... analyses the content ofthe items according to some features depending on the domain in order to profile the users according to their preferences These two fundamental approaches are presented in a ... underlying the strengths and the shortcomings of each, thus driving the need of combining them in forming hybrid recommender systems Hybrids form the last subsection ofthe recommender systems ... because they not require a list of ratings fromthe user Instead they have the problem of gathering the requisite demographic information In content-based filtering the features used to describe the...
... original dataset is separated in two subsets randomly selected: a training set containing the 80% of ratings of each available user and a test set including the remaining 20% ofthe ratings Furthermore, ... ratings have been split inthe two subsets The ratings that belong tothe test set are ignored by thesystem and we try to produce predictions for them using only the remaining ratings ofthe ... movies The elements ofthe vector state the existence or non-existence (Boolean) of a specific feature inthedescriptionofthe movie To calculate the similarity of two movies, we use the cosine...
... filtering and ranking, which aims at producing rankings ofthe search result in order to present them in an ordered list with the most interesting one at the top Furthermore it performs the deletion ... obvious link tothe original keyword(s) given by the user) Since the links from keyword to related ontology concepts are kept, they can be presented inthe user interface Furthermore, they could ... increasing inthe first minutes for the more popular Another interesting observation in both figures is that during the whole broadcasting time, there were some intervals of about five to ten minutes,...
... viewer’s preferring TV viewing as shown in Fig The numbers in Fig represent the order ofthe preferring TV viewing time bands The time band from 18 to 24 is the most preferred viewing time, and the ... date of watching TV program A day ofthe week for TV program Beginning time point of watching TV Ending time point of watching TV Scheduled beginning time of TV program Scheduled ending time of ... data set into a training set (80% ofthe users) and a test set (20% ofthe users) The training set was used to estimate the model The test set was used for evaluating the accuracy ofthe recommendations...
... explanation of these ideas Figure shows a schematic model ofthe HVS The visual stimulus inthe form of light fromthe environment passes through the optics ofthe eye and is imaged on the retina Due to ... masking is used to model the contrast making property ofthe HVS, which refers to a reduction inthe visibility of a signal component due tothe presence of another spatial component ofthe same frequency ... complicates the prediction of quality, since the de-interlacing algorithm can introduce further distortion before computation of algorithm scores Further, the VQEG study included distortions only from...
... scheme then determines the regions which intersect with the expression of interest ofthe players Thus, an area of interest becomes the union ofthe intersected regions with respect tothe expression ... respect tothe players’ visibility scope (Figure 9) To determine an object is visible to a player, it traces a line fromthe position ofthe player tothe position ofthe object If the line does ... can vary from being very fast to being too slow – The timbre ofthe singing may be very different from that ofthe original singer This is because a singer needs to be trained so as to properly...
... every player interested in joining the game, the size of gameQueue, which is also the number of players participating inthe actual game, is set dynamically by the server prior tothe beginning of ... over the offer (i.e a NO decision) With the latter decision, the server deals this player’s bandwidth tothe rest ofthe players waiting inthe game to make their initial decision, i.e the players ... get (be moved to) a better seat inthe game The closer tothe end ofthe round a player gets to make the initial decision the better his position is in relation that ofthe previous players This...
... settlement ofthe gameQueue players, the server offers this bandwidth to each one of each one ofthe players that declined its offers earlier If one ofthe players takes the offer then this round terminates ... at time t0 The player moves the avatar by clicking the mouse at the point d0 inthe virtual world The game client then stores this coordinates into memory and initiates the avatar to d2 d0 p1 ... Turning points ofthe avatar when the player clicks the mouse Destination coordinates clicked by the player The final path ofthe avatar Fig Movement of an avatar in typical massively multiplayer...
... not informed of this Within these category groups, users worked together in smaller experiment groups of 3-6 users to ease the logistics of all users inthe group collaborating together at the ... eliminates the need to state the avatar’s position directly inthe update packets Even if the cheater is able to modify the data inthe update packets, the cheater cannot spoof other players to ... experiment interviews, form the basis ofthe open coding process The memoing process is then performed on a number of levels The process commences on the individual level where all the data fromthe individual...
... where X is the item identifier ofthe item being inserted and sup.X / registers the number of sequences containing the item X The process of stream mining is composed of three phases: window initialization ... factor indicates the tonality ofthe signal The factor ranges fromto A value of “1” indicates, that the spectrum is completely noise-like and a value of “0” indicates, that the spectrum is sinusoidal-like ... results in a linear combination ofthe orige inal feature vector elements, sorted by decreasing significance Thus, the number of elements inthe feature vector can be limited, according tothe requirements...
