Learning to rank is an essential component in an information retrieval system. The state-of-the-art ranking systems are often based on an ensemble of classifiers, such as Random Forest or LambdaMART, which aggregates ...
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The Information Bottleneck method allows to construct information-optimum message passing decoders for low-density parity-check codes. In such decoders lookup tables replace the classical node operations of the variab...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538656020
The Information Bottleneck method allows to construct information-optimum message passing decoders for low-density parity-check codes. In such decoders lookup tables replace the classical node operations of the variable and the check nodes. These lookup tables are designed using the Information Bottleneck principle of maximizing the relevant information. Unlike state-of-the-art decoders which use real valued log-likelihood ratios for decoding, the considered decoders do not process any real values, but only quantization indices. Nevertheless, they have performance extremely close to belief propagation decoding. Since hardware representation of unsigned integers is efficient and lookup table implementations have low complexity, it is reasonable to assume that the designed decoders offer advantages over their conventional counterparts in practice. In this paper, we evaluate, quantify and discuss these advantages in a practical experiment. Our focus lies on a software defined radio application, where the channel decoder is implemented on a digital signal processor. We present several implementations of the considered decoders and compare them with state-of-the-art decoders. Our results show considerable gains of the Information Bottleneck decoders in terms of bit error rate performance and net decoding throughput.
Infrared signal processingalgorithms and architectures are important for the development of a high performance infrared imaging systems. Infrared signal processing deals with two types of processing sensor signal pro...
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It has been previously shown that the Fourier samples acquired in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) experiments possess shift-invariant autoregressive structure, which has led to the emergence of various autocalibrated...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728143002
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728143019
It has been previously shown that the Fourier samples acquired in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) experiments possess shift-invariant autoregressive structure, which has led to the emergence of various autocalibrated convolution-based image reconstruction approaches. Such approaches, which include GRAPPA, AC-LORAKS, RAKI, and LO-RAKI, each have their own relative strengths and weaknesses. In this work, we propose a novel ensemble-based approach that uses all of these approaches simultaneously as parallel building blocks within a larger data-adaptive reconstruction network. Results with real data suggest that the ensemble-based approach can synergistically utilize the strengths of each method, providing robust reconstruction performance without the need for interactive parameter tuning.
Object detection and classification is one of the core functions of Intelligence Transport systems (ITS). It is typically based on extracted features and learning algorithms. Different approaches seem to be appropriat...
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The processing demands of current and emerging applications, such as image/video processing, are increasing due to the deluge of data, generated by mobile and edge devices. This raises challenges for a vast range of c...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728119588
The processing demands of current and emerging applications, such as image/video processing, are increasing due to the deluge of data, generated by mobile and edge devices. This raises challenges for a vast range of computing systems, starting from smart-phones and reaching cloud and data centers. Heterogeneous computing demonstrates its ability as an efficient computing model due to its capability to adapt to various workload requirements. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide power and performance benefits and have been used in many application domains from embedded systems to the cloud. In this paper, we used a closely coupled CPU-FPGA heterogeneous system to accelerate a sliding window based imageprocessing algorithm, Canny edge detector. We accelerated Canny using two different implementations: Code partitioned and data partitioned. In the data partitioned implementation, we proposed a weighted round robin based algorithm that partitions input images and distributes the load between the CPU and the FPGA based on latency. The paper also compares the performance of the proposed accelerators with separate CPU and FPGA implementations. Using our hybrid CPU-FPGA based algorithm, we achieved a speedup up to 4.8× over a CPU-only and up to 2.1× over a FPGA-only implementations. Moreover, the estimated total energy consumption of our algorithm is more efficient than a CPU-only implementation. Our results show a significant reduction in energy delay product (EDP) compared to the CPU-only implementation, and comparable EDP results to the FPGA-only implementation.
Synergy of optimum illumination and imageprocessing techniques is a very important aspect which needs to be incorporated in a machine vision environment to improve the durability of the lighting unit and also to cons...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789811047626;9789811047619
Synergy of optimum illumination and imageprocessing techniques is a very important aspect which needs to be incorporated in a machine vision environment to improve the durability of the lighting unit and also to conserve power requirements. This research work presents a novel way to optimize lighting requirements in a machine vision system using image feature analysis and imageprocessingalgorithms for texture identification. The practical implementation could be considered for automated machine vision environment for object surface inspection and quality monitoring.
With the emergence of industry 4.0, autonomous driving vehicles have become an exciting research topic in the science technology community. The driving system requires many complex algorithms that provide both accurat...
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Lane detection algorithms have been the key enablers for a fully-assistive and autonomous navigation systems. In this paper, a novel and pragmatic approach for lane detection is proposed using a convolutional neural n...
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Lane detection algorithms have been the key enablers for a fully-assistive and autonomous navigation systems. In this paper, a novel and pragmatic approach for lane detection is proposed using a convolutional neural network (CNN) model based on SegNet encoder-decoder architecture. The encoder block renders low-resolution feature maps of the input and the decoder block provides pixel-wise classification from the feature maps. The proposed model has been trained over 2000 image data-set and tested against their corresponding ground-truth provided in the data-set for evaluation. To enable real-time navigation, we extend our model's predictions interfacing it with the existing Google APIs evaluating the metrics of the model tuning the hyper-parameters. The novelty of this approach lies in the integration of existing segnet architecture with google APIs. This interface makes it handy for assistive robotic systems. The observed results show that the proposed method is robust under challenging occlusion conditions due to pre-processing involved and gives superior performance when compared to the existing methods.
The current research work involves the design and development of imaging approach along with the desktop application to enhance the subcutaneous vein patterns in difficult to access subjects. The proposed approach inv...
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The current research work involves the design and development of imaging approach along with the desktop application to enhance the subcutaneous vein patterns in difficult to access subjects. The proposed approach involves a simple camera sensitive to Near Infrared Reflectance(NIR) spectra. NIR image is very high wavelength illuminated image and it is based upon the principle of recording the high contrast image in low light vision applications. The methodology involves enhancement techniques with the Frangi filter so it gives better result than the earlier techniques. The Frangi filter is specially used for vesselness detection in the human body for the analysis and observation of veinous patterns. The pre-processing and some feature extraction techniques with the Frangi filter gives the real-time image analysis so it can reduce the time required for vein detection. The main objective of this research paper is to give a more accurate result of real-time imaging and reduce the noise problem occurring in the different image enhancement algorithms in python.
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