To take a picture of scene, we acquire multiple images under different levels of flash intensity (possibly just " flash on " and " flash off "), and let the user subsequently adjust the flash level continuously by interpolating among the stored images. Camera motion is corrected using image registration techniques robust to intensity differences. Flash adjustment occurs either immediately on th...

The Flash crowds are rapid increase in access to contents of web sites, which makes the web sites inaccessible, leaving the clients with unsatisfied requests. The major shortcoming of flash crowds researches is that they do not assist vital resizing feature of a cloud of the surrogates; the surrogates involved in the alleviation process do not change from the start to the end of flash crowds. O...

Flash-no-flash imaging aims to combine ambient light images with details available in flash images. Flash can alter color intensities radically leading to changes in gradient directions and strengths, as well as natural shadows possibly being removed and new ones created. This makes flash-no-flash image pair alignment a challenging problem. In this paper, we present a new image registration met...

SUMMARY One way to use NAND flash memory as storage media is a flash file system. In order to design a high-performance flash file system , designing an efficient index structure that constitutes the locations of metadata including directories and files in flash memory is important. For large-capacity storage, the index structure must be stored in the flash memory to achieve low memory consumpt...

66 IEEE ConsumEr ElECtronICs magazInE ^ january 2015 F lash, already one of the dominant forms of data storage for mobile consumer devices, such as smartphones and media players, is experiencing explosive growth in cloud and enterprise applications. Flash devices offer very high access speeds, low power consumption, and physical resiliency. Flash technology has improved at a dramatic rate over ...

I present a revised approach to flash-exposure high dynamic range (HDR) imaging and demonstrate two applications of this image representation. The first application enables the creation of realistic ‘virtual photographs’ for arbitrary flash-exposure settings, based on a single flash-exposure HDR image. The second application is a novel tone mapping operator for flash-exposure HDR images based o...

Flash SSDs are omnipresent as database storage. HDD replacement is seamless since Flash SSDs implement the same legacy hardware and software interfaces to enable backward compatibility. Yet, the price paid is high as backward compatibility masks the native behaviour, incurs significant complexity and decreases I/O performance, making it non-robust and unpredictable. Flash SSDs are black-boxes. ...

Database storage systems today are primarily based on two technologies: HDD (hard disk drive) and DRAM (dynamic random-access memory). It is increasingly difficult for these systems to deliver acceptable performance, due to fast expanding data volume, growing energy concern, and cost constraints. The emergence of flash memory has made cost-effective solutions possible. However, conventional sto...

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) require fast execution time and allow richer, faster, and more interactive experiences. Flash is a common technology for building RIAs. Flash programmers usually specialize in graphic design rather than programming. In addition, the tight schedule of projects makes the Flash programmers ignore non-functional characteristics such as the efficiency of their system...

The Michelsen stability and multiphase flash calculation by direct minimization of Gibbs free energy of the system at constant temperature and pressure, was used for systems containing gas hydrates. The solid hydrate phase was treated as a solid solution. The fugacities of all components of the hydrate phase were calculated as a function of compositions by the rearranged model of van der Wa...