I magine a world without architects, where only engineers construct buildings. With a keen eye toward functionality, these engineers would make sure the buildings were sound, but something would be lacking. People would miss the richness of architecture— the designed connection to their lives, history, and culture. The designed experience of these buildings would be irrelevant to their social a...

Introduction: Over recent years, various programs have been conducted to reduce noise, indicating the increasing concerns of society over noise pollution. This study has been performed to enhance the performance of parallel barriers on two sides of a highway considering the surrounding buildings. Material and Methods: The 2D boundary element simulation method was employed to predict the noise ...

constructionof underground dams is a practical solution to save groundwater in alluvium watersheds, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions where surface water scarcity is an environmental challenge. considering socio-economic and environmental benefits of underground dams, the accurate locating is the primary consideration for dam construction. the new technologies and methods are a step to...

It has been considered a fact that GPS performs too poorly inside buildings to provide usable indoor positioning. We analyze results of a measurement campaign to improve on the understanding of indoor GPS reception characteristics. The results show that using state-of-the-art receivers GPS availability is good in many buildings with standard material walls and roofs. The measured root mean squa...

Face detection is a very challenging and interesting problem. In this paper, we discussed an application for automatic face detection and tracking on video streams from surveillance cameras in public or commercial places. In many situations it is useful to detect where the people are looking for, e.g. in exhibits, commercial malls, and public places in buildings. So prototype is designed to wor...