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Facial recognition is the fastest method to detect emotions, and it can be combined with text semantic recognition to increase the accuracy of emotion detection. Emotions and creativity have often been discussed in recent years. A student will be interested in learning as long as he or she enjoys learning. Mind mapping is an active and simultaneous...
In recent years, the development of intelligent and electric vehicles has placed an increased emphasis on autonomous driving systems, which have the potential to improve safety, reduce traffic congestion, and increase accessibility. One of the key technologies in these systems is lane detection. However, existing technology faces many challenges, p...
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To support achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs), we integrated science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and extended reality technologies into an artificial intelligence (AI) learning activity. We developed Feature City to facilitate students' learning of AI concepts. This study aimed to explore students' learning outcomes...
In recent years, the welding industry has witnessed the integration of numerous automation and intelligent technologies, driven by the challenging working conditions inherent in the welding process. Despite these advancements, particularly in specialized environments such as high-altitude and underwater welding, or in the production of low-volume,...
Facing the diversity of the market, the industry has to move towards Industry 4.0, and smart manufacturing based on cyber-physical systems is the only way to move towards Industry 4.0. However, there are two key concepts in Industry 4.0: cyber-physical systems (CPS) and digital twins (DT). In the paper, we propose a smart manufacturing system suita...
Amidst the rapid advancement in the application of artificial intelligence learning, questions regarding the evaluation of students’ learning status and how students without relevant learning foundation on this subject can be trained to familiarize themselves in the field of artificial intelligence are important research topics. This study employed...
In the context of smart city development, video surveillance serves as a critical component for maintaining public safety and operational efficiency. However, traditional surveillance systems are often constrained by a limited dynamic range, leading to the loss of essential image details. To address this limitation, this paper introduces HDRFormer,...
Three-dimensional (3D) object detection plays a key role in autonomous driving systems. The performance of LiDAR-based models is limited because of the sparsity and inhomogeneity of point clouds. Researchers have developed numerous camera-LiDAR-based fusion methods to address the limitations of LiDAR-based models. Still, because of the major differ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) education is becoming an advanced learning trend in programming education. However, AI subjects can be difficult to understand because they require high programming skills and complex knowledge. This makes it challenging to determine how different departments of students are affected by them. This study draws on researc...
In industry, robots are widely used to solve repetitive or dangerous actions in product production, so that product production can be more efficient. However, the problem that robots are often challenged is the convenience and the efficiency of introducing the production line. Therefore, the intuitive robot guidance method is an important issue; th...
Over the past several years, creativity has been recognized as an important skill for success in STEM education, engineering design and computational thinking. There is limited research on how to apply Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate (CDIO) engineering design in STEM courses and how it affects students' creativity. This study strategically int...
With the inherently interdisciplinary and hands-on nature of the STEAM system, this study changes the way the English language is taught, no longer confining it to monotonous tests and dull textbooks. Teaching via Augmented Reality (AR) technology tends to pique students’ interest, making them more willing to participate in learning. This study use...
In recent years, STEM education has developed students’ fundamental subject knowledge, and has allowed students to integrate STEM cross-domain knowledge. Universities emphasize innovative thinking, practice and application, problem-solving, and teamwork to nurture students while learning STEM cross-domain knowledge development in remote STEM progra...
In the recent era applying advanced emerging technologies to educational issues has become a subject for wide discussion, also students have a high scope to obtain much more learning experience and resources through these exclusive technologies. Many such studies have used this immersive virtual reality to explore the feasibility of STEAM education...
A web design course has complex and diverse skills, which may attract students with an interest in technology and art fields to learn to program. It makes a need to have a flexible learning framework to develop all students to learn in a programming course. This study was designed to develop students’ learning achievement and computational thinking...
In recent years, flipping classrooms has become a popular topic of discussion. However, few previous studies have focused on the effect of the flow experience on programming self-efficacy. To address this gap, the present researchers developed a model that included six research hypotheses. The study applied a flipped classroom model to a programmin...
While cloud computing services such as cloud storage are fairly mature, it remains challenging to design efficient and secure cryptographic schemes to facilitate fine‐grained access control and achieve other features. For example, existing ciphertext‐policy attribute‐based encryption schemes do not generally have in‐place limits on the number of ac...
The outbreak of the two-year corona virus has made a great difference on existing methods of learning and instruction. Online education has become a crucial role to maintain non-stop learning after the post-epidemic period. The advanced technologies and growing popularity of network equipment have made it easy to deploy remote connections. However,...
Currently, flipped learning requires a framework that will give novices and students the ability to face the complex problems encountered in programming courses. It is necessary to design a design thinking learning framework that addresses independent learning and specific processes that will improve students' 21st-century skills. The existing lite...
The flipped teaching method has become increasingly mature and critical. Previous flow experience studies have concentrated on game-based learning, and cognitive load studies have concentrated on different types of teaching materials (e.g., video). Due to the characteristic differences between problem-based learning and the Conceive, Design, Implem...
In recent years, the government has actively set up computer programming courses to train those with the relevant talent; however, the learning performance of the students is not ideal. Therefore, in order to learn programming skills, students usually adopt note-taking strategies because, due to the pressure of the course, the teachers do not have...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) learning technologies and research in deep learning are rapidly expanding, and there is a lack of AI learning platforms to support students in related courses. At present, an understanding of the impact of learning on AI learning platforms on student interest in and attitudes towards learning is still unclear. This has...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2021, held in November/December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.
The 59 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The p...
Computer programming learning is an important course for students to foster critical thinking and logical thinking ability. However, most students don’t have enough learning ability to learn programming automatically. In this study, we developed a program assistant teaching system for students to learn program easily. We built a Web-based Java Comp...
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In a programming course, students often need tutors' assistance to complete learning activities, as they lack enough background knowledge to complete tasks. A further problem is that without individual tutoring, the knowledge gap between students increases. Therefore, the authors have proposed an instant response learning supplement tool (I...
In recent years, governments have paid much more attention to online learning platforms. This study establishes a high-performance agricultural digital learning platform (hereafter referred to as the Platform), in an attempt to (1) achieve learning diversity, improve users’ learning ability and willingness to learn, and unblocking geo-restrictions,...
The rapid development of technologies such as tablet PCs and 4G/5G networks has further enhanced the benefits of mobile learning. Although mobile devices are convenient and provide a variety of learning benefits, they are unable to improve students’ learning outcomes without an appropriate learning strategy. Furthermore, little research has been co...
With the swift development of technology in recent years, entrepreneurs are facing rapid changes in industry. To cope with such changes at home and abroad, The Ministry of Education is actively promoting innovative education with the aim of cultivating students’ entrepreneurship. On this basis, this study proposes an innovative curriculum design ba...
In this paper, the issue of content placement in multiple Cloud Radio Access Networks (CRANs) is addressed. In a CRAN, the contents are placed into the facilities of remote radio heads (RRHs) and baseband unit (BBU) pools to improve the performance of the content transmission. We aim to approach the objective of minimizing the total cost of content...
In recent years, the applications of the smart factory are very popular. Predictive maintenance is one of the issues. Some research achieved the goal of predictive maintenance with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Here we focus on the local scrubber (LSR) system, a water purification and recycling system. This paper proposed a machine learning model t...
For the lung nodule screening, one of the commonly testing methods is the chest radiograph. However, it is difficult to judge with the naked eye with the initial nodule size is usually less than one centimeter. It is known that skilled pulmonary radiologists have a high degree of accuracy in diagnosis, but there remain problems in disease diagnosis...
As the time goes by and the development of science and technology, medical issues are becoming part of everyone’s life. People are paying much more attention to their own rights. When people transfer from one hospital to another for treatment, they may need to repeat multiple examinations, resulting unnecessary expenses and waste of medical resourc...
In recent years, the obstacles avoidance technology of unmanned aerial vehicles has been developed rapidly. It takes a lot of manpower to control un-manned aerial vehicles, so many researches use reinforcement learning to make unmanned aerial vehicles fly autonomously. In the real environment using rein-for cement learning to train aircraft is an e...
With increasing interest in the concept of cloud multimedia and the popularization of hand-held devices, users gradually view videos in mobile network streaming mode rather than off-line mode. However, the delays and lags resulted from the instability of a mobile network will greatly degrade streaming quality for users. In cloud multimedia streamin...
In recent years, under the concern of energy crisis, the government has actively cooperated with research institutions in developing smart meters. As the Internet of Things (IoT) and home energy management system become popular topics, electronic appliance recognition technology can help users identifying the electronic appliances being used, and f...
With the increasing trend for hand-held devices, such as the intelligent mobile phone and tablet PC, users have an increasing demand for network media streaming service. However, in the course of streaming media, the unstable network bandwidth often causes frozen play or delay to degrade user experience. A cloudassisted real-time transcoding mechan...
Ubiquitous computing provides convenient and fast information distribution service by using sensor nodes and wireless network, and a good household appliance recognition system will allow users to effectively understand the household appliance usage and develop habits of power preservation. At present, smart meters convert the information of tradit...
With the crisis of uprising energy, smart meter development has gained a lot of attention. Along with the popularization of Internet of Things (IoT) and home energy management system, users can identify the electronic device being used with the help of electronic appliance recognition technology in order to improve power usage habits. However, ther...
The Internet of Things (IoT) extends and expands the range of the internet by interconnecting Internet and end device networks. As the raising of awareness about IoT, more and more application may applied for various areas. Especially, the development of intelligent energy saving becomes a new trend in all circles. This research integrated applianc...
