2020 December - 225 articles
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a major impact on our society, because of the numerous services they provide. These services include, but are not limited to image classification, video analysis, and speech recognition. Recently, the number...
One of the most recent speaker recognition methods that demonstrates outstanding performance in noisy environments involves extracting the speaker embedding using attention mechanism instead of average or statistics pooling. In the attention method,...
This paper proposes a small-footprint wake-up-word (WUW) recognition system for real noisy environments by employing the competing-words-based feature. Competing-words-based features are generated using a ResNet-based deep neural network with small p...
The semantic segmentation of a brain tumor is of paramount importance for its treatment and prevention. Recently, researches have proposed various neural network-based architectures to improve the performance of segmentation of brain tumor sub-region...
Electronic nose is an electronic olfactory system that simulates the biological olfactory mechanism, which mainly includes gas sensor, data pre-processing, and pattern recognition. In recent years, the proposals of electronic nose have been widely de...
This paper presents an enhanced maximum power point tracking approach to extract power from photovoltaic panels. The proposed method uses an artificial neural network technique to improve the fractional open-circuit voltage method by learning the cor...
In order to detect the vehicle presence in parking slots, different approaches have been utilized, which range from image recognition to sensing via detection nodes. The last one is usually based on getting the presence data from one or more sensors...
The industrial sector has a great opportunity to reduce its energy costs through distributed generation. In this sense, the potential of photovoltaic self-consumption systems in the industrial cooling and refrigeration sector is shown. Two industries...
Mobile devices and social media have been used to create empowering healthcare services. However, privacy and security concerns remain. Furthermore, the integration of interoperability biomedical standards is a strategic feature. Thus, the objective...
Smart grid technology enables active participation of the consumers to reschedule their energy consumption through demand response (DR). The price-based program in demand response indirectly induces consumers to dynamically vary their energy use patt...
We examined the effects of aluminum (Al) capping layer thickness on the electrical performance and stability of high-mobility indium–gallium–tin oxide (IGTO) thin-film transistors (TFTs). The Al capping layers with thicknesses (tAls) of 3...
This paper presents a switched capacitor technique for bus-pumping compensation in a half-bridge class-D amplifier. The proposed approach, in addition to the almost complete reduction of the bus-pumping effect, allows the half-bridge class-D amplifie...
For higher integration density, X-band power amplifiers (PAs) with CMOS technology have been widely discussed in recent publications. However, with reduced power supply voltage and device size, it is a great challenge to design a compact PA with high...
Carbon nanotubes field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) have been recently studied with great interest due to the intriguing properties of the material that, in turn, lead to remarkable properties of the charge transport of the device channel. Downstream...
This paper proposes a novel pulse width modulation (PWM) for a three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) voltage source inverter (VSI). When the conventional PWM method is used in three-level NPC VSI, dead time is required to prevent a short circuit ca...
To solve the complexity of the traditional motion intention recognition method using a multi-mode sensor signal and the lag of the recognition process, in this paper, an inertial sensor-based motion intention recognition method for a soft exoskeleton...
With the decreasing size of manufacturing process, the scale of island-style field programmable gate array (FPGA) becomes larger, which leads to the increasing complexity of FPGA routing resources, especially hex programmable interconnect points (PIP...
Automated Vehicles (AVs) are expected to dramatically reduce traffic accidents that have occurred when using human driving vehicles (HVs). However, despite the rapid development of AVs, accidents involving AVs can occur even in ideal situations. Ther...
Dynamical systems described by fractional-order difference equations have only been recently introduced inthe literature. Referring to chaotic phenomena, the type of the so-called “self-excited attractors” has been so far highlighted amon...
In this paper, we present an Internet of things (IoT)-based data collection system for the risk assessment of urinary stone formation, or urolithiasis, by the measurement and storage of four parameters in urine: pH, concentrations of ionized calcium...
The skyrocketing growth in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has posed a huge traffic demand for fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks and beyond. In-band full-duplex (IBFD), which is theoretically expected to double the spectral effic...
Electric vehicle batteries have the problem of low output voltage, so the application of a high-gain converter is a research hotspot. The symmetrical dual-switch high gain converter has the merits of simple structure, low voltage and current stress,...
This article presents an ablative method of cutting masks from ultra-thin metal foils using nanosecond laser pulses. As a source of laser radiation, a pulsed fiber laser with a wavelength of 1062 nm with the duration of pulses from 15 to 220 nanoseco...
This meta-analysis aims to assess the effectiveness of virtual reality cognitive training (VRCT) and conventional computer-based cognitive training (CBCT) in five specific cognitive domains (i.e., global cognitive function (GCF), memory (Mem), execut...
