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Sequentially-Closed And Forward-Closed String Rewriting Systems, Yu Zhang Jan 2020

Sequentially-Closed And Forward-Closed String Rewriting Systems, Yu Zhang

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

In this dissertation we introduce the new concept of sequentially-closed string rewriting systems which generalizes forward-closed string rewriting systems and monadic string rewriting systems. We also investigate subclasses and properties of finite and regular sequentially-closed systems and forward-closed systems.


Statistical Methods To Unravel Cortical Mechanism Of Perception And Response To Auditory Stimuli, Ladan Moheimanian Jan 2020

Statistical Methods To Unravel Cortical Mechanism Of Perception And Response To Auditory Stimuli, Ladan Moheimanian

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Behavioral responses to auditory stimuli have a critical role in our daily activities. The perception of these stimuli and the generation of appropriate behavioral responses requires the interaction of thousands of neurons in the auditory-motor pathways in the brain. Despite their importance, still many neuroscientific questions about these interactions are remained to be answered. This may result from the limitations of brain recordings as well as statistical methods to analyze brain recordings. In this dissertation, I investigated underlying mechanisms that govern these neural interactions in the auditory-motor pathways using novel statistical techniques applied to the brain recordings from the surface …


Invariant-Based Online Software Anomaly Detection And Selective Regression Testing, Yizhen Chen Jan 2020

Invariant-Based Online Software Anomaly Detection And Selective Regression Testing, Yizhen Chen

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Software has been extensively used in various domains to provide online services. With the growing popularity of these types of applications, the quality of the software has a great impact on many of our daily activities [1]. Reliable software executions that deliver expected outcomes are essential for quality services. Software is considered abnormal when its behavior deviates from what is expected at any point during its execution. When anomalous behavior propagates to an exit point of the software and produces an incorrect output or an unexpected termination of the execution, it is considered a software failure. An anomaly may or …


Development Of Dual Functional Dna/Rna Nanostructures For Drug Delivery, Vibhav Amit Valsangkar Jan 2020

Development Of Dual Functional Dna/Rna Nanostructures For Drug Delivery, Vibhav Amit Valsangkar

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

In addition to the traditional biochemical functions, DNA and RNA have been increasingly studied as building blocks for the formation of various 2D and 3D nanostructures. DNA has emerged as a versatile building block for programmable self-assembly. DNA-based nanostructures have been widely applied in biosensing, bioimaging, drug delivery, molecular computation and macromolecular scaffolding. A variety of strategies have been developed to functionalize these nanostructures. The major advantage is that DNA is a very stable molecule and its base-pairing properties can be easily utilized to control and program the formation of desired nanostructures. In addition, some of these DNA/RNA nanostructures have …


Exploration Of Efficient Scintillation Based On Inas Quantum Dots In A Gaas Matrix, Katherine Rose Dropiewski Jan 2020

Exploration Of Efficient Scintillation Based On Inas Quantum Dots In A Gaas Matrix, Katherine Rose Dropiewski

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Scintillation and optical properties of an integrated InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot (QD) Scintillation Detector were investigated to improve efficiency and reduce the decay time of luminescence. The photoluminescent properties of InAs QDs embedded in a GaAs matrix were studied as-grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on GaAs substrates, and on foreign substrates fabricated as thick (10-25 μm) waveguides. The luminescent efficiency of QDs as-grown on GaAs substrates were examined using photoluminescence (PL) measurements at room temperature and the thermal quenching of PL was analyzed by comparing the integrated PL intensities at 77K-400K. PL measurements were used to optimize QD AlAs capping, …


Design Of An Anti-Jerk Controller For Both Locked And Slipping Torque Converter Conditions In A Vehicle, Syed Ahmad Nadeem Jan 2020

Design Of An Anti-Jerk Controller For Both Locked And Slipping Torque Converter Conditions In A Vehicle, Syed Ahmad Nadeem

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

With the advancement in the automotive technologies, the customer scrutiny on the ride comfort of automobiles has come to light. Vehicle drivability is one of the important aspects that defines the ride comfort for a vehicle. Drivability of a vehicle is a qualitative measure and may differ from person to person, however, researches have come up to highlight a few parameters that can categorize the drivability performance of a vehicle into good or bad for a majority of the targeted audience. One of those parameters include shuffle, which is defined as the longitudinal oscillations that occurs in the drivetrain when …


