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Development of the BCI Device Controlling C++ Software, Based on Existing Open Source Projects
2021
The possibility of using the BCI open source code for building BCI controlled device, based on small AVR or ARM microcontrollers was considered. Some techniques to extract code snippets from other BCI projects were presented in the case of OpenViBE as the code donor. Problem with obtaining driver source codes for factory BCI devices has been pointed out.
Compiler Driven Automatic Kernel Context Migration for Heterogeneous Computing
2014
Computer systems provide different heterogeneous resources (e.g., GPUs, DSPs and FPGAs) that accelerate applications and that can reduce the energy consumption by using them. Usually, these resources have an isolated memory and a require target specific code to be written. There exist tools that can automatically generate target specific codes for program parts, so-called kernels. The data objects required for a target kernel execution need to be moved to the target resource memory. It is the programmers' responsibility to serialize these data objects used in the kernel and to copy them to or from the resource's memory. Typically, the programmer writes his own serializing function or uses e…
Modeling lightning observations from space-based platforms (CloudScat.jl 1.0)
2020
This is an open access article. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
FINDUS: An Open-Source 3D Printable Liquid-Handling Workstation for Laboratory Automation in Life Sciences
2020
3D-printed laboratory devices can enable ambitious research purposes even at a low-budget level. To follow this trend, here we describe the construction, calibration, and usage of the FINDUS (Fully Integrable Noncommercial Dispensing Utility System). We report the successful 3D printing and assembly of a liquid-handling workstation for less than $400. Using this setup, we achieve reliable and flexible liquid-dispensing automation with relative pipetting errors of less than 0.3%. We show our system is well suited for several showcase applications from both the biology and chemistry fields. In support of the open-source spirit, we make all 3D models, assembly instructions, and source code ava…
Increasing GP Computing Power for Free via Desktop GRID Computing and Virtualization
2009
This paper presents how it is possible to increase the Genetic Programming (GP) Computing Power (CP) for free, via Volunteer Computing (VC), using the well known framework BOINC plus a new ``virtualization'' layer which adds all the benefits from the virtualization paradigm. Two different experiments, employing a standard GP tool and a complex GP system, are performed --with distributed PCs over several cities-- to show the free achieved CP by means of VC, without the necessity of modifying or adapting the original GP source code. The methodology can be easily extended to Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs).
Gesture Recognition for Improved User Experience in a Smart Environment
2013
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new paradigm that specifically aims at exploiting sensory and context information in order to adapt the environment to the user's preferences; one of its key features is the attempt to consider common devices as an integral part of the system in order to support users in carrying out their everyday life activities without affecting their normal behavior. Our proposal consists in the definition of a gesture recognition module allowing users to interact as naturally as possible with the actuators available in a smart office, by controlling their operation mode and by querying them about their current state. To this end, readings obtained from a state-of-the-art…
TIME : A Translator Compiler for CIS
2002
To build a Cooperative Information System, a first step is to collect schemas of each local database. All the schemas exported from databases are translated and integrated into a cooperative schema, which is used by the final user to query the cooperation “transparently”. In this article, we focus on the definition of tools that are used to build and manage cooperative information systems. These tools enable the automatic or semi-automatic generation of specific translators. The first step of our methodology is a knowledge acquisition step that allows for the data model description of each local database. The second step is to compare all these descriptions in order to organize the correspo…
VIRES: A distributed open architecture for pictorial database
2006
In this paper we describe VIRES (Visual Information Retrieval Extendible System) an open distributed pictorial database for image retrieval. The retrieval methods, pictorial indexing and data are distributed over the network. VIRES has been designed as an open architecture. The system is based on the concept of distributed model via dictionary in order to reach a good versatility without changing the kernel of VIRES.
Visualization of Parameter Sensitivity of 2D Time-Dependent Flow
2018
In this paper, we present an approach to analyze 1D parameter spaces of time-dependent flow simulation ensembles. By extending the concept of the finite-time Lyapunov exponent to the ensemble domain, i.e., to the parameter that gives rise to the ensemble, we obtain a tool for quantitative analysis of parameter sensitivity both in space and time. We exemplify our approach using 2D synthetic examples and computational fluid dynamics ensembles.
Statistical analysis of latency outcomes in behavioral experiments
2011
In experimental designs of animal models, memory is often assessed by the time for a performance measure to occur (latency). Depending on the cognitive test, this may be the time it takes an animal to escape to a hidden platform (water maze), an escape tunnel (Barnes maze) or to enter a dark component (passive avoidance test). Latency outcomes are usually statistically analyzed using ANOVAs. Besides strong distributional assumptions, ANOVA cannot properly deal with animals not showing the performance measure within the trial time, potentially causing biased and misleading results. We propose an alternative approach for statistical analyses of latency outcomes. These analyses have less distr…