DRBR-HDR: Dual-Branch recursive band reconstruction network for HDR with large motions

Ghosting artifacts due to misaligned imaging and missing content of the moving regions are major challenges of synthesizing high dynamic range (HDR) images from multiple low-dynamic range (LDR) with different exposures in dynamic scenes. Therefore, it hopes the HDR reconstruction model can align the LDRs’ features and restore the missing content without artifacts. In the paper, a new dual-branch recursive band reconstruction network for high dynamic range (DRBR-HDR) is proposed to generate credible result in missing content regions, which not only uses global features as supplementary information to help local features from different receptive fields for efficient feature alignment but also designs a series of coarse-to-fine band representation to better repair missing areas in the process of recursion. In addition, we introduce an interactive attention mechanism for local branches to alleviate ghosting artifacts. The experimental results demonstrate that DRBR-HDR achieves state-of-the-art performance compared with that of the prevailing HDR reconstruction methods in various challenging scenes.Index Terms—inverse tone mapping, band reconstruction, global features, high dynamic range images.     

新型星载超宽带微波光子变频技术

传统的星载变频通道存在易受电磁干扰、动态范围受限、带宽瓶颈等不足,将微波光子技术引入卫星通信系统中,可克服电域信号变频的局限性,提升星载变频通道的性能。文章提出了一种基于并联马赫-增德尔调制器(MZM)与相干接收的宽带微波光子变频技术,通过采用相干接收方法,能够实现较好的共模噪声抑制,并降低谐波失真的影响,同时结合抑制载波调制方式所带来的优势,有效改善了变频无杂散动态范围等指标。通过实验验证,其杂散抑制比优于60 dB,无杂散动态范围优于100 dB·Hz2/3,为新型星载微波光子变频方案设计、实际应用提供了必要的理论依据与技术支撑。     

Clustering-based adaptive low-power subframe configuration with load-aware offsetting in dense heterogeneous networks

Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) and cell densification represent promising solutions for the surging data traffic demand in wireless networks. In dense HetNets, user traffic is steered toward the Low-Power Node (LPN) when possible to enhance the user throughput and system capacity by increasing the area spectral efficiency. However, because of the transmit power differences in different tiers of HetNets and irregular service demand, a load imbalance typically exists among different serving nodes. To offload more traffic to LPNs and coordinate the Inter-Cell Interference (ICI), Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has facilitated the development of the Cell Range Expansion (CRE), enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC) and Further enhanced ICIC (FeICIC). In this paper, we develop a cell clustering-based load-aware offsetting and an adaptive Low-Power Subframe (LPS) approach. Our solution allows the separation of User Association (UA) functions at the User Equipment (UE) and network server such that users can make a simple cell-selection decision similar to that in the maximum Received Signal Strength (max-RSS) based UA scheme, where the network server computes the load-aware offsetting and required LPS periods based on the load conditions of the system. The proposed solution is evaluated using system-level simulations wherein the results correspond to performance changes in different service regions. Results show that our method effectively solves the offloading and interference coordination problems in dense HetNets.     

Reference Range Estimation: Accounting for Measurement System Errors

Reference range is a statistic that is used in health related fields to represent the range of the most likely values for a variable of interest. Based on this range, individuals are classified as being healthy or unhealthy. In biostatistics, the reference range is calculated as the (1 ? α)% prediction interval, where this prediction interval is based on the estimated population variance from the data. Such estimation of population variance is not precise, because obtained test results do usually have errors associated with them. These errors are due to the imprecise test procedure or gauge used. In this paper, the total variability in the data is decomposed into two categories. The first is the patient‐to‐patient variability and the other is the variability due to the measurement system used. Estimation of the two kinds is performed through a gauge repeatability and reproducibility study, then the reference range is calculated, taking into account only the patient‐to‐patient variability. The revised reference range procedure is illustrated through a case study of vitamin B12 test results. A closed form formula is given to calculate the probability of a given test result being within the revised reference range. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

神经元膜电位噪声取值范围的评估

大脑神经元的活动是在复杂的生理学环境下工作的，而生理学环境中的噪声来源于多个方面．如何定量地正确评估神经系统中的噪声环境是神经信息处理的基本问题．本文通过神经能量的计算给出了噪声对神经元膜电位及对应的能量波形产生显著影响的临界值的估计范围，从而定义了神经元赖以活动的生理学意义上的噪声环境．     

