Active Learning in Image Quality Assessment

A world without digital images is unthinkable in this era of information and communication technology. Billions of images are created, shared and ultimately enjoyed by users every day. However, digital images are sensitive to a wide variety of distortions during the delivery mechanism it goes through. Any of the distortions that can arise during...

RekenRobot: Assisting primary school teachers in arithmetic education

A large problem that primary schools face is that the ratio of pupils to teachers is too high, the class sizes are too large and this makes it difficult for a single teacher to have a good oversight of how the development of a given child is going. The aim of Interactive Robotics is to tackle this problem by bringing robots into the classroom to...

Multimodal sensory pipeline for Interactive Robots

Interactive Robotics aims to familiarize children with robotics, which they try to do with their RoboTutor. Towards this goal they developed a platform for controlling the robots but this platform only worked for the Nao robot and not for the Pepper robot.<br/>So for our bachelor end project we have been asked to build a connection tunnel...

Question answering with the RoboTutor Nao

This thesis project worked towards extending the interactive capabilities of the RoboTutor Nao, by enabling it to answers natural language questions about topics such as computers, robots and the Nao itself. The main questions we focused on were 1) what a system for answering questions in Dutch and intended for elementary school age children...

Towards Automatic Reverb Addition for Production Oriented Multi-Track Audio Mixing

Sound spatialization is a natural, intuitive but sparsely researched topic in multi-track audio mixing. Although a lot of research has been devoted to the automatic fader gain settings, addition of dynamic range equalization and related effects, delay and Reverb have taken a backseat. The dichotomy in the artistic and engineering approaches to...

Narrative world creation with assisted environment filling

Games such as Skyrim use a narrative world, which is a game world that is used to tell stories. Creating narrative worlds is a time-consuming process because of the collaboration of writers, 3D artists and game designers, the story adjusting the world over time and the requirement for diverse and interesting environments. This thesis focuses on...