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2019

YouTube Timed Metadata Enrichment Using a Collaborative Approach

Authors
Pinto, JP; Viana, P;

Publication
MULTIMEDIA AND NETWORK INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Abstract
Although the growth of video content in online platforms has been happening for some time, searching and browsing these assets is still very inefficient as rich contextual data that describes the content is still not available. Furthermore, any available descriptions are, usually, not linked to timed moments of content. In this paper, we present an approach for making social web videos available on YouTube more accessible, searchable and navigable. By using the concept of crowdsourcing to collect the metadata, our proposal can contribute to easily enhance content uploaded in the YouTube platform. Metadata, collected as a collaborative annotation game, is added to the content as time-based information in the form of descriptions and captions using the YouTube API. This contributes for enriching video content and enabling navigation through temporal links.

2019

Automatized Solution for Over-the-Air (OTA) Testing and Validation of Automotive Radar Sensors

Authors
Rocha, CJ; Ribeiro, R; Cruz, PM; Viana, P;

Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 9TH IEEE-APS TOPICAL CONFERENCE ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (IEEE APWC' 19)

Abstract
The growing importance of Radar solutions in automotive applications results in new standards to be met and more demanding performances to be assured. As such, Radar developers require testers capable of guaranteeing compliance with the specified criteria. This paper presents a preliminary approach to allow over-the-air (OTA) testing and validation of 76-77 GHz and 77-81 GHz Radar units in production lines, covering not only pass/fail conditions, but also determination of the Radar antenna array radiation diagrams (in azimuth and elevation) through a calibrated external power sensor. Preliminary measurements on an open environment test bench are shown for different Radar bandwidths (1 GHz and 4 GHz), illustrating the importance of a clean and shielded anechoic chamber environment as a baseline approach.

2019

Improving Youtube video retrieval by integrating crowdsourced timed metadata

Authors
Pinto, JP; Viana, P;

Publication
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS

Abstract
The development of efficient methods for searching and browsing large assets of video content has been considered by the academia and content owners for long. Different approaches that range from manual structured annotations, to unstructured metadata collected from several sources, as well as multimedia processing for automatic description of the content, can be identified. The growth on the number of hours of video content put online in video sharing platforms has however shown that video retrieval is still quite inefficient as rich contextual data that describes the content is most of the times still not available. Additionally, metadata is usually not linked to timed moments of content, making direct access to the most relevant moments not possible. In this paper, an approach for making web videos available in the YouTube platform more accessible is presented. The solution is based on a collaborative process presented as a game that enables collecting metadata from the crowd while implementing mechanisms that remove erroneous information usually encountered in this type of information. Metadata, exported to YouTube in the form of captions and descriptions, contributes to enhance video retrieval, guaranteeing a better user experience and exposure of the content.

2019

STRATEGIES TO HELP STUDENTS ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE IN PHYSICS THROUGH AUDIOVISUAL WEB RESOURCES

Authors
Marcal, J; Borges, MM; Viana, P; Carvalho, PS;

Publication
13TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE (INTED2019)

Abstract
Audiovisual didactic content has been in recent years disseminated, in the Physics domain, mainly through YouTube platform. Many aspects of video production activities can increase students' selfesteem, increase their satisfaction with the learning experience, promote a positive attitude towards the subject, provide weaker students with a broad individual tutoring, encouraging students to discuss with each other, exchange their opinions, and compare the results of lab activities. On the other hand, video can support research activities, offering the researcher access to a rich data aggregation to investigate the learning processes. The main objective of this study is to understand the use of online tools in the context of teaching, for this we make a correlation between studies using audiovisual resources in the study of Physics, and our testbed with an online video annotation tool. Results show that students expressed a gain from oral lectures and access to new sources of learning.

2019

Literature on Wearable Technology for Connected Health: Scoping Review of Research Trends, Advances, and Barriers

Authors
Loncar Turukalo, T; Zdravevski, E; da Silva, JM; Chouvarda, I; Trajkovik, V;

Publication
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

Abstract
Background: Wearable sensing and information and communication technologies are key enablers driving the transformation of health care delivery toward a new model of connected health (CH) care. The advances in wearable technologies in the last decade are evidenced in a plethora of original articles, patent documentation, and focused systematic reviews. Although technological innovations continuously respond to emerging challenges and technology availability further supports the evolution of CH solutions, the widespread adoption of wearables remains hindered. Objective: This study aimed to scope the scientific literature in the field of pervasive wearable health monitoring in the time interval from January 2010 to February 2019 with respect to four important pillars: technology, safety and security, prescriptive insight, and user-related concerns. The purpose of this study was multifold: identification of (1) trends and milestones that have driven research in wearable technology in the last decade, (2) concerns and barriers from technology and user perspective, and (3) trends in the research literature addressing these issues. Methods: This study followed the scoping review methodology to identify and process the available literature. As the scope surpasses the possibilities of manual search, we relied on the natural language processing tool kit to ensure an efficient and exhaustive search of the literature corpus in three large digital libraries: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, PubMed, and Springer. The search was based on the keywords and properties to be found in articles using the search engines of the digital libraries. Results: The annual number of publications in all segments of research on wearable technology shows an increasing trend from 2010 to February 2019. The technology-related topics dominated in the number of contributions, followed by research on information delivery, safety, and security, whereas user-related concerns were the topic least addressed. The literature corpus evidences milestones in sensor technology (miniaturization and placement), communication architectures and fifth generation (5G) cellular network technology, data analytics, and evolution of cloud and edge computing architectures. The research lag in battery technology makes energy efficiency a relevant consideration in the design of both sensors and network architectures with computational offloading. The most addressed user-related concerns were (technology) acceptance and privacy, whereas research gaps indicate that more efforts should be invested into formalizing clear use cases with timely and valuable feedback and prescriptive recommendations. Conclusions: This study confirms that applications of wearable technology in the CH domain are becoming mature and established as a scientific domain The current research should bring progress to sustainable delivery of valuable recommendations, enforcement of privacy by design, energy-efficient pervasive sensing, seamless monitoring, and low-latency 5G communications. To complement technology achievements, future work involving all stakeholders providing research evidence on improved care pathways and cost-effectiveness of the CH model is needed.

2019

An Alternative SNR Computation Method for ADC Testing

Authors
da Silva, JM; Alves, JC;

Publication
2019 XXXIV CONFERENCE ON DESIGN OF CIRCUITS AND INTEGRATED SYSTEMS (DCIS)

Abstract
An alternative approach to compute the signal to noise ratio of analogue to digital converters based on the computation of the cross-correlation coefficient of the captured response is proposed here. It is shown, after simulation and experimental results, that this approach allows obtaining good accuracy results with the added advantages of not requiring coherent sampling and high purity sine wave stimuli.

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