Coded-illumination can enable quantitative phase microscopy of transparent samples with minimal hardware requirements. Intensity images are captured with different source patterns and a non-linear phase retrieval opti...
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Edit paper Distributed sensor networks have been discussed for more than 30 years, but the vision of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been brought into reality only by the rapid advancements in the areas of sensor ...
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Edit paper Distributed sensor networks have been discussed for more than 30 years, but the vision of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been brought into reality only by the rapid advancements in the areas of sensor design, information technologies, and wireless networks that have paved the way for the proliferation of WSNs. The unique characteristics of sensor networks introduce new challenges, amongst which prolonging the sensor lifetime is the most important. WSNs have seen a tremendous growth in various application areas including health care, environmental monitoring, security, and military purposes despite prominent performance and availability challenges. Clustering plays an important role in enhancement of the life span and scalability of the network, in such applications. Although researchers continue to address these grand challenges, the type of distributions for arrivals at the cluster head and intermediary routing nodes is still an interesting area of investigation. Modelling the behaviour of the networks becomes essential for estimating the performance metrics and further lead to decisions for improving the network performance, hence highlighting the importance of identifying the type of inter-arrival distributions at the cluster head. In this paper, we present extensive discussions on the assumptions of exponential distributions in WSNs, and present numerical results based on Q-Q plots for estimating the arrival distributions. The work is further extended to understand the impact of end-to-end delay and its effect on inter-arrival time distributions, based on the type of medium access control used in WSNs. Future work is also presented on the grounds that such comparisons based on simple eye checks are insufficient. Since in many cases such plots may lead to incorrect conclusions, demanding the necessity for validating the types of distributions. Statistical analysis is necessary to estimate and validate the empirical distributions of the arrivals in
Testing is an indispensable part of software development. However, a career in software testing is reported to be unpopular among students in computer science and related areas. This can potentially create a shortage ...
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Speech synthesis has been successfully exploited for mapping from text sequence to speech waveform where high-resource languages have been well studied and learned from a large amount of text-speech paired data in pub...
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(纸本)9798350397970
Speech synthesis has been successfully exploited for mapping from text sequence to speech waveform where high-resource languages have been well studied and learned from a large amount of text-speech paired data in public-domain corpora. However, developing speech synthesis under low-resource languages is challenging for speech communication in local regions since the collection of training data is expensive. In particular, the speaker-aware speech generation under low-resource settings is crucial in real world. Such a problem is increasingly difficult in case of very limited speaker-specific data. This paper presents a speaker-aware speech synthesis under low-resource settings based on an encoder-decoder framework by using transformer. Knowledge transfer is performed by incorporating a speaker-aware embedding through first learning a pretrained transformer from multi-speaker data of a low-populated spoken language and then fine-tuning the transformer to a target speaker with very limited speaker-specific embeddings. Experiments on low-resource Taiwanese speech synthesis are evaluated to show the merit of speaker-aware transformer in terms of Mel cepstral distortion and mean opinion score.
In Industry 4.0, there is a constant pursuit for efficiency and productivity, and, searching to achieve this, the usage of multiple robots to attend to several tasks simultaneously is usual. Nowadays, there is plenty ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781665462808
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665462815
In Industry 4.0, there is a constant pursuit for efficiency and productivity, and, searching to achieve this, the usage of multiple robots to attend to several tasks simultaneously is usual. Nowadays, there is plenty of robotic architectures, having their navigation system based on numerous different sensors. This work compares the line-follower robots, having a determined path, with the free-moving robots that navigate based on odometry, for load collecting and delivery tasks in specific locations. For this, four simulated experiments are run in two scenes, with two and four tasks, respectively. The comparison is based on a difference in robot quantity, with more line-followers than free-moving ones, aiming to collect values such as idle time, task wait time, and the number of tasks done for each machine. The results show advantages in using less but more intelligent robots with free movement. Such robots are not bound to one unique task and can use their idle time to roam and complete other processes. However, the task wait time is a concerning issue, as too few robots for overcharged situations can increase execution delays.