Initial Transformation Of Photo-Viable Free Amino Acids In The Presence Of Surrogate And Standard Dissolved Organic Matter Under Sunlit Irradiation, Ryan J. Kibler Jan 2020

Initial Transformation Of Photo-Viable Free Amino Acids In The Presence Of Surrogate And Standard Dissolved Organic Matter Under Sunlit Irradiation, Ryan J. Kibler

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

With more than half of the nation’s drinking water affected by wastewater discharge from upstream and more indirect and direct reuse of treated wastewater, human health and ecotoxicological impacts resulting from effluent organic material (EfOM) will increase. Dissolved free amino acids (DFAAs), nitrogen components of EfOM, are essential nitrogen sources for microorganisms and play important roles in global N-cycling in natural aquatic environments. Several DFAAs including histidine, methionine, and tyrosine in sunlit surface waters are susceptible to direct and indirect photochemical transformation with reactive oxygen species. In this study, we investigated the reaction kinetics and initial reaction mechanisms involved in …


Assessment And Improvement Of Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods For Separated Turbulent Flows At Low Reynolds Numbers, Tom Mancuso Jan 2020

Assessment And Improvement Of Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods For Separated Turbulent Flows At Low Reynolds Numbers, Tom Mancuso

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

This study investigates the accuracy of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models to predict heat transfer in turbulent separated flows at low Reynolds numbers. A novel improvement of a Scale Adaptive technique is also presented. A spectrum of turbulence models is used to simulate flow and heat transfer of two geometries; fully developed flow through a staggered tube bank and a square prism in cross flow. Experimental data for both local heat transfer and velocity data are available in the literature for these cases and have been used extensively evaluate various CFD methods. Six unsteady models were used and the results …


An Initial Look Into The Computer Science And Cybersecurity Pathways Project For Career And Technical Education Curricula, Vukica M. Jovanovic, Murat Kuzlu, Otilia Popescu, Abdul Rahman Badawi, Deborah Kay Marshall, Salih Sarp, Spyridoula Tsouganatou, Petros J. Katsioloudis, Linda Vahala, Hongyi Wu Jan 2020

An Initial Look Into The Computer Science And Cybersecurity Pathways Project For Career And Technical Education Curricula, Vukica M. Jovanovic, Murat Kuzlu, Otilia Popescu, Abdul Rahman Badawi, Deborah Kay Marshall, Salih Sarp, Spyridoula Tsouganatou, Petros J. Katsioloudis, Linda Vahala, Hongyi Wu

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Computer science and cybersecurity have gained the attention of various stakeholders, industry representatives, educators, parents and students who are thinking about their future careers. Teaching computer science courses has moved into K-12 education, no longer introduced in the college classroom. There are various reasons for this trend. One is that in this way more children have access to the curriculum that integrates computer science principles, not just those undergraduate students in specific STEM majors. Other industries need different levels of computer science and cybersecurity education. There are various programs across the nation that are focusing on introducing these topics as …


Lateral Bracing Of Beams Provided By Standing Seam Roof System: Concepts And Case Study, Gengrui Wei, Benjamin Schafer, Michael Seek, Matthew Eatherton Jan 2020

Lateral Bracing Of Beams Provided By Standing Seam Roof System: Concepts And Case Study, Gengrui Wei, Benjamin Schafer, Michael Seek, Matthew Eatherton

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

The standing seam roof (SSR) system is the most commonly used roof system for metal buildings due to its superior durability, water tightness, and energy efficiency. In this type of system, SSR panels attach to Z-shaped or C-shaped purlins with clips, and the purlins are in turn connected to rafters (i.e. roof beams). For the design of metal building rafters against lateral torsional buckling, bottom flange braces provide torsional bracing to the rafter and the SSR system provides some lateral bracing. However, the degree to which the SSR system can restrain the rafter against lateral movement has not previously been …


Field-Of-View Optimization Of Magnetically Actuated 2d Gimballed Scanners, Gökçe Aköz, Yi̇ği̇t Dağhan Gökdel Jan 2020

