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Walk&Sketch: Create Floor Plans with an RGB-D Camera
In this paper, we present a system, Walk&Sketch, that creates floor plans of an indoor environment by a person walking through the environment at a normal strolling pace and taking videos using a consumer RGB-D camera.
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Receipts2Go: the big world of small documents
This paper outlines the system and reports on some initial results, including the algorithms we’ve found useful for cleaning up those document images, and the techniques used to extract and organize relevant information from thousands of similar-but-different page layouts.
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Illinois Preschool for All (PFA) evaluation
This fact sheet summarizes findings from the Illinois Preschool for All (PFA) program evaluation conducted by Erikson Institute and SRI International.
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SRI’s Unique Innovation Charter
Innovation is one of those words greatly in danger of overuse and exaggeration. These days, you hear the term mentioned in almost every corner of industry and even in reference to culture, society, and our personal lives. At SRI, we don’t use the word “innovation” lightly. We have a clear and crisp definition for what…
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2012 Context Study of the Use of Technology and PBS KIDS Transmedia in the Home Environment: A Report to the CPB-PBS “Ready to Learn Initiative”
The evaluation is focused on documenting and, whenever possible, measuring the impact of transmedia mathematics and literacy resources on learning for children from low-income families in preschool, community, or home settings.
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PBS KIDS Transmedia Suites Gaming Study: A Report to the CPB-PBS “Ready to Learn Initiative”
Educators are well aware that in order to positively impact children’s learning, media and technology must be integrated into the teaching and learning activities of instructional environments.
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2012 Preschool Pilot Study of PBS KIDS Transmedia Mathematics Content: A Report to the CPB-PBS “Ready to Learn Initiative”
Over the course of a 10-week CPB-PBS Ready To Learn pilot study of two mathematics curriculum supplements, one rich in PBS transmedia and hands-on activities, the other using only traditional hands-on activities, the Education Development Center, Inc., (EDC) and SRI International (SRI) collected information through classroom observations, logs kept by participating coaches and teachers, surveys…
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Multi-system fusion of extended context prosodic and cepstral features for paralinguistic speaker trait classification
This paper focuses on the identification of seven speaker trait categories from the Interspeech Speaker Trait Challenge: likeability, intelligibility, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
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Curricular Activity Systems Supporting the Use of Dynamic Representations to Foster Students’ Deep Understanding of Mathematics
This chapter describes the notion of a curricular activity system and how it can be used in the design of learning environments that have a wider reach.
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Influence of Formulation Factors on the Preparation of Zein Nanoparticles
The main objective of the present study was to investigate the influence of various formulation parameters on the preparation of zein nanoparticles.
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Discriminatively trained phoneme confusion model for keyword spotting
This work proposes the use of discriminative training to construct a phoneme confusion model, which expands the phonemic index of a KWS system by adding phonemic variation to handle the abovementioned problems.
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Evaluation of the Florida Master Teacher Initiative Formative Report
The Florida Master Plan Initiative (FMTI) partners have developed and implemented a set of strategic programs to enhance early learning instruction for high-need students.