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Discovering panoramas in web videos
While methods for stitching panoramas have been successful given proper source images, providing these source images still remains a burden. In this paper, we present a method to discover panoramic source images within widely available web videos. The challenge comes from the fact that many of these videos are not recorded intentionally for stitching panoramas. Our method aims to find segments within a video that work as panorama sources. Specifically, we determine a video segment to be a valid panorama source according to the following three criteria. First, its camera motion should cover a wide field-of-view of the scene. Second, its frames should be "mosaicable", which states that the inter-frame motion should observe the underlying conditions for stitching a panorama. Third, its frames should have good image quality. Based on these criteria, we formulate discovering panoramas in a video as an optimization problem that aims to find an optimal set of video segments as panorama sources. After discovering these panorama sources, we synthesize regular scene panoramas using them. When significant dynamics is detected in the sources, we fuse the dynamics into the scene panoramas to make activity synopses to convey the dynamics. Our experiment of querying panoramas from YouTube confirms the feasibility of using web videos as panorama sources and demonstrates the effectiveness of our method.
111120849
Generic Carrier-Based Core Model for Four-Terminal Double-Gate MOSFET Valid for Symmetric, Asymmetric, SOI, and Independent Gate Operation Modes
A generic carrier-based core model for undoped four-terminal double-gate (DG) MOSFET valid for symmetric, asymmetric, SOI, and independent gate operation modes is presented in this paper. Based on the exact solution of the 1-D Poisson's equation of a general DG-MOSFET configure, a generic drain current model is derived from Pao-Sah's double integral in terms of the carrier concentration. The model is verified by extensive comparisons with 2-D numerical simulations under different bias conditions to all four terminals. The concise mathematic formulation allows the unification various double-gate models into a carrier-based core model for compact DG-MOSFET model development.
7524507
Video retargeting: automating pan and scan
When a video is displayed on a smaller display than originally intended, some of the information in the video is necessarily lost. In this paper, we introduce Video Retargeting that adapts video to better suit the target display, minimizing the important information lost. We define a framework that measures the preservation of the source material, and methods for estimating the important information in the video. Video retargeting crops each frame and scales it to fit the target display. An optimization process minimizes information loss by balancing the loss of detail due to scaling with the loss of content and composition due to cropping. The cropping window can be moved during a shot to introduce virtual pans and cuts, subject to constraints that ensure cinematic plausibility. We demonstrate results of adapting a variety of source videos to small display sizes.
29221183
Intelligent Crowd Simulation
Crowd simulation is a continuous challenge in computer animation. In this paper, we present an intelligent crowd simulation technique based on multiple autonomous agents. Each animated character (AC) is modeled as an autonomous agent, consisting of the perception, behavior planning and motion generation system. AC perceives the environment information, generates intentions and plans behaviors autonomously. To execute behaviors, appropriate motions are selected from the fundamental motion library (FML) and edited to create required motions. And the crowd behavior can be regarded as a combination of the individual behavior of each AC. The experiment shows the feasibility of this technique.
8081608
An analytic model for Ge/Si core/shell nanowire MOSFETs considering drift-diffusion and ballistic transport
In this paper an analytic model for Ge/Si core/shell nanowire MOSFETs (NWFETs) is developed. First, the electrostatic potential and charge model are derived out from classical device physics. Then the drift-diffusion drain current model is obtained and verified by comparisons with the numerical simulation. The ballistic current model is obtained with the approximately described quantummechanical effect through modifying the intrinsic carrier concentration under 2-dimensional confinement. With the proposed model, the performances of Ge/Si core/shell NWFETs are analyzed and significant characteristics are demonstrated in details. The analytic model in this paper provides a framework for further developing compact models of the NWFETs with Ge/Si core/shell heterostructure for circuit design and simulation.
