18102606
A self-embedded watermarking scheme based on relationship function of corresponding inter-blocks DCT coefficient
In the realm of Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), how to ensure the authenticity and integrity of an image plays important roles. This paper presents a novel semi-fragile image watermarking scheme for authenticating and recovering image content. The scheme also shows strong robustness on those images' content reserved operations. It can precisely detect and locate malicious operations and tampers, and recover main content of tampered image region. Firstly, it assigns the exclusive precursor block and successor block for every block to be a block circle link, and regards the function mapping result of DCT coefficients of neighboring blocks as watermark, and embeds it into middle-frequency domain of DCT coefficients of successor block to form a watermarked image. Secondly, it verifies the blocks, which have been maliciously operated and tampered, by detecting whether the DCT coefficients of neighboring blocks satisfy the Relationship Function after operations. Thirdly, it uses corresponding Relationship Function of neighboring blocks in the link to estimate DCT direct current coefficients (DC) and low-frequency coefficients of the tampered blocks and recovers their main content. The experimental results show that the scheme is effective and feasible.
16070632
Prototyping system of codec for novel 2-D continuous barcode
To address the limits of capacity and the disadvantages of motional scanning capability of traditional two-dimensional (2-D) barcodes, a novel 2- D continuous barcode (2-D CoBe) with improving the structure of traditional 2-D barcodes is proposed. The novel barcode not only enable to store a large mount of data with indefinitive capacity, but also support realtime decoding. Furthermore, a prototyping system of codec including encoding sub-system and decoding sub-system is examined and implemented. In this codec system, 2-D CoBe can be generated and printed on papers by encoding software sub-system. Besides, it can be recognized and decoded by a hand-held device with decoding sub-system in real-time. Based on the experimental results of encoding binary voice data into 2-D CoBe and decoding it with a hand-held device, it is verified that the codec system for 2-D CoBe is practical and effective.
7188468
GPGPU supported cooperative acceleration in molecular dynamics
Molecular dynamics simulations have become a significant computational approach to study complicated physical phenomena at the atomic level. Nevertheless, accurate simulations are limited in size and timescale by the available computing resources, which make the simulations very time-consuming. This consequentially leads to tremendous computational requirements. Therefore, the need for speeding up this process is crucial. In this paper, we present a novel implementation to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations with GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit). Our goal is to reduce the total computational time of MD simulations at a very high performance/cost ratio with the introduction of the GPGPU algorithm. This is motivated by their enhanced programmability, attractive cost/performance ratio and incredible growth in speed. To demonstrate that GPGPUs already provide an inexpensive alternative to scientific applications, we have used AMD's Brook+ streaming programming environment to implement a new parallel algorithm. Our experimental results show the novel approach achieves speedup by the factor of fifteen compared to the corresponding sequential implementation.
15925751
SpMT WaveCache: Exploiting Thread-Level Parallelism in WaveScalar
Speculative Multithreading (SpMT) increases the performance by means of executing multiple threads speculatively to exploit thread-level parallelism. By combining software and hardware approaches, we have improved the capabilities of previous WaveScalar ISA on the basis of Transactional Memory system for the WaveCache Architecture. Threads are extracted at the course of static compiling, and speculatively executed as a thread-level transaction that is supported by extra hardware components, such as Thread-Context-Table (TCT) and Thread-Memory-History (TMH). We have evaluated the SpMT WaveCache with 6 real benchmarks from SPEC, Mediabench and Mibench. On the whole, the SpMT WaveCache outperforms superscalar architecture ranging from 2X to 3X, and great performance gains are achieved over original WaveCache and Transactional WaveCache as well.
24807907
Comparative genomics and function analysis on BI1 family
Bax inhibitor-1 (BI1) family contains six known genes in human. Some members of BI1 family have been proved to play important roles in cell death. Here we discuss the similarities and differences among the members of BI1 family by comparative genomics and proteomics, and report here the discovery of a novel member, tmbim1b, in Bos taurus. BI1 family is evolutionarily conserved as integral membrane proteins containing multiple membrane-spanning segments and predominantly localized to intracellular membranes, similar to Bcl-2 family proteins. They share multiple motifs and transcriptional factors within the promoter and the coding regions. They may represent regulators of cell death pathways, which are concluded from structure conservation of BI1 family.
11779893
Music retrieval based on a multi-samples selection strategy for support vector machine active learning
In active learning based music retrieval systems, providing multiple samples to the user for feedback is very necessary. In this paper, we present a new multi-samples selection strategy designed for support vector machine active learning. Aiming to reduce the redundancy between the selected samples, the strategy enforces the selected samples to be diverse by explicitly maximizing the distance between each other in the feature space. Experimental results on a music genre database demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed strategy in selecting relevant multiple samples for human feedback on them.
15133148
Modeling Image Data for Effective Indexing and Retrieval in Large General Image Databases
In this paper, we propose an image semantic model based on the knowledge and criteria in the field of linguistics and taxonomy. Our work bridges the "semantic gap" by seamlessly exploiting the synergy of both visual feature processing and semantic relevance computation in a new way, and provides improved query efficiency and effectiveness for large general image databases. Our main contributions are as follows: we design novel data structures, namely, a lexical hierarchy, an image-semantic hierarchy, and a number of atomic semantic domains, to capture the semantics and the features of the database, and to provide the indexing scheme. We present a novel image query algorithm based on the proposed structures. In addition, we propose a novel term expansion mechanism to improve the lexical processing. Our extensive experiments indicate that our proposed techniques are effective in achieving high runtime performance with improved retrieval accuracy. The experiments also show that the proposed method has good scalability.
15964720
A Network Access Control Architecture Using State-Transfer-Based Dynamic Policy
The access control architecture using state-transfer-based dynamic policy is proposed to make access control more flexible and dynamic. This architecture can dynamically change the policy according to a state-transfer composed of a previous state and a current state. It can indicate the tendency of the system by using both previous and current information in order to decide a more appropriate policy to the current system and future condition. And there are two steps in this dynamic policy method, one is deciding a partial-state and the other one is deciding a state, two dynamic policy decision layers are included into this architecture in order to manage these two steps
31400188
Image Recovery from Broken Image Streams
This paper presents an approach for image recovery from broken image streams based on an image continuity model. The information to be recovered includes the header of an image (width, height, color space etc.) and the data stream which might have been partially damaged. We begin our discussion on common image formats and necessary information for the image recovery. We then define several measures on image contents to facilitate the image recovery. Using these measures, an effective recovery algorithm is proposed. Experimental results show that the algorithm can successfully recover images of different formats, even multi-frame images from broken image streams in most cases.