作者:
R. ChandramouliMultimedia Systems
Networking and Communications (MSyNC) Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology USA
This work presents some important issues in searching the Internet for covert messages. Several related theoretical and practical problems are discussed. Web search is formulated as a mathematical optimization problem...
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This work presents some important issues in searching the Internet for covert messages. Several related theoretical and practical problems are discussed. Web search is formulated as a mathematical optimization problem and solutions are proposed. Two algorithms: coordinated search and random search are discussed within this optimization framework along with their pros and cons.
作者:
G.C. GiakosImaging Systems
Sensors and Photonics Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Akron Akron OH USA
The goal of this study is to present novel, multifusion, optical imaging sensing principles, based on laser polarimetric imaging of targets surrounded by scattered media, using the Mueller matrices based formalism. Sp...
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The goal of this study is to present novel, multifusion, optical imaging sensing principles, based on laser polarimetric imaging of targets surrounded by scattered media, using the Mueller matrices based formalism. Specifically, the novelty of the imaging system consists in the fusion of dual-energy imaging principles, with polarimetric imaging principles at varying focal lengths and exposures. The experimental results indicate clearly that, high specificity images can be obtained by transmitted and scattered photons from several media, by means of the proposed technique.
作者:
Jingu HeoS.G. KongB.R. AbidiM.A. AbidiImaging
Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Tennessee Knoxville TN USA
This paper describes a fusion of visual and thermal infrared (IR) images for robust face recognition. Two types of fusion methods are discussed: data fusion and decision fusion. Data fusion produces an illumination-in...
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This paper describes a fusion of visual and thermal infrared (IR) images for robust face recognition. Two types of fusion methods are discussed: data fusion and decision fusion. Data fusion produces an illumination-invariant face image by adaptively integrating registered visual and thermal face images. Decision fusion combines matching scores of individual face recognition modules. In the data fusion process, eyeglasses, which block thermal energy, are detected from thermal images and replaced with an eye template. Three fusion-based face recognition techniques are implemented and tested: Data fusion of visual and thermal images (Df), Decision fusion with highest matching score (Fh), and Decision fusion with average matching score (Fa). A commercial face recognition software FaceIt® is used as an individual recognition module. Comparison results show that fusion-based face recognition techniques outperformed individual visual and thermal face recognizers under illumination variations and facial expressions.
The authors review the space mapping (SM) and the SM-based surrogate (modeling) concepts and their applications in engineering modeling and design optimization. The aim of SM is to achieve a satisfactory solution with...
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The authors review the space mapping (SM) and the SM-based surrogate (modeling) concepts and their applications in engineering modeling and design optimization. The aim of SM is to achieve a satisfactory solution with a minimal number of computationally expensive "fine" model evaluations. SM procedures iteratively update and optimize surrogates based on a fast physically-based "coarse" model. Also review the original, aggressive and implicit SM (ISM) techniques. A "cheese-cutting" problem illustrates the ISM concept. Significant recent practical applications are reviewed.
A novel distributed power control (DPC) scheme for cellular networks in the presence of radio channel uncertainties such as path loss, shadowing, and Rayleigh fading is presented. Since these uncertainties can attenua...
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A novel distributed power control (DPC) scheme for cellular networks in the presence of radio channel uncertainties such as path loss, shadowing, and Rayleigh fading is presented. Since these uncertainties can attenuate the received signal strength and can cause variations in the received signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), the proposed DPC scheme maintains a target SIR at the receiver provided the uncertainty is slowly varying with time. The DPC estimates the time varying nature of the channel quickly and uses the information to arrive at a suitable transmitter power value. Further, the standard assumption of a constant interference during a link's power update used in other works in the literature is relaxed. A CDMA-based cellular network environment is used to compare the proposed scheme with earlier approaches. The results show that our DPC scheme can converge faster than others by adapting to the channel variations. The proposed DPC scheme can render outage probability of 5 to 30% in the presence of uncertainties compared with other schemes of 50 to 90% while consuming low power per active mobile user. In other words, the proposed DPC scheme allows significant increase in network capacity while consuming low power values even when the channel is uncertain.
