Facial expression and emotion recognition from thermal infrared images has attracted more and more attentions in recent years. However, the features adopted in current work are either temperature statistical parameter...
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Facial expression and emotion recognition from thermal infrared images has attracted more and more attentions in recent years. However, the features adopted in current work are either temperature statistical parameters extracted from the facial regions of interest or several hand-crafted features that are commonly used in visible spectrum. Till now there are no image features specially designed for thermal infrared images. In this paper, we propose using the deep Boltzmann machine to learn thermal features for emotion recognition from thermal infrared facial images. First, the face is located and normalized from the thermal infrared im- ages. Then, a deep Boltzmann machine model composed of two layers is trained. The parameters of the deep Boltzmann machine model are further fine-tuned for emotion recognition after pre-tralning of feature learning. Comparative experimental results on the NVIE database demonstrate that our approach outperforms other approaches using temperature statistic features or hand-crafted features borrowed from visible domain. The learned features from the forehead, eye, and mouth are more effective for discriminating valence dimension of emotion than other facial areas. In addition, our study shows that adding unlabeled data from other database during training can also improve feature learning performance.
A circuit model is presented for the modeling of mutual coupling for substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)-series fed dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) array excited by longitudinal slots. The antenna element can be m...
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A circuit model is presented for the modeling of mutual coupling for substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)-series fed dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) array excited by longitudinal slots. The antenna element can be modeled using S-parameters or π equivalent circuit. The mutual coupling between antennas is modeled as a two-port network shunt connected between adjacent antennas. A four elements millimeter-wave SIW-DRA array fed by longitudinal slots is simulated to validate this model. The simulation results using the developed model agree well with the full-wave solver results.
systems enabling smart city operations are highly adaptive complex systems that pose great challenges in their development and operation. Current user-driven techniques for system domain modeling and requirements engi...
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(纸本)9781467384810
systems enabling smart city operations are highly adaptive complex systems that pose great challenges in their development and operation. Current user-driven techniques for system domain modeling and requirements engineering are not adequate for supporting the development of such systems. In this paper, we propose a development process and an environment-driven modeling approach for the Requirement engineering Context Awareness methodology to be used for smart city applications. To this end, we propose the use of ontologies to build the environment context model. We show that the environment dimension is the most important dimension of context with the highest impact of changes in a dynamic context. We illustrate our approach by presenting an ontology-based context model of I-Parking. We present dynamic models of typical scenarios of interactions. We propose our approach as an important step in developing highly adaptive context-aware systems for smart city operations where uncertainty and changing conditions in the environment need to be carefully modeled and addressed.
Most present research into facial expression recognition focuses on the visible spectrum, which is sen- sitive to illumination change. In this paper, we focus on in- tegrating thermal infrared data with visible spectr...
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Most present research into facial expression recognition focuses on the visible spectrum, which is sen- sitive to illumination change. In this paper, we focus on in- tegrating thermal infrared data with visible spectrum images for spontaneous facial expression recognition. First, the ac- tive appearance model AAM parameters and three defined head motion features are extracted from visible spectrum im- ages, and several thermal statistical features are extracted from infrared (IR) images. Second, feature selection is per- formed using the F-test statistic. Third, Bayesian networks BNs and support vector machines SVMs are proposed for both decision-level and feature-level fusion. Experiments on the natural visible and infrared facial expression (NVIE) spontaneous database show the effectiveness of the proposed methods, and demonstrate thermal 1R images' supplementary role for visible facial expression recognition.
Time is a critical factor in the airlines industry. Among all factors contributing to an aircraft turnaround time, passenger boarding delays is the most challenging one. Airlines do not have control over the behavior ...
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(纸本)9781632662156
Time is a critical factor in the airlines industry. Among all factors contributing to an aircraft turnaround time, passenger boarding delays is the most challenging one. Airlines do not have control over the behavior of passengers, thus their only key in reducing passenger boarding time is in implementing efficient boarding strategies. In this work we attempt to use discrete-event cellular DEVS to provide a comprehensive evaluation of aircraft boarding strategies. We have developed a simulation benchmark consisting of various boarding strategies including Back-to-Front, Window Middle Aisle, and Reverse Pyramid. Our simulation models are highly precise and adaptive, providing a powerful analysis apparatus for investigating any existing or yet to be discovered boarding strategy. We explain the details of our models and present the results both visually and numerically to evaluate the three implemented boarding strategies. This research is an on-going effort aiming to optimize and reduce passenger boarding delays in commercial aircrafts.