In novel learning environments, learning systems not only are able to get environmental information through sensing technology to provide adaptive learning resources and information to students, but also help students to conduct interactions with learning communities. In this study, the development potential of digital archives resource into outdoo...
Due to the limited hardware resources of mobile devices, the multimedia streaming processes are energy consuming and the quality of multimedia video playback is suffered under the restricted bandwidth. In recent studies of multimedia streaming, the features of mobile devices were not considered in solving the bandwidth restriction problem. This pap...
using a multi-core system to process real-time data of high computational complexity has become a popular solution for effectively enhancing system processing efficiency. However, the high-power consumption of a multi-core system remains a problem, particularly to handheld devices. Applying DVFS to properly decrease the system voltage and frequency...
In two-tier high-performance networks (HPNs), some facilities are constructed to form a powerful supercomputing environment, and to alleviate server load. Then, the applications are provided by them in co-operated, parallel and distributed manners. A proper way to select facilities is crucial to the performance of two-tier HPNs The problem of selec...
For the energy limited wireless sensor networks, the critical problem is how to achieve the energy efficiency. Many attackers can consume the limited network energy, by the method of capturing some legal nodes then control them to start DoS and flooding attack, which is difficult to be detected by only the classic cryptography based techniques with...
In present days there are wide varieties of household electric appliances along with different power consumption habits of consumers, making identifying electric appliances without presetting difficulty. This paper introduces smart appliance management system to recognize electric appliances in home networks, which uses sensing devices that measure...
In this paper, the analysis and design of a motion simulator (based on the approach taken by interactive virtual reality (VR) entertainment systems) is conducted. The main components of the system include a bilateral control interface, simulation and a motion simulator control scheme. The space entertainment system uses a virtual environment that e...
In the shared environment of multimedia files of an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) system, the issue of quickly obtaining the desired files from various heterogeneous networks presents a challenge. There are many studies on information-sharing mechanisms and bandwidth estimation methods in the IMS environment; however, most focused on how to effecti...
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) ubiquitously provides multimedia video services through mobile device, and integrates contents over cloud systems. For allowing users to browse their favorite multimedia videos on cloud networks without the trouble of repeating and complex search, this study presents a personalized TV program-oriented video syste...
In wireless body sensor networks, sensors may be installed on various body limbs to wirelessly collect body information for homecare services. The orientations and accelerations on each limb are different for various motion states. For example, each limb has different acceleration when walking versus running, and orientation when standing versus ly...
Mobile Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) delivers omnipresent multimedia video services through mobile devices, and a cloud system provides services for content integration. This study presents a personalized mobile IPTV system based on a cloud network. The system allows users to browse their favorite multimedia videos in the cloud networks throu...
Using body sensor networks (BodyNets) to monitoring the human health is increasingly emerging as a dominant application framework for the evolving sensor network technology. In this paper, we explore how to promote such network work in cold region. Different to the ordinary region, sensors not only need to collect sensory data of human characterist...
Positioning accuracy is an essential factor for many location-aware applications. This study designs an RFID-based positioning
system for telematics location-aware applications. If a passenger in a vehicle loses a wallet with an RFID tag attached, then
an RFID reader can be adopted to detect the tag, and thus find the wallet. Performance analysis r...
In the array of mobile communication tech-niques, the application of a mobile phone combined with television is a new technique under development. As TV program is a real-time video/audio service, in comparison with either traditional video/audio file downloads or net-work video/audio streams, there are more technical diffi-culties to be overcome,...
Parallel structures may be used to increase a system processing speed in case of large amount of data or highly complex calculations. Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) may be used for simpler calculations in order to decrease the system voltage or frequency and achieve lower power consumption. Combining these two mechanisms may lead to h...
Traditional electronic program guides (EPGs) cannot be used to find popular TV programs. A personalized digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) digital TV program recommendation system is ideal for providing TV program suggestions based on statistics results obtained from analyzing large-scale data. The frequency and duration of the programs...
This paper aimed to use several triaxial acceleration sensor devices for joint sensing of injured body parts, when an accidental fall occurs. The model transmitted the information fed by the sensors distributed over various body parts to the computer through wireless transmission devices for further analysis and judgment, and employed cognitive adj...
When facing damages caused by falls, a well designed smart sensor system to detect falls can be both medically and economically helpful. This research introduces a portable terrain adaptable fall detection system, by placing accelerometers and gyroscopes in parts of the body and transmit data through wireless transmitter modules to mobile devices t...
With the development of digital home appliances, the vision of a digital home can be realized, and users can control home appliances by remote control through the home network. However, current home networks have a variety of transmission control information media, such as WLAN, Zigbee, ECHONET, and LonWorks, resulting in an issue of interoperabili...
