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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Meritxell Joanpere; Nuria Gorgorio; Lluis Albarracin
Title Mathematics learning opportunities when playing a Tower Defense Game Type Journal
Year 2015 Publication International Journal of Serious Games Abbreviated Journal IJSG
Volume 2 Issue 4 Pages 57-71
Keywords Tower Defense game; learning opportunities; mathematics; problem solving; game design
Abstract A qualitative research study is presented herein with the purpose of identifying mathematics learning opportunities in students between 10 and 12 years old while playing a commercial version of a Tower Defense game. These learning opportunities are understood as mathematicisable moments of the game and involve the establishment of relationships between the game and mathematical problem solving. Based on the analysis of these mathematicisable moments, we conclude that the game can promote problem-solving processes and learning opportunities that can be associated with different mathematical contents that appears in mathematics curricula, thought it seems that teacher or new game elements might be needed to facilitate the processes.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ HJG2015 Serial 2730
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Author Mariella Dimiccoli
Title Fundamentals of cone regression Type Journal
Year 2016 Publication Journal of Statistics Surveys Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10 Issue Pages 53-99
Keywords cone regression; linear complementarity problems; proximal operators.
Abstract Cone regression is a particular case of quadratic programming that minimizes a weighted sum of squared residuals under a set of linear inequality constraints. Several important statistical problems such as isotonic, concave regression or ANOVA under partial orderings, just to name a few, can be considered as particular instances of the cone regression problem. Given its relevance in Statistics, this paper aims to address the fundamentals of cone regression from a theoretical and practical point of view. Several formulations of the cone regression problem are considered and, focusing on the particular case of concave regression as an example, several algorithms are analyzed and compared both qualitatively and quantitatively through numerical simulations. Several improvements to enhance numerical stability and bound the computational cost are proposed. For each analyzed algorithm, the pseudo-code and its corresponding code in Matlab are provided. The results from this study demonstrate that the choice of the optimization approach strongly impacts the numerical performances. It is also shown that methods are not currently available to solve efficiently cone regression problems with large dimension (more than many thousands of points). We suggest further research to fill this gap by exploiting and adapting classical multi-scale strategy to compute an approximate solution.
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Call Number Admin @ si @Dim2016a Serial 2783
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Author Maria Salamo; Inmaculada Rodriguez; Maite Lopez; Anna Puig; Simone Balocco; Mariona Taule
Title Recurso docente para la atención de la diversidad en el aula mediante la predicción de notas Type Journal
Year 2016 Publication ReVision Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages
Keywords Aprendizaje automatico; Sistema de prediccion de notas; Herramienta docente
Abstract Desde la implantación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) en los diferentes grados, se ha puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de utilizar diversos mecanismos que permitan tratar la diversidad en el aula, evaluando automáticamente y proporcionando una retroalimentación rápida tanto al alumnado como al profesorado sobre la evolución de los alumnos en una asignatura. En este artículo se presenta la evaluación de la exactitud en las predicciones de GRADEFORESEER, un recurso docente para la predicción de notas basado en técnicas de aprendizaje automático que permite evaluar la evolución del alumnado y estimar su nota final al terminar el curso. Este recurso se ha complementado con una interfaz de usuario para el profesorado que puede ser usada en diferentes plataformas software (sistemas operativos) y en cualquier asignatura de un grado en la que se utilice evaluación continuada. Además de la descripción del recurso, este artículo presenta los resultados obtenidos al aplicar el sistema de predicción en cuatro asignaturas de disciplinas distintas: Programación I (PI), Diseño de Software (DSW) del grado de Ingeniería Informática, Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) del grado de Lingüística y la asignatura Fundamentos de Tecnología (FDT) del grado de Información y Documentación, todas ellas impartidas en la Universidad de Barcelona.

