AIMS To examine the effect of a unilateral full thickness macular hole on sensory and motor binocular function and to study recovery after successful surgical closure. METHODS Twenty eight consecutive patients undergoing surgery for a unilateral macular hole underwent orthoptic examination, including measurements of Titmus and TNO stereoacuity and motor fusion range before surgery. Twenty thr...

In this paper we report on the results of the NFITNO speaker recognition evaluation held in 2003. The speech material used in this evaluation has been obtained from wire-tapped recordings from real police investigations in the Netherlands. In total six experiments were carried out, one main experiment in Dutch, one experiment in which speech lengths were systematically varied, three language de...

The TNO speaker speaker diarization system is based on a standard BIC segmentation and clustering algorithm. Since for the NIST Rich Transcription speaker dizarization evaluation measure correct speech detection appears to be essential, we have developed a speech activity detector (SAD) as well. This is based on decoding the speech signal using two Gaussian Mixture Models trained on silence and...

Topic detection is concerned with the unsupervised clustering of news stories over time. The TNO topic detection system is based on a language modeling approach. For the grouping of stories we combined a simple single pass method to establish an initial clustering and a reallocation method to stabilize the clusters within a certain allowed deferral period. The similarity of an incoming story to...

PREFACE This thesis represents a culmination of work and learning that has taken place over a period of over one year (May 2012 until July 2013). It marks the conclusion of my study Civil Engineering and Management at the University of Twente. During the master Traffic Engineering & Management, I received the opportunity to participate in a variety of courses in which several state of the art f...

Context. Recent results suggest that there is a group of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) (2003 EL 61 being the biggest member), with surfaces composed of almost pure water ice and with very similar orbital elements. These objects provide exciting laboratories for the study of the processes that prevent the formation of an evolved mantle of organics on the surfaces of the bodies in the trans-Nept...