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Flexible and stretchable circuit is the key element for the upcoming flexible hybrid electronics in addition to high performance silicon based active devices and passive components. The circuitry and structure design of the circuit carrier have to be able to withstand the stress and tolerate biometric signal variation induced by external force. These circuit carriers can be fabricated by use of the flexible display technologies and facilities. In this study, we integrated ICs, passive components and sensors to form a system upon flexible/plastic circuit carrier. Bendable and/or stretchable smart textiles and patches were successful demonstrated with the functionality of electromyography (EMG) and electrocardiography (ECG). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

3D display has become increasingly popular in many fields. It can provide incredible immersion compared with 2D display. There are many researches referring to the change of user about no matter subjective experience or objective physiology signal while watching 3D content. Similarly, in this paper, we study the variation of user's EEG when the user watched 3D content. However, we only focus on parallax cue and avoid other cues of 3D content by using Random Dot Stereogram(RDS) as visual stimulus. We designed an experiment which asked the subject to watch RDS with nine kinds of parallaxes(0,±0.5,±1.1,±1.3,±1.7). The users watched one RDS for 1 minute and then closed eyes and rest for 1 minute every time. During watching, EEG signal with 30‐channel was recorded. The result suggests that significant variation of the user's EEG data occurred in the Alpha (8–13Hz) and Beta(14–30Hz) frequency band by different parallax's comparison. And we found not only parallax but also electrode position can impact the user's EEG data significantly. Accurately, the EEG data has a significant change in six electrodes position in both frequency bands including CZ, PZ, OZ, O2 in international 10–20 system. It means those electrode positions we detect can be regarded as typical positions where we record EEG signal. It will simplify the process of EEG signal acquisition when we need to study the relationship between parallax cue of 3D display and the user further. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we designed an experiment to observe changes for different fatigue level in human brain when watching random dot stereogram (RDS) using the method of EEG. The subjects were asked to watch 3D content for 30 minutes and the disparity of RDS changed every 10 seconds. During this watching task, subjects should rate their extent of fatigue during the experiment on the scale of one to five only when they felt worse or better. 30 channels electroencephalogram (EEG) signals were recorded through the experiment. Finally, the relationship between various fatigue levels and disparities which revealed by EEG signals were investigated. Our results show that the power of waveband, namely alpha increased with the fatigue level increasing from one to four during watching RDS, but decreased in level five. We have employed logistic regression to model fatigue level and achieved classification accuracy of 94.18%. Our research has important implications for the continuous monitoring of user's fatigue in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In computer vision and pattern recognition applications, there are usually a vast number of unlabelled data whereas the labelled data are very limited. Active learning is a kind of method that selects the most representative or informative examples for labelling and training; thus, the best prediction accuracy can be achieved. A novel active learning algorithm is proposed here based on one-versus-one strategy support vector machine (SVM) to solve multi-class image classification. A new uncertainty measure is proposed based on some binary SVM classifiers and some of the most uncertain examples are selected from SVM output. To ensure that the selected examples are diverse from each other, Gaussian kernel is adopted to measure the similarity between any two examples. From the previous selected examples, a batch of diverse and uncertain examples are selected by the dynamic programming method for labelling. The experimental results on two datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tabu Search is a metaheuristic that has proven to be very effective for solving various types of combinatorial optimization problems. To achieve the best results with a tabu search algorithm, significant benefits can sometimes be gained by determining preferred values for certain search parameters such as tabu tenures, move selection probabilities, the timing and structure of elite solution recovery for intensification, etc. In this paper, we present and implement some new ideas for fine-tuning a tabu search algorithm using statistical tests. Although the focus of this work is to improve a particular tabu search algorithm developed for solving a telecommunications network design problem, the implications are quite general. The same ideas and procedures can easily be adapted and applied to other tabu search algorithms as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]