Gabor filter is a powerful way to enhance biometric images like fingerprint images in order to extract correct features from these images, Gabor filter used in extracting features directly asin iris images, and sometimes Gabor filter has been used for texture analysis. In fingerprint images The even symmetric Gabor filter is contextual filter or multi-resolution filter will be used to enhance fingerprint imageby filling small gaps (low-pass effect) in the direction of the ridge (black regions) and to increase the discrimination between ridge and valley (black and white regions) in the direction, orthogonal to the ridge, the proposed method in applying Gabor filter on fingerprint images depending on translated fingerprint image into binary image after applying some simple enhancing methods to partially overcome time consuming problem of the Gabor filter.
its very useful for students.
Sharpening process in spatial domain
Direct Manipulation of image Pixels.
The objective of Sharpening is to highlight transitions in intensity
The image blurring is accomplished by pixel averaging in a neighborhood.
Since averaging is analogous to integration.
Prepared by
M. Sahaya Pretha
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
MS University, Tirunelveli Dist, Tamilnadu.
its very useful for students.
Sharpening process in spatial domain
Direct Manipulation of image Pixels.
The objective of Sharpening is to highlight transitions in intensity
The image blurring is accomplished by pixel averaging in a neighborhood.
Since averaging is analogous to integration.
Prepared by
M. Sahaya Pretha
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
MS University, Tirunelveli Dist, Tamilnadu.
Fractal compression is a lossy compression method for digital images, based on fractals. The method is best suited for textures and natural images, relying on the fact that parts of an image often resemble other parts of the same image.[citation needed] Fractal algorithms convert these parts into mathematical data called "fractal codes" which are used to recreate the encoded image.
Abstract
Field of image processing has vast applications in medical, forensic, research etc., It includes various domains like enhancement,
classification, segmentation, etc., which are widely used for these applications. Image Enhancement is the pre processing step on
which the accuracy of the result lies. Image enhancement aims to improve the visual appearance of an image, without affecting
the original attributes (i.e.,) image contrast is adjusted and noise is removed to produce better quality image. Hence image
enhancement is one of the most important tasks in image processing. Enhancement is classified into two categories spatial domain
enhancement and frequency domain enhancement. Spatial domain enhancement acts upon pixel value whereas frequency domain
enhancement acts on the Fourier transform of the image. The enhancement techniques to be used depend on modality, climatic
and visual perspective etc., In this paper, we present a survey on various existing image enhancement techniques.
Keywords: Enhancement, Spatial domain enhancement, Frequency domain enhancement, Contrast, Modality.
After an image has been segmented into regions ; the resulting pixels is usually is represented and described in suitable form for further computer processing.
Performance Evaluation of Image Edge Detection Techniques CSCJournals
The success of an image recognition procedure is related to the quality of the edges marked. The
aim of this research is to investigate and evaluate edge detection techniques when applied to
noisy images at different scales. Sobel, Prewitt, and Canny edge detection algorithms are
evaluated using artificially generated images and comparison criteria: edge quality (EQ) and map
quality (MQ). The results demonstrated that the use of these criteria can be utilized as an aid for
further analysis and arbitration to find the best edge detector for a given image.
This paper presents an improved edge detection algorithm for facial and remotely sensed images using
vector order statistics. The developed algorithm processes coloured images directly without been converted
to grey scale. A number of the existing algorithms converts the coloured images into grey scale before
detection of edges. But this process leads to inaccurate precision of recognized edges, thus producing false
and broken edges in the output edge map. Facial and remotely sensed images consist of curved edge lines
which have to be detected continuously to prevent broken edges. In order to deal with this, a collection of
pixel approach is introduced with a view to minimizing the false and broken edges that exists in the
generated output edge map of facial and remotely sensed images.
Fractal compression is a lossy compression method for digital images, based on fractals. The method is best suited for textures and natural images, relying on the fact that parts of an image often resemble other parts of the same image.[citation needed] Fractal algorithms convert these parts into mathematical data called "fractal codes" which are used to recreate the encoded image.
