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...

Interactive 3D Segmentation of CT-scans of the Hip Joint, Using Active Learning to Select Delineation Planes

This paper evaluates a method that improves segmentation e ciency by intelligently suggesting planes where correction is most valuable. An existing method is extended to work for segmentation of multiple bones simultaneously. This method is evaluated because in clinical practice it is often necessary that scans are segmented very accurate. When...

Active Learning by Discrepancy Minimization: A Comparison of Active Learning Methods Motivated by Generalization Bounds

In many settings in practice it is expensive to obtain labeled data while unlabeled data is abundant. This is problematic if one wants to train accurate (supervised) predictive models. The main idea behind active learning is that models can perform better with less labeled data, if the model may choose the data from which it learns. Active...

Hadoop in the browser: Simulating MapReduce in the browser

With the current increase of user generated data, the need for tools to process large quantities of data is increasing. One of the courses of the Computer Science BSc curriculum is the Big Data Processing course. The Big Data Processing course teaches students ways of doing so. A popular and teached method is using MapReduce, a programming model...

Combining learning with fuzzing for software deobfuscation

Software obfuscation is widely applied to prevent reverse engineering of applications. However, to evaluate security and validate behaviour we are interested in analysis such software. In this thesis, we give an overview of available obfuscation techniques as well as methods to undo this effort through reverse engineering and deobfuscation. We...

Sample reusability in importance-weighted active learning

Recent advances in importance-weighted active learning solve many of the problems of traditional active learning strategies. But does importance-weighted active learning also produce a reusable sample selection? This thesis explains why reusability can be a problem, how importance-weighted active learning removes some of the barriers to...

A New Project-Based Curriculum of Design Thinking with Systems Engineering Techniques

We developed a new education curriculum called "ALPS" (Active Learning Project Sequence) at Keio University that emphasizes team project-based learning and design thinking with systems engineering techniques. ALPS is a 6 month course, in which students work as a team and design and propose innovative systems. Students identify requirements,...

Crossing borders: 6 years of international aerospace student design projects

Work in Progress: Learner-Centered Online Learning Facility

This paper describes a novel, learner-centered technology for authoring web lectures. Besides seamless integration of video and audio feeds, Microsoft PowerPoint slides, and web-pages, the proposed Online Learning Facility (OLF) also facilitates online interactive testing and review of covered materials, online provision of feedback, real-time...