996 search results for “deep learning” in the Public website
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Cleared for take-off, Game-based learning to prepare airline pilots for critical situations
Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.
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Imaging & Intervention (MSc)
This specialisation focuses on two important trends in health care: early diagnosis and developing the most targeted patient-specific treatment possible with the shortest possible recovery time and minimal side effects.
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Unravelling cell fate decisions through single cell methods and mathematical models
Despite being the object of intense study, embryonic development has been difficult to model due to a number of reasons. First, complex tissues can be comprised of many cell types, of which we probably only know a subset.
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What we can learn from hi-tech nature
Biodiversity in the Netherlands is having a tough time. Professor of Natural Capital Koos Biesmeijer combines research with practical advice: from the greening of industrial parks to solutions inspired by hi-tech nature. Inaugural lecture 9 March.
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More efficient drug development with the help of computer models
The coronavirus has the world in its grip. Finding a cure has never been more important. Unfortunately, the development of new drugs for treatment of the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus and development of a vaccine are complex, lengthy, and above all costly processes. With the help of computer…
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Simple rule learning is not simple: Studies on infant and adult pattern perception and production
On December 11th, Andreea Geambasu succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Andreea on this great result.
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Professional learning of vocational teachers in the context of work placement
Work placement as a professional development programme for vocational teachers has been widely implemented. This dissertation provides insight into vocational teachers’ learning process in this programme within Chinese vocational education.
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Segments and rules: a comparative study on linguistic rule learning mechanisms
A central and much debated topic in the study of language acquisition concerns the nature of the learning mechanisms that are required. Are the computational and learning mechanisms that guide learning about language structure special and specific to language or humans?
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characteristics of a negotiated assessment procedure to promote teacher learning
The literature indicates that teacher professional development and learning may be improved by using formative assessment procedures. This thesis focuses on a specific form of formative assessment, negotiated assessment, which is characterised by the exchange of views between assessor and assessee and…
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Cosima Nimphy
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
c.a.nimphy@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6457
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Folke Glastra
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
glastra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Simone Rijksen
ICLON
s.rijksen@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4059
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Tom Kouwenhoven
Science
t.kouwenhoven@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4799
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Surendra Balraadjsing
Science
s.balraadjsing@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Bart Vogelaar
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
b.vogelaar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6022
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Evin Aktar
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
e.aktar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5228
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Iris Koele
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.j.koele@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Learner–learner interaction in digital learning environments: what and how are we measuring?
Galikyan’s dissertation examines how the multidimensionality of learnerlearner interaction data and the multifacetedness of learner-learner interaction itself impact the measurement of learner-learner interaction in digital learning environments.
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Stephan Raaijmakers: 'Humans and systems have to learn to understand each other better'
You can ask virtual assistant Siri about the weather, but you can’t have a real conversation with it yet. You can’t refer to anything that’s been said before, or ask the system why it says what it says. Stephan Raaijmakers, Professor by Special Appointment from TNO, hopes to change this.
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Quantum machine learning: on the design, trainability and noise-robustness of near-term algorithms
This thesis addresses questions on effectively using variational quantum circuits for machine learning tasks.
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Latest hardware for computer research on medical imaging
The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed hardware utilizing thousands of processors. LIACS researchers will use it to investigate deep learning in understanding imagery from sources such as MRI…
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Tessa Verhoef: 'An algorithm still has a lot to learn from human interaction'
If an algorithm has to learn to understand language, simply having a lot of data doesn’t help much. Like us, a computer has to learn the language in interaction with others. Tessa Verhoef is fascinated by how this interaction works.
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The learning portfolio as a tool for stimulating reflection by student teachers
The topic of this study is the portfolio that is being used in a teacher education institute as an instrument for stimulating reflection on their development as teachers by student teachers.
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Learning Russian as a second language through allusive (precedential) phrases: corpus-based study
When literature, cultural aspects, and data-driven language learning meet in a classroom.
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Stacked Domain Learning for multi-domain data: a new ensemble method
The aim of this project is to develop accurate but interpretable ensemble learning methods for high-dimensional multi-domain data.
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Supporting medical teachers' learning: redesigning a program using characteristics of effective instructional development
In this research project characteristics of effective instructional development were identified that are appealing to medical teachers and relevant for medical education.
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Multi-functional urban Green space planning based on transdisciplinary learning (MultiGreen)
Green infrastrucuture (GI) like urban farm and green roofs could provide many beneficial functions in cities. These include for example food production, flood prevention or increasing biodiversity. MultiGreen project aims at developing an integrated modelling tool to support…
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'Learning to see, or how to make sense of the skillful things skateboarders do'
Discover the connection between skateboarding and sensory ethnography in 32 of The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography as part of the Multi-modal sensory ethnography.
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Michael Lew explores how computers can see
Learning how computers can process and describe images just like human beings do. It is one of the key elements of the research of Michael Lew, who sees Deep Learning as a promising way to achieve this goal. On the 1st of January 2021, he was appointed Professor of Deep Learning at the Leiden Institute…
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The Apinaye teaching and learning process as observed in the manufacturing of their musial instruments
This dissertation aims to establish a dialogue between ethnomusicology (more specifically indigenous organology), the anthropology of art and the culture of the Apinaye peoples, in order to understand how the musical objects of these peoples are learned and taught, and thus to understand its musical…
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drawing skill: Exploring the role of parental support and cultural learning
Drawing is one of the most unique human behaviours. Like language, drawing is a mode of communication and a cognitive tool that from an early age allows us to interact with others. Is the early development of drawing skill influenced by the social environment? If so, how?
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Public leaders’ organizational learning orientations in the wake of a crisis and the role of public service motivation
This study explores public leaders’ organizational learning orientation in the wake of a crisis. More precisely, we study the association between public leaders’ public service motivation and their learning orientation (instrumental versus political).
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Using a practical teaching model by beginning teachers learning to design lessons.
Beginning teachers often experience difficulties making activating lessons. This study investigates how and if the practical teaching model can offer them a hand in learning to design lessons.
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Serge Rombouts: 'AI is learning from brain scans and helping find a diagnosis'
Serge Rombouts is a physicist whose PhD thesis was about functional MRI (fMRI). This visualises activity in regions of the brain. The appealing images of glowing brain regions that emerge from the computer are the result of calculations. According to Rombouts, this isn’t proper artificial intelligence.…
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CircuMat | Circular city & Industry park MATerials metabolism learning package and assessment tool
Some examples of research questions include: What framework of circular strategies should local practitioners use? How should practitioners organize their monitoring of the circular economy activities in the region of interest? What are the main products that have the most circular potential in the…
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Juan Claramunt Gonzalez
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.claramunt.gonzalez@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6026
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Willem Heiser
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
heiser@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Diego Barbosa Arize Santos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
d.barbosa.arize.santos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anja Schoots-Snijder
ICLON
a.j.m.schoots@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Carel ten Cate
Science
c.j.ten.cate@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5040
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Judith Schomaker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.schomaker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Henk Kelderman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
h.kelderman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Gerard van Westen
Science
gerard@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3511
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Rayyan Toutounji
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
r.toutounji@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Some examples of AI-research done at Leiden.
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Roy de Kleijn: ‘Fetching a glass of water is extremely difficult for a robot’
Training a robot in a real-life environment is more or less impossible. Computer scientist and psychologist Roy de Kleijn switched to training in a simulated, virtual one instead. ‘You do have a reality gap, but the more precisely you train the robot, the better it is in practice.’ His inspiration:…