39158542
A New Algorithm of Gray Watermark Embedding
The problems of the digital information transmission safety, its’ copyright protection etc. are seriously increase. Digital watermark is one of the good solutions for many problems mentioned above. Generally the watermark information is a one-dimension random signal. Two-dimension gray watermark is difficult to guarantee the robustness of the information embedding. Put a new kind of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the singular value decompose (SVD) on two-dimension gray watermark, the watermark becomes very strong robust to the compression, noise, low pass filter, high pass filter and median filter. It is useful for the safety of digital information transmission and its copyright protection.
195347610
Environment Lighting for Point Sampled Geometry
18928608
An Improved Particle Swarm Optimizer for Truss Structure Optimization
This paper presents an improved particle swarm optimizer (IPSO) for solving truss structure optimization problems. The algorithm is based on the particle swarm optimizer with passive congregation (PSOPC) and a harmony search (HS) scheme. It handles the problem-specified constraints using a 'fly-back mechanism' method and the variables' constraints using the harmony search scheme. The IPSO is tested on a planar truss structure optimization problem and is compared with the PSO and the PSOPC algorithm respectively. The result shows that the IPSO method presented in this paper is able to accelerate the convergence rate effectively and has the fastest convergence rate among these three other algorithms
29911696
Web Service for Tele-Communication
In this paper, we introduce WNET/WSIP, a web service enabled converged communication infrastructure that is integrated with VoIP SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). WNET/WSIP consists of a network of WSIP node and it is based on two-way, full duplex web service interaction. WSIP is a new class of IP communication endpoints. Each WSIP node is both a SIP endpoint that communicates in the SIP world through SIP signaling, and a web service SOAP node that provides an application protocol layer alternative to SIP and a generic service integration environment for binding SIP based communication in web services. From service perspective, WNET/WSIP is an application layer protocol overlay for resilient and versatile communication services over IP. It allows dynamic service discovery and binding that integrate SIP services as a SOA component in business transactions. It separates service integration/extension environment from SIP signaling. The ubiquitous service integration nature of web service provides a disciplined solution to monitor the WNET/WSIP network. It supports dynamic service monitoring, provisioning, endpoint discovery and update, etc. In particular, we introduce the approach of using WSSecurity [12] to provide end-to-end message level security over IP in WNET/WSIP. These new capabilities are essential to the success of reliable communication services. The proposed approach was implemented in a prototype research system. Advantages of WNET/WSIP were realized and observed.
31126370
Transform BPEL Workflow into Hierarchical CP-Nets to Make Tool Support for Verification
Availability of a wide variety of Web services over the Internet offers opportunities of providing new value added services by composing existing ones. Service composition poses a number of challenges. A composite service can be very complex in structure, containing many temporal and data-flow dependencies between the component services. It is highly desirable therefore to be able to validate that a given composite service is well formed: proving that it will not deadlock or livelock and that it respects the sequencing constraints of the constituent services. In this paper, we propose an approach of composition analysis and verification based on Colored Petri nets (CP-nets), which is an extended version of Petri Nets, which have a sound mathematical semantics and a number of existing analysis tools. We provide translation rules of web composition language into CP-nets and a technique to analyze and verify effectively the net to investigate several behavioral properties. Our translation technique is essentially independent of which language we describe composition. As an example, to show the effectiveness of our technique, we pick up BPEL and translate the BPEL specification into CP-nets in a constructive way. These nets are analyzed and verified as prototypes of the specification.
13252008
Anode-ALM: An Aggregation-Based Application Level Multicast for Media Streaming
Building application level multicast (ALM) for media streaming, we had better keep the invariability of source to-end delay (S2EDelay) of any node on the tree, so as to avoid delay jitter problem. In this paper, we proposed an aggregation-based ALM architecture, which aggregates the unstable nodes within a local area into a relative stable aggregation node Anode, and then builds tree by Anodes. Anode shields node’s dynamicity inside and behaves as a stable one outside. To build the architecture, we first proposed an Anode structure by n-dimension anti-cube, and proposed a distributed algorithm to bind the logic view and physical view of an Anode dynamically by the differentiation and assimilation operations, which maintain the integrality of the logic view while the physical view changes dynamically. Experiment results indicate that our algorithm can keep theS2EDelay invariability of the built ALM tree effectively.