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CRIWG
2008
15 years 3 months ago
Using Second Life in Programming's Communities of Practice
Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach to teaching and learning computer programming, using the three-dimensional virtual world Second Life
Micaela Esteves, Ricardo Antunes, Benjamim Fonseca...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 2 months ago
Engaging middle school teachers and students with alice in a diverse set of subjects
This paper describes the integration of the Alice 3D virtual worlds environment into a diverse set of subjects in middle school, including the development of tutorials, example wo...
Susan H. Rodger, Jenna Hayes, Gaetjens Lezin, Henr...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Fast Object and Pose Recognition Through Minimum Entropy Coding
We present a pattern recognizer to classify a variety of objects and their pose on a table from real world images. Learning of weights in a linear discriminant is based on estimat...
Günter Westphal, Rolf P. Würtz
SIBGRAPI
2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Multiple Mice Tracking using a Combination of Particle Filter and K-Means
This paper presents a new approach to multiple objects tracking that combines particle filters and k-means. The approach has been tested under an important real world situation, ...
Wesley Nunes Gonçalves, João Bosco O...
GI
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
RFID middleware design - addressing both application needs and RFID constraints
: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has a lot of potential to bridge the gap between the virtual world of enterprise IT systems and the real world of products and l...
Christian Floerkemeier, Matthias Lampe