Concept

Educational assessment

Related publications (265)

An objective skill assessment framework for microsurgical anastomosis based on ALI scores

Aude Billard, Kunpeng Yao, Soheil Gholami, Torstein Ragnar Meling, Anaëlle Olivia Marie Manon

IntroductionThe current assessment and standardization of microsurgical skills are subjective, posing challenges in reliable skill evaluation. We aim to address these limitations by developing a quantitative and objective framework for accurately assessing ...

Vienna2024

Context-Aware Monitoring of Hand Motor Primitives in Daily Life Activities: A Pathway to Objectively Assess Rehabilitation of Patients with Upper-Limb Neurological Impairment

The hands, our silent performers in daily life, face overwhelming challenges when neurological impairments disrupt the simple tasks that compose our daily symphony. This thesis unveils a comprehensive framework for the objective monitoring of upper-limb re ...

EPFL2024

Can Children Benefit from Technological Applications for Body Posture Correction to Improve Handwriting? A Study to Quantitatively Investigate the Correlation between Body Posture and Handwriting Quality

Pierre Dillenbourg, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno

Various technological applications for body posture correction have been proposed in order to improve handwriting or facilitate its learning for children, under the common-sense assumption that a better posture promotes better handwriting. However, very li ...

2024

A Review of Modeling, Design and Performance Assessment of Linear Electromagnetic Motors for High-Speed Transportation Systems

Mario Paolone, André Hodder, Lucien André Félicien Pierrejean, Simone Rametti

Linear electromagnetic motors (LEMs) have been proposed, developed and used to propel high-speed (i.e. speed > 100 m/s) levitating vehicles. However, few real implementations have demonstrated the feasibility of these machines at such speeds. Furthermore, ...

2024

Assessment framework for deepfake detection in real-world situations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Detecting digital face manipulation in images and video has attracted extensive attention due to the potential risk to public trust. To counteract the malicious usage of such techniques, deep learning-based deepfake detection methods have been employed and ...

2024

Robust NAS under adversarial training: benchmark, theory, and beyond

Volkan Cevher, Grigorios Chrysos, Fanghui Liu, Yongtao Wu

Recent developments in neural architecture search (NAS) emphasize the significance of considering robust architectures against malicious data. However, there is a notable absence of benchmark evaluations and theoretical guarantees for searching these robus ...

2024

Intrinsic performance loss rate: Decoupling reversible and irreversible losses for an improved assessment of photovoltaic system performance

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Hugo James André Quest

Solar electricity is set to play a pivotal role in future energy systems. In view of a market that may soon reach the terawatt (TW) scale, a careful assessment of the performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems becomes critical. Research on PV fault detection ...

Wiley2024

Subjective performance evaluation of bitrate allocation strategies for MPEG and JPEG Pleno point cloud compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto

The recent rise in interest in point clouds as an imaging modality has motivated standardization groups such as JPEG and MPEG to launch activities aiming at developing compression standards for point clouds. Lossy compression usually introduces visual arti ...

Springer2024

Assessment of the hydromorphological effectiveness of sediment augmentation measures downstream of dams

Giovanni De Cesare

This article presents assessment methods for the hydromorphological effectiveness of sediment augmentation measures downstream of dams. First, we describe different ways of quantifying hydromorphological effectiveness based on typical objectives of sedimen ...

CRC Press/Balkema2023

On the assessment of high-quality images: advances on the JPEG AIC-3 activity

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Michela Testolina

Recent advances in image compression have made it both possible and desirable for image quality to approach the visually lossless range. However, the most commonly used subjective visual quality assessment protocols, e.g. those reported in ITU-T Rec. BT.50 ...

2023

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.