The airport of Mexico City is suffering from congestion problems during part of the day. For that reason the government announced the construction of a complete new one which is supposed to be operative in 2020 in its first phase. However the economic downturn in the country jeopardize the complete project …

‘Staying Alive’ is the title of an exhibition and of the 7th book in the Ebifananyi series and two exhibitions. One of the exhibitions took place at Afriart Gallery, the other one on the balcony of the new six story inpatient building of the Uganda Cancer Institute. Books and exhibitions present photographic …

Hoe kan de communicatieprofessional omgaan met de waardering van feiten en emoties? Volgens Yale-professor Dan Kahan zijn mensen van alle rangen en standen steeds meer geneigd hun eigen feiten te selecteren, juist nu ze zo voor het grijpen liggen. Het ordenen van feiten volstaat steeds minder om een …

One of the big problems visually impaired persons experience in their daily lives, is the inability to see non-verbal cues of conversation partners. In this study, a wearable assistive technology is presented and evaluated which supports visually impaired persons with the recognition of facial expressions …

This article introduces Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concepts of smooth and striated space and couples these with the realms of art and technology. In doing so, and by analysing a case study, the dynamic natures and complex mixtures of art and technology are discussed. As a result, a perspective …

The aim of the current study was twofold: (1) to validate the use of action sport cameras for quantifying focus of visual attention in sailing and (2) to apply this method to examine whether an external focus of attention is associated with better performance in upwind sailing. To test the validity of …

Bij onderzoek naar ecologie en waterkwaliteit kunnen onderwaterdrones worden toegepast. De drones, uitgerust met diverse sensoren en camera’s, blijken een waardevolle toevoeging aan de reguliere steekmonsters die de ecologische kwaliteit van het waterlichaam beoordelen. Uit de eerste resultaten blijkt …

Deze opdracht komt voort uit de wens om boorplatformen te bewaken en naderende vaartuigen te detecteren. Dat gebeurt in eerste instantie met vaste camera’s. Als deze beweging waarnemen, dan moet een Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera gericht en ingezoomd worden op de positie waar een object wordt gedetecteerd …

In this thesis the workings of a time-resolved setup are treated as well as the underlying physics. The setup is based on optical gating, which gives control over very short moments in time to let light pass through a gate. As this process is stable, light can be studied in very short and low intensities. …

A program that automatically detects auroral events in all-sky images taken by the all-sky camera of IRF has been written. Current programs that automatically detect the aurora in all-sky images using the RGB color system often miss strong aurora and sometimes interprets clouds as aurora. To improve …