... circumvents the typical problems of how to acquire melody information in a clever way They let their end-users maintain and update the melody database The input can be either singing, humming or whistling ... computed information for a certain task in a certain context in order to optimise the decision process or to assess the precision of data sources in order to autonomousely suppress uncertain information ... reference sets the winning song determines the subregion inthe visualization space, the rhythmic one for the x-axis and the other for the y-axis The exact position inthe subregion is in uenced by...
... and the similarity tothe original video (similarity), meaning the extent to which the original story-line is presented The ‘mood’ term is related tothe distribution ofthe velocity vector and ... denotes the minimum value of filtering performance that TV viewers can accept; in other words, the minimum value the filtering system should maintain during changes inthe sampling rate or number of ... video prevents the calculation of an accurate region boundary So we fix the size ofthe region of interest at 1/4 ofthe total image size We denote the velocity vectors inthe region of interest...
... variations The actors stand in a circle One actor begins the game by saying a word The actor tothe right of this actor says the first word that comes to their mind, and this continues around the circle ... horizontal line), represents the minimum number of channels, i.e., one channel 418 Y.M Ro and S.H Jin To maintain stability inthe filtering system, the number of input channels and the sampling rate ... that the number of input channels is inversely proportional to b with the processing time of Gp line is the range of sampling rate required to maintain over 80% filtering performance And line (the...
... timeline on the screen depends on the vertical position ofthe pen At the bottom, close tothe original slider widget, the timeline has the same coarse resolution At the very top ofthe screen, the ... explicit use of any widget but by doing direct interactions on top ofthe video Inthe first case, clicking anywhere on the screen creates a virtual horizontal timeline Moving the pointer tothe left ... iPhone by flicking By flicking their fingers over the touch screen, users can “push” the video along the timeline Fig Applying flicking to video browsing causes scrolling to slow down due to frictional...
... a single pixel movement ofthe widget inthe direction ofthe pointer movement If the pointer is moving beyond the dead zone and the rim, the widget will be relocated to include the pointer in ... direction (e.g from outside to inside, or from top to bottom), while holding the mouse button This technique avoids pointing the cursor and pressing a button at the same time Crossing widget can ... Huaxin Wei Introduction The interactive entertainment industry is one ofthe fastest growing industries inthe world In 1996, the U.S entertainment software industry reported $2.6 billion in sales...
... is the intensity ofthe specular highlight, V is the vector fromthe viewer tothe point to be lit, R is the vector tothe light reflected through the plane ofthe surface, and ˛ is a shininess ... Action and Pose to Pose – animating the action chronologically, fromthe beginning forwards, vs creating the beginning and ending, then filling inthe middle with “inbetween” drawings Follow Through ... properties ofthe object under the current pixel, and by taking into account the effect ofthe lights inthe environment, an approximation ofthe shading ofthe object may be generated The advantage of...
... inthe two-dimensional output image, the sampling rate ofthe image is determined by the spacing ofthe pixels, in other words, the image resolution However, the input signal is essentially the ... hard edges inthe rendered image reduces with the increased number of shades used to represent the edge There are a large number of other methods of implementing antialiasing Many of these methods ... absence of an intersection The lack of an intersection between the ray and the bounding volume allows the volume to be skipped inthe tree, but the presence of an intersection with a bounding volume...
... come from different backgrounds The project includes the people involved fromthe development phase ofthe project tothe users ofthe artwork The actors ofthe project are namely the artist, software ... research begins fromthe study ofthe cooperative behaviour of inspection robots by combining the concept of art and complex systems The role of chaotic synchronization inthe generation ofthe kinematic ... for the motor commands inside the brain through the concepts of mirror neurons and with the background ofthe Simulation theory of MindReading of Gallese and Goldman, [49] All the concepts and the...
... forms of involving the spectator inthe artwork and enhancing the shift from object to concept inthe form ofthe “virtual object” This virtual object is usually seen as a structure inthe process, ... intended to give the user a sense of immediacy, enabling the user to look past the medium ofthe computer altogether in an attempt to make the technology transparent and to establish a sense ofthe ... Hyperlink (2006), Fino-Radin weaves together the visual symbol for connectivity fromthe Internet For further information on artistic references tothe GUI see the following texts: From Digital Interface...
... data inthe form of: observation notes, participants’ interpretations of their actions after showing them the video of their interaction with Facade, and system tracing revealing the systems’ ¸ inner ... unfolding story Inthe prototype, the player acts as an invisible actor, or in “god” view, and can change the story world to foil plans or coach players into achieving their goals In addition, researchers ... consciousness of it and the meaning if found within (4) Phenomenology calls for the refusal of subject-object dichotomy Reality is only inthe meaning ofthe experience ofthe individual According to Moustakas,...