Automation of old mechanic machines using Fab Lab developed modular analog to digital control system
We describe the design and manufacturing process of an automation prototype for a workshop machine. We decided to augment and automate a […]
A conditional ℓ1 regularized MMSE channel estimation technique for IBI channels
Inter-block-interference (IBI) caused in the pursuit of spectral efficiency can deteriorate channel estimation performance. For this problem, previously-proposed chained turbo estimation performs […]
Speed Up Technique by Pre-charging Load Capacitor in SC Residue Circuit
A novel passive charge re-distribution technique for switched capacitor residue circuits used in pipeline analog to digital converters is presented. It is […]
A flexible millimeter-wave radio channel emulator design with experimental validations
A millimeter-wave (mm-wave) channel emulator (CE) is an essential tool for air-interface testing of the upcoming mm-wave communication systems. A flexible CE, […]
Correlating Refugee Border Crossings with Internet Search Data
Can Internet search data be used as a proxy to predict refugee mobility? The soaring refugee death toll in Europe creates an […]
On the use of URLs and hashtags in age prediction of Twitter users
Social media data represent an important resource for behavioral analysis of the ageing population. This paper addresses the problem of age prediction […]
Forecasting Weekly Crude Oil Using Twitter Sentiment of US Foreign Policy and Oil Companies Data
The drop in crude oil price during late 2014 has had a significant impact on all nations. While some countries have reaped […]
On Wordsense Disambiguation Through Morphological Transformation and Semantic Distance and Domain link knowledge
Despite the advances in information processing systems, word-sense disambiguation tasks are far to be satisfactory as testified by numerous limitations of current […]
Summarization of User-Generated Sports Video by Using Deep Action Recognition Features
Automatically generating a summary of a sports video poses the challenge of detecting interesting moments, or highlights, of a game. Traditional sports […]
PCANet-II
PCANet, as one noticeable shallow network, employs the histogram representation for feature pooling. However, there are three main problems about this kind […]