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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Consumer Devices"”.
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Capturing spatial audio from arbitrary microphone arrays for binaural reproduction
… and unwieldy to incorporate into today's consumer devices. Consumer devices, such as mobile devices, typically use cheap microphones with strict limitations on array geometry. Therefore, in order to capture spatial audio on such a device, we must be able to work with the given device …
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Sparking controversy : the contested use of noninvasive brain stimulation
… individuals began constructing their own tDCS devices, or purchasing consumer devices, to stimulate their brains outside of academic or medical settings for self-improvement purposes. Not surprisingly, the lay use of tDCS has not been well received by researchers, who have termed it "fringe" or …
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Improving Mobile SOC's Performance as an Energy Efficient DSP Platform with Heterogeneous Computing
… (DSP). Evaluation is conducted on modern consumer devices running Android operating system and leveraging the relatively new RenderScript Compute to utilize CPU resources alongside other compute resources such as graphics processing units (GPUs) and digital signal processors. In order to …
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Recast : an interactive platform for personal media curation and distribution
… in the field of communication networks and consumer devices has made visual media a powerful tool for user expression. Given the background, Recast aims to present an intuitive platform for proactive citizens to create visual storyboards that represent the view of the world from their …
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Device management of heterogeneous Bluetooth Low Energy devices
… the ever-growing adoption of smart, peripheral consumer devices, users enter a world where they can monitor their health and every day activities. As such, the advent of smart homes allows for the interconnectedness of all personal devices to be available on a unified platform. The efforts to …
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An exploratory design of a 65 nm CMOS buck converter for maximum efficiency
Portable battery-operated consumer devices, such as mp3 players, cell phones, and digital cameras, are becoming ever more prevalent and so the need for long battery life is increasingly important. These small devices contain power converters that produce lower supply voltages from the fixed battery …
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Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a MEMS Based Thermally Actuated Fabry-Pérot Interferometer.
MEMS devices have become ubiquitous in consumer devices and are also being used to conduct experiments on the nano and micro scale. There is a growing need to test the properties of materials at the micro and nanoscale. In order to test those materials, a reliable method of sensing displacement is …
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An Intelligent Authentication Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Environments
… machines, physical spaces, services, everyday devices, and other humans. Ubiquitous computing envisions a world that features an abundance of embedded processors, wearable computers, smart consumer devices, sensors, and digital communication, which are all tightly coupled to form an ""Active …
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A theory of (almost) zero resource speech recognition
… for smartphones, smart TVs, and many other consumer devices. The overwhelming popularity, however, is still limited to languages such as English, Japanese, and German, where vast amounts of labeled training data are available. For most other languages, it is prohibitively expensive to 1) …
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Energy-efficient speaker identification with low-precision networks
… to the growing number of speech systems run on consumer devices and data centers. A demonstration video and testing logs illustrating results are available at https: //skoppula. github. io/thesis.html.
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Real-Time Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging Using Single-Photon LiDAR
… a fully functional NLOS system using low-cost, consumer-grade SPAD hardware for real-time NLOS imaging, detection, and localization. We lay the ground work for NLOS imaging systems by developing infrastructure for NLOS processing in real-time, and we examine the potential for NLOS systems to …
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Mobile Multi-Bounce LiDAR
… availability of SPAD sensors on mobile devices (e.g. iPhone Pro LiDAR) raises the potential to enable NLOS capabilities on consumer devices in the future. Currently, these sensors are primarily employed for LiDAR-based depth estimation, with untapped potential in other applications. In …
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A Secure Adaptive Network Processor
… secured military communications equipment to consumer devices are being updated to provide network connectivity. Many of these devices require, or would benefit from, the inclusion of device security in addition to data security. Whether it is a top-secret encryption scheme that must be …
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Monocular Visual Inertial Odometry using Learning-based Methods
… localization information to a wide variety of consumer devices and robotic platforms.</p>
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Reliable, secure and energy-efficient AI hardware
… AI hardware chips are being widely used in consumer devices and enterprise markets, such as high-end smartphones, tablets, smart speakers, wearables, autonomous vehicles, cameras, sensors, and other IoT (internet of things) devices. According to a recent report, the embedded AI hardware …
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Gestures in Machine Interaction
… model of VGI can be developed and implemented on consumer devices by considering some of the barriers currently preventing such a model of VGI from being widely adopted. This research aims to address the development of freehand gesture interfaces and accompanying syntax. Without the detailed …
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Multimodal Eye-Tracking and Predictive Gaze Modelling for Assistive Human–Computer Interaction in Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems
… sidelining the reliance on high-end eye-tracking devices and hardware-agnostic solution that operates on standard consumer devices. Results indicate that the integrated ASR system achieves a 2% word error rate while the LSTM model yields a high correlation between predicted and actual gaze …
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Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Robotics Applications
… in many fields such as robotics, automotive and consumer devices. Some new applications of power electronics are discussed in the first chapter of this thesis. One of these describes how new power electronics devices allow the use of distributed instead of centralized control in industrial …
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Pushing the limits of wireless networks
… antenna-array access points that do not exist on consumer devices. Inspired by radar systems, we present Ubicarse, the first purely-software indoor positioning system for existing Wi-Fi devices that achieves tens of cm in positioning accuracy. Further, we build on this design to develop LTEye, …
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A Spatial Decision Support System for Planning Broadband, Fixed Wireless Telecommunication Networks
… the United States and other developed countries. Consumer devices such as AM/FM radios, cordless and cellular telephones, pagers, satellite televisions, garage door openers, and television channel changers are just some of the applications of wireless technology. More recently, wireless computer …
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