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EPFL2024

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In recent years, there has been widespread concern about misinformation and hateful content on social media that are damaging societies. Being one of the most influential social media that practically serves as a newsearch engine, YouTube has accepted crit ...

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In this paper we present the Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research (OSSCAR) platform. OSSCAR provides an open collaborative environment to develop and access educational resources in the form of web applications, for which various deployment m ...

ELSEVIER2023

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2023

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

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EPFL2022

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Spherical Clustering of Users Navigating 360° Content

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In Virtual Reality (VR) applications, understanding how users explore the omnidirectional content is important to optimize content creation, to develop user-centric services, or even to detect disorders in medical applications. Clustering users based on th ...

IEEE2019

From Anomaly Detection to Rumour Detection using Data Streams of Social Platforms

Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

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ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Graph-based Rumour Detection for Social Media

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Social platforms became a major source of rumours. While rumours can have severe real-world implications, their detection is notoriously hard: Content on social platforms is short and lacks semantics; it spreads quickly through a dynamically evolving netwo ...

2019

Context-based Quality of Experience in Immersive Multimedia

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EPFL2019

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EPFL2018

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Hardware And Software For Reproducible Research In Audio Array Signal Processing

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In our demo, we present two hardware platforms for prototyping audio array signal processing. Pyramic is a 48-channel microphone array fitted on an FPGA and Compact Six is a portable microphone array with six microphones, closer to the technical constraint ...

Ieee2017

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Finding relevant content is one of the core activities of users interacting with a content repository, be it knowledge workers using an organizational knowledge management system at a workplace or self-regulated learners collaborating in a learning environ ...

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In recent years, the use of 3D digital content becomes widespread in various industrial and scientific domains. However, content creation still remains a costly task as extensive manual work is often required. As such, one of the core research topics in co ...

EPFL2016

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The advent of the Web reshaped the way in which humans memorize information, arguably unlike any other technological advance of the last decades. Rather than remembering the information itself, people are primed to find the needed information through Web s ...

EPFL2015

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The implementation of processing platforms supporting multiple applications by runtime reconfigurations on dedicated hardware modules requires the solution of different problems. These problems are notably not-trivial since both platform and application co ...

Springer Verlag2015

Optimal Selection of Adaptive Streaming Representations

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Adaptive streaming addresses the increasing and heterogenous demand of multimedia content over the Internet by offering several encoded versions for each video sequence. Each version (or representation) has a different resolution and bit rate, aimed at a s ...

Association for Computing Machinery2015

Studying Web Content Credibility by Social Simulation

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The Internet has become an important source of information that significantly affects social, economical and political life. The content available in the Web is the basis for the operation of the digital economy. Moreover, Web content has become essential ...

University of Surrey, Department of Sociology2014