Semantic-level content analysis is a crucial issue in achieving efficient content retrieval andmanagement.We propose a hierarchical approach that models audio events over a time series in order to accomplish semantic context detection. Two levels of modeling, audio event and semantic context modeling, are devised to bridge the gap between physical audio features and semantic concepts. In this w...

Multiplayer online games require synchronization mechanisms to maintain game state consistency among all the players. This project explored the use of the emerging collection synchronization primitives in Named Data Networking (NDN) to easily synchronize a simple multiplayer car racing game, Egal Car, in a peer-to-peer fashion. The game was based on a Unity game engine demo application. To impl...

Technological innovations in the field of prime movers have recently made a rapid progress as represented in cars and engines. In the Department of Prime Mover Engineering, research, design and manufacture are carried out with respect to lean burn engine, alternative fuel engine, electric vehicles such as hybrid cars, linear motor cars by use of magnetic levitation, and energy-saving solar cars...

Semantic-level content analysis is a crucial issue in achieving efficient content retrieval andmanagement.We propose a hierarchical approach that models audio events over a time series in order to accomplish semantic context detection. Two levels of modeling, audio event and semantic context modeling, are devised to bridge the gap between physical audio features and semantic concepts. In this w...

Car reverse image is transmitted by information bus. Because of the bad electromagnetic environment of the engine compartment, car’s information bus sometime will be blocked or not real-time, which can lead to the uncertainty of information transmission, and will cause the risks of security and reliability of the transmitted network. A GHM multi-wavelet is adopted by this paper to restore the i...

In this paper we describe a system for name dialing in the car and present results under three driving conditions using real-life data. The names are enrolled in the parked car condition (engine off) and we describe two approaches for endpointing them—energy-based and recognition-based schemes—which result in word-based and phone-based models, respectively. We outline a simple algorithm to reje...

Virtual auditory environments (VAE) are becoming more and more important for the development phase of vehicles. Interactive simulation introduces a quite new dimension in comparison to laboratory listening tests. In order to achieve an immersive VAE, all relevant sound components have to be realized in a realistic way and updated in real-time according to the driver’s actions. A concept is pres...

By new advancements in vehicle manufacturing vehicle quality evaluation and assurance has become a more critical issue. In present work, the vibration transfer path analysis and vibration path ranking of a car interior has been performed. The method is similar to classical multilevel TPA methods but has distinct differences. The method is named VIVS which stands for Vehicle Interior Vibratio...

BACKGROUND Air pollution is a common alibi used by adolescents taking up smoking and by smokers uncertain about quitting. However, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) causes fine particulate matter (PM) indoor pollution exceeding outdoor limits, while new engines and fuels have reduced particulate emissions by cars. Data comparing PM emission from ETS and a recently released diesel car are presen...

Wegener ICT Media BV and Wegener Mediaventions BV (collectively Wegener) provide in the Netherlands through the website www.autotrack.nl (Autotrack) an online access to daily updated 190-200,000 used car sales advertisements, of which 40,000 are available only via Autotrack. The website has its own search function and it displays also other advertisements as supplementary means of accruing inco...