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  • AI-powered edge computing evolution for beyond 5G communication networks 

    Kartsakli, Elli; Pérez Romero, Jordi; Sallent Roig, Oriol; Bartzoudis, Nikolaos; Frascolla, Valerio; Mohalik, Swarup Kumar; Metsch, Thijs; Antonopoulos, Angelos; Tuna, Ömer Faruk; Deng, Yansha; Tao, Xin; Serrano, Maria A.; Quiñones Moreno, Eduardo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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    Edge computing is a key enabling technology that is expected to play a crucial role in beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G communication networks. By bringing computation closer to where the data is generated, and leveraging Artificial ...
  • Determination of pumping and dynamic vacuum properties of conductive quaternary alloy of TiZrVAg non-evaporable getter 

    Valizadeh, Reza; Hannah, Adrian N.; Malyshev, Oleg; Hsiung, G.Y.; O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel; Pont, Montse; Tagdulang, Nikki
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    Non Evaporable Getter (NEG) coating has been employed extensively in the particle accelerator especial-ly where the vacuum conductance of the vessel is se-verely restricted and ultra-high vacuum condition is required. NEG ...
  • Data driven joint sensor fusion and regression based on geometric mean squared error 

    López Molina, Carlos Alejandro; Riba Sagarra, Jaume (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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    This paper explores the problem of estimating a temporal series measured from multiple independent sensors with unequal and stationary measurement errors with unknown variances. By formulating the data fusion problem as a ...
  • Sign language translation from instructional videos 

    Tarrés Benet, Laia; Gallego Olsina, Gerard Ion; Cardoso Duarte, Amanda; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Giró Nieto, Xavier (Computer Vision Foundation, 2023)
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    The advances in automatic sign language translation (SLT) to spoken languages have been mostly benchmarked with datasets of limited size and restricted domains. Our work advances the state of the art by providing the first ...
  • Tackling low-resourced sign language translation: UPC at WMT-SLT 22 

    Tarrés Benet, Laia; Gallego Olsina, Gerard Ion; Giró Nieto, Xavier; Torres Viñals, Jordi (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022)
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    This paper describes the system developed at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for the Workshop on Machine Translation 2022 Sign Language Translation Task, in particular, for the sign-to-text direction. We use a ...
  • MIMO radar antenna with sectorial human torso illumination for an in-cabin breathing detection system 

    López Montero, María José; Palacios Arias, César Augusto; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Jofre Roca, Lluís (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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    The vital sign measurement systems inside vehicles have taken great or impulse in recent years, and the technologies that have been most welcomed are based on wireless measurements that do not interrupt driving and are ...
  • Experimental measurements of radio signal attenuation and Faraday rotation in an inductively coupled plasma facility 

    Felgueiras Luis, Diana Zaida; Viladegut, Alan; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Chazot, Olivier (Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 2023)
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    Spacecraft entering a planetary atmosphere are surrounded by a plasma layer containing high levels of ionization due to the high temperatures on the shock layer. The high electron number densities cause attenuation and ...
  • Ionospheric scintillation anomalies associated with the 2021 La Palma volcanic eruption detected with Gnss-R and Gnss-Ro observations 

    Molina Ordóñez, Carlos; Boudriki Semlali, Badr Eddine; González Casado, Guillermo; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
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    Recent studies have shown possible signatures or precursors of seismic activity in the ionosphere. Our group is focusing on ionospheric scintillation associated with seismic activity. By the time this study was conducted, ...
  • Fusion of optical and SAR satellite data for environmental monitoring: assessment of damages and disturbances originated by forest fires 

    Alparone, Luciano; Arienzo, Alberto; Garzelli, Andrea; Lolli, Simone; Zoppetti, Claudia (International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2022)
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    In this paper, we propose a processing chain jointly employing Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data aimed at monitoring changes in the status of the vegetation cover by integrating the four visible and near infrared (VNIR) bands ...
  • Enabling multi-tenant cellular IoT services over LEO constellations in future 6G networks 

    Kellermann, Timo Nicolas; Calveras Augé, Anna M.; Pueyo Centelles, Roger; Camps, Dani; Ferrús Ferré, Ramón Antonio; Guadalupi, Marco (International Astronautical Federation, 2022)
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    Satellite-based, non-terrestrial networks (NTN) are crucial in providing global connectivity coverage, supporting important use cases in future 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 6th generation networks (6G). Existing ...
  • Demonstration of continuous multiple access with image-rejection coherent receiver and DML transmitters 

    Tabares Giraldo, Jeison; Masanas Jiménez, Miquel; Cano Valadéz, Iván Nicolás; Prat Gomà, Josep Joan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
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    We demonstrate a UD-WDM PON using DML transmitters with multilevel intensity modulation, both in base-band and RF, and a spectrally-efficient heterodyne receiver. We provide comparison with a homodyne receiver. Two users ...
  • Solving electromagnetic scattering in dielectric bodies by Monte Carlo sampling 

    López Menchón, Héctor; Rius Casals, Juan Manuel; Úbeda Farré, Eduard; Heldring, Alexander (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
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    In this work, we propose Monte Carlo sampling as a technique to avoid communication overhead in the numerical solution of complex electromagnetic scattering problems. The method is based on statistically sampling a ...

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