Abstract
Field of image processing has vast applications in medical, forensic, research etc., It includes various domains like enhancement,
classification, segmentation, etc., which are widely used for these applications. Image Enhancement is the pre processing step on
which the accuracy of the result lies. Image enhancement aims to improve the visual appearance of an image, without affecting
the original attributes (i.e.,) image contrast is adjusted and noise is removed to produce better quality image. Hence image
enhancement is one of the most important tasks in image processing. Enhancement is classified into two categories spatial domain
enhancement and frequency domain enhancement. Spatial domain enhancement acts upon pixel value whereas frequency domain
enhancement acts on the Fourier transform of the image. The enhancement techniques to be used depend on modality, climatic
and visual perspective etc., In this paper, we present a survey on various existing image enhancement techniques.
Keywords: Enhancement, Spatial domain enhancement, Frequency domain enhancement, Contrast, Modality.
After an image has been segmented into regions ; the resulting pixels is usually is represented and described in suitable form for further computer processing.
Performance Evaluation of Image Edge Detection Techniques CSCJournals
The success of an image recognition procedure is related to the quality of the edges marked. The
aim of this research is to investigate and evaluate edge detection techniques when applied to
noisy images at different scales. Sobel, Prewitt, and Canny edge detection algorithms are
evaluated using artificially generated images and comparison criteria: edge quality (EQ) and map
quality (MQ). The results demonstrated that the use of these criteria can be utilized as an aid for
further analysis and arbitration to find the best edge detector for a given image.
This paper presents an improved edge detection algorithm for facial and remotely sensed images using
vector order statistics. The developed algorithm processes coloured images directly without been converted
to grey scale. A number of the existing algorithms converts the coloured images into grey scale before
detection of edges. But this process leads to inaccurate precision of recognized edges, thus producing false
and broken edges in the output edge map. Facial and remotely sensed images consist of curved edge lines
which have to be detected continuously to prevent broken edges. In order to deal with this, a collection of
pixel approach is introduced with a view to minimizing the false and broken edges that exists in the
generated output edge map of facial and remotely sensed images.
Efficient fingerprint image enhancement algorithm based on gabor filtereSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Edge detection of herbal plants is a set of mathematical methods which aim at identifying points in a digital image at which the image brightness changes sharply and has discontinuities. They are defined as the set of curved line segments termed edges. Effective edge detection for microscopic image of herbal plant is proposed through this paper which compares the edge detected images and then performs further segmentation. Comparison between Sobel operator, Prewitt, Canny and Robert cross operators is performed. Our method after efficient edge detection performs Gabor filter and K-means clustering to procure a better image. It is then subjected to further segmentation. Experimental methods in our proposed algorithm show that our method achieves a better edge detection as compared to other edge detector operators. Our proposed algorithm provides the maximum PSNR value of 43.684 amongst the other commercial edge detection operators.
DIGITAL RESTORATION OF TORN FILMS USING FILTERING T ECHNIQUESAM Publications
The acceptance of digital imaging is motivating many photography enthusiasts to transfer their
photographic archive to digital form. Scans of negatives and positives are preferred to be scanned at high resolution
which makes small cracks and scratches very apparent. These unsightly defects have become an important issue
for consumers. Filtering techniques are used for the restoration process which is fully automatic whereas the existing
systems were semi-automatic or completely manual. The method used for the detection of tear is dilation process and
top-hat transform. Top-hat transform might misinterpret dark brush strokes as cracks. In order to avoid these
unwanted alterations to the original image, brush strokes are separated from the actual cracks using clustering
technique. Tear removal includes order statistics filtering which deals with the reconstruction of missing or
damaged image areas.
Face Recognition Using Neural Network Based Fourier Gabor Filters & Random Pr...CSCJournals
Face detection and recognition has many applications in a variety of fields such as authentication, security, video surveillance and human interaction systems. In this paper, we present a neural network system for face recognition. Feature vector based on Fourier Gabor filters is used as input of our classifier, which is a Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN). The input vector of the network will have large dimension, to reduce its feature subspace we investigate the use of the Random Projection as method of dimensionality reduction. Theory and experiment indicates the robustness of our solution.
Visual Quality for both Images and Display of Systems by Visual Enhancement u...IJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
Removal of Gaussian noise on the image edges using the Prewitt operator and t...IOSR Journals
Abstract: Image edge detection algorithm is applied on images to remove Gaussian noise that is present in the
image during capturing or transmission using a method which combines Prewitt operator and threshold
function technique to do edge detection on the image. This method is better than a method which combines
Prewitt operator and mean filtering. In this paper, firstly use mean filtering to remove initially Gaussian noise,
then use Prewitt operator to do edge detection on the image, and finally applied a threshold function technique
with Prewitt operator.
