A fundamental weakness of existing solutions to assess the quality of machine learning algorithms is the assumption that test environments sufficiently mimic the later application. Given the data dependent behavior of these algorithms, only limited reasoning about their later performance is possible. Thus, meaningful ...

Neural Networks have been utilized to solve various tasks such as image recognition, text classification, and machine translation and have achieved exceptional results in many of these tasks. However, understanding the inner workings of neural networks and explaining why a certain output is produced are no trivial tasks. ...

This paper explores student’s daily activity in a virtual learning environment in the anonymized Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD). We show that the daily activity of students can be used to predict their success, i.e. whether they pass or fail a course, with high accuracy. This is important since daily ...

The data origin (i.e. acquisition technique and acquisition mode) can have a significant impact on the appearance and characteristics of a fingerprint sample. This dataset bias might be challenging for processes like biometric feature extraction. Much effort can be put into data normalization or into processes able to ...

The alignment of fingerprint samples is a preprocessing step in fingerprint recognition. It allows an improved biometric feature extraction and a more accurate biometric comparison. We propose to use Convolutional Neural Networks for estimation of the rotational part. The main contribution is an unsupervised training ...