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On the definition of seismic vulnerability maps in cross-border Mediterranean areas

2015

The chance to locate and quantify the major risks associated to natural catastrophic events on a territory allows to plan adequate strategies and interventions by civil protection bodies involved in local and international emergencies. The seismic risk depends most of all by the vulnerability of buildings belonging to the urban areas. For this reason the definition, by a deep analysis of the territory, of instruments identifying and locating vulnerability, largely favours the activities of institutions appointed to safeguard the safety of citizens. Seismic and hydro-geological risks constitute the major component of the activities involving assistance actions carried out by civil protection…

Settore ICAR/09 - Tecnica Delle CostruzioniMasonry seismic vulnerability pga risk assessmentmasonryPGAseismic vulnerability PGA risk assessment masonryrisk assessmentseismic vulnerability
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Definizione di Mappe di Vulnerabilità Sismica per le Aree Mediterranee Transfrontaliere: Il caso di Lampedusa

2015

La possibilità di individuare e quantificare le principali criticità legate ad eventi catastrofici naturali su un territorio, consente di pianificare strategie e interventi adeguati da parte degli organismi di Protezione Civile coinvolti in emergenze locali e internazionali. Il rischio sismico dipende soprattutto dalla vulnerabilità degli edifici appartenenti alle aree urbane. La conoscenza degli scenari di rischio è dunque fondamentale per pianificare e gestire azioni di assistenza in caso di emergenza e non può prescindere dalla quantificazione e localizzazione della vulnerabilità sismica. Il presente studio propone una procedura per la definizione di mappe di vulnerabilità sismica in ter…

Settore ICAR/09 - Tecnica Delle CostruzioniVulnerabilità Rischio Sismico PGA Pushover Curve di FragilitàRischio SismicoPushoverPGACurve di FragilitàCurve di fragilità vulnerabilità rischio sismico pga pushoverVulnerabilità
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Non linear digital control improving transient response:design and test on a multiphase VRM

2010

Settore ING-INF/01 - ElettronicaVRM switching converters pwm non linear control FPGA
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FPGA Implementation of a Reconfigurable 802.11 Medium Access Control

THis work describes a full implementation of a reconfigurable IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) in FPGA using a System on Chip (SoC) architecture. The proposed implementation has been designed with a great structural flexibility, so to ease the protocol modification, and to support Quality of Service (QoS) function. Estensive tests has been carried out showing a full compliance to the 802.11 standard timing and algorithms.

Settore ING-INF/03 - TelecomunicazioniFPGA implementation 802.11 WLAN System on Chip Reconfigurable ArchitectureSettore ING-INF/01 - Elettronica
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Efficient FPGA Implementation of a Knowledge-Based Automatic Speech Classifier

2005

Speech recognition has become common in many application domains, from dictation systems for professional practices to vocal user interfaces for people with disabilities or hands-free system control. However, so far the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are comparable to Human Speech Recognition (HSR) only under very strict working conditions, and in general far lower. Incorporating acoustic-phonetic knowledge into ASR design has been proven a viable approach to rise ASR accuracy. Manner of articulation attributes such as vowel, stop, fricative, approximant, nasal, and silence are examples of such knowledge. Neural networks have already been used successfully as dete…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniArtificial neural networkDictationComputer sciencebusiness.industrySpeech recognitionField programmable gate arrays (FPGA)artificial neuralPerceptronManner of articulationKnowledge baseUser interfacebusinessField-programmable gate arrayClassifier (UML)Neural networks
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An Embedded Module for Iris Micro-Characteristics Extraction

2009

In this paper a new approach, based on iris micro-characteristics, has been used to make possible an embedded biometric extractor. This recognition approach is based on ophthalmologic studies that have proven the existence of different micro-characteristics as well as fingerprint minutiae. These micro-characteristics are permanent and immutable and they can be used to create strong and robust identification systems.Biometric recognition systems are critical components of our everyday lives. Since such electronic products evolve to software intensive systems, where software, becoming larger, more complex and prevalent, introduces many problems in the development phases. The development of em…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniBiometricsbusiness.industryComputer scienceembedded software intensive systems iris micro-characteristics embedded module FPGA technologies biometric system.Feature extractionFingerprint recognitionIdentification (information)SoftwareEmbedded systemIRIS (biosensor)Field-programmable gate arraybusinessReactive systemComputer hardware
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Graphic Coprocessors with Native Clifford Algebra Support

2009

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniClifford Algebra Geometric Algebra Embedded Coprocessors Application-specific Processors FPGA Prototyping
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ConformalALU: A Conformal Geometric Algebra Coprocessor for Medical Image Processing

2015

Medical imaging involves important computational geometric problems, such as image segmentation and analysis, shape approximation, three-dimensional (3D) modeling, and registration of volumetric data. In the last few years, Conformal Geometric Algebra (CGA), based on five-dimensional (5D) Clifford Algebra, is emerging as a new paradigm that offers simple and universal operators for the representation and solution of complex geometric problems. However, the widespread use of CGA has been so far hindered by its high dimensionality and computational complexity. This paper proposes a simplified formulation of the conformal geometric operations (reflections, rotations, translations, and uniform …

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniCoprocessorComputer scienceClifford algebraConformal geometric algebraConformal mapImage processingParallel computingImage segmentationComputational geometryTheoretical Computer ScienceGeometric algebraOperator (computer programming)Computational Theory and MathematicsConformal geometric algebra five-dimensional clifford algebra computational geometry embedded coprocessors systems-on-programmable-chip FPGA-based prototyping medical imaging segmentation 3D modeling Volume registration Growing Neural Gas marching spheres iterative closest point (ICP) thin-plate spline robust point matching (TPS-RPM)Hardware and ArchitectureScalingSoftwareIEEE Transactions on Computers
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A Sliced Coprocessor for Native Clifford Algebra Operations

2007

Computer graphics applications require efficient tools to model geometric objects. The traditional approach based on compute-intensive matrix calculations is error-prone due to a lack of integration between geometric reasoning and matrix-based algorithms. Clifford algebra offers a solution to these issues since it permits specification of geometry at a coordinate-free level. The best way to exploit the symbolic computing power of geometric (Clifford) algebra is supporting its data types and operators directly in hardware. This paper outlines the architecture of S-CliffoSor (Sliced Clifford coprocessor), a parallelizable embedded coprocessor that executes native Clifford algebra operations. …

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniCoprocessorComputer scienceProgramming languageClifford Algebra computational geometry application-specific coprocessor FPGA prototyping Sliced CoprocessorClifford algebraAlgebra over a fieldcomputer.software_genrecomputerFPGA prototype10th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2007)
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Design and implementation of an embedded coprocessor with native support for 5D, quadruple-based Clifford algebra

2013

Geometric or Clifford algebra (CA) is a powerful mathematical tool that offers a natural and intuitive way to model geometric facts in a number of research fields, such as robotics, machine vision, and computer graphics. Operating in higher dimensional spaces, its practical use is hindered, however, by a significant computational cost, only partially addressed by dedicated software libraries and hardware/software codesigns. For low-dimensional algebras, several dedicated hardware accelerators and coprocessing architectures have been already proposed in the literature. This paper introduces the architecture of CliffordALU5, an embedded coprocessing core conceived for native execution of up t…

Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniCoprocessorSpeedupComputational Theory and MathematicsClifford algebra Computational geometry Embedded coprocessors Application-specific processors FPGA-based prototypingHardware and ArchitectureComputer scienceClifford algebraParallel computingComputational geometryField-programmable gate arraySoftwareTheoretical Computer Science
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