Transparent motion involves the integration and segmentation of local motion signals. Previous research found a cost for processing transparent random dot motions relative to single coherent motions. However, this cost can be the result of the increased complexity of the transparent stimuli. We investigated this possibility by measuring the efficiency of transparent and coherent motions. Since ...

ABSTRACT Recently there has been an increasing interest in the use of the TDE technique to locate and track acoustic sources in a conferencing environment. Typically, the delay estimate is obtained as the time-lag that maximizes the cross-correlation function between the filtered versions of two received signals. This so-called generalized cross-correlation technique, based on the measurements ...

We discuss the potential of the eROSITA telescope on board the Spectrum-RoentgenGamma (SRG) observatory to detect stellar tidal disruption events (TDE) during its 4-year all-sky survey. We propose to distinguish such events from other X-ray transients using two criteria: i) large (more than a factor of 10) X-ray variation between two subsequent 6-month scans of the sky and ii) soft X-ray spectr...

the extensibility and evolution of network services and protocols had become a major research issue in recent years. The 'programmable' and 'active' network paradigms have been trying to solve the problems emanating from the immutable organization of network software layers by allowing arbitrary custom codes to be embedded inside network layers. In this work, we propose a new approach for build...

1389-1286/$ see front matter Published by Elsevi doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2008.12.012 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 305 348 1835. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S.M. Sad msu.edu (P.K. McKinley). URLs: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi (S.M. Sadj msu.edu/~mckinley (P.K. McKinley). Increasingly, software systems are constructed by integrating and composing multiple existing applications. The r...

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have become the de facto choice for data analysis. Several DL implementations – primarily limited to a single compute node – such as Caffe, TensorFlow, Theano and Torch have become readily available. Distributed DL implementations capable of execution on large scale systems are becoming important to address the computational needs of large data produced by scientif...

T he scientific research paper remains the main mode of sharing scientific information. Two key aspects contribute to the unabated success of this format, despite the myriad possibilities for new ways to share research in an online world: Independent validation by peer review and the juxtaposition of research results—presented in figures, tables, and videos—with the authors’ textual interpretat...

We propose a watermarking scheme to hide copyright information in an image. The scheme employs visual masking to guarantee that the embedded watermark is invisible and to maximize the robustness of the hidden data. The watermark is constructed for arbitrary image blocks by ltering a pseudo-noise sequence (author id) with a lter that approximates the frequency masking characteristics of the visu...

Adaptive optical devices based on electric field induced deformation of dielectric elastomers require transparent and highly compliant electrodes to conform to large shape changes. Electrical, optical, and actuation properties of acrylic elastomer electrodes fabricated with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and silver nanowires (AgNWs) have been evaluated. Based on these properties, a fig...