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This paper describes a novel initiative whose main goal is not only to encourage young students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); Although this is typically seen as the core of any STEM project, we aim at involving local administrations in the project, thus allowing to more easily disseminate and promote STEM areas among students' families and teachers...
Information visualization is emerging in a new era in which social considerations, complex data and state-of-the-art technology are considered for making sense of data and then, effectively communicate valuable information to the audience for decision making. Although prior research provides frameworks for data visualization, their scope is often focused on diversifying visualization types instead...
Emerging marine observation technologies provide new opportunities to learn about phytoplankton communities with greater spatiotemporal resolution. Autonomous vehicles enable real-time ocean data collection and communications over long durations, in varying sea states and at lower cost than crewed ships. The Jupiter Research Foundation is developing a novel device to obtain near real-time phytoplankton...
Coastal upwelling brings cooler, saltier, and nutrient-rich deep water upward to the surface. Upwelling fronts support enriched phytoplankton and zooplankton populations, thus having great influences on ocean ecosystems. We have developed a method to enable a Wave Glider (an autonomous surface vehicle) to autonomously detect and track an upwelling front. Unlike an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)...
Computational devices with significant computing power are pervasive yet often under-exploited since they are frequently idle or performing non-demanding tasks. Exploiting this power can be a cost-effective solution for solving complex computational tasks. Device-wise, this computational power can some times comprise a stable, long-lasting availability windows but it will more frequently take the...
A five-year National Science Foundation-funded Research Coordination Network (RCN), the “OceanObs” RCN is currently in its third year. The RCN continues to focus on key issues in both ocean observations and community outreach. A working group has addressed recommendations for improvements in the joint use of in situ and remote sensing to essential information; considering, as a use case, observation...
We have designed, built, tested and fielded a decision support system which provides a platform for situational awareness, planning, observation, archiving and data analysis. While still in development, our inter-disciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, biologists and oceanographers has made extensive use of our system in at-sea experiments since 2010. The novelty of our work lies in the...
Recent studies in smart homes have proposed methods to use a laser pointer for interacting with home devices, which represents a more user-friendly and less expensive home device control environment. However, detecting the laser spot on the original non-filtered images, using standard and non expensive cameras, and considering real home environments with varying conditions, is currently an open problem...
Musical Genre is part of the basic information required for classifying musical audio, and fundamental for music information retrieval systems. The problem of automatic musical genre detection has attracted large attention in the last decade, due to the emergence of digital music databases and Internet. Although a number of techniques has been applied to the problem, no general solution still exists,...
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