Since the development of traditional home multimedia is yet to be improved, the various multimedia devices are used for playing
media content. Under the advancement of modern science and technology, there are various formats of compact discs to store
and play multimedia content, such as VCD, DVD, portable disks, etc., and the latest, Blu-ray disc....
In wireless body sensor networks, sensors may be installed on various body limbs to wirelessly collect body information for homecare services. The orientations and accel-erations on each limb are different for various motion states. For example, each limb has different acceleration when walking versus running, and orientation when standing versus l...
In mobile communication network, the mobile device integrated with TV player is a novel technology that provides TV program services to end users. As TV program is a real-time video service, it has greater technical difficulties to overcome than a traditional video file download or online streaming, especially when TV programs are played on handhel...
Multimedia video sharing has been developed rapidly over the past years. P2P multimedia sharing mechanisms for P2P network such as PPLive, PPStream, Joost, have been used popularly. However, if Content Server and Client in the home network have to transmit via P2P sharing, P2P network must be adopted, thus it is unable to increase the network trans...
In the past few years, household remote control products have continuously emerged, and more equipment could be controlled at remote distance. With continuous growth in the number of home remote control devices, the number of remote controllers at home is increasing. In addition, with the increase of PC and notebook computer demands, technologies f...
This study designs and implements a cross-platform, cross-domain P2P multimedia sharing system in the Taiwan Advance Research and Education Network. The system allows users to easily access the multimedia resources of the entire network from any network node, and all multimedia providers can share local multimedia resources from any location on the...
Multimedia video sharing has been developed rapidly over the past years. P2P multimedia sharing mechanisms for P2P network such as PPLive, PPStream, Joost, have been used popularly. However, if Content Server and Client in home network have to transmit via P2P sharing, P2P network must be adopted, thus it is unable to increase the network transmiss...
Traditional electronic program guides (EPGs) cannot be used to find popular TV programs. A personalized digital video broadcasting
– terrestrial (DVB-T) digital TV program recommendation system is ideal for providing TV program suggestions based on statistics
results obtained from analyzing large-scale data. The frequency and duration of the progra...
Multisensors explore the collaborative analysis of body posture modes to detect accidental-falling incidents and provide relevant data to medical personnel for rescue and treatment.
Digital TV channels require users to spend more time to choose their favorite TV programs. Electronic Program Guides (EPG)
cannot be used to find popular TV programs. Hence, this paper proposes a personalized Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial(DVB-T)
Digital TV program recommendation system for P2P social networks. From the DVB-T signal, we o...
In a traditional intercom system that only allows place-to-place communication in a house, it is necessary to dial the extension number of a specific family member, or dial each extension number individually via the intercom broadcasting, in order to reach the desired person. Additional master stations controlled the intercom system are required, a...
Since people communicate with each other by mobile phones more and more frequently in daily lives, they pay more attention
on the quality and rating of communication and the battery consumption when using the mobile phones. In order to provide users
the services with low price, high communication quality and less battery consumption in any environm...
Quickly acquiring the data required from network node environments to share files in the vast P2P network environment is a challenging job. Many researches have proposed data sharing mechanisms and scheduling methods in P2P environments, however, most focused on the efficient utilization of network bandwidth, using greedy methods to deliver the dat...
This study proposed integrating Mobile RFID and IPv6 mechanisms, in order for mobile phones to read ID labels on posters, acquire data via mobile network without need of data transmission and conversion by several servers. This mechanism could reduce data transmissions and waiting time of users, and provide the users with more convenient applicatio...
As networks and technology progress, the concept of smart homes has become the main focus of major Computer, Communication and Consumer (3C) companies in recent years. To position specific mobile targets and to integrate all 3C devices in a home are the current main challenges in providing seamless multimedia services for smart homes. For these rea...
Based on the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) home network, this study established a portable plug-and-play multimedia sharing system, comprised of a portable media sharing server and portable media player. With this server, multimedia access services not yet defined by the UPnP architecture could support services shared by iPod, DVD, IP-Cam, and dig...
This paper presents a context-aware multimedia seamless streaming system where the context is transmitted by a Zigbee-based sensor network. In the system, we employ Open Systems Gateway Initiative (OSGi) framework to provide the communication service of DLNA and Zigbee devices. By the system, a user's preferences for the multimedia service, such as...
To resolve the issue that a vast majority of time is spent on design and maintenance of new customized user interface in the development of digital TV system software, we propose TVSkin user interface, an architecture to be applied to the design of user interface software. With TVSkin user interface, there is no need to modify any of the programmin...
This paper has discussed a low complexity channel recommendation system on TV remote controller, which aims to, with limited processing speed and memory capacity, recommend interesting channels to viewers in various time intervals according to different preferences and habits. This system comprises two important parts: "three-dimensional bitmap for...