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Blind Signal Separation for Cognitive Radio
Many efforts have been dedicated to cognitive radio research and many schemes have been proposed for cognitive radio in the past few years. Unfortunately, an important piece of cognitive radio, namely, signal ...
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Open AccessDataflow-Based Map** of Computer Vision Algorithms onto FPGAs
We develop a design methodology for map** computer vision algorithms onto an FPGA through the use of coarse-grain reconfigurable dataflow graphs as a representation to guide the designer. We first describe a...
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Certification of a new selenized yeast reference material (SELM-1) for methionine, selenomethinone and total selenium content and its use in an intercomparison exercise for quantifying these analytes
A new selenized yeast reference material (SELM-1) produced by the Institute for National Measurement Standards, National Research Council of Canada (INMS, NRC) certified for total selenium (2,059±64 mg kg−1), met...
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Multi-Modal Dialog Scene Detection Using Hidden Markov Models for Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
A class of audio-visual data (fiction entertainment: movies, TV series) is segmented into scenes, which contain dialogs, using a novel hidden Markov model-based (HMM) method. Each shot is classified using both...
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Long-term stability of nutrients in a frozen mixed food control material
A mixed food homogenate was prepared as a quality control material for two multi-center clinical feeding trials. Approximately 100 kg of homogenized human diet material was prepared under controlled condition...
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An experimental analysis of digital video library servers
Much work on video servers has concentrated on movies on demand, in which a relatively small number of titles are viewed and users are given basic VCR-style controls. This paper concentrates on analyzing vide...
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Synthesis of Hard Real-Time Application Specific Systems
This paper presents a system level approach for the synthesis of hard real-time multitask application specific systems. The algorithm takes into account task precedence constraints among multiple hard real-tim...
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Guest Editorial
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A multi‐attribute shot segmentation algorithm for video programs
This paper describes a new algorithm for detecting cuts, thereby segmenting a video into shots. Our Web‐based video library contains a large volume of news and documentary material; most of the transitions bet...
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Efficient Algorithms for Interface Timing Verification
This paper presents algorithms for computing separations between events that are constrained to obey prespecified relationships in their relative time of occurrence. The algorithms are useful for interface tim...
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Global activities in the world of reference materials including the needs of develo** countries
Proceedings of previous BERM meetings have been used to assess emerging trends in the development of RMs to meet AQC requirements of clinical, food, nutrition, and environmental health areas. BRM-1 reflected ...
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Guest Editors' Introduction
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Redundancy Removal during High-Level Synthesis Using Scheduling Don‘t-Cares
Previous work in automata theory has shown how to eliminate sequential redundancy from networks of FSMs by finding sequences of inputs and outputs which are never communicated between components of the network...
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Lessons from the design of a PC-based private branch exchange
We designed TigerSwitch, a digital private branch exchange (PBX) implemented on an IBM PC-compatible platform, as an experiment in embedded system design. A telephone switching system is an interesting example...
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The search for organic nutrient standards
The search for organic nutrient standards is approached from two sides. On the one hand, useful standards are selected from currently available SRMs; on the other hand, a representative food is developed repre...
