Continuous-Time 4th Order Butterworth Low-Pass Filter for Video Frequency Applications

In this paper, a continuous-time 4th order Butterworth low-pass filter based on current-mode processing is presented for applications over the video frequency range. A new type of integrator in which both voltage and currents may be integrated is presented and used as the main active block. The filter has been implemented using a very low-cost 2.4 m CMOS process (Mietec). The whole circuit occupies 2.8 mm² and consumes 19 mW from a ±1.5 V supply. Experimental results are given for a 4.5 MHz to 12 MHz tunable low-pass filter with 58 dB of dynamic range at 10 MHz.     

Space Efficient Dynamic Orthogonal Range Reporting

In this paper we present new space efficient dynamic data structures for orthogonal range reporting. The described data structures support planar range reporting queries in time O(log n+klog log (4n/(k+1))) and space O(nlog log n), or in time O(log n+k) and space O(nlog  ^ε n) for any ε>0. Both data structures can be constructed in O(nlog n) time and support insert and delete operations in amortized time O(log ² n) and O(log nlog log n) respectively. These results match the corresponding upper space bounds of Chazelle (SIAM J. Comput. 17, 427–462, 1988) for the static case. We also present a dynamic data structure for d-dimensional range reporting with search time O(log  ^d−1 n+k), update time O(log  ^d n), and space O(nlog  ^d−2+ε n) for any ε>0. The model of computation used in our paper is a unit cost RAM with word size log n. A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry 2005. Work partially supported by IST grant 14036 (RAND-APX).     

Mobile Robot Navigation Using Sonar and Range Measurements from Uncalibrated Cameras

A novel, simple and efficient method for vision based range measurements with uncalibrated cameras is presented. Required parameters are the image size, the relative distance between two different image frames of the same scene and the field of view of the camera(s). Range measurements acquired using ultrasonic sensors and a vision system have been used to navigate a mobile robot around known colored obstacles in an indoor environment. Both sonar sensors and cameras are activated and they operate simultaneously in parallel to obtain range measurements from common search areas located in the front of the mobile robot. Experimental results using a parallel stereoscopic, rotated and monocular vision system with uncalibrated cameras confirm that the maximum computational error (as well as the normalized root mean square error) of range measurements using the vision system for obstacles lying at a distance of 27–800 cm from the robot, is smaller compared to other similar, even more advanced and state-of-the-art existing approaches, reported in Rajagopalan (IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 28(11): 1521–1525, 2004), Mudenagudi and Chaudhuri (Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 1: 483–488, 1999), Umeda and Takahashi (Proceedings of IEEE ICRA, pp. 3215–3220, April 2000), Jiang and Weymouth (Proceedings of IEEE CVPR, pp. 250–255, June 1989), Lai, Fu, and Chang (IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 14(4):405–411, 1992), Malis and Rives (Proceedings of IEEE ICRA, pp. 1056–1061, 2003), Derrouich, Izumida, and Shiiya (IEEE Annual Conference on IECON, 3: 2191–2196, Nov. 2002).     

Control of reactive distillation process for production of ethyl acetate

In this paper, plant-wide control for the production of ethyl acetate using reactive distillation is studied. Four important issues are considered in developing control schemes, including: (1) economics; (2) steady-state deviation of key product purities; (3) controllability in terms of degree of oscillation and settling time; and (4) feasible region of disturbances for effective control. Starting with two basic control schemes that have been studied before, new control schemes are developed to improve the operability of the process. These new control schemes have evolved from the basic schemes by making a trade-off between optimal design and control or by selecting sensor locations using closed-loop sensitivity analysis. It is found that, while being subjected to fluctuations in the composition of the acid feed or in the production flow-rate, sensor location based on traditional open-loop sensitivity causes a larger overshoot and steady-state deviation of key product purities. Sensor location on the basis of a closed-loop sensitivity analysis provides a better alternative for feedback control. The resulting scheme for control is found to be effective in reducing the steady-state deviation and in promoting good control performance.     

Unified compression artifacts removal based on adaptive learning on activity measure

In this paper, an adaptive learning technique based on the classification of activity measure is proposed for compression artifacts reduction. All the coding artifacts are treated as digital noise and are removed in a unified framework. Pixels are explicitly classified into object details or various coding artifacts using the combination of local entropy and dynamic range. A least mean square optimization technique is applied on a training set that is composed of the original images and the compressed versions of the original images. The optimal filter coefficients for each class are obtained by making the mean square error (MSE) between the original pixels and the filtered outputs of the compressed apertures minimized statistically. Evaluation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms more expensive state-of-the-art structure based methods.     

在频域中利用同态滤波增强图像对比度

在介绍基于照明反射模型的同态滤波模型原理、实现过程和特点的基础上,在频域内通过对高斯高通滤波器、巴特沃斯高通滤波器、指数高通滤波器的改进后得出三种同态滤波器,并对三种同态滤波器通过实验结果给出适用的滤波模型和表达式参数。由对同一幅照明不良会使图像亮度不足和细节模糊,而且图像信噪比很低,图像对比度明显变差的图像处理结果表明,巴特沃斯同态滤波函数优于其它两种同态滤波函数,对光照不足的图像进行灰度动态范围压缩和对比度增强效果显著。     

Performance analysis of priority scheduling mechanisms under heterogeneous network traffic

Priority scheduling principle plays a crucial role in the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture for the provisioning of Quality-of-Service (QoS) of network-based applications. Analytical modelling and performance evaluation of priority queuing systems have received significant attention and research efforts. However, most existing work has primarily focused on the analysis of priority queuing under either Short Range Dependent (SRD) or Long Range Dependent (LRD) traffic only. Recent studies have shown that realistic traffic reveals heterogeneous nature within modern multi-service networks. With the aim of investigating the impact of heterogeneous traffic on the design and performance of network-based systems, this paper proposes a novel analytical model for priority queuing systems subject to heterogeneous LRD self-similar and SRD Poisson traffic. The key contribution of the paper is to extend the application of the generalized Schilder's theorem (originally a large deviation principle for handling Gaussian processes only) to deal with heterogeneous traffic and further develop the analytical upper and lower bounds of the queue length distributions for individual traffic flows. The validity and accuracy of the model demonstrated through extensive comparisons between analytical bounds and simulation results make it a practical and cost-effective evaluation tool for investigating the performance behaviour of priority queuing systems under heterogeneous traffic with various parameter settings.     

安康水电站经济运行方式研究

在深入研究安康流域水文气象规律及调度图的基础上,对目前安康水电站调度运用方式进行了修改和完善,提出了新的经济运行方式和措施,在确保安全渡汛的前提下,提高了水库运行综合效益。     

三原色油墨显色范围分析研究

通过实验方法,测量三原色油墨在不同印刷条件下的三刺激值,标定其色域范围,分析影响其显色范围的因素。对有效地选择三原色油墨和确定印刷条件,最大限度地再现原稿色调有着实际意义。     

基于正弦调相的ISAR干扰方法

为了实现对ISAR干扰,本文从目标一维距离像及ISAR运动补偿的角度,提出了基于正弦调相的ISAR干扰方法。文中对干扰信号如何影响距离像、影响运动补偿进行了详细的理论分析,给出了干扰造成ISAR图像失真的理论依据。并进行了基于实测数据的仿真实验。结果表明,基于正弦调相的ISAR干扰方法可以较好地干扰ISAR的一维距离像和最终的二维像,并具有压制干扰和类似欺骗干扰的双重效果,是一种对付ISAR的有效干扰手段。