Browsing by Author "School of Engineering and Technology"

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    • An experimental study of stratified flow in enclosures 

      Awad, A. S.; Calay, R. K.; Badran, O. O.; Holdo, A. E. (2008-12)
      This paper presents all experimental investigation of flow scenarios that lead to stratification within the ventilated enclosures. The effect of supply terminal and extract terminal at various airflow rates on the flow ...

    • Experimental Study of the Dynamics of Water Film on an Aluminum Substrate under Wind Shear 

      Leng, Mengyao; Chang, Shinan; Lian, Yongsheng; Wu, Hongwei (Aerospace Research Central, 2018-05-31)
      Aircraft icing poses a serious threat to flight safety. Unfrozen parts of impinging water on the surface of the aircraft will run back under the effect of high-speed airflow, altering liquid distribution and heat transfer ...

    • An experimental study on the evolution of modal damping with damage in carbon fiber laminates 

      Montalvão, Diogo; Karanatsis, Dimitris; Ribeiro, A. M. R.; Arina, Joana; Baxter, Richard (2015-08)
      Many of the techniques developed to assess structural damage are based on Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA). This paper presents a study to extend the current understanding of how increasing damage in a Carbon Fiber ...

    • Experiments in Electronic Plagiarism Detection 

      Lyon, C.; Barrett, R.; Malcolm, J. (University of Hertfordshire, 2003)
      This report first describes three plagiarism detection systems: the Ferret, developed here at the University of Hertfordshire, (Section 2), Turnitin (Section 3) and CopyCatch (Section 4). The Ferret is a stand-alone system ...

    • Explicit design formulas for current-mode leap-frog OTA-C filters and 300 MHz CMOS seventh-order linear phase filter 

      Sun, Y.; Zhu, X.; Moritz, J. (2010)
      The leap-frog (LF) configuration is an important structure in analogue filter design. Voltage-mode LF OTA-C filters have recently been studied in the literature; however, general explicit formulas do not exist for current-mode ...

    • Exploiting Aging Benefits for the Design of Reliable Drowsy Cache Memories 

      Rossi, Daniele; Tenentes, Vasileios; Reddy, Sudhakar M.; Al-Hashimi, Bashir M.; Brown, Andrew (2017-07-19)
      In this paper, we show how beneficial effects of aging on static power consumption can be exploited to design reliable drowsy cache memories adopting dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) to reduce static power. First, we develop ...

    • Exploration with Two Cooperating Mobile Robots 

      Al Khawaldah, M.; Livatino, S.; Meng, L. (2010)
      In this paper a new exploration algorithm using two cooperating robots is introduced. The new technique is a combination of wall-following exploration algorithm and frontier-based exploration algorithm. Furthermore, robots ...

    • Exploratory studies on social spaces between humans and a mechanical-looking robot 

      Walters, M.L.; Dautenhahn, K.; Woods, S.; Koay, K.L.; Te Boekhorst, R.; Lee, D. (2006)
      The results from two empirical studies of human–robot interaction are presented. The first study involved the subject approaching the static robot and the robot approaching the standing subject. In these trials a small ...

    • Face De-Identification with Perfect Privacy Protection 

      Meng, Li; Sun, Zongji (2014-05-26)
      The rising concern for privacy protection and the associated legal and social responsibilities have led to extensive research into the field of face de-identification over the last decade. To date, the most successful ...

    • Facial Expression Recognition using Transfer Learning 

      Ramalingam, Soodamani; Garcia, Fabio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-12-24)
      In this paper, we investigate Deep Learning architectures for the recognition of facial expressions. In particular, we consider the concept of Transfer Learning whereby features learnt from generic images of large scale ...

    • Factors Influencing the Performance of Porous Wind Shields 

      Xu, Yizhong; Virk, Muhammad S.; Knight, Jason; Mustafa, Mohamad Y.; Haritos, George (TRANS TECH PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2013)
      Porosity, porosity distribution, porous shape, porous size, thickness of shield, shield height &width, and shield orientation are the factors that influence the performance of porous wind shields. Among them, porosity is ...

    • A Fast Intra/Inter Mode Decision Algorithm of H.264/AVC for Real-time Applications 

      Zhan, B.; Hou, B.; Sotudeh, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008)
      A novel fast Intra/Inter mode decision algorithm for H.264/AVC is proposed in this paper. By reducing the calculations incurred in both intra- and inter-prediction in video encoding, the computational complexity is ...

    • A Fast Mode Decision Algorithm in Spatial and Temporal Scalable Video Coding 

      Yang, D.; Hou, B.; Sotudeh, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
      To decrease the computational complexity of adaptive inter-layer prediction and improve the encoding efficiency in spatial and temporal scalable video coding, a mode decision algorithm is proposed by exploiting the part ...

    • A fast mode decision algorithm of adaptive inter-layer prediction in scalable video coding 

      Yang, D.; Hou, B.; Zhao, C. (2009)
      A fast mode decision algorithm is proposed to solve the computation complexity for enhancement hierarchical-B pictures with adaptive inter-layer prediction in H.264/AVC scalable extension, scalable video coding. This method ...

    • Fast mode decision for Hierarchical-B pictures in scalable video coding 

      Yang, D.-W.; Zhao, D.-F.; Hou, Baochun (2011-08-01)
      To decrease the computational complexity of adaptive inter-layer prediction and improve the encoding efficiency in scalable video coding, a mode decision algorithm is proposed by exploiting the part of used candidate modes ...

    • Fast mode decision for inter-prediction in H.264/AVC 

      Zhan, B.; Hou, B.; Sotudeh, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007)

    • Fast mode selection to reduce the encoding complexity of H.264/AVC 

      Zhan, B.; Hou, B.; Sotudeh, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008)
      Fast mode selection is one of the hottest research topics for H.264/AVC finalized in 2003. Since the computational complexity is still a major challenge for real-time applications, simplification of mode selection is ...

    • Fast wall-following exploration with two cooperating mobile robots 

      Al Khawaldah, M.; Livatino, S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
      In this paper two cooperating robots are used to explore an unknown environment. The new technique aims to decrease the exploration time and the energy consumption. It combines the wall-following exploration algorithm and ...

    • Fatigue crack growth simulation in railway axles 

      De Iorio, Antonio; Grasso, Marzio; Penta, Francesco; Pucillo, Giovanni Pio (TRANS TECH PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2011-09)
      In order to carry out the railway axle design according to the "Damage Tolerance" philosophy, reliable crack-growth models for these kind of components are necessary. Indeed, damage tolerance principles have received more ...

    • Fault diagnosis of analog circuits based on wavelet packets 

      He, Y.; Tan, Y.; Sun, Y. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2004)
      A fault diagnosis method for analog circuits based on wavelet packets is developed in this paper. The sampled signals from the test nodes are decomposed by wavelet packets and the feature vectors extracted are applied to ...