UTM researchers with publications in international journals
Researchers at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Units (UTM) at INESC TEC, coordinated by INESC Porto, recently published articles in international journals in both health and multimedia.
28th February 2012
The most recently published articles by UTM researchers are the following:
• "INbreast: Towards a Full Field Digital Mammographic Database”, by Inês Moreira, Igor Amaral, Inês Campos Domingues, António Cardoso, Maria João Cardoso and Jaime Cardoso, published in Academic Radiology, February 2012. In this article the authors demonstrate an innovative database – INbreast – that includes full-field digital mammograms as opposed to conventional mammograms and this could be used in future work on detecting breast cancer.
• “Multi-view codec with low-complexity encoding for Distributed Video Coding”, by Lucian Ciobanu and Luís Corte Real, published in Multimedia Tools and Applications, January 2012. The article presents an innovative way of coding videos for video surveillance with multiple cameras. The cameras are free to move, permitting flexible environmental monitoring from various perspectives. This work proposes an alternative to conventional video coding, exploring the correlation between various video sources (for example overlapping views in real time or in the past visual memory of each camera) in order to reduce the video flows in the network and increase the autonomy of movable cameras at the same time.
• “Run-time Generation of Partial FPGA Configurations”, by Miguel L. Silva and João Canas Ferreira, published in the Journal of Systems Architecture, January 2012. The article offers a promising way of improving the performance of autonomous embedded systems (based on FPGA - field-programmable gate array) by adapting the hardware to the alterations in the working environment and the associated computational needs. The article presents a method that makes it possible to directly manage new hardware configurations in the embedded system, aiming for it to autonomously alter its hardware infrastructure.
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