Increasing Security Guidelines’ Framework Efficiency

Increasing Efficiency in Airport Security Screening

The prominence of aviation security has increased dramatically in recent years. As a reaction to the new threat situation large investments into modern security technology have been made. State-of-the-art X-ray screening equipment provides high resolution images, many image enhancement features and even automatic explosive detection. However, the most expensive equipment is of limited value if ...

Food security: increasing yield and improving resource use efficiency.

Food production and security will be a major issue for supplying an increasing world population. The problem will almost certainly be exacerbated by climate change. There is a projected need to double food production by 2050. In recent times, the trend has been for incremental modest yield increases for most crops. There is an urgent need to develop integrated and sustainable approaches that wi...

HB#: Increasing the Security and Efficiency of HB+

The innovative HB protocol of Juels and Weis [10] extends device authentication to low-cost RFID tags. However, despite the very simple on-tag computation there remain some practical problems with HB and despite an elegant proof of security against some limited active attacks, there is a simple man-in-the-middle attack due to Gilbert et al. [8]. In this paper we consider improvements to HB in t...

Increasing Efficiency in Disparity Calculation

In this paper a trade-off between the computation effort and the accuracy of the resulting disparity map, obtained using interpolation over spatial domain, is presented. The accuracy of the obtained disparity map is presented as the mean squared error calculated over the known disparity ground truth of test images, while efficiency increase is presented in terms of algorithm run-times. Even whe...

Equity, Efficiency and Increasing Returns