Field-Of-View Optimization Of Magnetically Actuated 2d Gimballed Scanners, Gökçe Aköz, Yi̇ği̇t Dağhan Gökdel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This work presents the field of view (FOV) maximization of a magnetically actuated two-dimensional (2D) gimballed scanner. The process of maximization is completed in two steps. (1) Optimization of the electrocoil providing the magnetic force that moves the scanner and (2) precise choice of optimum respective locations of both the scanner and the electrocoil. We first derived a formula relating the generated magnetic flux density, coil design parameters and driving voltage. Subsequently, we discussed the design trade-offs of an actuating electrocoil. We also conducted several experiments on a stainless steel 430 scanner having a footprint of 15 mm × 15 …


Exploring The Power Of Supervised Learning Methods For Company Name Disambiguation In Microblog Posts, Nafi̇ye Polat, Ali̇ Çakmak, Rabi̇a Turan Jan 2020

Exploring The Power Of Supervised Learning Methods For Company Name Disambiguation In Microblog Posts, Nafi̇ye Polat, Ali̇ Çakmak, Rabi̇a Turan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Twitter is an online social networking website where people can post short messages on any subject, and these messages become visible to other users. Users intentionally express their opinions about companies or products via microblogging texts. Analyzing such messages might help explore what customers think about company products, or what the broad feelings of customers are. Identifying tweets referring to products and companies is becoming an important tool recently. However, company names are often vague. Hence, the first step is to locate the messages that are relevant to a company. In this paper, we present a number of supervised learning …


Fuzzy Genetic Based Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (Fgdsa) Approach For Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks, Ganesan Rajesh, Xavier Mercilin Raajini, Kulandairaj Martin Sagayam, Bharat Bhushan, Utku Kose Jan 2020

Fuzzy Genetic Based Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (Fgdsa) Approach For Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks, Ganesan Rajesh, Xavier Mercilin Raajini, Kulandairaj Martin Sagayam, Bharat Bhushan, Utku Kose

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Cognitive Radio Sensor Network (CRSN) is known as a distributed network of wireless cognitive radio sensor nodes. Such system senses an event signal and ensures collaborative dynamic communication processes over the spectrum bands. Here, the concept of Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) denes the method of reaching progressively to the unused range of spectrum band. As among the essential CRSN user types, the Primary User (PU) has the license to access the spectrum band. On the other hand, the Secondary User (SU) tries to access the unused spectrum eciently, by not disturbing the PU. Considering that issue, this study introduces a …


Reconfiguration-Based Hierarchical Energy Management In Multimicrogrid Systems Considering Power Losses, Reliability Index, And Voltage Enhancement, Farid Hamzeh Aghdam, Navid Taghizadegan Kalantari, Sajad Najafi Ravadanegh Jan 2020

Reconfiguration-Based Hierarchical Energy Management In Multimicrogrid Systems Considering Power Losses, Reliability Index, And Voltage Enhancement, Farid Hamzeh Aghdam, Navid Taghizadegan Kalantari, Sajad Najafi Ravadanegh

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a reconfiguration-based hierarchical energy management for interconnected microgrids known as multimicrogrid system. The goal is to minimize the operational costs of different entities alongside with finding the best topology to minimize the active power loss, enhance reliability index, and improve the voltage level. The distribution network (DN) includes several dispatchable and undispatchable distributed energy resources, energy storage devices, and multiple microgrids (MGs). The first layer of the optimization process is executed by each MG operator and each MG performs local energy management. Each MG operator informs the DN operator about its optimal schedules. Finally, global energy management …


An Encrypted Speech Authentication Method Based On Uniform Subband Spectrumvariance And Perceptual Hashing, Qiuyu Zhang, Denghai Zhang, Liang Zhou Jan 2020

An Encrypted Speech Authentication Method Based On Uniform Subband Spectrumvariance And Perceptual Hashing, Qiuyu Zhang, Denghai Zhang, Liang Zhou

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In a real-world cloud server, a speech signal is prone to suffer various attacks, such as malicious muting and tampering. In such a context, the privacy security of the speech owner will not be guaranteed. In order to achieve content authentication of encrypted speech in the cloud server, an efficient encrypted speech authentication method based on uniform subband spectrum variance and perceptual hashing is proposed. Firstly, the original speech is scrambled by Henon mapping to construct an encrypted speech library in the cloud, through extracting uniform subband spectrum variance of the encrypted speech and constructing a hashing sequence to generate …


Low Power And Low Phase Noise Vco With Dual Current Shaping For Iotapplications, Sajad Nejadhasan, Narges Moazenian, Ebrahim Abiri, Mohammah Reza Salehi Jan 2020

