Scheduling in metacomputing environments is an active field of research as the vision of a Computational Grid becomes more concrete. An important class of Grid applications are long-running parallel computations with ...
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Proper coverage of service area in a cellular network largely depends on initial cell planning. The cell planning technique includes a lot of tasks such as nominal cell plan, coverage and interference predictions, fie...
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Proper coverage of service area in a cellular network largely depends on initial cell planning. The cell planning technique includes a lot of tasks such as nominal cell plan, coverage and interference predictions, field survey, system selection, system growth, etc. However, this paper includes only a theoretical model of cell site positioning, so that any irregular area can be covered with a combination of omni & sector cells most efficiently This model will be useful at the beginning of network planning in any urban/suburban/rural area.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, followed by automated segmentation of the corpus callosum (CC) in midsagittal sections has important applications in neurology and neurocognitive research since the size ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, followed by automated segmentation of the corpus callosum (CC) in midsagittal sections has important applications in neurology and neurocognitive research since the size and shape of the CC are shown to be correlated to sex, age, neurodegenerative diseases and various lateralized behavior in man. Moreover, whole head, multispectral 3D MRI recordings enable voxel-based tissue classification and estimation of total brain volumes, in addition to CC morphometric parameters. We propose a new algorithm that uses both multispectral MRI measurements (intensity values) and prior information about shape (CC template) to segment CC in midsagittal slices with very little user interaction. The algorithm has been successfully tested on a sample of 10 subjects scanned with multispectral 3D MRI, collected for a study of dyslexia. We conclude that the proposed method for CC segmentation is promising for clinical use when multispectral MR images are recorded.
One of the major reasons of using parallel computer systems is that they have the potential for improving performance and resource sharing. To achieve this, an efficient way must be provided to broadcast a message or ...
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One of the major reasons of using parallel computer systems is that they have the potential for improving performance and resource sharing. To achieve this, an efficient way must be provided to broadcast a message or messages from a node to every other nodes in the system. However, the efficiency of transferring messages in a system is determined by the architecture of the underlying interconnection network of the system. In this paper, we consider the systems based on binary directed de Bruijn networks and define two shortest path spanning trees: the upward-0 spanning tree and the downward-0 spanning tree, to meet various message transfer requirements. To demonstrate the usage of these spanning trees, an application to the load-balancing problem is considered. The resulting time complexity is O(log2 N + Σ Δi0 ΔiΔ), where N is the number of nodes and Δi, is the total transfer time for the load difference of each node i, for all 1 &le i &le N, on the binary directed de Bruijn networks.
The use of multirate generalized sampled-data hold functions for model reference adaptive control of linear multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems with unknown parameters, is investigated in this paper, for th...
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The use of multirate generalized sampled-data hold functions for model reference adaptive control of linear multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems with unknown parameters, is investigated in this paper, for the first time. Such a control scheme contains a multirate sampling mechanism with different sampling period to each system input and relies on two periodically varying modulating matrix functions. The proposed control strategy allows us to assign an arbitrary discrete-time transfer function matrix for the sampled closed-loop system and does not make assumptions on the plant other than controllability and observability of the continuous and the sampled system, and the knowledge of a set of structural indices, namely the locally minimum controllability indices of the continuous-time plant. The indirect adaptive control scheme presented here, estimates the unknown plant parameters (and hence the parameters of the desired modulating matrix functions) on line, from sequential data of the inputs and the outputs of the plant, which are recursively updated within the time limit imposed by a fundamental sampling period T0. The controller determination is reduced to the simple problem of solving a linear algebraic system of equations, whereas known indirect model reference adaptive control techniques require the solution of matrix polynomial Diophantine equations, whose solutions may become unstable. Moreover, persistency of excitation and, therefore, parameter convergence, of the continuous-time plant is provided without making assumptions either on the existence of specific convex sets in which the estimated parameters belong or on the coprimeness of the polynomials describing the ARMA model, or finally on the richness of the reference signals, as compared to known indirect model reference adaptive control schemes.
A learning system for a more complete process of learning to read aloud English words should consist of three major steps: alignment, mapping learning, and grapheme generation. In a previous paper, we discussed a basi...
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A new method of incorporating local image constraints into blind image restoration is proposed. The local mean and variance of the degraded image are used to obtain .in initial estimate of the pixel intensity bounds. ...
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A new method of incorporating local image constraints into blind image restoration is proposed. The local mean and variance of the degraded image are used to obtain .in initial estimate of the pixel intensity bounds. As the restoration proceeds, the bounds are updated from the current image estimate. I lie iterative-bound algorithm shows an improvement over the use of fixed bounds taken from the blurred image, in which case underestimation of the variance occurs at edges and textures. Simulations are presented for both the fixed-And iterative-bound implementations.
Flexible closed deformable contours extracted from images to represent object outlines are often called snakes. The paper explores and extends the use of snakes to extract contour features from images for modeling and...
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Flexible closed deformable contours extracted from images to represent object outlines are often called snakes. The paper explores and extends the use of snakes to extract contour features from images for modeling and pattern recognition. Many of the contour extraction algorithms have a common formulation as a constrained optimization problem. One version, called the constrained fuzzy clustering algorithm, links fuzzy clustering and snakes-the resulting contour being called a fuzzy snake. These extraction procedures are vulnerable to noise, which makes their application to noisy sensor images problematic. By applying known robust fuzzy clustering algorithms, more noise resistant snakes can be derived thereby extending contour feature extraction to sensor images.
In this paper, the problem of how to better estimate spatially adaptive intensity bounds for image restoration is addressed. When the intensity bounds are estimated from a degraded image, blurring leads to underestima...
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In this paper, the problem of how to better estimate spatially adaptive intensity bounds for image restoration is addressed. When the intensity bounds are estimated from a degraded image, blurring leads to underestimation of the bounds in the edge and texture regions. Therefore, an iterative implementation of the restoration algorithm has been proposed in which the intensity bounds are re-estimated from the current image estimate. However, direct update of the bounds leads to over-smoothing in regions where the bounds are active. Furthermore, the resulting algorithm exhibits slow convergence. In this paper, alternative methods of initially estimating and updating the bounds are proposed, and the results for the fixed- and updated-bound implementations are compared. A method for estimation of the bound tightness parameter is also proposed.
A new method of incorporating local image characteristics into blind image restoration is proposed. The local variance of the degraded image is used as a measure of spatial activity, from which individual pixel bounds...
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A new method of incorporating local image characteristics into blind image restoration is proposed. The local variance of the degraded image is used as a measure of spatial activity, from which individual pixel bounds are determined. A parameter defined by the user controls the degree of smoothing. The local bounds define the solution more precisely than smoothness constraints on the image (including those that are spatially-adaptive), reducing the number of possible solutions and leading to a faster rate of convergence. Experimental results demonstrate the potential of this method as an alternative/supplement to smoothing constraints in blind image restoration.
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