Most existing performance evaluation methods concentrate on defining separate metrics over a wide range of conditions and generating standard benchmarking video sequences for examining the effectiveness of video track...
详细信息
Most existing performance evaluation methods concentrate on defining separate metrics over a wide range of conditions and generating standard benchmarking video sequences for examining the effectiveness of video tracking systems. In other words, these methods attempt to design a robustness margin or factor for the system. These methods are deterministic in which a robustness factor, for example, 2 or 3 times the expected number of subjects to track or the strength of illumination would be required in the design. This often results in over design, thus increasing costs, or under design causing failure by unanticipated factors. In order to overcome these limitations, we propose in this paper an alternative framework to analyze the physics of the failure process and, through the concept of reliability, determine the time to failure in automated video tracking systems. The benefit of our proposed framework is that we can provide a unified and statistical index to evaluate the performance of automated video tracking system for a task to be performed. At the same time, the uncertainty problem about a failure process, which may be caused by the system's complexity, imprecise measurements of the relevant physical constants and variables, or the indeterminate nature of future events, can be addressed accordingly based on our proposed framework.
In this paper, boundary control of a flexible marine riser with vessel dynamics is developed to reduce the riser's vibrations. To provide an accurate and concise representation of the riser's dynamic behavior,...
详细信息
This paper investigates varying the decoder weight of the language model (LM) when translating different parts of a sentence. We determine the condition under which the LM weight should be adapted. We find that a bett...
详细信息
This paper investigates varying the decoder weight of the language model (LM) when translating different parts of a sentence. We determine the condition under which the LM weight should be adapted. We find that a better translation can be achieved by varying the LM weight when decoding the most problematic spot in a sentence, which we refer to as a difficult segment. Two adaptation strategies are proposed and compared through experiments. We find that adapting a different LM weight for every difficult segment resulted in the largest improvement in translation quality.
We study the local distinguishability of general multiqubit states and show that local projective measurements and classical communication are as powerful as the most general local measurements and classical communica...
详细信息
We study the local distinguishability of general multiqubit states and show that local projective measurements and classical communication are as powerful as the most general local measurements and classical communication. Remarkably, this indicates that the local distinguishability of multiqubit states can be decided efficiently. Another useful consequence is that a set of orthogonal n-qubit states is locally distinguishable only if the summation of their orthogonal Schmidt numbers is less than the total dimension 2n. Employing these results, we show that any orthonormal basis of a subspace spanned by arbitrary three-qubit orthogonal unextendible product bases (UPB) cannot be exactly distinguishable by local operations and classical communication. This not only reveals another intrinsic property of three-qubit orthogonal UPB but also provides a class of locally indistinguishable subspaces with dimension 4. We also explicitly construct locally indistinguishable subspaces with dimensions 3 and 5, respectively. Similar to the bipartite case, these results on multipartite locally indistinguishable subspaces can be used to estimate the one-shot environment-assisted classical capacity of a class of quantum broadcast channels.
When a micro cantilever with a nanoscale tip is manipulated on a substrate with atomic roughness, e.g., pushing an atomic-scale sample or etching the surface of the substrate to draw desired patterns, the periodical l...
详细信息
In cluster file systems, the metadata management is critical to the whole system. Past researches mainly focus on journaling which alone is not enough to provide high-available metadata service. Some others try to use...
详细信息
In cluster file systems, the metadata management is critical to the whole system. Past researches mainly focus on journaling which alone is not enough to provide high-available metadata service. Some others try to use replication, but the extra latency accompanied is a main problem. To guarantee both availability and efficiency, we propose a mechanism for building highly available metadata servers based on replication, which integrates Paxos algorithm effectively into metadata service. The Packed Multi-Paxos is proposed to reduce the latency brought by replication, which is self-adaptive and can make the replication to achieve high throughput under heavy client load and low latency under light client load. By designing efficient architecture and coordination mechanism, all replica server nodes simultaneously provide metadata read-access service. This high-available mechanism could decrease the impact of server failures and there is no interruption of service. The performance results show that the latency caused by replication and redundancy is well under control, and the performance of metadata read operation gains improvement.
A novel Weighted Graph Partitioning Active Contours method based on weighted dissimilarity is introduced. This method is easy to be extended by defining different types of similarities. And it has been greatly acceler...
详细信息
A novel Weighted Graph Partitioning Active Contours method based on weighted dissimilarity is introduced. This method is easy to be extended by defining different types of similarities. And it has been greatly accelerated by a watershed pre-segmentation.
As a result of improvements in wireless communication technologies, a multimedia data streaming service can be provided for mobile clients such as PDAs and cellular phones. Because mobile devices have low computing po...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781424459421;9781424459438
As a result of improvements in wireless communication technologies, a multimedia data streaming service can be provided for mobile clients such as PDAs and cellular phones. Because mobile devices have low computing power and work on a low network bandwidth, a transcoding technology is needed to adapt the original streaming media for mobile environments. To provide quality of service, original encoded media are transcoded within limited time and transmitted to clients without ceasing and jittering phenomena. In particular, when large-scale mobile clients demand streaming services, load distribution methods among distributed transcoding servers have a tremendous impact on the total number of quality of service streams. In this paper, a new load distribution method is proposed based on transcoding time estimation with transcoding servers' information, movie information and target transcoding bit-rate. In experiments, the proposed method produces the best performance scalability according to the increase of transcoding servers.
Energy efficiency is one of key issues of wireless sensor network (VVSN). In this paper, we propose a self-learning scheduling approach (SSA) to reduce energy consumption for wireless sensor network (WSN). This approa...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781424458219;9781424458240
Energy efficiency is one of key issues of wireless sensor network (VVSN). In this paper, we propose a self-learning scheduling approach (SSA) to reduce energy consumption for wireless sensor network (WSN). This approach integrates sleep scheduling together with packet transmission scheduling to reduce energy consumption. It enables nodes to learn continuous transmission parameters and sleep parameter through interacting with the WSN. The continuous value of transmission parameter is achieved by our extension of Q-learning method, and the value of sleep parameter can be calculated from the transmission parameter. We valid this approach in a MAC protocol and compare some network performances between the SSA and SMAC protocol. The simulation results show that our SSA performs much better than SMAC protocol in these QoS metrics.
We study the asymptotic properties of distributed consensus algorithms over switching directed random networks. More specifically, we focus on consensus algorithms over independent and identically distributed, directe...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781424477456
We study the asymptotic properties of distributed consensus algorithms over switching directed random networks. More specifically, we focus on consensus algorithms over independent and identically distributed, directed random graphs, where each agent can communicate with any other agent with some exogenously specified probability. While different aspects of consensus algorithms over random switching networks have been widely studied, a complete characterization of the distribution of the asymptotic value for general asymmetric random consensus algorithms remains an open problem. In this paper, we derive closed-form expressions for the mean and an upper bound for the variance of the asymptotic consensus value, when the underlying network evolves according to an i.i.d. directed random graph process.
暂无评论