The University of Naples Federico II (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), founded in 1224 by Emperor Frederick II, is the oldest public, secular, non-sectarian, or state-funded university in the world, and one of the ten oldest universities in continuous operation globally. Located in Naples, Italy, it is renowned for its extensive architectural heritage and comprehensive academic offerings across various disciplines. NECLA collaborated with researchers from Federico II University in Naples on generative adversarial networks, with a particular focus on dual-projection strategies for image synthesis. Our work demonstrated improvements in training stability and image diversity, contributing to more effective generative modeling techniques.

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Citizen Science for the Sea with Information Technologies: An Open Platform for Gathering Marine Data and Marine Litter Detection from Leisure Boat Instruments

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Data crowdsourcing is an increasingly pervasive and lifestyle-changing technology due to the flywheel effect that results from the interaction between the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing. This paper presents the Citizen Science for the Sea with Information Technologies (C4Sea-IT) framework. It is an open platform for gathering marine data from leisure boat instruments. C4Sea-IT aims to provide a coastal marine data gathering, moving, processing, exchange, and sharing platform using the existing navigation instruments and sensors for today’s leisure and professional vessels. In this work, a use case for the detection and tracking of marine litter is shown. The final goal is weather/ocean forecasts argumentation with Artificial Intelligence prediction models trained with crowdsourced data.

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