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Cloudbased Image Transformation
Introduction As part of the lecture „Software Development for Cloud Computing“, we had to come up with an idea for a cloud related project we’d like to work on. I had just heard about Artistic Style Transfer using Deep Neural Networks in our „Artificial Intelligence“ lecture, which inspired me to choose image transformation as my…
About the Robustness of Machine Learning
In the past couple of years research in the field of machine learning (ML) has made huge progress which resulted in applications like automated translation, practical speech recognition for smart assistants, useful robots, self-driving cars and lots of others. But so far we only have reached the point where ML works, but may easily be…
2 player Connect 4 in the cloud
Play Connect 4 here Annika Strauß – as324Julia Grimm – jg120Rebecca Westhäußer – rw044Daniel Fearn – cf056 Introduction As a group of four students with little to no knowledge of cloud computing our main goal was to come up with a simple project which would allow us to learn about the basics of software development…
Progressive Web Apps – Wer braucht noch eine native App?
Beispiele zum Einstieg Progressive Web Apps sind schon weiter verbreitet wie man denkt. Auch große, innovative Unternehmen Twitter, Airbnb, Spotify oder Tinder setzen auf Progressive Web Apps. Abb. 1: Eine Auswahl von Progressive Web Apps [1] Wer sich ein tolles Beispiel anschauen möchte, dem empfehle ich https://riorun.theguardian.com/ (auf mobile) zu testen. Nach einiger Zeit erscheint…
Creating an Email Server Environment with Docker and Kubernetes
As a part of the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing” our task was to bring an application into a cloud environment. When we presented our software project MUM at the Media Night in our 4th semester, we talked with a few people about dockerizing MUM together with a whole email server configuration. While brainstorming…
How to Train a Doodle Image Classifier and Recognize Doodles in the Cloud
As part of the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing” we developed a doodle image recognition game. The idea came to us when we were searching for possible mini-games for our semester project “Peers – The Party”, an iOS app using Apple’s MultipeerConnectivity framework.
Evaluating and Visualizing Statistical Bot Data
The idea Video game streaming has taken over a big part of the commercial video game scene with Twitch being its biggest platform. Viewers are able to communicate with other viewers and streamers through the chat, or watch their previous streams or highlights. These highlights are made by streamers creating short clips of their favourite…
Production Monitoring – Industry 4.0
When I was invited to a design thinking workshop of the summer school of Lucerne – University of Applied Sciences and Arts, I made my first experience with the end user interaction part of Industry 4.0. It was an awesome week with a lot of great people and made me interested in the whole Industry…
JavaScript Performance optimization with respect to the upcoming WebAssembly standard
Written by Tim Tenckhoff – tt031 | Computer Science and Media 1. Introduction Speed and performance of the (worldwide) web advanced considerably over the last decades. With the development of sites more heavily reliant on JavaScript (JS Optimization, 2018) , the consideration of actions to optimize the speed and performance of web applications grows in…
How to create and integrate a customised classifier based on IBM Visual Recognition
Helga Schwaighofer – hs082 Celine Wichmann – cw089 Lea Baumgärtner – lb092 Motivation Imagine you are having a bad day, but you don’t know what to do. Your friends are not available, but you’d like to have advice depending on your mood. For that case, we created the Supporting Shellfish! This service generates advice based…
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