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REVEAL - Research-Enhanced Virtual Environment for Acquiring Language
Published Wednesday, February 28, 2018Researchers at the University of Maryland have created REVEAL (Research-Enhanced Virtual Environment for Acquiring Language), a method and associated system for providing an immersive 360-degree cinematic video language training experience to individuals learning a foreign language or receiving training or therapy in their first language. The...
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): virtual reality, language learning
Docket: IS-2017-091
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Community-led Action in Response to Violent Extremism (CARVE) Training Course
Published Wednesday, February 28, 2018Community-led Action in Response to Violent Extremism (CARVE) is a 4-hour self-paced online course designed for a U.S.-based audience to provide community-focused, rigorously researched, and academically-informed instruction on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). Targeted at the FEMA "awareness" training level, this FEMA-certified course is...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): course, extremism, community
Docket: IS-2017-099
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Simulated Electronic Health Record
Published Wednesday, February 28, 2018A large part of educating health professions students is preparing them for future practice. Much of today’s healthcare environment relies on technology, particularly an electronic health record (EHR). For the past several years, documentation during simulation events occurred through the use of paper charts, which is not consistent with current...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): simulation, health
Docket: IS-2017-103
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MyDesign®
Published Monday, January 29, 2018The education market is rapidly undergoing transformation from a brick-and-mortar classroom to a hybrid model of classroom and distance learning instruction. Since the first Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) in 1969, a variety of technologies have been developed to support curriculum and instruction. Concurrently, policies have been developed...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-2017-007
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Low-Cost Commodity Camera Array for Acquiring Virtual Environments
Published Monday, January 29, 2018Creating effective augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR, respectively) environments requires understanding the environment that is to be augmented or created. Traditionally, designers curate an augmented environment to display the desired content. This method has been successful in controlled situations such as virtual tourism and...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Engineering
Keyword(s): virtual reality, camera, camera array, environment acquisition
Docket: IS-2016-043
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Discriminative Facial Verification Software
Published Monday, January 29, 2018In recent years, the performance of face verification systems has significantly improved using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). A typical pipeline for face verification includes training a deep network for subject classification with softmax loss, using the penultimate layer output as the feature descriptor, and generating a cosine...
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): machine learning, neural networks, facial recognition, face verification
Docket: IS-2017-039
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Maryland Intersection and Interchange Design & Capacity Analysis Program (MIDCAP)
Published Monday, January 29, 2018The Maryland Intersection and Interchange Design & Capacity Analysis Program (MIDCAP) is a tool to analyze capacity/ queuing for signalized intersections and interchanges, signal and shoulder bypass lane warrants, left turn phase guidlines, and provide lighting evaluation at the preliminary, planning, or design stage.
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): intersection, interchange, design, capacity, analysis
Docket: IS-2017-085
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VOLT: Virtual Occupational Language Training
Published Monday, September 18, 2017Currently, there is a need for effective guided immersive learning to supplement a classroom environment, particularly in immersive language learning. Virtual reality (VR) 3D systems offer a flexible and viable solution to this problem.Researchers at the University of Maryland have created VOLT (Virtual Occupational Language Training),...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): virtual reality, language learning
Docket: IS-2017-047
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Method and System for the Minimization of Expected Cost in Multi-Stage Review
Published Monday, September 18, 2017In civil litigation, e-discovery is the process by which a set of digital documents deemed “responsive” (i.e., relevant) to a certain topic need to be identified within a set of documents, and have to be produced by a producing party to a requesting party unless they are also “privileged” (i.e. contain sensitive information that legally allows...
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): e-discovery, cost, risk, reduction, minimization
Docket: IS-2017-066
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Simetric
Published Monday, December 19, 2016BackgroundChildren undergoing medical procedures experience stressful reactions that can impair treatment and recovery. Currently, hospitals employ various methods to reassure these children, including showing them the treatment room and talking them through the procedure. However, some hospitals lack the necessary resources to accomplish...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Engineering
Keyword(s): virtual reality, procedure, stress, anxiety, treatment
Docket: IS-2016-073