Do we fully utilize the results of disaster management exercises? Do we miss valuable feedback? Many different types of disaster management exercises, command post exercises, tabletop exercises, or serious games have a specific purpose. Generally each exercise is designed to meet its own particular exercise goals. Evaluation of the exercises is achieved in many different ways. Not always guidel...

When working in image and video segmentation, the major objective is to design an algorithm producing the appropriate segmentation results for the particular goals of the application addressed. Therefore, the assessment of the segmentation quality assumes a crucial importance to evaluate the likeliness that the application targets are met. Since no well-established methods for objective segment...

The identification of objects in video sequences, that is, video segmentation, plays a major role in emerging interactive multimedia services, such as those enabled by the ISOMPEG-4 andMPEG-7 standards. In this context, assessing the adequacy of the identified objects to the application targets, that is, evaluating the segmentation quality, assumes a crucial importance. Video segmentation techn...

Nowadays it is quite difficult for the traditional teaching methods and resources to meet the widespread and urgent needs of spoken English learning. Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) technology can greatly improve the efficiency of language self-learning, providing timely, accurate and objective assessment and feedback which can help learners to find the difference between their own p...

The identification of objects in video sequences, i.e. video segmentation, plays a major role in emerging multimedia interactive services, such as those enabled by the ISO MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards. In this context, assessing the adequacy of the identified objects to the application targets, i.e. the evaluation of segmentation quality, assumes a crucial importance. Video segmentation technolo...

Separating sound sources in complex acoustical environment is an everyday challenge for our auditory system. Listeners with normal hearing are able to use binaural cues to solve this problem, but in impaired hearing these mechanisms are often disturbed. The aim of binaural noise reduction schemes in hearing aids is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in complex acoustic environments and ...

In the development of passenger car driving behaviour much subjective testing is involved. Although many car manufacturers have developed objective test methods and have corresponding analyses, objective parameters which correlate one to one with the subjective rating in the international rating scale (1-very bad .... 10-excellent) are not available. FEV has developed objective parameters for t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to prospectively, randomly, blindly, and objectively investigate how surgery affects plantar sudoresis in patients with palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis over a one-year period using a sudorometer (VapoMeter). METHODS From February 2007 to May 2009, 40 consecutive patients with combined palmar hyperhidrosis and plantar hyperhidrosis underwent video-as...

This paper introduces the Objective Fitness Correlation, a new tool to analyze the evaluation accuracy of coevolutionary algorithms. Accurate evaluation is an essential ingredient in creating adequate coevolutionary dynamics. Based on the notion of a solution concept, a new definition for objective fitness in coevolution is provided. The correlation between the objective fitness and the subject...

Several other methods of achieving dynamic range control were also discussed in the previous chapter. These methods are typically unsharp mask filters with large kernel sizes, and multi-scale approaches such as multi scale image contrast amplification (MUSICA) developed by the Agfa-Gevaert company (Vuylsteke & Schoeters, 1999). In achieving their goal of dynamic range control, these methods alt...