The use of low-resolution images adopting more relaxed acquisition conditions such as mobile phones and surveillance videos is becoming increasingly common in iris recognition nowadays. Concurrently, a great variety o...
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The use of low-resolution images adopting more relaxed acquisition conditions such as mobile phones and surveillance videos is becoming increasingly common in iris recognition nowadays. Concurrently, a great variety of single image super-resolution techniques are emerging, especially with the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The main objective of these methods is to try to recover finer texture details generating more photo-realistic images based on the optimisation of an objectivefunction depending basically on the CNN architecture and training approach. In this work, the authors explore single image super-resolution using CNNs for iris recognition. For this, they test different CNN architectures and use different training databases, validating their approach on a database of 1.872 near infrared iris images and on a mobile phone image database. They also use quality assessment, visual results and recognition experiments to verify if the photo-realism provided by the CNNs which have already proven to be effective for natural images can reflect in a better recognition rate for iris recognition. The results show that using deeper architectures trained with texture databases that provide a balance between edge preservation and the smoothness of the method can lead to good results in the iris recognition process.
A selective finite states model predictive control is proposed for a grid interfaced three-level neutral point clamped solar photovoltaic inverter. The proposed control approach eliminates the weighting factor selecti...
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A selective finite states model predictive control is proposed for a grid interfaced three-level neutral point clamped solar photovoltaic inverter. The proposed control approach eliminates the weighting factor selection for dc-link capacitor voltage balancing and reduces the computational burden for real-time implementation. The switching states required for the prediction and objective function optimisation are selected based on the position of reference voltage vector in the space vector plane, inverter current directions and the charge status of the dc-link capacitors. As a result, the selection of optimal switching state is fast, easy to implement and eliminates the selection of weighting factor for capacitor voltage balancing. The feasibility of the proposed control approach is verified through simulation and laboratory-scale experimentation. The results confirm that the proposed method attains the inherent dc-link capacitor voltage balance and also retains the dynamic and steady-state current tracking in comparison with the classical finite control-set model predictive control.
Most of traditional power allocation algorithms are often based on maximum capacity technology (MCT) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) at the expense of higher energy consumption. The optimisation of energy efficienc...
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Most of traditional power allocation algorithms are often based on maximum capacity technology (MCT) in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) at the expense of higher energy consumption. The optimisation of energy efficiency power allocation schemes are important performance in green communication. This study investigates the energy efficient power allocation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based CRNs in underlay mode. The authors' scheme is obtained by optimising an objectivefunction consisting of the users' performance degradation and the network interference, in the same time to track time-varying target of signal to inference plus noise ratio (SINR) under maximum transmit power for each cognitive user and interference power constraint from primary user. A convex optimisation problem is formulated where the tradeoff between energy consumption and transmission capacity is considered, and a distributed algorithm is developed to solve this problem. Simulation results show that the authors' proposed algorithm can guarantee an acceptable target SINR for all cognitive users and significantly improves energy efficiency compared with throughput per Joule and MCT schemes. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm with the introduced appropriate weight parameters can get higher transmission capacity.
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