In recent years, several studies have shown the relationship between snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Besides time domain analysis of snoring signal, the spectral features and shapes of snores can ...
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(纸本)9780889867215
In recent years, several studies have shown the relationship between snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Besides time domain analysis of snoring signal, the spectral features and shapes of snores can be used to discriminate simple snorers and OSAS patients. In this study, we propose a method to classify simple snorers and OSAS patients based on spectral envelope estimation of snoring signals. the formant frequencies and corresponding bandwidths are computed for both group, and the variation and consistency of the formant distributions are computed. A total of 1400 snoring episodes from 7 simple snorer and 7 OSAS patients were analyzed. Significant differences are found in the formant frequencies of both groups. the results are discussed from the view point of patho-physiological aspect.
the JPEG 2000 standard incorporating wavelet at the core of its compression technique provides excellent features for quality and robustness. However, for the comparatively higher calculation load, decoding a large JP...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780889867178
the JPEG 2000 standard incorporating wavelet at the core of its compression technique provides excellent features for quality and robustness. However, for the comparatively higher calculation load, decoding a large JPEG 2000 image at the mobile user equipment (UE) will result in bigger memory and circuit requirements and higher cost. Algorithms that divide an image into smaller units such as tiles or streams in the intermediate gateway server of the mobile network, and send them to the UE sequentially have been proposed in the past. Using these algorithms, the UE can decode one unit at a time, which requires less resource. However, the calculation and memory intensive algorithms and the need to process a large number of images in a mobile network put a heavy burden on the gateway. the one-dimensional (1D) tiling approach can reduce the processing and memory requirements at the gateway to far less than those of the original 2D approach. We present a mathematical analysis of the image quality of these two wavelet tiling approaches for boththe Daubechies 9/7 and LeGall 5/3 standard JPEG 2000 filters. We also provide experimental results to compare withthe analytical findings.
Human breathing behaviour varies from quiet breathing to forceful sniffing but can, in general, be modelled as turbulent airflow. Here an anatomically correct, 3-D model of the human nasal cavity has been created usin...
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(纸本)9780889867215
Human breathing behaviour varies from quiet breathing to forceful sniffing but can, in general, be modelled as turbulent airflow. Here an anatomically correct, 3-D model of the human nasal cavity has been created using 3D CAD software and manufactured using rapid prototyping technology. Firstly, the CAD model is used to simulate the flow of an odour through the nasal cavity using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). CFD is used to predict the velocity field within the adult nasal cavity by solving numerically the set of governing Navier- Stokes equations. the effect of nasal cavity size upon the flow fields of sniffing was also investigated. Second, chemo-resistive odour sensors were implanted within the nares;superior, medial and inferior concha or turbinates;and nasopharynx of a 3-D model of the nasal cavity. these sensors were able to detect the concentration of an odour as it travels within the nasal cavity and at the olfactory mucosa (top of superior turbinate). Our experimental measurements agreed withthe computer simulations and demonstrate that a small proportion of the odour is transported to the olfactory mucosa and that it is comparatively stagnant. We believe that by modelling the flow of odours within the human nasal cavity we will be able to design a superior generation of electronic noses for medical diagnostics.
the incorporation of prior knowledge into the Support Vector Machine (SVM) architecture is a problem which if solved can lead to much more accurate classifiers in the near future. this result could be particularly eff...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783540886358
the incorporation of prior knowledge into the Support Vector Machine (SVM) architecture is a problem which if solved can lead to much more accurate classifiers in the near future. this result could be particularly effective in the classification of remote sensing imagery, where an abundance of information is available prior to classification. the most evident method to feed prior knowledge into the SVM algorithm is through the SVM kernel function. this paper proposes several composite kernel functions designed specifically for land cover classification of remote sensing imagery. these kernels make use of the spectral signature information, inherently available in remote sensing imagery. the results achieved from these kernels are very much satisfactory and surpass all previous results produced by classical kernels.
the Peer Coaching Program has been in place in Taiwan for more than two years. We have not only trained 165 local facilitators, but also held 92 training courses for the coaches. In addition, we have established the w...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783540850328
the Peer Coaching Program has been in place in Taiwan for more than two years. We have not only trained 165 local facilitators, but also held 92 training courses for the coaches. In addition, we have established the website, ***, which provides personal experience sharing, online materials search, and online courses. Currently, more than 7,000 elementary, junior, and senior high school teachers and students participate in the program. *** includes more than 2, 100 WebQuest lessons and provides more than 1, 180 online courses. the evaluation results indicate that the Peer Coaching Program is very successful in Taiwan. Our ultimate goals are to implement a professional development model so as to provide an excellent digital learning environment, to advance teachers' skills, to enhance standards-based instruction through engaged learning and technology, and finally, to increase students' learning achievements.
