Lecture Notes on Compositional Data Analysis

These notes have been prepared as support to a short course on compositional data analysis. Their aim is to transmit the basic concepts and skills for simple applications, thus setting the premises for more advanced projects

Visual SLAM for underwater vehicles using video velocity log and natural landmarks

A visual SLAM system has been implemented and optimised for real-time deployment on an AUV equipped with calibrated stereo cameras. The system incorporates a novel approach to landmark description in which landmarks are local sub maps that consist of a cloud of 3D points and their associated SIFT/SURF descriptors. Landmarks are also sparsely distributed which simplifies and accelerates data association and map updates. In addition to landmark-based localisation the system utilises visual odometry to estimate the pose of the vehicle in 6 degrees of freedom by identifying temporal matches between consecutive local sub maps and computing the motion. Both the extended Kalman filter and unscented Kalman filter have been considered for filtering the observations. The output of the filter is also smoothed using the Rauch-Tung-Striebel (RTS) method to obtain a better alignment of the sequence of local sub maps and to deliver a large-scale 3D acquisition of the surveyed area. Synthetic experiments have been performed using a simulation environment in which ray tracing is used to generate synthetic images for the stereo system

Video Institucional Biblioteca Universidad del Rosario

El video expone un panorama general de la Biblioteca de la Universidad del Rosario; contiene información sobre las diferentes sedes, horarios, los principales recursos y servicios que se ofrecen a los usuarios. A través de este medio audiovisual el espectador podrá conocer a grandes rasgos cómo la Biblioteca de la Universidad del Rosario ha pasado a ser un moderno centro de apoyo a las labores académicas, investigativas y culturales de la Universidad.

Lecture 1: The Pioneers and History (pre-WWW)

A Powerpoint file for a Lecture on the development of the world wide web. Intended for lecturers and undergraduates. Produced by Hugh Davis, ECS for a 3rd year Module.

Engineering Foundation Year - Sustaining Success - Lecture 1 - slides

These materials are used in student tutorials as part of the routes to success course. The tutorials are typically delivered to a large group (~50) in an interactive manner, with the slides serving as reference/check materials. Some of the questions in the slides can also be used as individual handouts

Lecture 2 - Java

Programming Overview The JVM (The Java Virtual Machine) A brief look at Structure Class Method Statement Magic incantations main() output Coding a Dog Programming Principle(1) If and Boolean operations Coding a Bank Account Quick look at ToolBox

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand 3 "History" Lecture 1

Lecture 1: The Pioneers and History of Hypertext (pre-WWW) Contains Powerpoint Lecture slides and Hypertext Research Papers: Bush: As We may Think; Engelbart: NLS and A Framework for Augmenting Human Intelligence; Nelson: Xanalogical Structure; Conklin: A Survey of Hypertext; Halasz 1987: Reflections on NoteCards: Seven Issues for the Next Generation of Hypermedia Systems; Berners-Lee 1994 The World-Wide Web.

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand 3 "History" Lecture 2

Lecture 1: Contributions of Pre WWW Research: Open Hypermedia Systems Contains Powerpoint Lecture slides and Hypertext Research Papers: Industrial Strength Hypermedia: Requirements for a Large Engineering Enterprise (Malcolm et al. 1991); Towards An Integrated Information Environment With Open Hypermedia Systems (Davis et al. 1992); Unifying Strategies for Web Augmentation (Bouvin 1999); Hyper-G (Adapted from Lowe and Hall); OHP:A Draft Proposal for a Standard Open Hypermedia Protocol (Davis et al. 1996); XML Linking (DeRose 99)

Savoirs professionnels en classe de lecture littéraire à l'école

Comment penser la tâche générale prescrite par les programmes français de l’école élémentaire de faire lire des textes de littérature de jeunesse au cycle 3? Cette question peut paraître superflue aux yeux du prescripteur institutionnel. Les maîtres n’ont qu’à enseigner la compréhension du texte littéraire bien utile pour un enseignement de la lecture dans la première étape du curriculum scolaire. Mais elle s’avère nécessaire pour la recherche en didactique si l’objet d’étude est l’activité réelle de l’enseignant. Chargé d’enseigner l’ensemble des disciplines, dont la littérature à l’école élémentaire, le maître agit en situation sociale dans son enseignement qui lui réclame des ressources professionnelles didactiques et pédagogiques pour conduire des séances de lecture littéraire, avec des jeunes lecteurs entre neuf et dix ans. Si la recherche peut aider à cerner la nature et les enjeux de l’activité enseignante, elle peut penser contribuer ainsi à des scénarios de formation des enseignants

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand 3 "History" Lecture 3

Lecture 3: Contributions of Pre WWW Research: Spatial Hypertext and Temporal Hypertext Contains Powerpoint Lecture slides and Hypertext Research Papers: Spatial [SPATIAL] VIKI: spatial hypertext supporting emergent structure (Marshall, 94); Towards Geo-Spatial Hypermedia: Concepts and Prototype Implementation, (Gronbaek et al. 2002); Cyber Geography and Better Search Engines; [TEMPORAL] Anticipating SMIL 2.0: The Developing Cooperative Infrastructure for Multimedia on the Web (Rutledge 1999); Its About Time: Link Streams as Continuous Metadata (Page et al., 2001); Everything You Wanted to Know About MPEG-7:Part 1 (Nack & Lindsay 1999)

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand 3 "History" Lecture 4

Lecture 4: Ontological Hypertext and the Semantic Web Contains Powerpoint Lecture slides and Hypertext Research Papers: Conceptual linking: Ontology-based Open Hypermedia (Carr et al. 2001); CS AKTiveSpace: Building a Semantic Web Application (Glaser et al., 2004); The Semantic Web Revisited (Shadbolt, Hall and Berners-Lee, 2006); Mind the Semantic Gap (Millard et al., 2005).

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand 3 "History" Lecture 5

Lecture 5: Web 2.0 and Social Hypertext Contains Powerpoint Lecture slides and Hypertext Research Papers: What Is Web 2.0 Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software . Tim O'Reilly (2005); Web 2.0: Hypertext by Any Other Name? (Millard & Ross, 2006)

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand 3 "History" Lecture 6

Lecture 6: Where are all the links taking us: Web Science Contains Powerpoint Lecture slides and Hypertext Research Papers: The Literati (The Cyberspace and critical theory website) (Eastgate website); Pervasive Hypertext at Southampton and at Aarhus; Adaptive Hypertext - The Next Big Thing: (De Bra & Chepegin, 2004); Web Science: Creating a Science of the Web (Berners-Lee, Hall, Hendler, Shadbolt & Weitzner, 2006).

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand "XML" Lecture 1

Lecture 1: Basic XML & HTML5 Lecture slides and exercises for reading and writing basic XML (without DTDs).

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand "XML" Lecture 2

Lecture 1: DTDs and XML Structure Verification Lecture slides and exercises for validating XML with DTDs.