A new approach for predicting coverage of wireless LAN at 2.4GHz is presented. Coverage prediction is one of the core parts of indoor wireless LAN planning tools. The main concern it has to deal with is providing a good trade-off between prediction accuracy and computational load. Usual approaches belong to either empirical or deterministic methods. A new perspective has recently been offered t...

A robust, iterative approach is introduced for finding the dominant plane in a scene using stereo vision. Neither camera calibration nor stereo correspondence is required. Iterative two-step methods have been applied to various problems in computer vision, but only recently Cohen has formalized a framework that guarantees (at least local) convergence of such methods. In this paper we adopt this...

This paper describes an enhancement method for location tracking system based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI)values and Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). The enhancement is based on pre calibration of measurement vectors and individual position block usage in final estimation of the target's position. The EKF and the described enhancement methods are used on a standard Wireless Local A...

The method, the procedure and the results of the calibration of a low cost MEMS INS sensor are described and discussed. The reduced cost of the MEMSs sensors is very advantageous, but these sensors are characterized by much large errors. The accurate calibration of the sensors is very important for the determination of the systematic errors, like bias, scale factor and misalignment of the axes....

We conducted in-depth analysis on the use of a popular Chinese social networking and microblogging site, Sina Weibo, to monitor an avian influenza A(H7N9) outbreak in China and to assess the value of social networking sites in the surveillance of disease outbreaks that occur overseas. Two data sets were employed for our analysis: a line listing of confirmed cases obtained from conventional publ...

An m-health system for real-time wireless communication of medical video based on open-source software is presented. The objective is to deliver a low-cost telemedicine platform which will allow for reliable remote diagnosis m-health applications such as emergency incidents, mass population screening, and medical education purposes. The performance of the proposed system is demonstrated using f...

This paper describes calibration techniques for downconversion mixers used in integrated direct-conversion receivers. A method of achieving a high even-order intermodulation rejection is presented. Using the method presented, the receiver second-order input intercept point (IIP2) can always be improved by more than 20 dB. The minimum achieved receiver IIP2 after calibration is +38 dBm. A techni...

In this paper an algorithm for fast wavelength calibration of Optical Spectrum Analyzers (OSAs) using low power reference gas spectra is proposed. In existing OSAs a reference spectrum with low noise for precise detection of the reference extreme values is needed. To generate this spectrum costly hardware with high optical power is necessary. With this new wavelength calibration algorithm it is...

We propose a new technique, the use of FBGs (fiber Bragg gratings), for accurate, easy and low cost wavelength calibration of GAIA, RAVE and follow-ups spectra at local Observatories. FBGs mark the spectra with absorption lines, freely defined in number and position during the fibers manufacturing. The process goes in parallel with the science exposure and through the same optical train and pat...

We consider a general calibration problem for derivative pricing models, which we reformulate into a Bayesian framework to attain posterior distributions for model parameters. It is then shown how the posterior distribution can be used to estimate prices for exotic options. We apply the procedure to a discrete local volatility model and work in great detail through numerical examples to clarify...