Traditional perception systems for TJA (Traffic Jam Assistance) are mostly implemented by fusing images with radar or lidar. As computer vision techniques become more powerful, cameras can almost replace the need for ...
Traditional perception systems for TJA (Traffic Jam Assistance) are mostly implemented by fusing images with radar or lidar. As computer vision techniques become more powerful, cameras can almost replace the need for radar and lidar in perception tasks, which reduces the hardware cost of the system. In this research, we propose a camera-only perception system for TJA, which is able to provide the information of the vehicles ahead and the drivable area. The proposed system has been evaluated through real-world scenario sequences, and proved that it achieves high robustness, which is highly possible to be adopted for TJA development.
In this paper, a simple method is proposed to evolve artificial neural networks(ANNs) using augmenting weight matrix method(AWMM). ANNs' architecture and connection weights can be evolved simultaneously by AWMM, a...
In this paper, a simple method is proposed to evolve artificial neural networks(ANNs) using augmenting weight matrix method(AWMM). ANNs' architecture and connection weights can be evolved simultaneously by AWMM, and their structures incrementally are growing up from minimal structure. It is a non-mating method. It employs 5 mutation operators: add connection, add node, delete connection, delete node, and new initial weight. And the connection weight is trained by the simplified alopex method, which is a correlation based method for solving optimization problem. In AWMM, structural information is encoded to weighting matrix, and the matrix is augmenting as the hidden nodes are added.
Not only common issues on object detection task need to be deal with, for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, small object is one of the critical problems that needs to be solved. YOLOv7 is a powerful network ...
Not only common issues on object detection task need to be deal with, for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, small object is one of the critical problems that needs to be solved. YOLOv7 is a powerful network architecture that provides high efficiency and accuracy object detection results. This paper adopts YOLOv7 as an object detection model for two different kinds of targets, one is vehicle, and the other is ocean flotsam. By training the model with open datasets and fine-tuning the model with self-collected datasets, we prove through sequences collected from real-world scenarios that YOLOv7 is able to provide robust and accurate object detection results, including vehicles and ocean flotsam, with real-time efficiency. Based on such experimental result, we confirmed that YOLOv7 can be the baseline for object detection model development.
Today Artificial Intelligence (AI) supports difficult decisions about policy, health, and our personal lives. The AI algorithms we develop and deploy to make sense of information, are informed by data, and based on mo...
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Today Artificial Intelligence (AI) supports difficult decisions about policy, health, and our personal lives. The AI algorithms we develop and deploy to make sense of information, are informed by data, and based on models that capture and use pertinent details of the population or phenomenon being analyzed. For any application area, more importantly in precision medicine which directly impacts human lives, the data upon which algorithms are run must be procured, cleaned, and organized well to assure reliable and interpretable results, and to assure that they do not perpetrate or amplify human prejudices. This must be done without violating basic assumptions of the algorithms in use. Algorithmic results need to be clearly communicated to stakeholders and domain experts to enable sound conclusions. Our position is that AI holds great promise for supporting precision medicine, but we need to move forward with great care, with consideration for possible ethical implications. We make the case that a no-boundary or convergent approach is essential to support sound and ethical decisions. No-boundary thinking supports problem definition and solving with teams of experts possessing diverse perspectives. When dealing with AI and the data needed to use AI, there is a spectrum of activities that needs the attention of a no-boundary team. This is necessary if we are to draw viable conclusions and develop actions and policies based on the AI, the data, and the scientific foundations of the domain in question.
Conventional boost converters operating with hard-switching result in low conversion efficiency and increased electromagnetic interference emissions. In this paper, a cost-efficient passive snubber is proposed with a ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9784885523472
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350349498
Conventional boost converters operating with hard-switching result in low conversion efficiency and increased electromagnetic interference emissions. In this paper, a cost-efficient passive snubber is proposed with a few additional components: two diodes, one capacitor, and one inductor. Moreover, because these snubber components are not located on the main power processing path, they only require low ratings, resulting in improved cost-effectiveness.
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