Philips

About: Philips is a company organization based out in Vantaa, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Layer (electronics). The organization has 68260 authors who have published 99663 publications receiving 1882329 citations. The organization is also known as: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. & Royal Philips Electronics.

Attribute-Based Classification for Zero-Shot Visual Object Categorization

Abstract: We study the problem of object recognition for categories for which we have no training examples, a task also called zero--data or zero-shot learning. This situation has hardly been studied in computer vision research, even though it occurs frequently; the world contains tens of thousands of different object classes, and image collections have been formed and suitably annotated for only a few of them. To tackle the problem, we introduce attribute-based classification: Objects are identified based on a high-level description that is phrased in terms of semantic attributes, such as the object's color or shape. Because the identification of each such property transcends the specific learning task at hand, the attribute classifiers can be prelearned independently, for example, from existing image data sets unrelated to the current task. Afterward, new classes can be detected based on their attribute representation, without the need for a new training phase. In this paper, we also introduce a new data set, Animals with Attributes, of over 30,000 images of 50 animal classes, annotated with 85 semantic attributes. Extensive experiments on this and two more data sets show that attribute-based classification indeed is able to categorize images without access to any training images of the target classes.

E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age

Abstract: From the Publisher: It isn't just the promise of impressive technology that is driving people to e-learning. Business need to get rapidly changing information to large numbers of people faster than ever. They need to lower the overall costs of creating a workforce that performs faster and better than the competition, and they need to do this around the clock. It's no longer a question of whether organizations will one day implement online learning, but whether they will do it well. Most organizations that need to train their employees are experimenting with some form of Web-delivered learning. But most organizations have focused on the technological challenges, buying the right software, getting enough bandwidth allocated for Web-based training, designing courseware, etc. These are important steps, but the larger strategic issues remain unsolved: how to make e-learning part of the daily work culture and fully implement its power. E-Learning is the first book in this exciting new field that addresses not just the technological challenges of Web-based training and knowledge management, but how to develop a comprehensive organization-wide learning strategy. Author Marc Rosenberg discusses the technological issues but, more importantly, assesses the dramatic strategic, organizational, and political issues involved in the process of making e-learning a reality. Written for professionals responsible for leading the revolution in workplace learning, E-Learning takes a broad, strategic perspective on corporate learning. This wake-up call for executives everywhere discusses: Requirements for building a viable e-learning strategy; How e-learning will change the nature of training organizations; Knowledge management and other new forms of e-learning. E-Learning explains the basic principles of a comprehensive Web-based learning strategy -- how to link your organization's Web sites, Web-based training, courseware, and all the other components of online learning. With an underlying focus on the "why" -- and not just the "how" -- Rosenberg provides a roadmap for growing and sustaining an e-learning culture that's based on his twenty years of observations, best (and worst) practices, and conversations with leaders in the learning technology fields. Divided into three parts, E-Learning offers an essential balance between building great e-learning (design and technology issues) and implementing it (acceptance and support issues). Within each chapter, examples illustrate many key components of an effective e-learning framework.

Electronic Conduction of Magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 ) and its Transition Point at Low Temperatures

Abstract: WE have measured the electronic conductivity, down to liquid nitrogen temperature, of a number of iron oxides of the homogeneous ‘Fe3O4’ phase, especially as a function of the exact stoichiometrie composition of the material. This seemed of theoretical interest for several reasons:

Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms and Interval-Schemata

Abstract: In this paper we introduce interval-schemata as a tool for analyzing real-coded genetic algorithms (GAs). We show how interval-schemata are analogous to Holland's symbol-schemata and provide a key to understanding the implicit parallelism of real-valued GAs. We also show how they support the intuition that real-coded GAs should have an advantage over binary coded GAs in exploiting local continuities in function optimization. On the basis of our analysis we predict some failure modes for real-coded GAs using several different crossover operators and present some experimental results that support these predictions. We also introduce a crossover operator for real-coded GAs that is able to avoid some of these failure modes.