The prediction of Visual Attention data from any kind of media is of valuable use to content creators and used to efficiently drive encoding algorithms. With the current trend in the Virtual Reality (VR) field, adapting known techniques to this new kind of media is starting to gain momentum. In this paper, we present an architectural extension to any Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to fine-tune traditional 2D saliency prediction to Omnidirectional Images (ODIs) in an end-to-end manner. We show that each step in the proposed pipeline works towards making the generated saliency map more accurate with respect to ground truth data.
El presente trabajo estudia las principales variables de control del proceso de fabricación de piezas cerámicas de construcción de la zona metropolitana de San José de Cúcuta, mediante las técnicas de extrusión y prensado para su conformado. La investigación se llevó a cabo utilizando muestras arcillosas de las dos principales formaciones geológicas de la región de donde se extraen las materias primas para el proceso a nivel industrial. Las muestras arcillosas se molturaron tanto por vía seca como por vía húmeda y se estudió su granulometría. Posteriormente se llevó a cabo el proceso de conformado utilizando una prensa hidráulica y una extrusora con vacío, ambos equipos a escala de laboratorio. Las probetas obtenidas se secaron y cocieron entre 980 ºC y 1180ºC al final del proceso se realizaron pruebas para determinar la absorción de agua, contracción y pérdida de masa en cocción de las probetas. Los resultados de la investigación dejaron ver que la técnica de extrusión permite una gresificación más rápida para las arcillas de la región en comparación con la técnica de prensado, las contracciones de secado y cocción son menos marcadas en la técnica de prensado y con desviaciones estándar mucho mas bajas que en el caso de la extrusión.
Palabras clave: Extrusión, prensado, conformado, absorción de agua, cerámica roja.
The comparative study of pressing and extrusion like procesess of construction ceramic products in the Metropolitan Area of CucutaThe present work studies the principal variables of control in the manufacturing process of construction pieces of the Metropolitan Area of San Jose de Cucuta by extrusion and pressing techniques for its forming. The investigation was taken out using clayey samples of the two principal geological formations of the region where the raw material is taken for processing at an industrial level. The clayey samples milling was made by dry means as well as by moisture means and its particle size was measured. Subsequently the forming process was taken over by using an hydraulic press and extruder with vacuum system , both equipments at laboratory scale, the pieces shaped were dry and firing between 980° c and 1180° at the end of the process the tests were made to determine water absorbtion, contraction and mass loss at the pieces firing. The study results left to see that the extrusion technique allowed a faster vitrification for the region's clay in comparing with the pressing technique, the contractions of drying and firing are less marked on the pressing techniques with standard deviations much lower than in extrusion.
En el siguiente trabajo, se presentan los resultados del estudio de correlación de las variables y parámetros asociados a la medición de la Densidad Aparente (DAP) para material cerámico crudo utilizado en la fabricación industrial de baldosas para piso, frente al método de inmersión en mercurio. Los anteriores resultados se obtuvieron teniendo en cuenta la aplicación de un modelo matemático al DAP como función no lineal de parámetros como la temperatura, permitividad eléctrica relativa y variables como la humedad relativa HR, voltaje y frecuencia de resonancia, medidos con un dispositivo electrónico diseñado en la Universidad Central por el grupo de investigación en Estado Sólido y Optoelectrónica ESSOPTO y utilizado en el Centro de Investigación en Materiales Cerámicos de la UFPS -CIMAC de la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander -Cúcuta Colombia.
Palabras claves: densidad aparente, espesor, frecuencia, humedad relativa, permitividad eléctrica.
Correlation and variability study of mercury immersion method and a resonant capacitive method to determine bulk density of raw ceramic materialIn this paper, we present the results of the correlation study of the variables and parameters associated with the measurement of the apparent density (AD) for raw ceramic material used in the industrial manufacture of floor tiles, compared the mercury immersion method . The above results were obtained taking into account the application of a mathematical model to the DAP as a nonlinear function of parameters such as temperature, relative electrical permittivity and variables such as relative humidity RH, voltage and resonant frequency, measured with an electronic device designed Central University by the
This is a perceptual study on the production of English syllabic consonants vs. schwa in word final position at discourse level. It is intended to find out whether the speaker’s gender, accent, speech rate and emphasis placed upon words have any bearing on the production of this alternation. The effect the aforementioned factors may have on the production of this apparently anarchic phonetic alternation demands further exploration (see, however, O’Shaughnessy, 1981; Byrd, 1994; Wells, 1995; Töft, 2002). The informants for this study were 80 non-rhotic native newsreaders (40 males and 40 females) taken from theBBC learning English website(2009). Three female listeners not knowledgeable about the purposes of the study had to decide whether they perceived a syllabic consonant in certain words (800 overall) or not. Results show that there is a statistically significant relationship between each of these factors and the production of English syllabic consonants vs. schwa.
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