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Li, Roger Zhe (author), Urbano, Julián (author), Hanjalic, A. (author)In a collaborative-filtering recommendation scenario, biases in the data will likely propagate in the learned recommendations. In this paper we focus on the so-called mainstream bias: the tendency of a recommender system to provide better recommendations to users who have a mainstream taste, as opposed to non-mainstream users. We propose NAECF,...conference paper 2021
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Li, Roger Zhe (author), Urbano, Julián (author), Hanjalic, A. (author)Direct optimization of IR metrics has often been adopted as an approach to devise and develop ranking-based recommender systems. Most methods following this approach (e.g. TFMAP, CLiMF, Top-N-Rank) aim at optimizing the same metric being used for evaluation, under the assumption that this will lead to the best performance. A number of studies...conference paper 2021
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Li, Y. (author), Qian, QK (author), Mlecnik, E. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)Community residents possess first-hand knowledge of the community and effective execution of retrofit methods. Their understanding, acceptance and ultimately participation determine the smoothness of working process and the success of the project. Although the introduction of regulations and policies has increased resident participation in...conference paper 2021
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Li, K. (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)By trapping gas, foam can improve the sweep efficiency in enhanced oil recovery. In this study, to understand gas trapping in fractures, we have conducted experiments in a model fracture with a hydraulic aperture of 80 μm. One wall of the fracture is rough, and the other wall is smooth. The fracture is made of two glass plates and the direct...conference paper 2021
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Wang, Ke (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, Yongsheng (author), Li, Jian (author), Huang, Quanyi (author)In China, storm surge disasters cause severe damages in coastal regions. One of the most critical tasks is to predict affected regions and their relative damage levels to support decision-making. This study develops a two-stage retrieval model to search the most similar past disaster case to complete prediction. Based on spatial attributes of...conference paper 2021
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Liang, X. (author), Dong, H. (author), Li, Z. (author), van Zijl, Marc Brito (author), Ye, G. (author)This paper investigated the feasibility of using biomass fly ash (BFA) to prepare alkaliactivated slag and fly ash paste. The reference mixture was alkali-activated slag and coal fly ash (CFA) paste with a slag-to-coal fly ash ratio of 50/50. In other mixtures, coal fly ash was replaced at 40% and 100% with BFA, respectively. The results showed...conference paper 2021
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Li, Jie (author), Vinayagamoorthy, Vinoba (author), Williamson, Julie (author), Shamma, David A. (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)We are facing increasingly pressure on reducing travel and working remotely. Tools that support effective remote communication and collaboration are much needed. Social Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging medium, which invites multiple users to join a collaborative virtual environment (VE) and has the potential to support remote communication...conference paper 2021
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Ping, Y. (author), Yao, X. (author), Xu, J. (author), Li, Juntian (author), Song, Y. (author), Vink, P. (author)The angle of attack (AOA) of an airplane changes the direction of the gravitational force on passengers and thereby might influence passengers’ flying experience. However, the contribution of the AOA regarding comfort/discomfort is not fully explored. In this paper, we aim to fill this knowledge gap by identifying the relationships between the...conference paper 2021
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Chen, Yifei (author), Li, Meng (author), Zheng, Shuli (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author)Ride-Hailing Service (RHS) has motivated the rise of innovative transportation services. It enables riders to hail a cab or private vehicle at the roadside by sending a ride request to the Ride-Hailing Service Provider (RHSP). Such a request collects rider’s real-time locations, which incur serious privacy concerns for riders. While there are...conference paper 2021
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Li, Zhenghui (author), Le Kernec, Julien (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Romain, Olivier (author), Zhang, Lei (author), Yang, Shufan (author)In personnel recognition based on radar, significant research exists on statistical features extracted from the micro-Doppler signatures, whereas research considering other domains and information such as phase is less developed. This paper presents the use of deep learning methods to integrate both phase and magnitude features from range...conference paper 2021
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Jin, J. (author), Li, Z. (author)This paper presents a novel approach for eliminating speckle noises in Laser Doppler Vibrometer signals based on empirical wavelet transform (EWT). The moving root-mean-square thresholds are utilized to cut off signal drop-outs and produce noise discontinuity that EWT can identify. The extremum ratio behaves as the criterion to reject or accept...conference paper 2021
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Hong, H. (author), Ye, Li (author), Li, Ke (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Liu, Zewen (author)In this paper, we report a modified three step anisotropic wet etching (TSWE) method to fabricate solid-state silicon nanoslits. The slit-opening process is performed by <111> crystal plane etching. The etching rate of the <111> crystal plane is reasonably slow as it is only 1/45 of the <100> etching rate, thus allowing and...conference paper 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Mancini, Maria Elisabetta (author), Monizzi, Giovanni (author), Andreini, Daniele (author), Ferrigno, Giancarlo (author), Dankelman, J. (author), De Momi, Elena (author)Cardiologists highlight the need for an intra-operative 3D visualization to assist interventions. The intra-operative 2D X-ray/Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) images in the standard clinical workflow limit cardiologists’ views significantly. Compared with image-to-image registration, model-to-image registration is an essential approach...conference paper 2021
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He, Nan (author), Yang, S. (author), Li, Fan (author), Trajanovski, S. (author), Kuipers, F.A. (author), Fu, Xiaoming (author)The efficacy of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) depends critically on (1) where the virtual network functions (VNFs) are placed and (2) how the traffic is routed. Unfortunately, these aspects are not easily optimized, especially under time-varying network states with different quality of service (QoS) requirements. Given the importance of...conference paper 2021
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Li, M. (author), Slijkhuis, Tom (author), Huigen, Remko (author), Albayrak, A. (author), van Eijk, D.J. (author)The medical care responsibilities are often on the shoulders of nonprofessionals such as captains who are equipped with forty hours of designated training every five years. However, this training is neither enough for the captains to handle medical incidents nor releases their stress during the treatment. Currently, captains have very limited...conference paper 2021
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Li, M. (author), Jiang, X. (author), Carroll, James (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)The increasing capacity of offshore wind energy around the world brings challenges in Operation and Maintenance (O&M) management. Over the past years, many studies have focused on developing sound maintenance strategies in order to minimize maintenance cost or maximize availability. One of the promising maintenance strategies is...conference paper 2021
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Mei, Yanni (author), Li, Jie (author), de Ridder, H. (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)Cake customization services allow clients to collaboratively personalize cakes with pastry chefs. However, remote (e.g., email) and in-person co-design sessions are prone to miscommunication, due to natural restrictions in visualizing cake size, decoration, and celebration context. This paper presents the design, implementation, and expert...conference paper 2021
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Li, Qiongxiu (author), Heusdens, R. (author), Christensen, M. Graesboll (author)Over the past decades, privacy-preservation has received considerable attention, not only as a consequence of regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU, but also from the fact that people are more concerned about data abuse as the world is becoming increasingly digitized. In this paper we propose a convex optimization...conference paper 2020
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Li, Qiongxiu (author), Coutino, Mario (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author), Christensen, M. Graesboll (author)With an increasingly interconnected and digitized world, distributed signal processing and graph signal processing have been proposed to process its big amount of data. However, privacy has become one of the biggest challenges holding back the widespread adoption of these tools for processing sensitive data. As a step towards a solution, we...conference paper 2020
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Truong, S.H. (author), Li, Un (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)Transverse exchange processes of mass and momentum in floodplain regions of channels are of primary importance regarding the sediment transport and riverbank stability. The presence of large horizontal coherent structures (LHCSs) at the interface of the floodplain and main channel regions may contribute up to 90% the amount of transverse...conference paper 2020