5 papers
Cite or Decline: A Strict Course-Grounded Chatbot for STEM Lecture Videos
S M Masrur Ahmed, Jaspal Subhlok
Recorded lecture videos, often enhanced with search and summarization features, are a standard study resource. However, students cannot easily ask course specific questions or veri…
Lecture Video Visual Objects (LVVO) Dataset: A Benchmark for Visual Object Detection in Educational Videos
Dipayan Biswas, Shishir Shah, Jaspal Subhlok
We introduce the Lecture Video Visual Objects (LVVO) dataset, a new benchmark for visual object detection in educational video content. The dataset consists of 4,000 frames extract…
Visual Content Detection in Educational Videos with Transfer Learning and Dataset Enrichment
Dipayan Biswas, Shishir Shah, Jaspal Subhlok
Video is transforming education with online courses and recorded lectures supplementing and replacing classroom teaching. Recent research has focused on enhancing information retri…
Visual Summarization of Lecture Video Segments for Enhanced Navigation
Mohammad Rajiur Rahman, Jaspal Subhlok, Shishir Shah
Lecture videos are an increasingly important learning resource for higher education. However, the challenge of quickly finding the content of interest in a lecture video is an impo…
Checkpointing to minimize completion time for Inter-dependent Parallel Processes on Volunteer Grids
Mohammad Tanvir Rahman, Hien Nguyen, Jaspal Subhlok +1
Volunteer computing is being used successfully for large scale scientific computations. This research is in the context of Volpex, a programming framework that supports communicati…