Low Power And Low Phase Noise Vco With Dual Current Shaping For Iotapplications, Sajad Nejadhasan, Narges Moazenian, Ebrahim Abiri, Mohammah Reza Salehi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, two low phase noise and power consumption VCO circuits, which are suitable for Internet of things (IoT) applications, are proposed. In the first structure, in order to have more control of the current consumption, the current shaping technique is used in the PMOS and NMOS biasing circuit. In the second structure, for increasing the oscillation amplitude and reducing the phase noise, independent biasing for the NMOS section is used. In both structures, to increase the frequency tuning range (FTR), without using a capacitor bank, the varactor is used in the biasing structure. In the first structure the …


Reducing Computational Complexity In Fingerprint Matching, Mubeen Sabir, Tariq Mahmood Khan, Munazza Arshad, Sana Munawar Jan 2020

Reducing Computational Complexity In Fingerprint Matching, Mubeen Sabir, Tariq Mahmood Khan, Munazza Arshad, Sana Munawar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The performance of cross-correlation functions can decrease computational complexity under optimal fingerprint feature selection. In this paper, a technique is proposed to perform alignment of fingerprints followed by their matching in fewer computations. Minutiae points are extracted and alignment is performed on the basis of their spatial locations and orientation fields. Unlike traditional cross-correlation based matching algorithms, ridges are not included in the matching process to avoid redundant computations. However, optimal cross-correlation is chosen by correlating feature vectors accompanying x-y locations of minutiae points and their aligned orientation fields. As a result, matching time is significantly reduced with much improved …


Efficient Bandwidth Management Algorithm For Ng-Epon, Ammar Rafiq, Muhammad Faisal Hayat Jan 2020

Efficient Bandwidth Management Algorithm For Ng-Epon, Ammar Rafiq, Muhammad Faisal Hayat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Next generation ethernet passive optical network (NG-EPON) is a promising technology to cater huge bandwidth and efficient distribution demands of the future Internet services. IEEE working group has been doing efforts for the standardization of NG-EPON. Four wavelength channels of 25Gbps each are supported by NG-EPON for the transmission of optical network unit (ONU) traffic towards optical line terminal (OLT). Dynamic wavelength and bandwidth allocation (DWBA) algorithms are needed for the efficient arbitration of bandwidth resources between subscribers. In this paper, we have proposed a DWBA algorithm named as efficient bandwidth management algorithm (EBMA) for NG-EPON. EBMA has been designed …


Construction And Performance Analysis Of A New Sac-Ocdma Code Based Onlatin Square Matrix, Amel Aissaoui, Latifa Hacini Jan 2020

Construction And Performance Analysis Of A New Sac-Ocdma Code Based Onlatin Square Matrix, Amel Aissaoui, Latifa Hacini

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper a family of novel spreading code called Latin square code (LSC) is proposed for spectral amplitude coding-optical code division multiple access (SAC-OCDMA) system. The main feature of the proposed code is the zero cross-correlation which eliminates both multiple access interference (MAI) and phase induced intensity noise (PIIN). The code construction can be easily accomplished using Latin square matrix (LSM) for any weight and number of users. The simplicity in the construction code has made it a compelling candidate for future OCDMA applications. SAC-OCDMA system employing direct decoding is mathematically analyzed and then numerically simulated using Matlab and …


An Efficient Storage-Optimizing Tick Data Clustering Model, Haleh Amintoosi, Masood Niazi Torshiz, Yahya Forghani, Sara Alinejad Jan 2020

An Efficient Storage-Optimizing Tick Data Clustering Model, Haleh Amintoosi, Masood Niazi Torshiz, Yahya Forghani, Sara Alinejad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Tick data is a large volume of data, related to a phenomenon such as stock market or weather change, with data values changing rapidly over time. An important issue is to store tick data table in a way that it occupies minimum storage space while at the same time it can provide fast execution of queries. In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed to partition tick data tables into clusters with the aim of minimizing the required storage space. The genetic algorithm is then used to solve the mathematical model which is indeed a clustering model. The proposed method …


Modelling Sensor Ontology With The Sosa/Ssn Frameworks:A Case Study For Laboratory Parameters, Özlem Aktaş, Mehmet Mi̇lli̇, Sanaz Lakestani̇, Musa Mi̇lli̇ Jan 2020

