The growing demand for multimedia information by different types of users equipped with a large variety of devices and connecting through different kinds of networks results in an increasing amount of different multimedia formats. Research is currently concentrating on the adaptation of the contents in order to provide Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) for the content consumer. But this does no...

Developing systems through the composition of reusable software services is not straightforward in most situations since different kinds of mismatch may occur among their public interfaces. Service adaptation plays a key role in the development of such systems by solving, as automatically as possible, mismatch cases at the different interoperability levels among interfaces by synthesizing a med...

In this study we assessed whether there is a single face space common to both human and cartoon faces by testing whether adaptation to cartoon faces can affect perception of human faces. Participants were shown Japanese animation cartoon videos containing faces with abnormally large eyes. The use of animated videos eliminated the possibility of position-dependent retinotopic adaptation (because...

The change in apparent orientation of lines and gratings induced by surrounding or preceding patterns of a different orientation (the tilt illusion and tilt after-effect) has been abundantly documented, but there is no unanimity about the effect of such inducing patterns on orientation discrimination thresholds. In particular, because inducing contours that are almost orthogonal cause the direc...

Human visually evoked cortical potentials (VEPs) were elicited by the onset of movement of grating patterns (test stimuli). The most prominent VEP waves N2 and P2 increased with accelerating test stimulus velocity (within a range of 0.2-4 deg/s). Two kinds of rums were presented. Reference runs involved only test stimuli and stationary pattern periods between them. In test runs moving gratings ...

In this publication we propose a device adaptation approach based on progressive contents. Such representations are inherently scalable, created once, and multiply used for different kinds of device. Computationally inexpensive on-the-fly adaptation is achieved by a previewwise progressive data refinement with fully client-based resource assessment and estimation continuously predicting whether...

Self-adaptive systems are distributed computing systems that can adapt their behavior and structure to different kinds of conditions. This adaptation does not concern the single components only, but the entire system. In a previous work we have identified several patterns for self-adaptation, classifying them by means of a taxonomy, which aims at being a support for developers of self-adaptive ...

A review of studies on the adaptation problems of North Korean defectors in South Korean society and studies of people's adaptation to political and cultural changes in other countries suggests that similar adaptation problems may occur in the process of and after unification. Defectors have various adaptation problems and some of them have psychiatric disorders such as depression and post-trau...

In this paper, we apply a general and discriminative feature ”GIF” (Genetic Algorithm based Informative feature) to lipreading (visual speech recognition), and improve the lipreading performance using speaker adaptation. The feature extraction method consists of two transforms, which convert an input vector into GIF for recognition. In the speaker adaptation, MAP (Maximum A Posteriori) adaptati...

This research is focused on creolized or polycode texts functioning in pedagogical discourse and the ways of text adaptation by means creolization. With development modern communication, number combining verbal non-verbal components has dramatically increased. In communication component may be represented pictures, photos, different printing types colour coding, video audio components. Due to t...