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Perspective Aware Road Obstacle Detection

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Sina Honari, Krzysztof Maciej Lis

While road obstacle detection techniques have become increasingly effective, they typically ignore the fact that, in practice, the apparent size of the obstacles decreases as their distance to the vehicle increases. In this letter, we account for this by c ...

2023

From scattered sources to comprehensive technology landscape : A recommendation-based retrieval approach

Karl Aberer, Chi Thang Duong

Mapping the technology landscape is crucial for market actors to take informed investment decisions. However, given the large amount of data on the Web and its subsequent information overload, manually retrieving information is a seemingly ineffective and ...

ELSEVIER2023

How Did Europe's Press Cover Covid-19 Vaccination News? A Five-Country Analysis

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Understanding how high-quality newspapers present and discuss major news plays a role towards tackling disinformation, as it contributes to the characterization of the full ecosystem in which information circulates. In this paper, we present an analysis of ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia (Part 2)

Robert West, Giovanni Colavizza, Tiziano Piccardi

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia's gu ...

RUSSIAN NATL PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia

Robert West, Giovanni Colavizza, Tiziano Piccardi

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

A sequence-dependent coarse-grain model of B-DNA with explicit description of bases and phosphate groups parametrised from large scale Molecular Dynamics simulations

Alessandro Samuele Patelli

We introduce a sequence-dependent coarse-grain model of double-stranded DNA with an explicit description of both the bases and the phosphate groups as interacting rigid-bodies. The model parameters are trained on extensive, state-of-the-art large scale mol ...

EPFL2019

A Regularization Framework for Learning Over Multitask Graphs

Ali H. Sayed, Stefan Vlaski, Roula Nassif

This letter proposes a general regularization framework for inference over multitask networks. The optimization approach relies on minimizing a global cost consisting of the aggregate sum of individual costs regularized by a term that allows to incorporate ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Circulation of Opinions in Visualization Reading

Dario Rodighiero

Visualizations need interpretation as a way to grasp the meaning of visual representation. They are complex, and often the process of creation is hidden to the public. Because of this, the following text illustrates a way to read the visual representation ...

CEUR.WS.org2016

Ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management: state of the art literature review

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Soumaya El Kadiri

The use of ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management (PLM) is gaining importance and popularity, while at the same time it generates a lot of controversy in discussions within scientific and engineering communities. Yet, what is ontology? W ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Selection and Aggregation of Ranking Criteria for Retrieval from Scientific Publication Databases

Martin Veselý

Selection and aggregation of ranking criteria became an important topic in information retrieval as search is getting more specialized and as volume of electronically available information grows. In this context, document ranking has undergone a shift from ...

EPFL2012

Studying Application–Library Interaction and Behavior with LibTrac

George Candea

The boundary between programs and libraries is an appealing location for injecting faults during testing: the cost of doing so is low, and one can emulate a wide range of errors. Several tools exist, but using them faces the challenge of deciding exactly w ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2010

Validation of Monte Carlo predictions of LWR-PROTEUS safety parameters using an improved whole-reactor model

Rakesh Chawla, Michaël Plaschy

The recent experimental programme conducted in the PROTEUS research reactor at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) has concerned detailed investigations of advanced light water reactor (LWR) fuels. More than fifteen different configurations of the multi-zone ...

Elsevier Science Ltd.2009

Using Bibliographic Knowledge for Ranking in Scientific Publication Databases

Martin Rajman, Martin Veselý

Document ranking for scientific publications involves a variety of specialized resources (e.g. author or citation indexes) that are usually difficult to use within standard general purpose search engines that usually operate on large-scale heterogeneous do ...

IOS2008

Rencontre de la science de l'information géographique et de l'anthropologie culturelle : modélisation spatiale et représentation de phénomènes culturels

Abram Pointet

Geographical Information Science and Cultural Anthropology are aimed to collaborate on development projects dedicated to indigenous communities. This fact is first based on a growing intention to integrate the reality and the perception of the development ...

EPFL2007

Web-based interaction and collaboration in felxible engineering education : an artifact-based approach

Anh Vu Nguyen Ngoc

This research work falls on a multidisciplinary domain, where there is a cross feeding between Computer, Information Sciences and Cognitive Sciences. This PhD dissertation has focused on the interaction and collaboration issues in Web-based experimentation ...

EPFL2006

Combining biotechnologies and GIScience to contribute to sheep and goat genetic resource conservation

Stéphane Joost

Geographic Information Science methods and tools are likely to help to extract useful and so far unknown information from large spatially explicit genetic datasets to understand the distribution of diversity among and within sheep and goat breeds. Consider ...

2005

Real-time radiology in the microscale

Giorgio Margaritondo

We present several examples of the applications of a novel microradiology approach based on unmonochromatized synchrotron x-rays. The approach - mostly implemented on the ICPCIR (International Consortium on Phase Contrast Imaging and Radiology) Beamline at ...

2005