In an increasingly competitive and global environment, it is not uncommon for corporations to pursue joint partnerships, and strategic alliances in order to rapidly introduce products and services into the marketplace. These partnerships can and do occur between corporations that are located in countries with significant cultural and societal differences. Inherent in these partnerships is the c...

This paper proposes the implementation of context adaptive variable length coder for H.264 video encoder. The implementation is capable of bringing about compression of video sequences as per user specification and is capable of processing high resolution pictures of sizes of up to 1024 x 768 pixels, encoding at a real time frame rate of 25 fps. The variable length coder has been realized using...

High-resolution X-ray observations of the face-on galaxy M 83 with the HRI onboard ROSAT are presented. The analysis aimed at studying the X-ray point source population inside the galaxy and disentangling the X-ray emission components (i.e. point sources, extended emission from hot gas in the bulge, disk and halo). Within the D25 ellipse of M 83, 21 X-ray sources are detected with (0.1–2.4 keV ...

Variable-resolution display techniques present visual information in a display using more than one resolution. For example, gaze-contingent variable-resolution displays allocate computational resources for image generation preferentially to the area around the center of gaze, where visual sensitivity to detail is the greatest. Using such displays reduces the amount of computational resources re...

A low cost Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave sensor is proposed in this work as radar module for the long range monitoring of environmental scenarios subject to landslide risk. A radar configuration based on the adoption of a variable scanning antenna array is proposed for the accurate detection of land movements. Furthermore, a X-band radar module prototype is realized and tested to demonstrat...