Communications of the ACM

Smash: Flexible, Fast, and Resource-Efficient Placement and Lookup of Distributed Storage

This work presents an object placement and lookup method that achieves full placement flexibility, balanced load, low ...
IEEE

Sparse Aperture ISAR Autofocusing and Imaging Algorithm Based on Log-Sum Regularization

Abstract: Mathematically, the autofocusing and imaging model for sparse aperture inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) has an infinite number of solutions, even with the addition of some sparsity ...
IEEE

Inverse Problems With Multiple Plane Waves: The Angular Simplification

Abstract: In unfocused ultrasound imaging, a delay-and-sum algorithm is commonly used to reconstruct one image per emission. When multiple emissions are performed, individual images can be combined by ...
Frontiers

Spike-based time-domain analog weighted-sum calculation model for extremely low power VLSI implementation of multi-layer neural networks

1 Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan 2 Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, ...
Phys.org

'Historical time' helps students truly understand the complexity of the past—and how they fit into it

Was the Franco dictatorship a cause or consequence of the Spanish Civil War? Was Einstein a medieval scientist? Confusions like these are quite common among secondary school students, who tend to ...
Frontiers

Cherry-Net: real-time segmentation algorithm of cherry maturity based on improved PIDNet

Introduction: Accurate identification of cherry maturity and precise detection of harvestable cherry contours are essential for the development of cherry-picking robots. However, occlusion, lighting ...