Anup Basu – författare

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2018, which was held in Toulon, France, in August 2018. The 39 papers presented were selected from about 100 submissions and are grouped in sections on social, affective and cognition analysis, person-centered smart multimedia: serving people with disabilities to the general population, haptic and robots for smart multimedia applications, MR, 3D, underwater image processing, smart signal processing meets smart sensing, visual behavior analysis: methods and applications, video analysis, learning, low-level vision, miscellaneous.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2019, which was held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2019.The 45 papers presented were selected from about 100 submissions and are grouped in sections on 3D mesh and depth image processing; image understanding; miscellaneous; smart multimedia for citizen-centered smart living; 3D perception and applications; video applications; multimedia in medicine; haptics and applications; smart multimedia beyond the visible spectrum; machine learning for multimedia; image segmentation and processing; biometrics; 3D and image processing; and smart social and connected household products.

In this book, we review many examples of multimedia item types for testing. We also outline how games can be used to test physics concepts — discuss designing chemistry item types with interactive graphics; study how culture-specific linguistics can help inner-city kids and new immigrants learn better; suggest approaches for automatically adjusting difficulty level in interactive graphics-based questions; and propose strategies for giving partial marks for incorrect answers. We also study how to test different cognitive skills, such as music, using multimedia interfaces and also evaluate the effectiveness of our model. Methods for estimating difficulty levels of mathematical item types using Item Response Theory (IRT) will be discussed. Examples of item shells for human computer interaction and cell phones will be shown.

This book focuses on asset allocation strategies under National Pension System (NPS) in India with the purpose to provide greater insights into the topic of portfolio choice in the accumulation phase of financial lifecycle of individuals. With this objective, the book analyses investment strategies as pension fund investment options used under NPS, in light of various alternative asset allocation strategies such as fixed weight asset allocation strategies, lifecycle asset allocation models and dynamic asset allocation strategies that have been suggested in academic and practitioner literature. Specifically, the book evaluates the effectiveness of various strategies employed under NPS, taking into account prevalent theories and approaches. It also provides insights on how employment loss and career breaks affect the pension accumulation outcomes of retirees belonging to different demographic groups with reference to India.Further, it presents a comprehensive review of the evidence on asset allocation based on the experiences of pension systems of several developed countries which have shifted to a defined contribution based pension system. Subsequently, it focuses on the comprehensive analysis of asset accumulation strategies under NPS and highlights lessons drawn from the experiences of other countries that provide several inputs to investors, pension funds managers and policy makers for making NPS an effective tool for retirement income.The book targets different kinds of readership such as corporate, fund managers in the pension market, risk management practitioner, researchers and policy makers alike, both in India and abroad, since the evidence on different approaches on asset allocation for retirees indicate a lot of variation in the effectiveness of the strategies in different pension systems across the world. It provides significant insights about the applicability of a pension system like NPS that will act as a lesson for other countries in future.