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SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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16 years 22 days ago
Computing in context: integrating an embedded computing project into a course on ethical and societal issues
A hands-on embedded computing project is introduced into an undergraduate social sciences course. In the pilot module, nine student teams created working prototypes, using the tec...
Fred G. Martin, Sarah Kuhn
JETAI
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Contextual vocabulary acquisition as computational philosophy and as philosophical computation
Contextual vocabulary acquisition (CVA) is the active, deliberate acquisition of a meaning for an unknown word in a text by reasoning from textual clues, prior knowledge, and hypo...
William J. Rapaport, Michael W. Kibby
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Early feature stream integration versus decision level combination in a multiple classifier system for text line recognition
This paper compares two different methods to combine feature streams to improve the performance of offline handwritten text line recognition systems. In both methods a pixel-based...
Horst Bunke, Roman Bertolami
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Combining Face Verification Experts
We study the combination of face verification algorithms in order to improve the verification performance. Although the different face experts that we consider provide their outpu...
Jacek Czyz, Josef Kittler, Luc Vandendorpe
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
An Evaluation of the WPE Algorithm Using Tangent Distance
Weighting Prototype Editing (WPE) is a novel approach to edit a given set of prototypes so that the resulting set can outperform the original one in terms of the Nearest Neighbor ...
Roberto Paredes Palacios, Enrique Vidal, Daniel Ke...