La capacidad predictiva se ha evaluado de forma binaria (aprueba o no) y según un criterio de rango (suspenso, aprobado, notable o sobresaliente), obteniendo mejores predicciones en los resultados evaluados de forma binaria.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ SRL2016 Serial 2820
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Author Marc Sunset Perez; Marc Comino Trinidad; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Antonio Chica Calaf; Pere Pau Vazquez Alcocer
Title Development of general‐purpose projection‐based augmented reality systems Type Journal
Year 2016 Publication IADIs international journal on computer science and information systems Abbreviated Journal IADIs
Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 1-18
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Abstract Despite the large amount of methods and applications of augmented reality, there is little homogenizatio n on the software platforms that support them. An exception may be the low level control software that is provided by some high profile vendors such as Qualcomm and Metaio. However, these provide fine grain modules for e.g. element tracking. We are more co ncerned on the application framework, that includes the control of the devices working together for the development of the AR experience. In this paper we describe the development of a software framework for AR setups. We concentrate on the modular design of the framework, but also on some hard problems such as the calibration stage, crucial for projection – based AR. The developed framework is suitable and has been tested in AR applications using camera – projector pairs, for both fixed and nomadic setups
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Notes DAG; 600.084 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SCK2016 Serial 2890
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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Marçal Rusiñol
Title La Visió per Computador com a Eina per a la Interpretació Automàtica de Fonts Documentals Type Journal
Year 2016 Publication Lligall, Revista Catalana d'Arxivística Abbreviated Journal
Volume 39 Issue Pages 20-46
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Notes DAG; 600.097 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FLR2016 Serial 2897
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Author Mireia Sole; Joan Blanco; Debora Gil; G. Fonseka; Richard Frodsham; Francesca Vidal; Zaida Sarrate
Title Noves perspectives en l estudi de la territorialitat cromosomica de cel·lules germinals masculines: estudis tridimensionals Type Journal
Year 2017 Publication Biologia de la Reproduccio Abbreviated Journal JBR
Volume 15 Issue Pages 73-78
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Abstract In somatic cells, chromosomes occupy specific nuclear regions called chromosome territories which are involved in the
maintenance and regulation of the genome. Preliminary data in male germ cells also suggest the importance of chromosome
territoriality in cell functionality. Nevertheless, the specific characteristics of testicular tissue (presence of different
cell types with different morphological characteristics, in different stages of development and with different ploidy)
makes difficult to achieve conclusive results. In this study we have developed a methodology to approach the threedimensional
study of all chromosome territories in male germ cells from C57BL/6J mice (Mus musculus). The method
includes the following steps: i) Optimized cell fixation to obtain an optimal preservation of the three-dimensionality cell
morphology, ii) Chromosome identification by FISH (Chromoprobe Multiprobe® OctoChrome™ Murine System; Cytocell)
and confocal microscopy (TCS-SP5, Leica Microsystems), iii) Cell type identification by immunofluorescence
iv) Image analysis using Matlab scripts, v) Numerical data extraction related to chromosome features, chromosome
radial position and chromosome relative position. This methodology allows the unequivocally identification and the
analysis of the chromosome territories of all spermatogenic stages. Results will provide information about the features
that determine chromosomal position, preferred associations between chromosomes, and the relationship between chromosome
positioning and genome regulation.
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Notes IAM; 600.096; 600.145 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SBG2017c Serial 2961
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Author Patrick Brandao; O. Zisimopoulos; E. Mazomenos; G. Ciutib; Jorge Bernal; M. Visentini-Scarzanell; A. Menciassi; P. Dario; A. Koulaouzidis; A. Arezzo; D.J. Hawkes; D. Stoyanov
Title Towards a computed-aided diagnosis system in colonoscopy: Automatic polyp segmentation using convolution neural networks Type Journal
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Medical Robotics Research Abbreviated Journal JMRR
Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages
Keywords convolutional neural networks; colonoscopy; computer aided diagnosis
Abstract Early diagnosis is essential for the successful treatment of bowel cancers including colorectal cancer (CRC) and capsule endoscopic imaging with robotic actuation can be a valuable diagnostic tool when combined with automated image analysis. We present a deep learning rooted detection and segmentation framework for recognizing lesions in colonoscopy and capsule endoscopy images. We restructure established convolution architectures, such as VGG and ResNets, by converting them into fully-connected convolution networks (FCNs), ne-tune them and study their capabilities for polyp segmentation and detection. We additionally use Shape-from-Shading (SfS) to recover depth and provide a richer representation of the tissue's structure in colonoscopy images. Depth is
incorporated into our network models as an additional input channel to the RGB information and we demonstrate that the resulting network yields improved performance. Our networks are tested on publicly available datasets and the most accurate segmentation model achieved a mean segmentation IU of 47.78% and 56.95% on the ETIS-Larib and CVC-Colon datasets, respectively. For polyp
detection, the top performing models we propose surpass the current state of the art with detection recalls superior to 90% for all datasets tested. To our knowledge, we present the rst work to use FCNs for polyp segmentation in addition to proposing a novel combination of SfS and RGB that boosts performance.