Keywords: Gaussian noise, Prewitt operator, edge detection, threshold function
Dense Visual Odometry Using Genetic AlgorithmSlimane Djema
Our work aims to estimate the camera motion mounted on the head of a mobile robot or a moving object from RGB-D images in a static scene. The problem of motion estimation is transformed into a nonlinear least squares function. Methods for solving such problems are iterative. Various classic methods gave an iterative solution by linearizing this function. We can also use the metaheuristic optimization method to solve this problem and improve results. In this paper, a new algorithm is developed for visual odometry using a sequence of RGB-D images. This algorithm is based on a genetic algorithm. The proposed iterative genetic algorithm searches using particles to estimate the optimal motion and then compares it to the traditional methods. To evaluate our method, we use the root mean square error to compare it with the based energy method and another metaheuristic method. We prove the efficiency of our innovative algorithm on a large set of images.
EFFICIENT IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING REGION BASED IMAGE RETRIEVALsipij
Early image retrieval techniques were based on textual annotation of images. Manual annotation of images
is a burdensome and expensive work for a huge image database. It is often introspective, context-sensitive
and crude. Content based image retrieval, is implemented using the optical constituents of an image such
as shape, colour, spatial layout, and texture to exhibit and index the image. The Region Based Image
Retrieval (RBIR) system uses the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and a k-means clustering algorithm
to segment an image into regions. Each region of the image is represented by a set of optical
characteristics and the likeness between regions and is measured using a particular metric function on
such characteristics
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
FORGERY (COPY-MOVE) DETECTION IN DIGITAL IMAGES USING BLOCK METHODeditorijcres
AKHILESH KUMAR YADAV, DEENBANDHU SINGH, VIVEK KUMAR
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow
akhi2232232@gmail.com, deenbandhusingh85@gmail.com, vivek.kumar0091@gmail.com
ABSTRACT- Digital images can be easily modified using powerful image editing software. Determining whether a manipulation is innocent of sharpening from those which are malicious, such as removing or adding parts to an image is the topic of this paper. In this paper we focus on detection of a special type of forgery-the Copy-Move forgery, in this part of the original image is copied moved to desired location in the same image and pasted. The proposed method compress images using DWT (discrete wavelet transform) and divided into blocks and choose blocks than perform feature vector calculation and lexicographical sorting and duplicated blocks are identified after sorting. This method is good at some manipulation/attack likes scaling, rotation, Gaussian noise, smoothing, JPEG compression etc.
INDEX TERMS- Copy-Move forgery, Wavelet Transform, Lexicographical Sorting, Region Duplication Detection.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Frequency Domain Blockiness and Blurriness Meter for Image Quality AssessmentCSCJournals
Image and video compression introduces distortions (artefacts) to the coded image. The most prominent artefacts added are blockiness and blurriness. Many existing quality meters are normally distortion-specific. This paper proposes an objective quality meter for quantifying the combined blockiness and blurriness distortions in frequency domain. The model first applies edge detection and cancellation, then spatial masking to mimic the characteristics of the human visual system. Blockiness is then estimated by transforming image into frequency domain, followed by finding the ratio of harmonics to other AC components. Blurriness is determined by comparing the high frequency coefficients of the reference and coded images due to the fact that blurriness reduces the high frequency coefficients. Then, both blockiness and blurriness distortions are combined for a single quality metric. The meter is tested on blocky and blurred images from the LIVE image database, with a correlation coefficient of 95-96%.
With entry of time proportion of maturing and incessant infections going high and high. That is the reason people groups are for the most part stressed over their great wellbeing. Furthermore, they are energized by their longing for better wellbeing administration. Individuals intrigues, consideration move towards quiet focused rather than old customary and traditional hospitalized administrations. For this reason in later past thought of U-HEALTHCARE was embraced. U-HealthCare was such a framework made out of a shrewd headband and a wellbeing state screen program. U-Health Care is in charge of keeping under perceptions diverse conditions of wellbeing amid running, strolling, running. Its produce data about heart rate, client PGG (Photo Plet hy Smography) with help of savvy headband. A sticks of time clock proceeds recently investigate on telemedicine drive forward omnipresent social insurance (U-Health).researchers and designers have anticipating such a telemedicine framework which is arrangement of MOBILE, UBIQUITOUS and WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK, on the grounds that such a framework have more positive to appreciate next offspring of U-Health. With giving a great deal of productive results present photograph of U-Health framework is still a tiny bit unclear and dark because of inadequacies which make question mark on notice alternative of U-HealthCare System. So for this reason, we should need to take incorporation of most recent, very much modern equipment, correspondences, interconnections, a trademark figuring, advance steering and protection to upcoming offspring of U-Healthcare taking into account MOBILE, UBIQUITOUS and WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK. Our distinct fascination and consideration will be on change of ROUTING and SECURITY.
