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Fast data-independent KLT approximations based on integer functions
The Karhunen-Loève transform (KLT) stands as a well-established discrete transform, demonstrating optimal characteristics in data decorrelation and dimensionality reduction. Its ability to condense energy comp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A MCDA/GIS-Based Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Health Facilities
Access to health care services is a key concept in the formulation of health policies to improve the population’s health status and to mitigate inequities in health. Previous studies have significantly enhance...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CNNs for Fine-Grained Car Model Classification
This paper describes an end-to-end training methodology for CNN-based fine-grained vehicle model classification. The method relies exclusively on images, without using complicated architectures. No extra annot...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of a Glove Controlled by Electromyographic Signals for the Rehabilitation of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Among the various systemic disorders that hands can suffer, rheumatoid arthritis is one of the most common. This disease affects the synovial tissue of the joints, making extension and flexion movements diffic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
License Plate Corners Localization Using CNN-Based Regression
In this work, we tackle the problem of vehicle license plate localization in traffic images. Rather than modeling the appearance of the license plate, we propose to model the appearance of the corners of the l...
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Chapter
Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Biomedical Devices: A Hierarchical Layered Framework
Any biomedical device requiring power from a source other than the human body or gravity is considered an active device. Currently available active biomedical devices encompass an enormous variety of technolog...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Internet of Things for Irrigation System
Technological advances have impacted in recent years most of the economic sectors of the world, where they have managed to increase efficiency and profitability particularly with one of the fastest growing app...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Machine Learning to Estimate the Amount of Training to Learn a Motor Skill
Machine Learning (ML) has been widely and successfully employed in ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
EEG Channel Relevance Analysis Using Maximum Mean Discrepancy on BCI Systems
Brain-Computer Interfaces bridge the communication between brains and devices. Channel selection as a stage for develo** BCI systems allows reducing costs and improve the overall performance. This paper prop...
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Article
Recognizing individuals in groups in outdoor environments combining stereo vision, RFID and BLE
Vision-based people localization systems in outdoor environments can be enhanced by means of radio frequency identification technologies. This combination has the potential to enable a wide range of new applic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intelligent Monitoring System for Bird Behavior Study
Until now, the best way to obtain relevant information about the behaviour of animals is capturing them. However, the procedure to capture individuals cause them stress and introduces an effect on the measurem...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Leveraging Video Viewing Patterns for Optimal Content Placement
As IP becomes the predominant choice for video delivery, storing the ever increasing number of videos for delivery will become a challenge. In this paper we focus on how to take advantage of user viewing patte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Wildfire Prediction Based on Fuzzy Inference System for Wireless Sensor Networks
The study of forest fires has been traditionally considered as an important application due to the inherent danger that this entails. This phenomenon takes place in hostile regions of difficult access and larg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Measuring End-to-End Quality of a News-on-Demand Web Service
A key issue in any system for distribution of continuous media-on-demand is the capacity of the system with regard to quality of the service specifications, that is, the number of simultaneous streams the syst...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of Video Server Capacity with Regard to Quality of the Service in Interactive News-On-Demand Systems
A key issue in any system for distribution of continuous media-on-demand is the capacity of the system with regard to quality of the service specifications, that is, the number of simultaneous streams the syst...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Behavioural Analysis Methodology Oriented to Configuration of Parallel, Real-Time and Embedded Systems
This paper describes a methodology suitable for behavioural analysis of parallel real-time and embedded systems. The main goal of the methodology is to achieve a proper configuration of the system in order to ...
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Article
On some union and intersection problems for polygons with fixed orientations
Objects with fixed orientations play an important role in many application areas, for instance VLSI design. Problems involving only rectilinearly oriented (rectangular) objects, as a simplest case, have been s...