Modelling Sensor Ontology With The Sosa/Ssn Frameworks:A Case Study For Laboratory Parameters, Özlem Aktaş, Mehmet Mi̇lli̇, Sanaz Lakestani̇, Musa Mi̇lli̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Recently, the use of sensor-based systems in many areas has led to an exponential increase in the raw sensor data. However, the lack of neither syntactic nor semantic integrity between these sensor data limited their sharing, reusability, and interpretation. These inabilities can cause some problems. For example, different wireless sensor networks may not work together due to the subtle variations in their sensing methods, operating systems, syntax, and data structure. In recent years, to cope with these inabilities, the semantic sensor web approach, which enables us to enrich the meaning of sensor data, has been seen as the critical technology …


A Subsynchronous Resonance Prevention For Dfig-Based Wind Farms, Davood Fateh, Ali Akbar Moti Birjandi, Josep M. Guerrero Jan 2020

A Subsynchronous Resonance Prevention For Dfig-Based Wind Farms, Davood Fateh, Ali Akbar Moti Birjandi, Josep M. Guerrero

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, subsynchronous resonance (SSR) instability was accurately analyzed in doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind farms by the linearization of equations and modal analysis. In addition, the possibility of high compensation for the transmission lines connected to DFIG-based wind farms was provided using a SSR prevention controller (SSRPC). For this purpose, an SSRPC was connected to the output voltage of the grid side converter (GSC) of the DFIG. The GSC output voltage was selected as the connection point of the SSRPC because it directly affects the induction generator effect (IGE) and can be an inhibitor factor in its …


Image Subset Communication For Resource-Constrained Applications In Wirelesssensor Networks, Sajid Nazir, Omar Alzubi, Mohammad Kaleem, Hassan Hamdoun Jan 2020

Image Subset Communication For Resource-Constrained Applications In Wirelesssensor Networks, Sajid Nazir, Omar Alzubi, Mohammad Kaleem, Hassan Hamdoun

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

JPEG is the most widely used image compression standard for sensing, medical, and security applications. JPEG provides a high degree of compression but field devices relying on battery power must further economize on data transmissions to prolong deployment duration with particular use cases in wireless sensor networks. Transmitting a subset of image data could potentially enhance the battery life of power-constrained devices and also meet the application requirements to identify the objects within an image. Depending on an application's needs, after the first selected subset is received at the base station, further transmissions of the image data for successive refinements …


Adaptive Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms (Amabc) For Optimization Ofcomplex Systems, Rabi̇a Korkmaz Tan, Şebnem Bora Jan 2020

Adaptive Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms (Amabc) For Optimization Ofcomplex Systems, Rabi̇a Korkmaz Tan, Şebnem Bora

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Complex systems are large scale and involve numerous uncertainties, which means that such systems tend to be expensive to operate. Further, it is difficult to analyze systems of this kind in a real environment, and for this reason agent-based modeling and simulation techniques are used instead. Based on estimation methods, modeling and simulation techniques establish an output set against the existing input set. However, as the data set in a given complex systems becomes very large, it becomes impossible to use estimation methods to create the output set desired. Therefore, a new mechanism is needed to optimize data sets in …


Formation Of A Wireless Sensor Network Using Custom-Designed Sensors Having Lowpower And Low Cost Components, Veysel Yaman Akgün, Engi̇n Maşazade Jan 2020

Formation Of A Wireless Sensor Network Using Custom-Designed Sensors Having Lowpower And Low Cost Components, Veysel Yaman Akgün, Engi̇n Maşazade

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, we first design a sensor with low power and low cost components, namely an MSP430G2553 microcontroller (MCU), nRF24L01+ communication unit, and a light-dependent resistor (LDR). Then, connecting these custom-designed sensors with a central node, a fusion center (FC), we form a wireless sensor network (WSN) in which sensors measure light intensities and send their measurements to the FC for final inference. Since the default addressing structure of nRF24L01+ can simultaneously connect up to 6 devices, in order to have more connections, we define a new addressing scheme for the transmissions between sensors and the FC. Finally, as …


A Fuzzy Neural Network For Web Service Selection Aimed At Dynamic Software Rejuvenation, Kimia Rezaei Kalantari, Ali Ebrahimnejad, Homayun Motameni Jan 2020

