, become more and more pressing. In this manuscript, we seek to create and develop our own corpus of pair's questions-texts. This constitution then will provide a better base for our experimentation step. Thus, we try to model this constitution by a method for Arabic insofar as it recovers texts from the web that could prove to be answers to our factual questions. To do this, we had to develop a java script that can extract from a given query a list of html pages. Then clean these pages to the extent of having a data base of texts and a corpus of pair's question-texts. In addition, we give preliminary results of our proposal method. Some investigations for the construction of Arabic corpus are also presented in this document