Aportaciones al desarrollo de una ingeniería de contenidos docentes

Programa de doctorado: Sistemas inteligentes y aplicaciones numéricas en ingeniería.

Clase magistral del catedrático de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Francisco Javier Neila González

[ES]Celebrada en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, miércoles 21 de octubre de 2015. Clase del Máster universitario Arquitectura y acondicionamiento con tecnologías de comunicaciones para hoteles sustentables, A2TECHS. Dentro de la asignatura Análisis de Modelos Hoteleros Sustentables.

Forecasting and visualization of wildfires in a 3D geographical information system

[EN]This paper describes a wildfi re forecasting application based on a 3D virtual environment and a fi re simulation engine. A novel open source framework is presented for the development of 3D graphics applications over large geographic areas, off ering high performance 3D visualization and powerful interaction tools for the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) community. The application includes a remote module that allows simultaneous connection of several users for monitoring a real wildfi re event.

A Low Consumption Real Time Environmental Monitoring System for Smart Cities based on ZigBee Wireless Sensor Network

Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in wireless sensor networks (WSN) for environmental monitoring systems because it can be used to improve the quality of life and living conditions are becoming a major concern to people. This paper describes the design and development of a real time monitoring system based on ZigBee WSN characterized by a lower energy consumption, low cost, reduced dimensions and fast adaptation to the network tree topology. The developed system encompasses an optimized sensing process about environmental parameters, low rate transmission from sensor nodes to the gateway, packet parsing and data storing in a remote database and real time visualization through a web server.

Diseño e implementación de un conjugador verbal como aplicación Android

[ES]Desarrollo de una aplicación Android con un diseño de interfaz de usuario para smartphones y otro para tabletas cuya finalidad es mostrar información acerca del verbo introducido por el usuario. Por un lado, sería la visualización de todas las formas verbales que posee el verbo, las cuáles son obtenidas de una serie de servicios remotos pertenecientes al grupo TIP (Text & Information Processing) y que deberán ser tratadas antes de ser visualizadas. Y, por otro lado, la información que nos permitirá identificar al verbo, las definiciones de sus posibles significados y notas asociadas a la forma de conjugarse. Esta información, en cambio, se obtendrá de una serie de servicios locales en la propia aplicación basado en ficheros de texto.

Computer vision based eyewear selector

[EN]This paper describes a low-cost system that allows the user to visualize different glasses models in live video. The user can also move the glasses to adjust its position on the face. The system, which runs at 9.5 frames/s on general-purpose hardware, has a homeostatic module that keeps image parameters controlled. This is achieved by using a camera with motorized zoom, iris, white balance, etc. This feature can be specially useful in environments with changing illumination and shadows, like in an optical shop. The system also includes a face and eye detection module and a glasses management module.

Jornadas de promoción para integración y orientación de estudiantes del grado de ingeniería en tecnologías de la telecomunicación. Hitos de las telecomunicaciones en Canarias

[ES]En este artículo se muestra la experiencia desarrollada por el departamento de Señales y Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria en las jornadas de promoción para la integración y orientación de estudiantes del grado de ingeniería en tecnologías de la telecomunicación dentro del programa titulado Hitos de las Telecomunicaciones en canarias orientado a facilitar a los estudiantes una visión práctica de las materias de telecomunicación dentro este nuevo modelo de aprendizaje.

Eyewear selector

[EN]The widespread availability of portable computing power and inexpensive digital cameras is opening up new possibilities for retailers. One example is in optical shops, where a number of systems exist that facilitate eyeglasses selection. These systems are now more necessary as the market is saturated with an increasingly complex array of lenses, frames, coatings, tints, photochromic and polarizing treatments, etc. Research challenges encompass Computer Vision, Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction. Cost factors are also of importance for widespread product acceptance. This paper describes a low-cost system that allows the user to visualize di erent spectacle models in live video. The user can also move the spectacles to adjust its position on the face. Experiments show the potential of the system.

Becoming visually familiar

Automatic face recognition has been mainly tackled by matching a new image to a set of previously computed identity models. The literature describes approximations where those identity models are based on a single sample or a set of them. However, face representation keeps being a topic of great debate in the psychology literature, with some results suggesting the use of an average image. In this paper, instead of restricting our system to a fixed and precomputed classifier, the system learns iteratively based on the experience extracted from each meeting.