This paper describes the participation of the TUB-IRML group to the MediaEval 2014 Violent Scenes Detection (VSD) affect task. We employ lowand mid-level audio-visual features fused at the decision level. We perform feature space partitioning of training samples through k -means clustering and train a different model for each cluster. These models are then used to predict the violence level of ...

Formal methods approach to software construction can significantly increase the reliability and correctness of the resulting software. Formal methods users are given sophisticated languages and tools for constructing software models, but they often lack some systematic methodological measures to help. Formal design patterns can help formal methods users speed up the development process by re-us...

The traditional way of implementing algorithms in software limits the performance of real-time systems, since the data is processed serially. The new generation of FPGAs with embedded processors are attracting the interest of the real-time applications. With enhanced capabilities most of the processing tasks can be loaded from the software program stack to embedded processors on the FPGA to imp...

This paper presents a two-stage integrated approach to assess the reliability of components for reuse in the second life cycle. Statistical data analysis, the first stage of the proposed method, determines the mean life of components by analysing the time-to-failure data for an electric motor and gearbox of a washing machine. A well-known reliability assessment method, Weibull analysis has been...