Multicarrier modulation can be implemented by using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) to achieve utmost bandwidth exploitation and soaring alleviation attributes profile besides multipath fading. To support delay sensitive and band bandwidth demanding multimedia applications and internet services, MIMO in addition with other techniques can be used to achieve high capacity and reliability. To obtain high spatial rate by transmitting data on several antennas by using MIMO with OFDM results in reducing error recovery features and the equalization complexities arise by sending data on varying frequency levels. Three parameters frequency OFDM, Spatial (MIMO) and time (STC) can be used to achieve diversity in MIMO-OFDM. This technique is dynamic and well-known for services of wireless broadband access. MIMO if used with OFDM is highly beneficial for each scheme and provides high throughput. There are several space time block codes to exploit MIMO OFDM; one of the techniques is called Alamouti Codes. The paper investigates adaptive Alamouti Codes and their application in IEEE 802.11n.
During data acquisition and transmission of biomedical signals like electrocardiography (ECG), different types of artifacts are embedded in the signal. Since an ECG is a low amplitude signal these artifacts greatly degrade the signal quality and the signal becomes noisy. The sources of artifacts are power line interference (PLI), high frequency interference electromyography (EMG) and base line wanders (BLW). Different digital filters are used in order to reduce these artifacts. ECG signal is a non-stationary signal, it is difficult to find fixed filters for the removal of interference from the ECG signal. In order to overcome these problems adaptive filters are used as they are well suited for the non-stationary environment. In this paper a new algorithm “Modified Normalized Least Mean Square” has been proposed. A comparison is made among the new algorithm and the existing algorithms like LMS, NLMS, Sign data LMS and Log LMS in terms of SNR, convergence rate and time complexity. It has been observed that the performance of new algorithm is superior to the existing ones in terms of SNR and convergence rate however it is more complex than the other algorithms. Results of simulations in MATLAB are presented and a critical analysis is made on the basis of convergence rate, signal to noise ratio (SNR), and computational time among the filtering techniques.
As IT industry flourish and computer graphics race started hereby AI serve a step forward to this.The next industry will be with characters that behave realistically and that can learn and adapt.This paper explores the various artificial intelligence techniques that are currently being used by game developers, as well as techniques that are new to the industry. The techniques covered in this paper are finite state machines, scripting, agents, flocking, genetic algorithms. This paper introduces each of these technique, explains how they can be applied to games and how commercial games are currently making use of them. Finally, the effectiveness of these techniques and their future role in the industry are evaluated.
E-Voting system is a system which allow all citizens of country to cast their vote online is to increase the overall voting percentage across the country, as in the recent scenario people have to visit the booth to cast their vote and those people who live out of their native place are not able to cast vote during the elections. So due to this the voting percentage across the country is very less. Through this software those people who live out of their home town will also be able to cast their votes as this system is online. The main objective of this software is to increase the overall voting percentage and create and manage polling and election details like general user details, nominated users, and election and result details efficiently.
GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. It comprises the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and GenBank at NCB[3].The information retrieved in a genbank file is complex and requires condsiderable time for analyzing the data. In this work we wish to convert the data present in Genbank file into a more readable, graphical format by developing a computational tool RASA-GD, using Perl code, Perl module and php. The tool accept file in genbank format and will extract information such as coding region, exon, intron, gene, mRNA,tRNA, and other data contained in gene bank file and also calculate the length of these elements and will generate a graphical output of length and statistical values such as mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, sample range, minimum value, maximum value, unique gene number. This tool will be very useful for various kinds of analysis to both molecular biologists and computational biologists and will help in hypothesis generation. We have used ourtool for visualizing variation of foxp2 gene from various species such as in human, monkey, gorilla, house mouse, gallusgallus. This gene is responsible for speech behavior. In order to explore whether there is an evolutionary significance of the length of various genetic elements of this gene, The data generated has provided useful insight into the evolutionary history of this gene.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.