Compress-then-Analyze versus Analyze-then-Compress: What Is Best in Visual Sensor Networks?

To compress or not to compress ?

| For practical communications which transmit nite blocks of source data over noisy channels, we question the common practice to compress (C) the source and then to add redundancy for error control. Rather we exploit the redundancy of the non-compressed source (NC) at the channel decoder by source-controlled channel decoding. For a simple binary Markov source and a Rayleigh fading channel we si...

RBF Networks Versus Fuzzy If - Then Rules

To Compress or Not To Compress: Processing vs Transmission Tradeoffs for Energy Constrained Sensor Networking

In the past few years, lossy compression has been widely applied in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSN), where energy efficiency is a crucial concern due to the constrained nature of the transmission devices. Often, the common thinking among researchers and implementers is that compression is always a good choice, because the major source of energy consumption in a sensor node comes fro...

Supposing Truth is a Woman – What Then ?

Nietzsche's analysis of the self-poisoning of ‘the will to power’ and his insistence upon overcoming its ideological outcome (the dogmatist's fake ‘Truth’) by recognizing the ‘un-truth’ of a ‘logic of contamination,’ demonstrates that he understands ‘truth’ as a paradox. What may one accordingly expect in response to the question ‘Supposing truth is a woman – what then?’, posed in the preface t...

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