At present, the key to underwater sensor network (UWSN) research is to provide personalized network support for many underwater applications. In order to achieve this goal, people need a general UWSN. Most of the current UWSN architecture is based on...
The Ministry of National Defense of South Korea is currently acquiring various surveillance and reconnaissance assets to improve its independent surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. With the deployment of new strategic and tactical surveilla...
This paper proposes a new hybrid Ćuk-type converter employing two inductors built on the same core which can be successfully used in applications requiring an output voltage considering higher than the input one. With few components added, in the pro...
Online communication platforms face security and privacy challenges, especially in broad ecosystems, such as online social networks, where users are unfamiliar with each other. Consequently, employing trust management systems is crucial to ensuring t...
This paper focuses on proposing a new access barring scheme for internet of things (IoT) devices in long term evolution advanced (LTE/LTE-A) and 5G networks. Massive number of IoT devices communicating simultaneously is one of the hallmarks of the fu...
A reconfigurable electromagnetic surface has been studied to realize the adjustable orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams for real-time wireless communication and dynamic target detection in the future. OAM mode switching realized by many previous des...
The diagnostics of the condition of athletes has become a field of special scientific interest and activity. The aim of this study was to verify the effect of a long (100 km) run on a group of runners, as well as to assess the recovery time that is r...
This paper presents the bandwidth improvement for dual-band power divider using complex isolation network while maintaining physical port separation. The conventional port-extended power dividers suffered from narrow system bandwidth. A rigorous anal...
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have become an accepted approach for a wide range of challenges. Meanwhile, the advancement of chip manufacturing processes is approaching saturation which calls for new computing solutions. This work presents a nove...
This paper describes a clocked AC-DC charge pump to enable full integration of power converters into a sensor or radio frequency (RF) chip even with low open circuit voltage magnetostrictive vibration energy transducer operating at a low resonant fre...
Short or moderate-length non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes have the potential applications in future low latency and high-reliability communication thanks to the strong error correction capability and parallel decoding. Because of t...
Infrared and visible image fusion technologies make full use of different image features obtained by different sensors, retain complementary information of the source images during the fusion process, and use redundant information to improve the cred...
The paper presents an analysis of the influence of microcracks in textronic conductive layers on their conductive properties. The tested structures were created in the physical vacuum deposition process. The paper presents the results of computer sim...
This article presents a full course for autonomous aerial robotics inside the RoboticsAcademy framework. This “drone programming” course is open-access and ready-to-use for any teacher/student to teach/learn drone programming with it for...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the promising paradigms that enable massive machines and devices to communicate with each other in future communication networks to promote a high level of awareness about our world and improve our daily life. I...
In traditional transportation, each driver usually relies on their experience to determine an appropriate route, which may shorten the driving time and transport cost. However, this may also lead to a waste of time in traffic jams or due to other pro...
This paper presents a single LC tank base cell-to-cell active voltage balancing algorithm for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicle (EV) applications. EV batteries face challenges in accomplishing fast balancing and high balancing efficiency with low...
The creation of hole, cavity or channel structures in low-temperature cofired ceramics (LTCCs), using different sacrificial volume materials (SVMs) was tested. The main functionality of the SVMs should be: easy application into the holes; protection...
The design and implementation of an ultra-wideband trapezoidal log-periodic antenna (LPA) integrated with an elliptical dielectric lens are presented. The proposed LPA is fed by an ultra-wideband microstrip-to-coplanar stripline transition structure....
Cameras are widely used in many scenes such as robot positioning and unmanned driving, in which the camera calibration is a major task in this field. The interactive camera calibration method based on a plane board is becoming popular due to its stab...
NAND flash memory is increasingly widely used as a storage medium due to its compact size, high reliability, low-power consumption, and high I/O speed. It is important to select a powerful and intelligent page replacement algorithm for NAND flash-bas...
In this paper, a wideband bandpass filter with a coupled line cross-shaped resonator (CLCSR) is proposed. The proposed bandpass filter is composed of two open-end parallel coupled lines, one short-end parallel coupled line, one branch microstrip line...
Robots instead of humans work in unstructured environments, expanding the scope of human work. The interactions between humans and robots are indirect through operating terminals. The mental workloads of human increase with the lack of direct percept...
For the implementation of a boost converter, the half-bridge topology provides a simpler conversion circuit; however, the voltage imbalance between the capacitors is a critical factor since traditional control methodology decreases the power factor w...
Fog Radio Access Network (F-RAN) is a promising technology to address the bandwidth bottlenecks and network latency problems, by providing cloud-like services to the end nodes (ENs) at the edge of the network. The network latency can further be decre...
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MaMi) systems have attracted much research attention during the last few years. This is because MaMi systems are able to achieve a remarkable improvement in data rate and thus meet the immensely ongoing traffic...
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