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Call Number BZM2018 Serial 2976
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Author Jordi Esquirol; Cristina Palmero; Vanessa Bayo; Miquel Angel Cos; Sergio Escalera; David Sanchez; Maider Sanchez; Noelia Serrano; Mireia Relats
Title Automatic RBG-depth-pressure anthropometric analysis and individualised sleep solution prescription Type Journal
Year 2017 Publication Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology Abbreviated Journal JMET
Volume 41 Issue 6 Pages 486-497
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Abstract INTRODUCTION:
Sleep surfaces must adapt to individual somatotypic features to maintain a comfortable, convenient and healthy sleep, preventing diseases and injuries. Individually determining the most adequate rest surface can often be a complex and subjective question.
OBJECTIVES:
To design and validate an automatic multimodal somatotype determination model to automatically recommend an individually designed mattress-topper-pillow combination.
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Design and validation of an automated prescription model for an individualised sleep system is performed through a single-image 2 D-3 D analysis and body pressure distribution, to objectively determine optimal individual sleep surfaces combining five different mattress densities, three different toppers and three cervical pillows.
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A final study (n = 151) and re-analysis (n = 117) defined and validated the model, showing high correlations between calculated and real data (>85% in height and body circumferences, 89.9% in weight, 80.4% in body mass index and more than 70% in morphotype categorisation).
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Somatotype determination model can accurately prescribe an individualised sleep solution. This can be useful for healthy people and for health centres that need to adapt sleep surfaces to people with special needs. Next steps will increase model's accuracy and analise, if this prescribed individualised sleep solution can improve sleep quantity and quality; additionally, future studies will adapt the model to mattresses with technological improvements, tailor-made production and will define interfaces for people with special needs.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ EPB2017 Serial 3010
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Author Mireia Sole; Joan Blanco; Debora Gil; G. Fonseka; Richard Frodsham; Oliver Valero; Francesca Vidal; Zaida Sarrate
Title Análisis 3d de la territorialidad cromosómica en células espermatogénicas: explorando la infertilidad desde un nuevo prisma Type Journal
Year 2017 Publication Revista Asociación para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción Abbreviated Journal ASEBIR
Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 105
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Call Number Admin @ si @ SBG2017d Serial 3042
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Author Esmitt Ramirez; Carles Sanchez; Agnes Borras; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Antoni Rosell; Debora Gil
Title BronchoX: bronchoscopy exploration software for biopsy intervention planning Type Journal
Year 2018 Publication Healthcare Technology Letters Abbreviated Journal HTL
Volume 5 Issue 5 Pages 177–182
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Abstract Virtual bronchoscopy (VB) is a non-invasive exploration tool for intervention planning and navigation of possible pulmonary lesions (PLs). A VB software involves the location of a PL and the calculation of a route, starting from the trachea, to reach it. The selection of a VB software might be a complex process, and there is no consensus in the community of medical software developers in which is the best-suited system to use or framework to choose. The authors present Bronchoscopy Exploration (BronchoX), a VB software to plan biopsy interventions that generate physician-readable instructions to reach the PLs. The authors’ solution is open source, multiplatform, and extensible for future functionalities, designed by their multidisciplinary research and development group. BronchoX is a compound of different algorithms for segmentation, visualisation, and navigation of the respiratory tract. Performed results are a focus on the test the effectiveness of their proposal as an exploration software, also to measure its accuracy as a guiding system to reach PLs. Then, 40 different virtual planning paths were created to guide physicians until distal bronchioles. These results provide a functional software for BronchoX and demonstrate how following simple instructions is possible to reach distal lesions from the trachea.
