Motion estimation and compensation is an essential part of existing video coding systems. The mesh-based motion estimation (MME) produces smoother motion field, better subjective quality (free from blocking artifacts), and higher peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) in many cases, especially at low bitrate video communications, compared to the conventional block matching algorithm (BMA). Howev...

The iterative refinement method for linear system solvers can improve performance while maintaining numeric accuracy. Previous work addressing iterative refinement exploits single precision and double precision for CPU, GPU, or Cell/BE processors. Due to only two different precisions supported, iterative refinement is limited on those platforms. Reconfigurable Computing (RC) is a great candidat...

The technique of iterative refinement for improving the computed solution to a linear system was used on desk calculators and computers in the 1940s and has remained popular. In the 1990s iterative refinement is well,supported in software libraries, notably in LAPACK. Although the behaviour of iterative refinement in floating point arithmetic is reasonably well understood, the existing theory i...

MOTIVATION Multiple STructural Alignment (MSTA) provides valuable information for solving problems such as fold recognition. The consistency-based approach tries to find conflict-free subsets of alignments from a pre-computed all-to-all Pairwise Alignment Library (PAL). If large proportions of conflicts exist in the library, consistency can be hard to get. On the other hand, multiple structural...

Treebanks are a valuable resource for the training of parsers that perform automatic annotation of unseen data. It has been shown that changes in the representation of linguistic annotation have an impact on the performance of a certain annotation task. We focus on the task of Topological Field Parsing for German using Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars in the present research. We investigate ...