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Analysis of HMAX Algorithm on Black Bar Image Dataset
2020
An accurate detection and classification of scenes and objects is essential for interacting with the world, both for living beings and for artificial systems. To reproduce this ability, which is so effective in the animal world, numerous computational models have been proposed, frequently based on bioinspired, computational structures. Among these, Hierarchical Max-pooling (HMAX) is probably one of the most important models. HMAX is a recognition model, mimicking the structures and functions of the primate visual cortex. HMAX has already proven its effectiveness and versatility. Nevertheless, its computational structure presents some criticalities, whose impact on the results has never been…
Bodily dimensions of reading and writing practices on paper and digitally
2015
The bodily aspects of reading/writing practices are investigated in Finland.The paper is considered more adaptive to varied reading purposes than the screen.Handwriting is described as a more flexible and relaxed practice than typing.Skills determine less than materials and images the practices of reading/writing.Digital interfaces determine the ways we read and write less than suggested. This article investigates the different shapes in which reading and writing practices occur when paper/pen are compared with keyboard/screen. The focus is on the bodily aspects of these practices. Reading and writing are viewed as techniques of the body, which over the years have become increasingly mediat…
Everyday Appropriations of Information Technology: A Study of Creative Uses of Digital Cameras
2011
Repurposive appropriation is a creative everyday act in which a user invents a novel use for information technology (IT) and adopts it. This study is the first to address its prevalence and predictability in the consumer IT context. In all, 2,379 respondents filled in an online questionnaire on creative uses of digital cameras, such as using them as scanners, periscopes, and storage media. The data reveal that such creative uses are adopted by about half of the users, on average, across different demographic backgrounds. Discovery of a creative use on one's own is slightly more common than is learning it from others. Most users discover the creative uses either completely on their own or wh…
Data offloading and task allocation for cloudlet-assisted ad hoc mobile clouds
2016
Nowadays, although the data processing capabilities of the modern mobile devices are developed in a fast speed, the resources are still limited in terms of processing capacity and battery lifetime. Some applications, in particular the computationally intensive ones, such as multimedia and gaming, often require more computational resources than a mobile device can afford. One way to address such a problem is that the mobile device can offload those tasks to the centralized cloud with data centers, the nearby cloudlet or ad hoc mobile cloud. In this paper, we propose a data offloading and task allocation scheme for a cloudlet-assisted ad hoc mobile cloud in which the master device (MD) who ha…
Identifying relevant segments of AI applications adopters : Expanding the UTAUT2’s variables
2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a future-defining technology, and AI applications are becoming mainstream in the developed world. Many consumers are adopting and using AI-based apps, devices, and services in their everyday lives. However, research examining consumer behavior in using AI apps is scant. We examine critical factors in AI app adoption by extending and validating a well-established unified theory of adoption and use of technology, UTAUT2. We also explore the possibility of unobserved heterogeneity in consumers’ behavior, including potentially relevant segments of AI app adopters. To augment the knowledge of end users’ engagement and relevant segments, we have added two new antec…
Incentive Mechanism for Resource Allocation in Wireless Virtualized Networks with Multiple Infrastructure Providers
2020
To accommodate the explosively growing demands for mobile traffic service, wireless network virtualization is proposed as the main evolution towards 5G. In this work, a novel contract theoretic incentive mechanism is proposed to study how to manage the resources and provide services to the users in the wireless virtualized networks. We consider that the infrastructure providers (InPs) own the physical networks and the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) has the service information of the users and needs to lease the physical radio resources for providing services. In particular, we utilize the contract theoretic approach to model the resource trading process between the MVNO and multiple…
The Construction of Ideological and Political Education in Higher Vocational Schools Based on Smartphone Carriers
2022
In the age of technology, artificial intelligence has reached new heights. The growth of the educational system has also evolved with technological growth. In this research, people are going to study the construction of ideological and political education in higher vocational schools based on smartphone carriers. The use of smartphones is becoming more common and unavoidable due to the growth of Internet technology, cloud technology, and wireless technology. The availability of 4G and 5G technologies supports all the relevant and nonrelevant industries to utilize this growth. The field of education has also adapted to this new age of technology by implementing online classes that replace cl…
“La victoria de la técnica”, según Ortega y Gasset (una alternativa a Heidegger)
2013
ABSTRACT Ortega y Gasset's "Mediation on Technique" is part of his historical diagnostic of modern and contemporary life, wich we can resume by means of the expression "the victory of technique". But, secondly, Ortegian reflections upon technique is decisive for understanding human being, its reason and universal history. And, thirdly, it represents an alternative to the herdeggerian way, not only in relation to technique, but to philosophical thinking in general, although wothout accepting naturalism as way out. RESUMEN “Meditacion de la tecnica” de Ortega y Gasset forma parte del diagnostico historico de la vida moderna y contemporanea, que puede resumirse mediante la expresion “la victo…
On the stability of spline-collocation methods of multivalue type
1987
In this paper the general classV of spline-collocation methods for first order systems of ordinary differential equations is investigated. The methods can in part be regarded as so-called multivalue methods. This type contains the generalized singly-implicit methods treated by Butcher.
A-stable spline-collocation methods of multivalue type
1989
In this paper the general classV of spline-collocation methods presented by Multhei is investigated. The methods ofV approximate solutions of first order initial value problems. ClassV contains as subclass the methods of so-called multivalue type, and in particular contains the generalized singly-implicit methods treated by Butcher.