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Multi-path dilated convolution network for haze and glow removal in nighttime images
In this paper, we address the single-image haze removal problem in nighttime scenes. The night haze removal is a severely ill-posed problem due to the presence of various visible night light sources with varyi...
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Geochemical, Mineralogical and Petrological Characteristics of Lateritic Bauxite Deposits formed on Deccan Trap Basalt with Reference to High-level and Coastal (low level) Deposits of Maharashtra
Lateritic bauxite are the products of intense subareal weathering of rocks. It is characterised by a particular enrichment of aluminium-hydroxide minerals such as gibbsite, boehmite and diaspore. Based on geol...
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Adaptive CU Mode Selection in HEVC Intra Prediction: A Deep Learning Approach
The computational time of HEVC encoder is increased mainly because of the hierarchical quad-tree-based structure, recursive coding units, and the exhaustive prediction search up to 35 modes. These advances imp...
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Improved Optimum Nonnegative Integer Bit Allocation Algorithm Using Fuzzy Domain Variance Estimation and Refinement for the Wavelet-Based Image Compression
Optimum nonnegative integer bit allocation (ONIBA) is a conspicuous technique, which usually provides the solution of optimal quantization issues for the transform coders (TCs). In order to obtain the optimum ...
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Wind Energy Economics
Leaving aside competition from other sources of energy, an understanding of the benefits and costs is fundamental for any investment, howsoever small or large it may be; howsoever immediate, short-term, or lon...
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Geo-political Factors
Definition of geopolitics (from Greek ge “earth, land” and politikē “politics”) is the study of the effects of geography (human and physical) on international politics and relations. The definition of the geo-...
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Conservation and Efficiency Issues
This section deals with conservation and efficiency issues which ultimately dictate the extent of energy generation and its optimal usage. Just as in the case of money earned for the family, it is not the only...
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Wind Energy: Technical Considerations – Contents
Considering the installation and maintenance costs, wind energy is perhaps one of the lowest-cost forms of renewable energy. In 1995, more than 1700 MW of wind energy capacity was operating in California to su...
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Global Wind Energy and Power Generation Options: Socioeconomic Factors
The discussions in this section pertain mainly to the impact of socioeconomic factors reflecting global wind energy and power generation options which could entail demographic parameters, economic strata consi...
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Environmental Impacts in Relation to Wind Energy
The environmental impacts irrespective of the energy source can range from extremely deleterious to acceptable minimum levels. In the case of fossil power generation, impacts could be extremely harmful in term...
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Wind Energy: Public Policy Issues and Public Perspectives
Just as in the previous sections, discussions are from acknowledged authorities on the subject or from publications in the public domain. Wherever the sources are cited in the footnotes with the dates retrieve...
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Correction to: Cosine-/Sine-Modulated Filter Banks
On p. v, in the third line from top, “in” was inserted after comma to read “. . ., and vice versa, in many sub-band/transform-based schemes . . .”
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Cosine/Sine-Modulated Analysis/Synthesis Filter Banks
One of the topics in multi-rate digital signal processing is the theory and design of M-band (or M-channel) analysis and synthesis quadrature mirror filter (QMF) banks for sub-band signal decomposition and coding...
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MDCT/MDST, MLT, ELT, and MCLT Filter Banks: Definitions, General Properties, and Matrix Representations
The perfect reconstruction cosine/sine-modulated filter banks belonging to the class of modulated filter banks have been studied extensively due to their attractive features (simple structure, analysis and syn...
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Efficient Implementations of Cosine-Modulated Pseudo-QMF and MLT (MDCT) Filter Banks in MP3
The MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio have been the first international audio coding standards specifying the digital format for high quality compression of audio signals. For the time-to-frequency transformation of an ...
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Spectral Band Replication Compression Technology: Efficient Implementations of Complex Exponential- and Cosine-Modulated QMF Banks
Spectral Band Replication (SBR) is an enhancement compression technology. The SBR is a bandwidth extension method which significantly improves the compression efficiency of perceptual audio and speech coding s...
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Integer Approximate Cosine/Sine-Modulated Filter Banks
Digital audio signals to be processed are integer-valued. But the perfect reconstruction cosine/sine-modulated filter banks and cosine-modulated QMF banks are real-valued transforms which map integer signal in...
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Audio Coding Standards, (Proprietary) Audio Compression Algorithms, and Broadcasting/Speech/Data Communication Codecs: Overview of Adopted Filter Banks
In general, audio coding or audio compression algorithms are used to obtain compact digital representation of high-quality audio signals for their efficient transmission and storage. The central objective in a...
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Fast MDCT/MDST, MLT, ELT, and MCLT Algorithms
The perfect reconstruction cosine/sine-modulated analysis/synthesis filter banks such as the MDCT, MLT, MDST, ELT, and MCLT are fundamental processing components for the time-to-frequency transformation of an ...
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Perfect Reconstruction Cosine/Sine-Modulated Filter Banks in the Dolby Digital (Plus) AC-3 Audio Coding Standards
The Dolby Digital (AC-3) and the Dolby Digital Plus or Enhanced AC-3 (E-AC-3) audio coding standards developed by the Dolby Laboratories are currently the key enabling technologies for high-quality compression...