Publications des institutions partenaires
Steerable wavelet machines (SWM): : learning moving frames
We present texture operators encoding class-specific local organizations of image directions (LOIDs) in a rotation-invariant fashion. The LOIDs are key for visual understanding, and are at the origin of the success of the popular approaches, such as local binary patterns (LBPs) and the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT). Whereas, LBPs and SIFT yield hand-crafted image...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/11/2017
ChaLearn joint contest on multimedia challenges beyond visual analysis: : an overview
This paper provides an overview of the Joint Contest on Multimedia Challenges Beyond Visual Analysis. We organized an academic competition that focused on four problems that require effective processing of multimodal information in order to be solved. Two tracks were devoted to gesture spotting and recognition from RGB-D video, two fundamental problems for human computer interaction...
Institution partenaire
/ 19/11/2017
Regulation of crowdlending: the case of Switzerland
The increasing interdependence of firms and individuals throughout the world facilitates the development of the crowdlending market. Crowdlending is an emerging source of financing involving open calls to the public, generally via internet, to finance with loans individuals or companies (Meyer, 2007). The major role of crowdlending activities has been to bring new energy to a global...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/11/2017
Regulation of crowdlending: : the case of Switzerland
The increasing interdependence of firms and individuals throughout the world facilitates the development of the crowdlending market. Crowdlending is an emerging source of financing involving open calls to the public, generally via internet, to finance with loans individuals or companies (Meyer, 2007). The major role of crowdlending activities has been to bring new energy to a global...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/11/2017
Regulation of crowdlending ::the case of Switzerland
The increasing interdependence of firms and individuals throughout the world facilitates the development of the crowdlending market. Crowdlending is an emerging source of financing involving open calls to the public, generally via internet, to finance with loans individuals or companies (Meyer, 2007). The major role of crowdlending activities has been to bring new energy to a global...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/11/2017
e-MEMENTO: : a smartwatch experiment to investigate rote memorization in the connected age
This article presents the results obtained by a qualitative study aiming at assessing the impact of innovative technologies on rote learning. The study involved students attending courses at Bachelor level. We compared the memorization of data provided on hard paper copies with data displayed on the smartwatch. We developed an application on the Apple Watch generating data batches....
Institution partenaire
/ 11/11/2017
E-voting: : enhance digital native student interactions with a new voting activity in Moodle
This paper presents a new Moodle activity called “e-voting”. This activity brings wider interaction inside large face-to-face classes. The paper presents how interactions can be supported and enhanced by engaging students, and also by enabling professors to work on initial concepts in a flipped-class or distance learning contexts. This paper describes the three different pedagogical...
Institution partenaire
/ 11/11/2017
Expectation and experience: : passenger acceptance of autonomous public transportation vehicles
Passenger acceptance is a key factor for the successful integration, uptake and use of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the domain of public transpor-tation. Especially knowing opinions and attitudes around safety, comfort and convenience. We discuss a pilot study conducted as part of a larger research project where AVs are being tested to transport members of the general public on a...
Institution partenaire
/ 11/11/2017
Fundamentals of texture processing for biomedical image analysis: : a general definition and problem formulation
This chapter aims to provide an overview of the foundations of texture processing for biomedical image analysis. Its purpose is to define precisely what biomedical texture is, how is it different from general texture information considered in computer vision, and what is the general problem formulation to translate 2Dand 3Dtextured patterns from biomedical images to visually and...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/11/2017
Tourist's animal welfare considerations: : elephant tourism in Thailand
There is a growing interest in the treatment of animals used in the tourism industry, yet the academic literature on the animal welfare consideration exhibited by tourists is limited. This study seeks to identify if demographic differences amongst tourists engaging in animal-based tourism influence the importance they attribute to the ethical treatment of those animals. A statistical...
Institution partenaire
/ 09/11/2017
Une approche d’analyse du changement par la prise en compte de la dynamique identitaire
Institution partenaire
/ 09/11/2017
Going beyond the relapse peak on social network smoking cessation programmes: : ChatBot opportunities
Research question: A social network programme called J’arrête de fumer was set up in 2016 in the six French-speaking cantons of Switzerland. It consists of Facebook groups where people agree on a date to quit smoking. A peak of relapse appears during the first three weeks of the programme. This research aims to explore the feasibility of building a Chatbot to help people to get over...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/11/2017
MedRed: a health-care data acquisition service for research purposes
Research in the health-care domain requires the collection of important and exhaustive datasets, in order to validate a scientific hypothesis, or to assess the effectiveness of a treatment, technology, medicine, or procedure. The data acquisition phase for this type of work requires an often under-estimated amount of time and effort, while needing to keep high quality standards for...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/11/2017
Metabolic tumor volume and total lesion glycolysis in oropharyngeal cancer treated with definitive radiotherapy: : which treshold is the best predictor of local control ?
Institution partenaire
English / 06/11/2017
Multi-scale and multi-directional biomedical texture analysis: : finding the needle in the haystack
This chapter clarifies the important aspects of biomedical texture analysis under the general framework introduced in Chapter 1. It was proposed that any approach can be character-ized as the combination of local texture operators and regional aggregation functions. The type of scale and directional information that can or cannot be modeled by categories of texture processing methods...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/11/2017
On the road with an autonomous passenger shuttle: : integration in public spaces
The integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) onto public roads presents both technical and social challenges. Public understanding and acceptance of AVs requires engagement with people who live in, work at or visit cities where they are deployed on public road networks. We investigate the impact of one of the first placements of AV passenger transport on public roadways: the Sion...
Institution partenaire
/ 06/11/2017
Performance modeling of vehicular floating content in urban settings
Among the proposed opportunistic content sharing services, Floating Content (FC) is of special interest for the vehicular environment, not only for cellular traffic offloading, but also as a natural communication paradigm for location-based context-aware vehicular applications. Existing results on the performance of vehicular FC have focused on content persistence, without addressing...
Institution partenaire
/ 06/11/2017
QuantImage: : an online tool for high-throughput 3D radiomics feature extraction in PET-CT
Theprocessesofradiomicsconsistofimage-basedpersonalizedtumorphenotypingforpre-cision medicine. They complement slow, costly and invasive molecular analysis of tumoral tissue. Whereastherelevanceofalargevarietyofquantitativeimagingbiomarkershasbeen demonstrated for various cancer types, most studies were based on 2D image analysis of relatively small patient cohorts. In this work, we...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/11/2017
Retrieval from and understanding of large–scale multi–modal medical datasets: : a review
Content–based multimedia retrieval has been an active research domain since the mid 1990s. In the medical domain visual retrieval started later and has mostly remained a research instrument and less a clinical tool, even though a few tools for retrieval are employed in clinical work. The limited size of data sets due to privacy constraints is often mentioned as a reason for these...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/11/2017
Co-creating experience in sport entertainment: : unpacking shared and conflicting interests
Co-creation as a joint collaborative process between organizations and customers offers new models and sources of creativity and innovation for businesses to differentiate their value from the value their competitors offer. However, a successful co-creation strategy involves understanding the shared interests of the parties and resolving tensions between internal and external...
Institution partenaire
/ 06/11/2017
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