This paper presents a mixed methods study on how deaf, hard of hearing and hearing viewers perceive live TV caption quality with captioned video stimuli designed to mirror TV captioning experiences. To assess caption quality, we used four commonly-used ...

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) constitutes a pivotal DevOps methodology, leading edge of software deployment onto cloud platforms. IaC relies on source code files rather than manual configuration to manage the infrastructure of a software system. Terraform,...

The breast image division is a regular issue in medicinal picture preparing. For the scientist to remove the data with great determination without loss of points of interest. In this paper, we propose a division strategy by utilising the iterative ...

To register two images, existing methods normally estimate the parameters of an affine transform, and then perform an inverse affine transform to the test image by using the estimated parameters. Any metric can then be applied to the reference ...

With ever-increasing execution scale of the high performance computing (HPC) applications, vast amount of data are being produced by scientific research every day. Error-bounded lossy compression has been considered a very promising solution to address ...

Many large-scale software systems intensively implement variability to reuse software and speed up development. Such mechanisms, however, bring additional complexity, which eventually leads to technical debt, threatening the software quality, and ...

Object-Oriented (OO) variability-rich software systems often implement their variability in a single codebase, using the mechanisms provided by the host language (i.e., inheritance, overloading, design patterns). This variability is not documented and ...

E-type open-source software inevitably grows in size and complexity over time, and without performing anti-regressive tasks this type of software has a limited lifespan. In this project, a case study of the effect of such anti-regressive tasks is ...

The development of the 1st edition of HEVC by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) was officially finalized in January 2013 [11], thereby ...

Writing automated test cases is a challenging and demanding activity. The test case itself is software that requires proper design to ensure it can be implemented and maintained as long as the production code evolves. Like code smells, test smells may ...

The quality of training data has a huge impact on the efficiency, accuracy and complexity of machine learning tasks. Data remains susceptible to errors or irregularities that may be introduced during collection, aggregation or annotation stage. This ...

Dimensionality reduction is a commonly used technique in data analytics. Reducing the dimensionality of datasets helps not only with managing their analytical complexity but also with removing redundancy. Over the years, several such algorithms have ...

It is well understood from literature that the performance of a machine learning (ML) model is upper bounded by the quality of the data. While researchers and practitioners have focused on improving the quality of models (such as neural architecture ...

Our study explores the possible uses and effectiveness of network analysis, including Metadata Record Graphs, for evaluating collections of metadata records at scale. We present the results of an experiment applying these methods to records in the ...

Viewability is one of the most important metrics used in ad-tech to measure the performance quality of ad campaigns. The viewability standard defines the visibility conditions an ad impression must meet to achieve a sufficient marketing effect to be ...

Spatio-temporal data on the evolution of real-world phenomena are normally acquired as snapshots in discrete time. The continuous evolution of a phenomenon between observations can be approximated using interpolation methods capable of generating ...

Refactoring processes are common in large software systems, especially when developers neglect architectural erosion process for long periods. Even though there are many refactoring approaches, very few consider the refactoring impact on the software ...

Mining open source repositories introduces an effective approach to put in practice empirical software engineering in a variety of technologies. Kernel development (Linux) first and then Internet (Chromium) and more recently cloud orchestration (...

The paper considers a new algorithm for blind quality assessment of a slice of X-ray microtomographic image. We selected the following factors impacting on micro-CT image quality with respect to Digital Rock technology: smoothness, sharpness, contrast, ...

RDF Graph Summarization pertains to the process of extracting concise but meaningful summaries from RDF Knowledge Bases (KBs) representing as close as possible the actual contents of the KB both in terms of structure and data. RDF Summarization allows ...