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  • Temporally coherent video cartoonization for animation scenery generation 

    Rayo Hernández, Gustavo Enrique; Tous Liesa, Rubén (2024-08-31)
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    The automatic transformation of short background videos from real scenarios into other forms with a visually pleasing style, like those used in cartoons, holds application in various domains. These include animated films, ...
  • Lester: rotoscope animation through video object segmentation and tracking 

    Tous Liesa, Rubén (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-07-30)
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    This article introduces Lester, a novel method to automatically synthesize retro-style 2D animations from videos. The method approaches the challenge mainly as an object segmentation and tracking problem. Video frames are ...
  • 6G-RUPA: a flexible, scalable, and energy-efficient user plane architecture for next-generation mobile networks 

    Giménez Antón, Sergio; Grasa Gras, Eduard; Perelló Muntan, Jordi; Cárdenas Córdova, Andrés (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-07-25)
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    As the global deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) is being well consolidated, the exploration of Sixth Generation (6G) wireless networks has intensified, focusing on novel Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Value ...
  • Chip and package-scale interconnects for general-purpose, domain-specific and quantum computing systems: overview, challenges and opportunities 

    Das, Abhijit; Palesi, Maurizio; Kim, John; Pratim, Partha (2024-09)
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    The anticipated end of Moore’s law, coupled with the breakdown of Dennard scaling, compelled everyone to conceive forthcoming computing systems once transistors reach their limits. Three leading approaches to circumvent ...
  • Mixture-of-Rookies: saving DNN computations by predicting ReLU outputs 

    Pinto Rivero, Dennis; Arnau Montañés, José María; Riera Villanueva, Marc; Cruz Díaz, Josep Llorenç; González Colás, Antonio María (Elsevier, 2024-09)
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    Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used in many application domains. However, they require a vast amount of computations and memory accesses to deliver outstanding accuracy. In this paper, we propose a scheme to predict ...
  • A case for research with and on community networks 

    Braem, Bart; Blondia, Chris; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Escrich, Pau; Baig Viñas, Roger; Bonicioli, Joseph; Papathanasiou, Stavros; Vilata i Balaguer, Iván; Barz, Christoph; Rogge, Henning; Neumann, Axel; Matson, Malcolm; Tatum, Blaine; Kaplan, Aaron L. (2013-07)
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    Community Networks are large scale, self-organized and decentralized networks, built and operated by citizens for citizens. In this paper, we make a case for research on and with community networks, while explaining the ...
  • Exploiting beam search confidence for energy-efficient speech recognition 

    Pinto Rivero, Dennis; Arnau Montañés, José María; Riera Villanueva, Marc; Cruz Díaz, Josep Llorenç; González Colás, Antonio María (Springer, 2024-07-15)
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    With mobile and embedded devices getting more integrated in our daily lives, the focus is increasingly shifting toward human-friendly interfaces, making automatic speech recognition (ASR) a central player as the ideal means ...
  • Estimating black carbon levels using machine learning models in high-concentration regions 

    Gupta, Pratima; Ferrer Cid, Pau; Barceló Ordinas, José María; García Vidal, Jorge; Soni, Vijay Kumar; Pöhlker, Mira L.; Ahlawat, Ajit; Viana Rodríguez, Mar (Elsevier, 2024-10-20)
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    Black carbon (BC) is emitted into the atmosphere during combustion processes, often in conjunction with emissions such as nitrogen oxides (NOx) and ozone (O3), which are also by-products of combustion. In highly polluted ...
  • A minimalistic distance-vector routing protocol for LoRa mesh networks 

    Pueyo Centelles, Roger; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Freitag, Fèlix; Baig Viñas, Roger; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-08-14)
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    LoRa is popular in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain as a Low Power,Wide Area Network (LPWAN) radio technology, providing low-power and long-range communication in the sub-GHz band. Most often, LoRa is used as part of ...
  • Geothermal resources in Latin-America and their exploration using electromagnetic methods 

    Castillo Reyes, Octavio; Prol Ledesma, Rosa Maria; Corbo Camargo, Fernando; Rojas, Otilio (Springer, 2024-09-28)
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    The global priority for sustainable societies drives the transition to green energy, with geothermal power as a promising alternative. Latin-American countries beneft from the active volcanism along the Pacifc Rim, which ...
  • A security services management architecture toward resilient 6G wireless and computing ecosystems 

    Rodríguez Luna, Eva; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Martrat, Josep; Díaz, Rodrigo; Jukan, Admela; Granelli, Fabrizio; Trakadas, Panagiotis; Xilouris, George (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-07-15)
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    The upcoming sixth-generation (6G) networks are expected to be more heterogeneous, scalable, reliable, secure and energy-efficient. 6G services and applications will benefit from the fast data transmission rates, global ...
  • Rule-based with machine learning IDS for DDoS attack detection in cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) 

    Hussain, Ayaz; Marín Tordera, Eva; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Leligou, Helen C. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-08-28)
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    Recent advancements in communication technology have transformed the way the industrial system works. This digitalization has improved the way of communication between different actors involved in cyber physical production ...

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