Airport is a highly dynamic environment, turning emergencies into extensively costly and disruptive events with cascaded effects that will adversely affect the entire aviation system. Airports' management and safe...
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Distributed Real-Time Embedded (DRE) systems that ad-dress safety and mission-critical system requirements are applied in a variety of domains today. Complex, integrated systems like managed satellite clusters expose ...
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Distributed Real-Time Embedded (DRE) systems that ad-dress safety and mission-critical system requirements are applied in a variety of domains today. Complex, integrated systems like managed satellite clusters expose heterogeneous concerns such as strict timing requirements, complexity in system integration, deployment, and repair;and resilience to faults. Integrating appropriate modeling and analysis techniques into the design of such systems helps ensure predictable, dependable and safe operation upon deployment. This paper describes how we can model and analyze applications for these systems in order to verify system properties such as lack of deadline violations. Our approach is based on (1) formalizing the component operation scheduling using Colored Petri nets (CPN), (2) modeling the abstract temporal behavior of application components, and (3) integrating the business logic and the component operation scheduling models into a concrete CPN, which is then analyzed. This model-driven approach enables a verification-driven workflow wherein the application model can be refined and restructured before actual code development.
software architecture description languages offer a convenient way of describing the high-level structure of a software system. Such descriptions facilitate rapid prototyping, code generation and automated analysis. O...
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software architecture description languages offer a convenient way of describing the high-level structure of a software system. Such descriptions facilitate rapid prototyping, code generation and automated analysis. One of the big challenges facing the software community is the design of architecture description languages that are general enough to describe a wide-range of systems, yet detailed enough to capture domain-specific properties and provide a high level of tool automation. This paper presents the multi-paradigm challenges we faced and solutions we built when creating a domain-specific modeling language for software architectures of distributed real-time systems.
Model-driven software development and systemsengineering rely on modeling languages that provide efficient, domain-specific abstractions for design, analysis, and implementation. Models are essential for communicatin...
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Model-driven software development and systemsengineering rely on modeling languages that provide efficient, domain-specific abstractions for design, analysis, and implementation. Models are essential for communicating ideas across the engineering team, but also key to the analysis of the system. No single model or modeling language can cover all aspects of a system, and even for particular aspects multiple modeling languages are used in the same system. Thus engineers face the dilemma of either defining a unifying semantics for all models, or finding a solution to the model integration problem. The talk will elaborate these problems, and show two, potential solutions: one using a model integration language (for the engineering design domain) and another one using explicit and executable semantics (for the domain of distributed reactive controllers).
Ring oscillator Physical Unclonable Function (RO PUF) is a popular silicon PUF due to its ease of implementation on both ASIC and FPGA. However, RO PUFs have severe reliability issues when the operating environment de...
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Ring oscillator Physical Unclonable Function (RO PUF) is a popular silicon PUF due to its ease of implementation on both ASIC and FPGA. However, RO PUFs have severe reliability issues when the operating environment deviates from the nominal condition and security issues as cloning attacks have been reported. In this work, we propose to build configurable RO PUFs based on the notions of configurable RO PUF [6, 16] and highly flexible RO PUF [22] to address these concerns. First, we demonstrate how to build RO PUF from single flexible ROs, which improves both the reliability and hardware efficiency of RO PUFs. Then we propose a novel dual voltage based configurable RO PUF to mitigate the cloning attacks. Our experimental results show that our configurable RO PUFs are more reliable and hardware efficient than the existing RO PUF designs. Using the flexible RO PUF [22] as baseline, we have reduced the bit flip rate by 69% and improve the hardware utilization by 136%. In addition, the anti-cloning approach generates PUF data significantly different from the original PUF secret (average 47.5% Hamming distance) which makes potential cloning attacks very difficult.
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