Assessment of novel electrophysiology simulator-a survey study.

Background: Invasive electrophysiology (EP) training requires intellectual skills related to the interpretation of intracardiac electrograms. The classic approach to the education of young electrophysiologists focused solely on theoretical knowledge and overseen procedures in patients as no real-life-like simulation of EP studies was available.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess a novel tool for EP training based on fully interactive, online simulator providing real clinical experience to the users.

Bus Violence: An Open Benchmark for Video Violence Detection on Public Transport.

The automatic detection of violent actions in public places through video analysis is difficult because the employed Artificial Intelligence-based techniques often suffer from generalization problems. Indeed, these algorithms hinge on large quantities of annotated data and usually experience a drastic drop in performance when used in scenarios never seen during the supervised learning phase. In this paper, we introduce and publicly release the benchmark, the first large-scale collection of video clips for violence detection on public transport, where some actors simulated violent actions inside a moving bus in changing conditions, such as the background or light.

Application of Crowd Simulations in the Evaluation of Tracking Algorithms.

Tracking and action-recognition algorithms are currently widely used in video surveillance, monitoring urban activities and in many other areas. Their development highly relies on benchmarking scenarios, which enable reliable evaluations/improvements of their efficiencies. Presently, benchmarking methods for tracking and action-recognition algorithms rely on manual annotation of video databases, prone to human errors, limited in size and time-consuming.