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This paper describes how to extend the performance of a highly energy efficient general purpose DSP by generating accelerators using C-level algorithm descriptions. The result is an equally energy efficient, economical implementation of that algorithm or algorithms.

The covariance between nominal bonds and stocks has varied considerably over recent decades and has even switched sign. It has been predominantly positive in periods such as the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when the economy has experienced supply shocks and the central bank has lacked credibility. It has been predominantly negative in periods such as the 2000’s when investors have feared weak a...

Following our previous works on the health state of a population and the related health state function we proceed in developing a method to estimate the Healthy Life Expectancy in connection to the relative impact of the Mortality Area in the health state function graph. The resulting tools are applied to the data sets for 1990, 2000 and 2009 for the Countries of the World Health Organization (...

The objective of this study was to analyze land use/land cover (LULC) changes in the landscape of Munessa-Shashemene area of the Ethiopian highlands over a period of 39 years (1973–2012). Satellite images of Landsat MSS (1973), TM (1986), ETM+ (2000), and RapidEye (2012) were used. All images were classified using object-based image classification technique. Accuracy assessments were conducted ...

26.38 11.9 23.97 6.42 5.04 52.26 69.29 43.85 14 82 13 9 12 39 7 10 94 5 63 16 09 25 12 13 77 14 35 19 33 12 06 14.95 17.9 13.01 This paper presents detailed analysis and efficient architecture design of Embedded Block Coding with Optimized Truncation (EBCOT) for PEG-2000. Detailed profile of the context formation process in EBCOT is analyzed to get an insight into the characteristics of the ope...

This paper proposes an integrated solution for smart delivery of video surveillance data. The system is developed within the IST project WCAM "Wireless Cameras and AudioVisual Seamless Networking" which is presented as well [1]. The main feature of our system is it includes smart video coding based on automatic scene analysis and understanding. Specifically, the segmentation results are used fo...

This paper proposes a quantization-based image-quality guaranteed watermarking (IQGW) method using a nonorthogonal discrete wavelet transformation. An IQGW method generates watermarked images of a desired image quality for any image, neither with trial and error nor with image-dependent parameters. To guarantee the image-quality, the proposed method adjusts the energy of the watermark sequence ...