A Fuzzy Neural Network For Web Service Selection Aimed At Dynamic Software Rejuvenation, Kimia Rezaei Kalantari, Ali Ebrahimnejad, Homayun Motameni

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Software rejuvenation is an effective technique to counteract software aging in continuously running applications such as web service-based systems. In these systems, web services are allocated based on the requirements of receivers and the facilities of servers. One of the challenges while assigning web services is how to select appropriate server to reduce faults. In this paper, we propose dynamic software rejuvenation as a proactive fault-tolerance technique based on the neural fuzzy system. While considering a threshold for the rejuvenation of each web service, we completed the training based on the features of the service providers as well as the …


Combined Morphology And Svm-Based Fault Feature Extraction Technique Fordetection And Classification Of Transmission Line Faults, Revati Godse, Dr. Sunil Bhat Jan 2020

Combined Morphology And Svm-Based Fault Feature Extraction Technique Fordetection And Classification Of Transmission Line Faults, Revati Godse, Dr. Sunil Bhat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A transmission line is the main commodity of power transmission network through which power is transmitted to the utility. These lines are often swayed by accidental breakdowns owing to different random origins. Hence, researchers try to detect and track down these failures at the earliest to avoid financial prejudice. This paper offers a new realtime mathematical morphology based approach for fault feature extraction. The morphological open-close-median filter is exploited to wrest unique fault features which are then fed as an input to support vector machine to detect and classify the short circuit faults. The acquired graphical and numerical results of …


Highly Sensitive Fiber Optic Pressure Sensors For Wind Turbine Applications, Mali̇k Kaya, Okan Esentürk Jan 2020

Highly Sensitive Fiber Optic Pressure Sensors For Wind Turbine Applications, Mali̇k Kaya, Okan Esentürk

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Fiber optic pressure sensors utilizing ultra-high sensitive fiber loop ringdown (FLRD) spectroscopy were fabricated using a bare single mode fiber. The fiber optic pressure sensors were applied to monitor pressure change on a plastic pipe embedded into a sea sand filled container in laboratory conditions to simulate a tower. As the pressure applied to the sensor head was changed from $66.4$ kPa to $331.6$ kPa, changes in the ringdown time (RDT) were recorded. The lowest baseline stability of 0.20 % was obtained in these simple FLRD pressure sensors. The minimum detectable optical loss was $992$ $\mu$dB. The results showed that …


Improving The Efficiency Of Dnn Hardware Accelerator By Replacing Digitalfeature Extractor With An Imprecise Neuromorphic Hardware, Majid Mohammadi Rad, Omid Sojodishijani Jan 2020

Improving The Efficiency Of Dnn Hardware Accelerator By Replacing Digitalfeature Extractor With An Imprecise Neuromorphic Hardware, Majid Mohammadi Rad, Omid Sojodishijani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Mixed-signal in-memory computation can drastically improve the efficiency of the hardware implementing machine learning (ML) algorithms by (i) removing the need to fetch neural network parameters from internal or external memory and (ii) performing a large number of multiply-accumulate operations in parallel. However, this boost in efficiency comes with some disadvantages. Among them, the inability to precisely program nonvolatile memory devices (NVM) with neural network parameters and sensitivity to noise prevent the mixed-signal hardware to perform a precise and deterministic computation. Unfortunately, these hardware-specific errors can get magnified while propagating along with the layers of the deep neural network. In …


Impulse Noise Removal By K-Means Clustering Identified Fuzzy Filter: A Newapproach, Aritra Bandyopadhyay, Kaustuv Deb, Atanu Das, Rajib Bag Jan 2020

Impulse Noise Removal By K-Means Clustering Identified Fuzzy Filter: A Newapproach, Aritra Bandyopadhyay, Kaustuv Deb, Atanu Das, Rajib Bag

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Removal of impulse noise from corrupted digital images has been a hitch in the field of image processing. Random nature of impulse noise makes the task of noise removal more critical. Different filters have been designed for noise removal purpose and have shown formidable results mostly for low and medium level noise densities. In this paper, a new two-stage technique called k-means clustering identified fuzzy filter (KMCIFF) is proposed for de-noising gray-scale images. KMCIFF consists of a k-Means clustering-based high density impulse noise detection, followed by a fuzzy logic-oriented noise removal mechanism. In the detection process, a 5 $\times$ 5 …