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In nanometer-scale process technologies, the effects of process variations are observed in Multiprocessor System-on-Chips (MPSoC) in terms of variations in frequencies and leakage powers among the processors on the same chip as well as across different chips of the same design. Traditionally, worst-case values are assumed for these parameters and then a deterministic optimization technique is applied to the MPSoC application under design. We show that such worst-case-based approaches are not optimal with the increasing variation observed at system-level, and instead, statistical approaches should be employed. We consider the problem of simultaneously choosing MPSoC architecture and task... 

Corner-case analysis is a well-known technique to cope with occasional deviations occurring during the manufacturing process of semiconductors. However, the increasing amount of process variation in nanometer technologies has made it inevitable to move toward statistical analysis methods, instead of deterministic worst-case-based techniques, at all design levels. We show that by statically considering statistical effects of random and systematic process variation on performance and power consumption of a Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC), significant power improvement can be achieved by static software-level optimizations such as task and communication scheduling. Moreover, we analyze... 

New technologies such as smart homes and appliances and renewable energy production have been attracting much attention in recent years. In practice, the management of these technologies to get the minimum household payment has become a challenge due to the time-varying electricity price. In this paper, we propose a real time energy management system to manage the appliances and storages. The solar energy is charged in the storages and used together with the grid electricity to supply the appliances. The proposed management system uses an ILP-based Home Energy Management (ILPHEM) optimization engine. ILPHEM schedules appliances requests and storage usage based on updated real time input data... 

Increasing delay and power variation has become a major challenge to designing high performance Multiprocessor System-On-Chips (MPSoC) in deep sub-micron technologies. As a result, a paradigm shift from deterministic to statistical design methodology at all levels of the design hierarchy is inevitable. In this paper, we propose a static variation-aware task scheduling and power mode selection algorithm for MPSoCs. The proposed algorithm is able to maximize the total power yield of the chip under a given performance yield constraint by searching for the optimal task scheduling and power mode selection policy for a specified multiprocessor platform. Experimental results are gathered by... 

Parameter variations reveal themselves as different frequency and leakage powers per instances of the same MPSoC. By the increasing variation with technology scaling, worst-case-based scheduling algorithms result in either increasingly less optimal schedules or otherwise more lost yield. To address this problem, this paper introduces a variationaware task and communication scheduling algorithm for multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC). We consider both delay and leakage power variations during the process of finding the best schedule so that leakier processors are less utilized and can be more frequently put in sleep mode to reduce power. Our algorithm takes advantage of event tables to... 

Segmentation of a scene to the part made is a challenging work. In this paper a graphical model is used for this task. The methods based on geometrical derivatives such as curvature and normal often haven't good result in segmentation of geometrically-complex architecture and lead to over-segmentation and even failure. Proposed method for segmentation contains two steps. At first region growing based on curvature, normal and color is used for growing region. This segmented cloud is used for unary potential in graphical model. Fully connected graph for Conditional Random Field with Gaussian kernel for pair wise potentials is used for correcting this segmentation. Gaussian kernels are based on... 

Estimation of 3D human pose from a single image is a challenging task because of ambiguities in projection from 3D space to the 2D image plane. A new two-stage deep convolutional neural network-based method is proposed for regressing the distance and angular difference matrices among body joints. Using the angular difference between body joints in addition to the distance between them in articulated objects such as human body can better model the structure of the shapes and increases the modelling capability of the learning method. Experimental results on HumanEva I and Human3.6M datasets show that the proposed method has substantial improvement in the mean per joint position error measure... 

Multiple human 3D pose estimation is a useful but challenging task in computer vison applications. The ambiguities in estimation of 2D and 3D poses of multiple persons can be verified by using multi-view frames, in which the occluded or self-occluded body parts of some persons might be visible in other camera views. But, when cameras are moving and uncalibrated, estimating the association of multiple human body parts among different camera views is a challenging task. This paper presents novel methods for multiple human 3D pose estimation and pose association in multi-view camera frames in an uncalibrated camera setup using an adversarial learning framework. The generator is a 3D pose... 

Data gathering is a common but critical operation in many applications of wireless sensor networks. Innovative techniques that improve energy efficiency to prolong the network lifetime are highly required. Clustering is an effective topology control approach in wireless sensor networks, which can increase scalability and lifetime. These networks require robust wireless communication protocols that are energy efficient and provide low latency. In this paper, we develop and analyze an efficient cooperative transmission protocol with robust clustering (RCCT) for sensor networks that considers a fault-tolerant and energy-efficient distributed clustering with minimum overhead. RCCT distributes... 

Multiple human 3D pose estimation is a useful but challenging task in computer vison applications. The ambiguities in estimation of 2D and 3D poses of multiple persons can be verified by using multi-view frames, in which the occluded or self-occluded body parts of some persons might be visible in other camera views. But, when cameras are moving and uncalibrated, estimating the association of multiple human body parts among different camera views is a challenging task. This paper presents novel methods for multiple human 3D pose estimation and pose association in multi-view camera frames in an uncalibrated camera setup using an adversarial learning framework. The generator is a 3D pose... 

The distribution system's economic operation is significantly impacted by the management of distributed generation (DG) resources, energy storage (ES), and controllable loads. The paper employs a smart distribution system that incorporates dispatchable and non-dispatchable DG resources, as well as battery storage, in addition to the demand response (DR) scheme. New modelling was performed in hourly steps to achieve the optimal unit commitment. In smart homes, appliances are prioritized and classified into four types: adjustable, interruptible, shiftable, and uncontrollable loads. Load reduction in smart homes is also considered based on load prioritization and customer participation in the... 

Background: In the present study, a novel bioink was suggested based on the OAlg, GL, and SF hydrogels. Methods: The composition of the bioink was optimized by the rheological and printability measurements, and the extrusion-based 3D bioprinting process was performed by applying the optimum OAlg-based bioink. Results: The results demonstrated that the viscosity was continuously decreased by increasing the SF/GL ratio, but the bioink displayed a maximum achievable printability (92 ± 2%) at 2% (w/v) of SF and 4% (w/v) of GL. Moreover, the cellular behavior of the scaffolds investigated by MTT and live/dead assays confirmed the biocompatibility of the prepared bioink. Conclusion: The bioprinted...