Traditional software engineering approaches are no longer suitable when dealing with the development of innovative, complex software systems, such as e.g. applications of neural networks for geophysical subsurface modeling. At TNO, we succeeded to deene and to establish a \hybrid" life cycle plan that integrates the developers' view of a creative, exible and unrestricted development process on ...

This paper describes the official runs of the Twenty-One group for CLEF-2002. The Twenty-One group participated in the Dutch and Finnish monolingual and the Dutch bilingual tasks. This paper also reports on an experiment that was carried out during the assessment work. The experiment was designed to examine possible influences on the assessments caused by the use of highlighting in the assessme...

What we learned from our runs: using a commercial facedetection package without tweaking on this (low image quality) dataset does not work. Using a small-sized (512 words) visual vocabulary computed on the query set significantly outperforms a much larger (4096 words) visual vocabulary on the whole dataset. One can build an image-retrieval system using open-source components. 2. INTRODUCTION In...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the first certified regional trauma network in Germany, the Trauma Network Eastern Bavaria (TNO) addressing the following specific research questions: Do standard and maximum care facilities produce comparable (risk-adjusted) levels of patient outcome? Does TNO outperform reference data provided by the German Trauma Register 200...

AIM To examine how stereoacuity changes with age as measured by a variety of stereotests. METHODS Stereoacuity has been measured in 60 normal subjects aged 17-83 years by a single observer using TNO, Titmus, Frisby near, and Frisby-Davis distance stereotests. Motor fusion was measured at (1/3) metre and 6 metres. RESULTS Overall stereoacuity measured by all tests showed a mild decline with ...

Briefly, what approach or combination of approaches did you test in each of your submitted runs?  all runs: video decoding using ffmpeg library, sampling every 25th frame.  F_X_NO_TNO-SURFAC2_1: standard SURF keypoint detection, exhaustive search.  F_X_NO_TNO-BOWCOL_2: standard SURF keypoint detection, bag-of-words using 256 prototypes from queries, indexing and querying using Lemur.  F_X_N...