The Gaussian mixture model (GMM) can approximate arbitrary probability distributions, which makes it a powerful tool for feature representation and classification. However, it su...
Visual dictionaries are widely employed in object recognition to map unordered bags of local region descriptors into feature vectors for image classification. Most visual dictiona...
— FrameComm is a contention based, Duty Cycled, MAC protocol that ensures a message will be transmitted during the receiver’s listen phase by sending a packet, followed by a sh...
Tony O'Donovan, Jonathan P. Benson, Utz Roedig, Co...
—Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a physical (PHY) layer technology that promises high transmission rates, as well as high resistance to noise and multipath effects. However, the impulseb...
The advent of multicores presents a promising opportunity for speeding up sequential programs via profile-based speculative parallelization of these programs. In this paper we pr...