We describe the engineering of Succinct DOM (SDOM), a DOM implementation, written in C++, which is suitable for in-memory representation of large static XML documents. SDOM avoids the use of pointers, and is based upo...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781595939265
We describe the engineering of Succinct DOM (SDOM), a DOM implementation, written in C++, which is suitable for in-memory representation of large static XML documents. SDOM avoids the use of pointers, and is based upon succinct data structures, which use an information-theoretically minimum amount of space to represent an object. SDOM gives a space-efficient in-memory representation, with stable and predictable memory usage. the space used by SDOM is an order of magnitude less than that used by a standard C++ DOM representation such as Xerces, but SDOM is extremely fast: navigation is in some cases faster than for a pointer-based representation such as Xerces (even for moderate-sized documents which can comfortably be loaded into main memory by Xerces). A variant, SDOM-CT, applies bzip-based compression to textual and attribute data, and its space usage is comparable with "queryable" XML compressors. Some of these compressors support navigation and/or querying (e.g. subpath queries) of the compressed file. SDOM-CT does not support querying directly, but remains extremely fast: it is several orders of magnitude faster for navigation than queryable XML compressors that support navigation (and only a few times slower than say Xerces). Copyright 2008 ACM.
Withthe advances in information technology, the amount of multimedia metadata captured, produced, and stored is increasing rapidly. As a consequence, multimedia content is widely used for many applications in today...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783540874409
Withthe advances in information technology, the amount of multimedia metadata captured, produced, and stored is increasing rapidly. As a consequence, multimedia content is widely used for many applications in today's world, and hence, a need for organizing multimedia metadata and accessing it from repositories with vast amount of information has been a driving stimulus both commercially and academically. MPEG-7 is expected to provide standardized description schemes for concise and unambiguous content description of data/documents of complex multimedia types. Meanwhile, other metadata or description schemes, such as Dublin Core, XML, TV-Anytime etc., are becoming popular in different application domains. In this paper, we present a new prototype Multimedia Metadata Management System. Our system is good at sharing the integration of multimedia metadata from heterogeneous sources. this system enables the collection, analysis and integration of multimedia metadata semantic description from some different kinds of services. (UCC, IPTV, VOD and Digital TV et al.).
Run-Length-Encoding (RLE) is a data compression technique that is used in various applications, e.g., time series, biological sequences, and multimedia databases. One of the main challenges is how to operate on (e.g.,...
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Recent advances in touch screen technology have increased the prevalence of touch screens and have prompted a wave of new touch screen-based devices. However, touch screens are still largely inaccessible to blind user...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781595939760
Recent advances in touch screen technology have increased the prevalence of touch screens and have prompted a wave of new touch screen-based devices. However, touch screens are still largely inaccessible to blind users, who must adopt error-prone compensatory strategies to use them or find accessible alternatives. this inaccessibility is due to interaction techniques that require the user to visually locate objects on the screen. To address this problem, we introduce Slide Rule, a set of audio-based multi-touch interaction techniques that enable blind users to access touch screen applications. We describe the design of Slide Rule, our interaction techniques, and a user study in which 10 blind people used Slide Rule and a button-based Pocket PC screen reader. Results show that Slide Rule was significantly faster than the button-based system, and was preferred by 7 of 10 users. However, users made more errors when using Slide Rule than when using the more familiar button-based system. Copyright 2008 ACM.
this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 10 Working conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems, held at the 20th World computer Congress inMilan, Italy on September 7-10, 2008. the IF...
ISBN:
(数字)9780387096612
ISBN:
(纸本)9780387096605
this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 10 Working conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems, held at the 20th World computer Congress inMilan, Italy on September 7-10, 2008. the IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. the scope of the series includes: foundations of computerscience; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed internationalconferences in computerscience and interdisciplinary fields are featured. these results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. the principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.
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