We consent to many things in life, but sometimes we do not know what we consent to. When discussing data protection in Europe, consent has been associated with permission under the GDPR, and health data are highly sensitive. Patients cannot make an informed decision without being provided with the information they need upfront: no informed decision, no informed consent. This paper presents a consent ...

Sports multimedia plays a central role in captivating audiences on social media platforms. However, fast-paced sports such as ice hockey pose unique challenges due to their swift gameplay and the small puck size, making object tracking-based video adaptation for social media a complex task. In this context, we introduce SmartCrop-H, an innovative ice hockey video cropping tool powered by advanced ...

Internet of Things (IoT) and edge platforms are very complex systems. They are heterogeneous in terms of hardware and software. In these systems, being able to document the energy consumed by the nodes is important. To mitigate the impact of such systems on the energy consumption and improve their energy efficiency, research experiments involving power monitoring tools are required.However, in the ...

Parasites in fish muscle present a significant problem for the seafood industry in terms of both quality and health and safety, but the low contrast between parasites and fish tissue makes them exceedingly difficult to detect. The traditional method to identify nematodes requires removing fillets from the production line for manual inspection on candling tables. This technique is slow, labor intensive ...

Sports multimedia is among the most prominent types of content distributed across social media today, and the retargeting of videos for diverse aspect ratios is essential for a suitable representation on different social media platforms. In this respect, ice hockey is quite challenging due to its agile movement pattern and speed, and because the main reference point (puck) is very small. In this ...

This paper presents a detailed study of an AI-driven platform designed for the training of child welfare and law enforcement professionals in conducting investigative interviews with maltreated children. It achieves a subjective simulation of interview situation through the integration of fine-tuned GPT-3 models within the Unity framework. The study recruited participants from a range of backgrounds, ...

Precise measurements of Arctic sea ice mass balance are necessary to understand the rapidly changing sea ice cover and its representation in climate models. During the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, we made repeat point measurements of snow and ice thickness on primarily level first- and second-year ice (FYI, SYI) using ablation stakes and ...

In medical imaging, noise can significantly obscure critical details, complicating diagnosis and treatment. Traditional denoising techniques often struggle to maintain a balance between noise reduction and detail preservation. To address this challenge, we propose an “Efficient Transfer-Learning-Based Fractional Order Image Denoising Approach in Medical Image Analysis (ETLFOD)” method. Our approach ...

Measurements of ion cyclotron emission (ICE) are obtained from most large magnetically confined fusion plasma experiments, and may be used in future to quantify properties of the fusion-born alpha-particle population in deuterium-tritium (DT) plasmas in ITER. ICE is driven by spatially localised, strongly non-Maxwellian, minority energetic ion populations which relax collectively under the ...

This thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of a stochastic model for transport due to the motion of uncorrelated localized structures. The motivation for this model is found in the scrape-off layer (SOL) of magnetically confined plasmas, but its applicability extends to other turbulent or chaotic systems. This model provides a statistical framework to explore the implications of different transport ...