Providing subtitling for multimedia content is a highly costly process. Any system aimed at automating at least part of this process may therefore yield significant economic benefits for content providers. In this paper, we present an integrated automatic system capable of automatically subtitling weather forecasts and news broadcasts. In this system, a number of different modules are stringed ...

In this article is described a knowledge-based system or expert system for failures identification in onshore pipelines. This expert system is called Failure Analysis Expert System (FAES). The FAES development has been split in two parts. In the present part I, the database structure and knowledge acquisition process are described, while in second part, the End-User interface and learning algor...

Mathematical processing of images in real-time vision systems can be conventionally divided into two stages: preprocessing (filtering, contrasting, protection from natural distortions, etc.) and final one (imposition, visualization, solution of the navigation task, etc.). Mentioned tasks can be solved by a lot of known and specially developed methods with various degrees of efficiency. The pres...

Fast variability of optical objects is an interesting though poorly explored subject in modern astronomy. Realtime data processing and identification of transient celestial events in the images is very important for such study as it allows rapid follow-up with more sensitive instruments. We discuss an approach which we have developed for the RAPTOR project, a pioneering closed-loop system combi...

DNA Sequencing and re-sequencing are two fundamental tools in biological research, and applied to numerous such as genome mapping and genetic diseases related to DNA mutation. Polony DNA re-sequencing [POR06] is a modern high-throughput technique, which has been implemented in numerous systems, and the baseline software this project is based on is the image processing pipeline originally writte...

We present an innovative protocol processor component that combines wire-speed processing for low-level, and best effort processing for higher-level protocols. The component is a System-on-Chip that integrates variable size packet buffering, specialised cores for header and field processing, generic RISC cores and scheduling blocks. We focus on the main innovation, the reprogrammable pipeline m...

A key assumption underlying query optimization schemes for parallel processing is that their cost models can deal with the multitude of eeects encountered during the execution phase. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case and the optimal processing is only achieved in a few situations. In this paper we address the problem to achieve optimal processing under a pipelined execution strategy. The a...

We describe the software requirement and design specifications for all-sky panoramic astronomical pipelines. The described software aims to meet the specific needs of super-wide angle optics, and includes cosmic-ray hit rejection, image compression, star recognition, sky opacity analysis, transient detection and a web server allowing access to real-time and archived data. The presented software...

UNLABELLED Illumina microarray is becoming a popular microarray platform. The BeadArray technology from Illumina makes its preprocessing and quality control different from other microarray technologies. Unfortunately, most other analyses have not taken advantage of the unique properties of the BeadArray system, and have just incorporated preprocessing methods originally designed for Affymetrix ...

Media applications, such as signal processing, image and video processing, and graphics, are an increasing and important part of the way people use computers today. However, modern microprocessors cannot provide the performance necessary to meet the demands of these media applications, and special purpose processors lack the flexibility and programmability necessary to address the wide variety ...