基于LMD的PWM整流电路故障特征提取新方法

脉冲宽度调制(PWM)整流电路结构日益复杂,对其可靠运行提出了更高的要求;对局域均值分解(LMD)用于PWM整流电路的故障特征提取进行研究,提出一种基于LMD和加权频带能量法的特征提取新方法;该方法通过逐步抽取调频调幅成分将故障信号在频域上展开,然后基于信号能量的频带分布特点,充分考虑各频带成分与故障的相关性,构造故障特征向量,实现特征提取;最后以PWM整流电路为例进行仿真,相电压380V,仿真时间0.5s,0.1s时注入故障;结果表明,该方法能有效地提取故障信号的特征,并降低特征向量的维数。     

靶场仿真中分布式异构网关技术研究

为快速、高效地实现试验与训练领域各靶场、设施和仿真的互操作、重用和可组合,构建实物的、虚拟的、构造的(LVC)分布式网络,研究了目前主要存在的高级分布式仿真架构,包括分布式交互仿真(DIS)、高层体系架构(HLA)及试验与训练使能体系结构(TENA);在对它们的异同进行分析比较的基础上,确定以TENA网关对异构靶场进行无缝连接是实现靶场互联的最佳方案;对网关进行了总体设计并对关键技术进行了分析,网关原型的建立为网关的深入研究和开发奠定了基础。     

高脉冲重复频率雷达混合滤波解距离模糊方法

针对高脉冲重复雷达距离模糊问题,提出一种新的混合滤波解距离模糊方法.通过把脉冲间隔数和脉冲间隔变化量作为目标待估计状态,对离散的脉冲间隔数、间隔变化量和连续的目标状态(位置和速度)进行混合滤波,从而将解距离模糊问题转换为对脉冲间隔数的估计问题.初始时刻,由于距离量测模糊,利用多个高脉冲重复频率(HPRF)采用欧氏距离对混合状态进行初始化.在滤波过程中,为了避免门限选择,首先根据脉冲间隔变化量的有限个离散取值,将六维向量的混合滤波模型等效为有限个五维向量的混合滤波模型;然后对量测分别进行混合滤波;最后通过对各模型得到的新息的2范数进行比较获得混合状态估计,从而实现解距离模糊.混合滤波解距离模糊方法为实现高脉冲重复频率雷达实时解距离模糊提供了一种新的研究思路,仿真结果表明,本文提出的混合滤波方法在只有一个脉冲重复频率获得目标量测时较现有多假设方法收敛速度快,并且可以克服多假设方法在脉冲间隔数变化时发生的解模糊错误.     

Multi-sector multi-range control for self-organizing wireless networks

In this paper, we propose a distributed multi-sector multi-range (MSMR) control algorithm for supporting self-organizing wireless networks. The algorithm enables us to reduce the unnecessary coverage with fine-tuned range control and also to increase the network-wide capacity with enhanced spatial reusability. The proposed algorithm discovers neighboring nodes within the maximum transmission range at every node, divides its transmission area into multiple non-overlapping angular sectors of a given degree, chooses the home sector for each neighboring node according to its relative position, and constructs a spanning subgraph per sector by determining appropriate transmission range to maintain connectivity. Since the range control influences on network connectivity directly, we prove in the first place that the proposed algorithm preserves both network-wide and local connectivity as far as both connectivity exist in the network that uses the maximum transmission range. In order to investigate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we implemented it in the ns-2 simulator, and performed an extensive set of simulation study in comparison with other transmission range control schemes. The simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme is superior to other schemes with respect to the network-wide throughput and its normalized value per energy in various simulation configurations. In specific, the algorithm achieves minimally one order and maximally two orders of magnitude improvement in those performance evaluations. The improvement becomes more salient as the number of nodes increases and is immune to traffic type, network size, node distribution, or node density.     

传感器网络中多近似连续范围查询的处理技术

无线传感器网络为数据库研究开辟了新的研究领域,高效利用节点的有限能量是当前研究的主要目标.如果发布到网络中多个近似连续范围查询不经优化处理而独立执行,会造成节点为不同查询重复发送相同感知数据,从而降低网络寿命.针对近似连续范围查询研究了多查询优化技术,设计了一种索引多维范围查询的多叉树结构rq-kd-tree,通过获取多查询的公共查询部分(查询相交区域)以及基于查询相似度合并相交区域上的多个查询、重写查询.最后,实验证明了所提的算法可以实现能量有效的多查询处理过程.