作者:
B. AbidiS. HuqM. AbidiImaging
Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Tennessee Knoxville TN USA
This paper summarizes the various components of face recognition research conducted at the IRIS Lab. First, fusion of visual and thermal infrared (IR) images for robust face recognition is discussed. Two techniques ar...
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This paper summarizes the various components of face recognition research conducted at the IRIS Lab. First, fusion of visual and thermal infrared (IR) images for robust face recognition is discussed. Two techniques are implemented: data fusion and decision fusion. With the knowledge that eyeglasses block the emission of thermal energy, an algorithm is designed to detect and replace eyeglasses with an eye template in thermal images. A commercial face recognition software (FaceIt/spl reg/) is used in the evaluation of the various fusion algorithms. Comparison results show that fusion-based face recognition outperforms individual visual or thermal face recognizers under illumination variations and facial expressions. Efforts in the 3D arena are also described. Results of high resolution stereo-based 3D reconstruction of faces are shown and analyzed, in a first approach, then in a second approach, a warping technique is applied to overlay color and thermal textures on 3D mannequin head models, obtained using a laser range scanner.
作者:
M. WallaceA. RaouzaiouN. TsapatsoulisS. KolliasImage
Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory (IVML) Department of Computer Science School of Electrical and Computer Engineering National and Technical University of Athens Zografou Greece
As low resolution shots, rotations of the head with respect to the camera, face deformation due to speech and so on inflict a great deal of uncertainty in FAP measurements, uncertainty is also inherent in the process ...
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As low resolution shots, rotations of the head with respect to the camera, face deformation due to speech and so on inflict a great deal of uncertainty in FAP measurements, uncertainty is also inherent in the process of expression analysis. We tackle such uncertainty via the observation that user emotions do not typically alter rapidly very often. Thus, possibilistic evidence may be gathered from each frame about the user expression; evidence from the current and recent frames can be combined using evidence theory.
Quantum computing offers immense speedup in performing tasks such as data encryption and searching. The quantum algorithms can be modeled using classical computing devices, however classical computer simulations canno...
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Quantum computing offers immense speedup in performing tasks such as data encryption and searching. The quantum algorithms can be modeled using classical computing devices, however classical computer simulations cannot deal efficiently with the parallelism present in quantum algorithms. The quantum circuit model for quantum algorithms is sufficient to describe the known quantum algorithms. Using analogies between quantum and digital circuits, we design the emulator of quantum algorithms in FPGAs that allows efficient experimentation with new quantum algorithms. This paper concentrates on new techniques for modeling quantum circuits, including the entanglement and probabilistic computing realization, as well as the critical issues in the required precision of computing.
The reverse link error probability of multicell direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems with beamforming and Rake receivers is evaluated in this paper. The impact of power control schemes on th...
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The reverse link error probability of multicell direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems with beamforming and Rake receivers is evaluated in this paper. The impact of power control schemes on the error probability is examined, considering power-based power control (PW-PC) and signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) based power control (SIR-PC). Expressions for the error probability as a function of the number of users per cell, the number of antenna elements, the number of Rake receiver fingers, and the CDMA processing gain are derived and both multipath interference and interference due to other users (own and other cells) are taken into consideration in the evaluation. Numeric results indicate that CDMA systems with different power control schemes have the same reverse link user capacity for a given target bit-error rate. However, the SIR-PC approach consumes less power than PW-PC when the number of users is smaller than the user capacity.
The design of multi-layer printed circuit boards is vital in the construction of complex electronic systems. Wire routing is a crucial step in the overall design process, which can be decomposed into a number of singl...
The design of multi-layer printed circuit boards is vital in the construction of complex electronic systems. Wire routing is a crucial step in the overall design process, which can be decomposed into a number of single row routing (SRR) problems. This paper proposes an approach to solve the SRR problem based on parallel meta-heuristics. The development of this technique involves the design of an encoding strategy that allows all possible routings to be uniquely represented and the derivation of cost functions that maximizes the quality of the developed solutions. Further, parallelization of the proposed approach is attempted to improve the computational efficiency. The different stages of the development are backed by experiments to show the pros and cons of the sequential and parallel implementations.
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