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A Viewport-driven Multi-metric Fusion Approach for 360-Degree Video Quality Assessment

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

We propose a new viewport-based multi-metric fusion (MMF) approach for visual quality assessment of 360-degree (omnidirectional) videos. Our method is based on computing multiple spatio-temporal objective quality metrics (features) on viewports extracted f ...

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Spatial distribution of mammography adherence in a Swiss urban population and its association with socioeconomic status

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Purpose: Local physical and social environment has a defining influence on individual behaviour and health-related outcomes. However, it remains undetermined if its impact is independent of individual socioeconomic status. In this study, we evaluated the s ...

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Spatial distribution of mammography adherence in a Swiss urban population and its association with socioeconomic status

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Rebecca Himsl

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“Our Inherent Desire for Control”: a Case Study of Automation’s Impact on the Perception of Comfort

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To investigate the relationship between occupants’ perception of control over building elements and their comfort, we conducted a study where two prototype office rooms were compared: while the first room allowed occupants to open or close the window and c ...

ELSEVIER2017

Socioeconomic characterization of regions through the lens of individual financial transactions

Emanuele Massaro

People are increasingly leaving digital traces of their daily activities through interacting with their digital environment. Among these traces, financial transactions are of paramount interest since they provide a panoramic view of human life through the ...

2017

Objective and subjective validation of an active control approach to reduce the occlusion effect in hearing aids

Hervé Lissek, Thomas Stefan Zurbrügg

The occlusion effect refers to the altered perception of one's own voice when the ear canal is fully or partially obstructed. Conventional countermeasures include the use of large vent bores or open fittings on the one hand and fittings reaching as deep as ...

S Hirzel Verlag2015

Synthesizing Social Proximity Networks by Combining Subjective Surveys with Digital Traces

Marcel Salathé

Synthetic social contact networks play a central role in the study of epidemics and methods to control them. In this paper we propose a new methodology that combines subjective surveys and data obtained using digital devices to synthesize detailed social n ...

IEEE2013

Remote-evaluation of user interaction with WebGIS

François Golay, Jens Ingensand

In this paper we propose a framework that characterizes user interaction with webGIS. Furthermore we present a technique to remotely test and evaluate such systems. Our framework does not only include parameters describing the usability of a system, but re ...

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Happiness and travel behavior modification

Michel Bierlaire

We develop and test a new approach for measuring travel well-being that accounts for the routine nature of travel. We postulate that when people are in a routine, they dont fully consider their travel happiness. Only when people evaluate their options and ...

2008

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