• Fuzzy Environment Mapping for Robot Navigation Based on Grid Computing 

      Kao, Li-Jen; Huang, Yo-Ping; Sandnes, Frode Eika; Hsiao, Mann-Jung (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      In order to navigate autonomously, a mobile robot needs to build an environment map where the robot is navigating. Currently, the sensors are mounted on the robot to detect if the obstacles exist and then the map immediate ...
    • Gesture-Based Applications for Elderly People 

      Chen, Weiqin (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      According to the literature, normal ageing is associated with a decline in sensory, perceptual, motor and cognitive abilities. When designing applications for elderly people, it is crucial to take into consideration the ...
    • The Hydra: A layered, redundant configuration management approach for cloud-agnostic disaster recovery 

      Huang, Ke; Begnum, Kyrre (IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This paper demonstrates a bottom-up approach to developing autonomic fault tolerance and disaster recovery on cloud-based deployments. We avoid lock-in to specific recovery features provided by the cloud itself, and instead ...
    • Image based contamination detection on hard disk head gimbal assembly 

      Ieamsaard, Jirarat; Muneesawang, Paisarn; Sandnes, Frode Eika (SITIS 2015 - The 11th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet System;, Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2015)
      Contamination may appear in various stages of hard disk manufacturing including the head gimbal assembly. Currently, the detection of contamination requires manual intervention. An image based automatic contamination ...
    • An Interface for reducing errors in intravenous drug administration 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika; Huang, Yo-Ping (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering;260, 3-12, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08)
      Input errors occur with drug infusion pumps when nurses or technicians incorrectly input the prescribed therapy through the control panel. Such number copying tasks are cognitively and visually demanding, errors are easily ...
    • Kvasir-SEG: A Segmented Polyp Dataset 

      Jha, Debesh; Pia H, Smedsrud; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål; de Lange, Thomas; Johansen, Dag; Johansen, Håvard D. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;Volume 11962, Conference object, 2019-12-24)
      Pixel-wise image segmentation is a highly demanding task in medical-image analysis. In practice, it is difficult to find annotated medical images with corresponding segmentation masks. In this paper, we present Kvasir-SEG: ...
    • Language and Metamorphosis Supervising Computer Science Students diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome 

      Ribu, Kirsten (NIK: Norsk Informatikkonferanse;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-11-01)
      Many, although not all people with autistic disorders like Asperger Syndrome, (AS), experience social hindrances and learning difficulties, although they have average or above average intelligence. They interpret the spoken ...
    • Machine Learning-Based Analysis of Sperm Videos and Participant Data for Male Fertility Prediction 

      Hicks, Steven; Andersen, Jorunn Marie; Witczak, Oliwia; Lasantha Bandara Thambawita, Vajira; Halvorsen, Pål; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Haugen, Trine B.; Riegler, Michael Alexander (Scientific Reports;9, Article number: 16770 (2019), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-10-24)
      Methods for automatic analysis of clinical data are usually targeted towards a specific modality and do not make use of all relevant data available. In the field of male human reproduction, clinical and biological data are ...
    • Making touch-based kiosks accessible to blind users through simple gestures 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika; Tan, Tek Beng; Johansen, Anders; Sulic, Edvin; Vesterhus, Eirik; Iversen, Eirik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-11-01)
      Touch-based interaction is becoming increasingly popular and is commonly used as the main interaction paradigm for self-service kiosks in public spaces. Touch-based interaction is known to be visually intensive, and current ...
    • Maximizing hypervisor scalability using minimal virtual machines 

      Bratterud, Alfred; Haugerud, Hårek (IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The smallest instance offered by Amazon EC2 comes with 615MB memory and a 7.9GB disk image. While small by today's standards, embedded web servers with memory footprints well under 100kB, indicate that there is much to be ...
    • Measuring 2D:4D finger length ratios with Smartphone Cameras 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics;2014, Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2014-10)
      Finger length ratios have received much attention among researchers as the 2D:4D ratio has been linked to several physical and mental characteristics. This study explores the feasibility of using a Smartphone as an ...
    • Near Eyes-Free Chauffeur Computer Interaction with Chording and Visual Text Mnemonics 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika; Huang, Yo-Ping; Huang, Yueh-Min (Journal of Universal Computer Science;16 (10), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Modern cars are equipped with advanced technology requiring cognitively complex operation that is reliant on the user’s visual attention. It is therefore hazardous for drivers to operate such devices while driving. In ...
    • A neural network model and framework for an automatic evaluation of image descriptions based on NCAM image accessibility guidelines 

      Shrestha, Raju (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Millions of people who are either blind or visually impaired have difficulty understanding the content in an image. To address the problem textual image descriptions or captions are provided separately or as alternative ...
    • A Non-Visual Photo Collection Browser based on Automatically Generated Text Descriptions 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (DSAI;2010, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      This study presents a textual photo collection browser that automatically and quickly analyses large personal photo collections and produces textual reports that can be accessed by blind users using either text-to-speech ...
    • On the Understandability of Public Domain Icons: Effects of Gender and Age 

      Berget, Gerd; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;9175, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-18)
      Icons and symbols are often deployed in graphical user interfaces. It is commonly believed that icons add to the user friendliness of products. Devel‐ opers have great trust in icon libraries and they are likely to use ...
    • On the usefulness of Aaa-links for controlling text size on web pages : preliminary results 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (The proceedings of Unitech2010 : International Conference on Universal Technologies;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Aaa-links, also known as triple-a links, have over the last few years become commonplace on the web. In a move to become more universally accessible organizations have introduced Aaa-links to help users with reduced ...
    • Prosjekt Ymer : grafikkprosessering på sky 

      Granstad, Linda; Begnum, Kyrre (Norsk Informatikkonferanse;2010, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Skyteknologi er en teknologi som tilbyr et spekter av nye tjenester som er lite utprøvd på mange felt. Et av disse områdene er bruk av sky i forbindelse med grafikkprosessering. Vil det være mulig å få en renderfarm til ...
    • Reflective Text Entry: A Simple Low Effort Predictive Input Method Based on Flexible Abbreviations 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (Procedia Computer Science;67, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-06)
      Users with reduced physical functioning such as ALS patients need more time and effort to operate computers. Most of the previous assistive technologies use prefix based predictive text input algorithms. Prefix based ...
    • Reliable modeling of CPU usage in an office worker environment 

      Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Yazidi, Anis; Begnum, Kyrre (Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing;2016, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      In this paper, we present a novel and realistic model for modelling CPU usage of virtual machines on a cloud. The model is based on considering the CPU consumption of a virtual machine as a one generated from a Hidden ...
    • A repeating pattern based Query-by-Humming fuzzy system for polyphonic melody retrieval 

      Huang, Yo-Ping; Shin-Liang, Lai; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Applied Soft Computing;33, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-25)
      Query-by-Humming involves retrieving music with a melody that matches the hummed query. An improved Query-by-Humming system for extracting pitch contour information based on a fuzzy inference model is introduced. In addition, ...