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Editorial, Vol. 11, No. 2
No full textEditorial of Issue 2 of Volume 11 of the International Journal of Serious Games
Editorial, Vol. 10, No. 3
Full text linkEditorial of the International Journal of Serious Games, Vol. 10, No. 3
An embedded end-to-end voice assistant
No full textVoice assistants are spreading in various environments, such as houses and cars, bringing the possibility of controlling heterogeneous Internet of Things devices with simple voice commands. However, massive use of the cloud connection for speech processing requires an efficient and robust Internet connection and raises concerns in terms of privacy. Therefore, we propose an end-to-end solution able to work totally offline, based on a system architecture combining different Deep Learning models to implement all the steps of the speech elaboration process. Being interested in targeting the Italian language, we exploited the transfer learning paradigm, which allows leveraging models trained in English on large datasets and fine-tuning them to the target language on a smaller dataset. The proposed system architecture is configurable and easily extensible to other languages. Experimental results in an automotive application use case show that our solution outperforms the other embedded models and achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art cloud-connected solutions for Automatic Speech Recognition. Moreover, overall latency is significantly reduced by eliminating the need to connect to the cloud
Recent trends on applications of electronics pervading the industry, environment and society
No full textThis Editorial analyzes the manuscripts accepted, after a careful peer-reviewed process, for the Special Issue "Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society-Sensing Systems and Pervasive Intelligence" of the Sensors MDPI journal [...]
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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