The repeated pattern of I, P and B frames in an MPEG stream is known as the Group of Pictures (GOP). Current GOP choices are made using intuition and informal guidelines without the support of theoretical or practical evidence. This paper studies the impact of the choice of GOP by evaluating the effects of GOP on both static MPEG videos and MPEG videos streaming over a lossy network. The static...

This thesis presents a tool for efficient query and analysis of MPEG encoded video. The image sequences for the video are obtained via a vehicle-mounted forward-looking camera. The tool accepts queries that signify both temporal and geometric events as the vehicle traverses common roadways, such as " identify portions of the video where the vehicle is making a lane change maneuver, " or " ident...

BACKGROUND The potential factors that introduce variability into TIMI frame count (TFC) have not been systematically investigated. The goal of this study was to determine if nitrate use, dye injection rate, catheter size, the phase of the cardiac cycle in which dye is injected, or heart rate affect the TFC and to investigate the reproducibility of the TFC. METHODS AND RESULTS The dye injectio...

Recent evidence indicates that long-term visit-to-visit blood pressure variability (BPV) may be an independent cardiovascular risk predictor. The implication of this variability in hypertension clinical practice is unclear. BPV as average real variability (ARV) was calculated in 14,522 treated patients with hypertension in 4 time frames: year 1 (Y1), years 2 to 5 (Y2-5), years 5 to 10 (Y5-10), ...

we investigate the problem of the existence of a frame forright ideals of a c*-algebra a, without the use of the kasparov stabilizationtheorem. we show that this property can not characterize a as a c*-algebraof compact operators.

Concentrically braced frames (CBFs) are one of the efficient lateral load resisting systems in high seismicity regions. One of the common problems with the use of concentrically braced frames is limitation in the architectural application and position of the openings. Two-story X braced frames have more advantages than other configurations of concentrically braced frames, since in many cases th...

the objective of this review to be submitted in two independent parts, for steel frames and for rc frames, is to compare their structural performance with respect to the proposed n2-method, and so also of the consequent convenience of using pushover methodology for the seismic analysis of these structures. a preliminary investigation is presented on a pushover analysis used for the seismic perf...

‎‎The tensor product is the fundemental ingredient for extending one-dimensional techniques of filtering and compression in signal preprocessing to higher dimensions‎. ‎Woven frames play ‎ a crucial role in signal preprocessing and distributed data processing‎. Motivated by these facts, we have investigated the tensor product of woven frames and presented some of their properties. Besides...

Variable bit rate VBR video is expected to be a major source of tra c for the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network B ISDN The MPEG coding scheme is one of the possibilities considered for the compression of video data In this paper a simple model for an MPEG coded video stream is developed which is used for the approximation of the cell loss rate at an ATM multiplexer bu er with MPEG v...