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Notes IAM; 600.096; 600.075; 601.323; 601.337; 600.145 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RSB2018a Serial 3132
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Alberto Valcarce
Title The Library Living Lab Barcelona: A participative approach to technology as an enabling factor for innovation in cultural spaces Type Journal
Year 2018 Publication Technology Innovation Management Review Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number Admin @ si @ VKV2018a Serial 3153
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Author L. Rothacker; Marçal Rusiñol; Josep Llados; G.A. Fink
Title A Two-stage Approach to Segmentation-Free Query-by-example Word Spotting Type Journal
Year 2014 Publication Manuscript Cultures Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue Pages 47-58
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Abstract With the ongoing progress in digitization, huge document collections and archives have become available to a broad audience. Scanned document images can be transmitted electronically and studied simultaneously throughout the world. While this is very beneficial, it is often impossible to perform automated searches on these document collections. Optical character recognition usually fails when it comes to handwritten or historic documents. In order to address the need for exploring document collections rapidly, researchers are working on word spotting. In query-by-example word spotting scenarios, the user selects an exemplary occurrence of the query word in a document image. The word spotting system then retrieves all regions in the collection that are visually similar to the given example of the query word. The best matching regions are presented to the user and no actual transcription is required.
An important property of a word spotting system is the computational speed with which queries can be executed. In our previous work, we presented a relatively slow but high-precision method. In the present work, we will extend this baseline system to an integrated two-stage approach. In a coarse-grained first stage, we will filter document images efficiently in order to identify regions that are likely to contain the query word. In the fine-grained second stage, these regions will be analyzed with our previously presented high-precision method. Finally, we will report recognition results and query times for the well-known George Washington
benchmark in our evaluation. We achieve state-of-the-art recognition results while the query times can be reduced to 50% in comparison with our baseline.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 3190
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Author Ester Fornells; Manuel De Armas; Maria Teresa Anguera; Sergio Escalera; Marcos Antonio Catalán; Josep Moya
Title Desarrollo del proyecto del Consell Comarcal del Baix Llobregat “Buen Trato a las personas mayores y aquellas en situación de fragilidad con sufrimiento emocional: Hacia un envejecimiento saludable” Type Journal
Year 2018 Publication Informaciones Psiquiatricas Abbreviated Journal
Volume 232 Issue Pages 47-59
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Call Number Admin @ si @ FAA2018 Serial 3214
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Author Lasse Martensson; Ekta Vats; Anders Hast; Alicia Fornes
Title In Search of the Scribe: Letter Spotting as a Tool for Identifying Scribes in Large Handwritten Text Corpora Type Journal
Year 2019 Publication Journal for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science Abbreviated Journal HUMAN IT
Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 95-120
Keywords Scribal attribution/ writer identification; digital palaeography; word spotting; mediaeval charters; mediaeval manuscripts
Abstract In this article, a form of the so-called word spotting-method is used on a large set of handwritten documents in order to identify those that contain script of similar execution. The point of departure for the investigation is the mediaeval Swedish manuscript Cod. Holm. D 3. The main scribe of this manuscript has yet not been identified in other documents. The current attempt aims at localising other documents that display a large degree of similarity in the characteristics of the script, these being possible candidates for being executed by the same hand. For this purpose, the method of word spotting has been employed, focusing on individual letters, and therefore the process is referred to as letter spotting in the article. In this process, a set of ‘g’:s, ‘h’:s and ‘k’:s have been selected as templates, and then a search has been made for close matches among the mediaeval Swedish charters. The search resulted in a number of charters that displayed great similarities with the manuscript D 3. The used letter spotting method thus proofed to be a very efficient sorting tool localising similar script samples.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ MVH2019 Serial 3234
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; Lluis Gomez
Title Avances en clasificación de imágenes en los últimos diez años. Perspectivas y limitaciones en el ámbito de archivos fotográficos históricos Type Journal
Year 2018 Publication Revista anual de la Asociación de Archiveros de Castilla y León Abbreviated Journal
Volume 21 Issue Pages 161-174
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RuG2018 Serial 3239
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