The increasing ubiquity of embedded digital video capture creates demand for high-throughput, low-power, flexible and adaptable integrated image processing systems. An architecture for a system-ona-chip solution is proposed, based on reconfigurable computing. The inherent system modularity and the communication infrastructure are targeted at enhancing design productivity and reuse. Power consum...

This paper describes the development of a real-time digital simulation platform that can be used for the teaching of design principles for power system controls. In the developed approach, a rapid controller-prototyping platform (dSPACE) is interfaced to a real-time power system simulator (RTDS). The real-time platform is very successful when used in a post-graduate University course; but shoul...

This paper presents an inexpensive and costeffective configurable platform for designing real time video processing and vision systems. The platform is designed around a Field Programmable Gate Array and provides video input and output interfaces. It has been used to implement several different image and video processing systems, namely with the purpose of prototyping and teaching courses in th...

The paper describes a novel social network-based open educational resource for learning foreign languages in real time from native speakers, based on the predefined teaching materials. This virtual learning platform, named i2istudy, eliminates misunderstanding by providing prepared and predefined scenarios, enabling the participants to understand each other and, as a consequence, to communicate...

In this paper, we propose a real-time virtual reconvergence hardware platform especially to reduce the visual fatigue caused by stereoscopy. Our virtual re-convergence hardware platform, which consists of image rectification, disparity estimation, depth postprocessing, and virtual view control, is implemented in 60 fps on a single Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA chip.

Enabling Ambient Intelligence systems to understand the activities that are taking place in a supervised context is a rather complicated task. Moreover, this task cannot be successfully addressed while overlooking the mechanisms (common-sense knowledge and reasoning) that entitle us, as humans beings, to successfully undertake it. This work is based on the premise that Ambient Intelligence syst...

Phagocytosis of pathogens, apoptotic cells and debris is a key feature of macrophage function in host defense and tissue homeostasis. Quantification of macrophage phagocytosis in vitro has traditionally been technically challenging. Here we report the optimization and validation of the IncuCyte ZOOM® real time imaging platform for macrophage phagocytosis based on pHrodo® pathogen bioparticles, ...

BACKGROUND Effective environmental data management is meaningful for human health. In the past, environmental data management involved developing a specific environmental data management system, but this method often lacks real-time data retrieving and sharing/interoperating capability. With the development of information technology, a Geospatial Service Web method is proposed that can be emplo...