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This mixed-methods study aims to explore the assessment strategies and tools teachers use to assess student learning in Virtual exchange (VE) in foreign/second language for specific purposes (FLSP) courses at tertiary level. The quantitative data were collected by means...

Advisor/s: Atalla I. Hashad, Gouda I. Salama. Date and location of PhD thesis defense: May 2014, AASTMT Biometrics is an automated method of recognizing a person based on a physiological (e.g. face, iris, or retina) or behavioral (e.g. gait, signature, or dynamic keystr...

Modern vehicles are deployed with a large number of sensors in order to provide a rich spectrum of driver assistance functionality. These systems enhance security and comfort of passengers and other traffic participants alike, but they also pave the road to fully autono...

Text understanding in scene images has gained plenty of attention in the computer vision community and it is an important task in many applications as text carries semantically rich information about scene content and context. For instance, reading text in a scene can b...

One of the main challenges in computer vision is image classification. Nowadays the number of images increases exponentially every day; therefore, it is important to classify them in a reliable way.The conventional image classification pipeline usually consists on extra...

Advisors: Muriel Visani, Alain Boucher, Jean-Marc Ogier. Date and location of PhD thesis defense: 2 October 2013, University of La Rochelle In recent years, the expansion of acquisition devices such as digital cameras, the development of storage and transmission techniq...

Advisor/s: F. Javier Sánchez, Debora Gil and Jorge Bernal. Date and location of PhD thesis defense: 16 December 2014, Autonomous University of Barcelona Recent advances in endoscopic devices have increased their use for minimal invasive diagnostic and intervention proce...

Cooperative Learning (CL) is an educational methodology which promo-tes working in small and heterogeneous groups in which students work together to improve their own knowledge and skills and those of the other members of the group (Johnson, Johnson and Holubec, 1999; V...