With the increasing number of scientific applications manipulating huge amounts of data, effective high-level data management is an increasingly important problem. Unfortunately, so far the solutions to the high‐leve...
With the increasing number of scientific applications manipulating huge amounts of data, effective high-level data management is an increasingly important problem. Unfortunately, so far the solutions to the high‐level data management problem either require deep understanding of specific storage architectures and file layouts (as in high-performance file storage systems) or produce unsatisfactory I/O performance in exchange for ease-of-use and portability (as in relational DBMSs). In this paper we present a novel application development environment which is built around an active meta-data management system (MDMS) to handle high-level data in an effective manner. The key components of our three-tiered architecture are user application, the MDMS, and a hierarchical storage system (HSS). Our environment overcomes the performance problems of pure database-oriented solutions, while maintaining their advantages in terms of ease-of-use and portability. The high levels of performance are achieved by the MDMS, with the aid of user-specified, performance-oriented directives. Our environment supports a simple, easy-to-use yet powerful user interface, leaving the task of choosing appropriate I/O techniques for the application at hand to the MDMS. We discuss the importance of an active MDMS and show how the three components of our environment, namely the application, the MDMS, and the HSS, fit together. We also report performance numbers from our ongoing implementation and illustrate that significant improvements are made possible without undue programming effort.
The maternal ECG (MECG) is the main source of interference in fetal ECG (FECG) monitoring. The MECG is detected at all electrodes placed on the mother's skin (thoracic and abdominal). In the case of multi-fetal pr...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)0780358422
The maternal ECG (MECG) is the main source of interference in fetal ECG (FECG) monitoring. The MECG is detected at all electrodes placed on the mother's skin (thoracic and abdominal). In the case of multi-fetal pregnancies the traditional adaptive filtering technique provides a "maternal clean" signal consisting of the two fetal ECG signals. It cannot however provide the desired individual FECG. The work reported here suggests the use of the blind source separation (BSS) algorithm to deal with the problem. Simulation studies show that the BSS algorithm can perform a separation of twins' FECG. Real signals were recorded from pregnant women at their 28-30/sup th/ week of pregnancy, carrying 2-3 fetuses. The noise was found to be too strong for the algorithm (and the naked eye) to notice any fetal heart signal.
An analytical approach is developed for evaluating the expected range increase and variations in coverage range, while using an M-element adaptive antenna array at the base station (BS). The analysis is based on the m...
详细信息
An analytical approach is developed for evaluating the expected range increase and variations in coverage range, while using an M-element adaptive antenna array at the base station (BS). The analysis is based on the match filter bound an the bit error rate probability for a frequency non-selective Rayleigh fading channel. Results for a ten element uniform linear array (ULA) indicate the expected range increase over a BS with only a single antenna can be nearly doubled. A 1.6 to 1.7 increase is also likely with a five-element array.
A multifilter is a filter with matrix-valued coefficients, and is used in the processing of vector-valued signals, e.g. color images. Convolution becomes a vector sum of matrix-vector multiplication. In this paper, we...
详细信息
A multifilter is a filter with matrix-valued coefficients, and is used in the processing of vector-valued signals, e.g. color images. Convolution becomes a vector sum of matrix-vector multiplication. In this paper, we efficiently implement a multifilter as a parallel combination of scalar filters. Each scalar filter works on one component of the input vector signal, which increases processing speed by the dimension of the vector-valued signal. This means that by using N processors, the throughput is increased by a factor of N while the total memory usage remains unchanged. We also present a frequency-domain analysis of the filtering.
Cellular systems using adaptive antennas for spatial processing have been shown to provide an increase in capacity. When employing adaptive antennas, the standard approach to achieve capacity gain has been to maximize...
详细信息
Cellular systems using adaptive antennas for spatial processing have been shown to provide an increase in capacity. When employing adaptive antennas, the standard approach to achieve capacity gain has been to maximize the link quality between the mobile and base station via optimum combining. This paper presents an alternative optimization approach based on optimizing the adaptive antenna array to maximize the trunking efficiency, of which the effect was subsequently an outstanding issue. Monte Carlo simulations, substantiated with theoretical analysis, were used to evaluate this issue. Based on the analysis, the proposed approach could increase the capacity by 2 to 4 times.
A transmission channel used in application such as telecommunications can be modeled as a bandpass filter. Measurement of the frequency selectivity of the channel is important to ensure that the information-bearing si...
详细信息
A transmission channel used in application such as telecommunications can be modeled as a bandpass filter. Measurement of the frequency selectivity of the channel is important to ensure that the information-bearing signal has minimal distortion and loss of information. A comparison is made for several methods used for estimating the frequency selectivity of the transmission. The methods presented are the correlation method, instantaneous energy and frequency estimation and the cross Wigner-Ville distribution. The theoretical foundations and assumptions are described for each method. In general, all the methods gave similar performance in terms of the frequency selectivity. Due to the shorter analysis duration, both the instantaneous energy and frequency estimation and cross Wigner-Ville distribution is ideal for estimating the frequency selectivity of time-varying channels.
The edge and motion are the main features that human visual system (HVS) perceives intensively. This paper proposes an algorithm for the segmentation of the moving object with accurate boundary using color and motion ...
详细信息
Multi-modality image registration and fusion are essential steps in building 3D models from remote sensing data. In this paper, we present a neural network technique for the registration and fusion of multi-modality r...
详细信息
Multi-modality image registration and fusion are essential steps in building 3D models from remote sensing data. In this paper, we present a neural network technique for the registration and fusion of multi-modality remote sensing data for the reconstruction of 3D models of terrain regions. A feedforward neural network is used to fuse the intensity data sets with the spatial data set after learning its geometry. Results on real data are presented. Human performance evaluation is assessed on several perceptual tests in order to evaluate the fusion results.
We propose a novel algorithm for embedded stereoscopic image coding based on the hierarchical decomposition of stereo information. The proposed scheme is endowed with excellent progressive transmission capability and ...
详细信息
We propose a novel algorithm for embedded stereoscopic image coding based on the hierarchical decomposition of stereo information. The proposed scheme is endowed with excellent progressive transmission capability and retains the option for perfect reconstruction of the original image pair. Experimental evaluation shows that the resulting method produces comparable results with a previously proposed algorithm for progressive stereo image coding.
We develop a framework for efficiently encoding predictive error frames (PEF) as part of a rate scalable, wavelet-based video compression algorithm. We investigate the use of rate-distortion analysis to determine the ...
详细信息
We develop a framework for efficiently encoding predictive error frames (PEF) as part of a rate scalable, wavelet-based video compression algorithm. We investigate the use of rate-distortion analysis to determine the significance of coefficients in the wavelet decomposition. Based on this analysis, we allocate the bit budget assigned to a PEF to the coefficients that yield the largest reduction in distortion, while maintaining the embedded and rate scalable properties of our video compression algorithm.
暂无评论