Hough Transform has been widely used to detect lines in images captured by conventional cameras. In this paper, we develop an event-based Hough transform and apply it to a new type of camera, namely Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS). DVS outputs an asynchronous stream of binary events representing illumination change in the scene. We implement the proposed algorithm in a spiking neural network to det...

Data stream management systems (DSMS) so far focus on event queries and hardly consider combined queries to both data from event streams and from a database. However, applications like emergency management require combined data stream and database queries. Further requirements are the simultaneous use of multiple timestamps after different time lines and semantics, expressive temporal relations...

As feature size shrinks, the dominant component of power consumption will be leakage. As caches represent a considerable fraction of area for many platforms, from embedded to highly paralleled systems, cache leakage control continues to become a critical issue. Drowsy cache technique is a state-preserving technique which reduces leakage by pulling down the voltages on selected lines. To exploit...

In this paper we present GPU-based techniques for the interactive visualization of large unsteady 3D flow fields on uniform grids. We propose a novel dual-core approach to asynchronously stream such fields from the CPU, thus enabling the efficient exploration of large time-resolved sequences. This approach decouples visualization from data handling, resulting in interactive frame rates. Built u...

In this paper, we introduce a new encoding scheme that explicitly targets the minimization of the bus energy due to the crosstalk capacitances between adjacent bus lines. The key transformation operated by the code consists of a permutation of the bus lines, implemented directly during physical design; as a desirable consequence, no additional encoding/decoding logic is required at the bus boun...

Statistical mechanics of three-dimensional flows of an ideal incompressible fluid is considered. An ideal fluid differs from the usual Hamiltonian systems of statistical mechanics by possessing an infinite number of integrals of motion that are circulations of velocity over closed fluid contours. To reduce the problem to a standard one, the governing equations should be written in a Hamiltonian...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in extending traditional stream processing engines with logical, rule-based, reasoning capabilities. This poses significant theoretical and practical challenges since rules can derive new information and propagate it both towards past and future time points; as a result, streamed query answers can depend on data that has not yet been receiv...

  Performance and capacity of sulfur recovery unit (SRU) are greatly affected by the H2S:CO2 ratio of the acid gas stream. The acid gases in Iran contain around 35 mol% H2S and 60 mol% CO2. This low concentration of H2S calls for more complex sulfur plant, larger equipments, and higher costs. Acid gas enrichment processes (AGE) is run to upgrade low quality acid gas collected from gas treating...