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This study investigates the possibility of using Bartle’s player types for gamification
in the context of language learning apps. By taking user preferences into
account, this might assist in selecting the most suitable game elements. Learning
apps are gaining popularity as an innovative method for obtaining an independent
and flexible learning experience. Gamification keeps users motivated and involved
with the content.
After the research on the usage of gamification and its effects on the user, a language
learning app prototype was created. The evaluation consisted of a user test with
interview questions and the short User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ). The Bartle
test of gamer psychology was used to determine the player types of the participants.
The results show that, while player type and gamification preference can partially
coincide, there are too many deviations to confidently say it can be transferred into
gamification contexts. We conclude that game elements should not be chosen based
on a user’s Bartle player type and are more effectively used by incorporating a variety
of different gamification components.
Today’s digital cameras use a mosaic of red, green, and blue color filters to capture images in three color channels on a single sensor plane. This thesis investigates the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for demosaicing – the process of reconstructing full-color images from raw mosaic sensor data. While there are existing CNNs for demosaicing raw images from the well-established regular Bayer color filter array (CFA), this thesis focuses on how they perform on alternative non-regular sampling patterns that produce less aliasing artifacts, namely the stochastic Gaussian- and the RandomQuarter sampling pattern (Backes and Fröhlich, 2020).
A basic UNet (Ronneberger et al., 2015) and the spatially adaptive SANet (T. Zhang et al., 2022) are implemented in a supervised training pipeline based on the PixelShift200 image dataset (Qian et al., 2021) to investigate their suitability for the irregular demosaicing task. The experiments indicate that the basic UNet encounters difficulties in restoring the missing color values, whereas the spatially adaptive convolutional layers help in processing the irregularly sampled raw images.
In addition, this thesis enhances SANet effectiveness by employing an alternative residual branch based on a CFA-normalized Gaussian filter, as well as a tileable modification to the Gaussian CFA pattern. The modified SANet is shown to outperform the conventional dFSR algorithm (Backes & Fröhlich, 2020) in terms of peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM).