Consumer-grade graphics processing units (GPUs) offer a potentially affordable and energy-efficient alternative to enterprise-class hardware for real-time image processing tasks, but systematic multi-criteria analyses of their suitability remain rare...
The paper constructs an OpenStack cloud platform on Inspur servers, including components such as Keystone, Glance, Placement, Nova, Neutron, and Dashboard. It specifically investigates the method of constructing GPU pass-through using Virtual I/O (VF...
Numerous imaging techniques measure data that are mathematically wrapped to the finite interval [−π, π], corresponding to the principle value domain of the arctangent function. A wide range of reconstruction algorithms has been developed to obtain th...
We are developing a software for energy loss simulation which is affected by jets in the nuclear matter described by relativistic hydrodynamics. Our program uses a Cartesian coordinate system in order to provide high spatial resolution for the analys...
Simulation of atomic force microscopy (AFM) computationally emulates experimental scanning of a biomolecular structure to produce topographic images that can be correlated with measured images. Its application to the enormous amount of available high...
Graphics processing units and video cards have seen a surge of usage in domains other than graphics computers, due to advances in hardware and software technologies; however, little uptake has been in the domain of systems engineering and real time c...
In this research a portable potentiostat was built for electrochemical sensing measurements with three electrodes, specifically SPCEs. The circuit uses a microcontroller as the main controller to manage all activities, starting from adjusting the inp...
Artificial neural network models for the task of detection are used in many fields and find various applications. Models of this kind require adequate computational resources and thus require adequate energy expenditure. The increase in the number of...
Welding frames with differing geometries is one of the most crucial stages in the production of high-end bicycles. This paper proposes a parallel algorithm and a mixed integer linear programming formulation for scheduling a two-machine robotic weldin...
This paper introduces a GPU (graphics processing unit)-based fast motion synthesis algorithm for a large crowd. The main parts of the algorithms were selecting the most appropriate joint model given adaptive screen-space occupancy of each character a...
This article describes the open-source C++ code VM2D for the simulation of two-dimensional viscous incompressible flows and solving fluid-structure interaction problems. The code is based on the Viscous Vortex Domains (VVD) method developed by Prof....
The visualization of workshop information can affect production management and efficiency. Information can be presented both graphically and non-graphically (for example, in the form of data lists or tables). Graphical representations are intuitive a...
The minimalistic hardware of most Internet of things (IoT) devices and sensors, especially those based on microcontrollers (MCU), imposes severe limitations on the memory capacity and interfacing capabilities of the device. Nevertheless, many applica...
This study presents the design and implementation of an electronic system aimed at capturing vibrations produced during truck operation. The system employs a graphical interface to display vibration levels, ensuring the necessary comfort and offering...
29 September 2021
Information on medication adherence is missing in patient files, although it might be helpful to optimize treatment. An adherence report that presents data from electronic adherence monitoring and provides recommendations regarding pharmacological tr...
The design and implementation of a car’s black box system using a Raspberry Pi microcomputer and an Internet of things module is presented in this research. This system was built using a Raspberry Pi microcomputer and different sensors, includi...
This paper presents an evaluation of an infrared sensor for monitoring the welding pool temperature in a Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) process. The purpose of the study is to develop a real time system control. It is known that the arc welding pool...
This paper proposes a flood risk visualization method that is (1) readily transferable (2) hyperlocal, (3) computationally inexpensive, and (4) geometrically accurate. This proposal is for risk communication, to provide high-resolution, three-dimensi...
The maximum number of parallel threads in traditional CFD solutions is limited by the Central Processing Unit (CPU) capacity, which is lower than the capabilities of a modern Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). In this context, the GPU allows for simulta...
Focused electron-beam-induced deposition (FEBID) is a highly versatile direct-write approach with particular strengths in the 3D nanofabrication of functional materials. Despite its apparent similarity to other 3D printing approaches, non-local effec...
YOLOv5 is currently one of the mainstream algorithms for object detection. In this paper, we propose the FRL-YOLO model specifically for river floating object detection. The algorithm integrates the Fasternet block into the C3 module, conducting conv...
The contact center industry represents a large proportion of many country’s economies. For example, 4% of the entire United States and UK’s working population is employed in this sector. As in most modern industries, contact centers gener...
Stereomatching is an effective way of acquiring dense depth information from a scene when active measurements are not possible. So-called lightfield methods take a snapshot from many camera locations along a defined trajectory (usually uniformly line...
Molten chloride salts hold significant promise as both thermal transfer and storage media for next-generation concentrated solar power (CSP) systems. However, molten chlorides pose a considerable corrosion risk to structural materials, particularly N...
We report on an open-source, publicly available C++ software module called Chrono::GPU, which uses the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to simulate large granular systems on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cards. The solver supports the integration of gr...
A major challenge in neuroscience is how to study structural alterations in the brain. Even small changes in synaptic composition could have severe outcomes for body functions. Many neuropathological diseases are attributable to disorganization of pa...
The performance of the Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm for calibration-free LIBS was studied on the example of a simulated spectrum that mimics a metallurgical slag sample. The underlying model is that of a uniform, isothermal, and stationary plasma in lo...
Walking speed in geriatric patients is an important index for inferring the patient’s state of health and estimating the success rate of some surgical procedures. Although different solutions for monitoring the gait of a subject exist in scient...
Assessment and reporting of changes in vegetation condition at site and landscape scales is critical for land managers, policy makers and planers at local, regional and national scales. Land management, reflecting individual and collective values, is...
Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) require ultra-precise electrical measurements due to their unique charge transport mechanisms and sensitivity to environmental factors, yet commercial semiconductor parameter analysers capable of such measurem...
The purpose was to illustrate how system developed for measurement of the aural vital signs such as patient’s heart and lung sounds in the hospital. For heart sounds measurement must operate the frequency response between 20 – 800 Hz, and lung sounds...
A 3D numerical study using computational fluid dynamics simulations is carried out on a heat sink with circular fins. These devices are used to reject heat on motherboards and graphics cards. The software used in this investigation was ANSYS Fluent-C...
Existing RGB image-based object detection methods achieve high accuracy when objects are static or in quasi-static conditions but demonstrate degraded performance with fast-moving objects due to motion blur artifacts. Moreover, state-of-the-art deep...
This study proposes a heterogeneous hardware-based framework for network intrusion detection using lightweight artificial neural network models. With the increase in the volume of exchanged data, IoT networks’ security has become a crucial issu...
Skin segmentation involves segmenting the human skin region in an image. It is a preprocessing technique mainly used in many applications such as face detection, hand gesture recognition, and remote biosignal measurements. As the performance of skin...
Designing automatic optimizing compilers is an advanced engineering process requiring a great deal of expertise, programming, testing, and experimentation. Maintaining the approach and adapting it to evolving libraries and environments is a time-cons...
High-resolution (HR) mapping of the gastrointestinal (GI) bioelectrical activity is an emerging method to define the GI dysrhythmias such as gastroparesis and functional dyspepsia. Currently, there is no solution available to conduct HR mapping in lo...
Pesticides vary in the level of poisonousness, while a conventional rapid test card only provides a general “absence or not” solution, which cannot identify the various genera of pesticides. In order to solve this problem, we proposed a s...
The objective of the current research was not only to provide a fast and automatic positioning platform for single cells, but also improved biomolecular manipulation techniques. In this study, an automatic platform for cell positioning using electroo...
3 February 2021
Usability is key to achieve quality in software products. The client applications with a high score in usability might impact on the power consumption when they are run in a PC. For this reason, energy savings turn to be critical in green software sy...
Background: The federalization of the Italian National Health Service (NHS) gave administrative, financial, and managerial independence to regions. They are in reciprocal competition according to the “quasi-market” model. A network of independent pro...
A high-fidelity 3D urban building model requires large quantities of detailed textures, which can be non-tiled or tiled ones. The fast loading and rendering of these models remain challenges in web-based large-scale 3D city visualization. The traditi...
The construction of a transmission line (TL) for a wide tunable broad-spectrum THz radiation source is not a simple task. We present here a platform for the future use of designs of the TL through our homemade simulations. The TL is designed to be a...
When representing the geometry of voxelized three-dimensional scenes (especially if they have been voxelized to high resolutions) in a naive—uncompressed—form, one may end up using vast amounts of data. These can easily attack the availab...
Three-dimensional human pose estimation focuses on generating 3D pose sequences from 2D videos. It has enormous potential in the fields of human–robot interaction, remote sensing, virtual reality, and computer vision. Existing excellent methods...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made rapid progress in recent years, but as the complexity of AI models and the need to deploy them on multiple platforms gradually increases, the design of network model structures for specific platforms becomes more...
Brand typicality is crucial in shaping consumer perceptions of brands and poses challenges for novice designers to capture due to their limited tacit knowledge. Using Weka’s image classification, we developed a brand product classification mode...
Error detection has a vital function in the production stages. Computer-aided error detection applications bring significant technological innovation to the production process to control the quality of products. As a result, the control of product qu...
13 February 2023
Uroflowmetry (UF) is a crucial guideline-recommended tool for men with benign prostatic obstruction (BPO). Moreover, UF is a helpful decision-making tool for the management of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and benign prostatic hyp...
Natural disasters and catastrophes not only cost the loss of human lives, but adversely affect the progress toward sustainable development of the country. As soon as disaster strikes, the first and foremost challenge for the concerned authorities is...
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