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Processing of Biomass Prior to Hydrogen Fermentation and Post-Fermentative Broth Management
PublicationUsing bioconversion and simultaneous value-added product generation requires purifica- tion of the gaseous and the liquid streams before, during, and after the bioconversion process. The effect of diversified process parameters on the efficiency of biohydrogen generation via biological pro- cesses is a broad object of research. Biomass-based raw materials are often applied in investigations regarding biohydrogen generation using...
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Wind Turbines Modeling as the Tool for Developing Algorithms of Processing their Video Recordings
PublicationIn the real world, many factors exist disturbing observation of the examined phenomena and causing various noises and distortions in recorded signals. It very often makes it difficult or even impossible to optimize various signal processing algorithms, through finding appropriate parameters. In this paper, we show an application, that retrieves wind turbine rotor speed from recorded video. Next, we describe the process of reduction...
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Data Acquisition and Processing for GeoAI Models to Support Sustainable Agricultural Practices
PublicationThere are growing opportunities to leverage new technologies and data sources to address global problems related to sustainability, climate change, and biodiversity loss. The emerging discipline of GeoAI resulting from the convergence of AI and Geospatial science (Geo-AI) is enabling the possibility to harness the increasingly available open Earth Observation data collected from different constellations of satellites and sensors...
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Static electric multipole susceptibilities of the relativistic hydrogenlike atom in the ground state: Application of the Sturmian expansion of the generalized Dirac-Coulomb Green function
PublicationThe ground state of the Dirac one-electron atom, placed in a weak, static electric field of definite $2^{L}$ polarity, is studied within the framework of the first-order perturbation theory. The Sturmian expansion of the generalized Dirac-Coulomb Green function [R. Szmytkowski, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 30, 825 (1997); erratum R. Szmytkowski, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 30, 2747 (1997)] is used to derive closed-form analytical...
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Static magnetic multipole susceptibilities of the relativistic hydrogenlike atom in the ground state: Application of the Sturmian expansion of the generalized Dirac-Coulomb Green function
PublicationWe study far- and near-field magnetic and electric multipole moments induced in the ground state of the Dirac one-electron atom placed in a weak 2L-pole magnetostatic field. The analysis is carried out within the framework of the first-order Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory, with the use of the Sturmian expansion of the generalized Dirac-Coulomb Green function [Szmytkowski, J. Phys. B 30, 825 (1997);J. Phys. B 30, 2747(E)...
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Parallel implementation of the DGF-FDTD method on GPU Using the CUDA technology
PublicationThe discrete Green's function (DGF) formulation of the finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD) is accelerated on a graphics processing unit (GPU) by means of the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) technology. In the developed implementation of the DGF-FDTD method, a new analytic expression for dyadic DGF derived based on scalar DGF is employed in computations. The DGF-FDTD method on GPU returns solutions that are compatible...
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Procesing the complex signal in the acoustic processor of a sonobuoy system
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono metody cyfrowego przetwarzania sygnału kompleksowego w procesorze akustycznym systemu radiohydroboi. Omówiono ogólną postać systemu oraz sygnału kompleksowego. Opisano dwie alternatywne metody przetwarzania sygnału: pierwszą w dziedzinie czasu, drugą w dziedzinie częstotliwości. Zaprezentowano schematy blokowe algorytmów obu sposobów przetwarzania. Omówiono problemy praktycznej realizacji poszczególnych...
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Teleportation seen from spacetime: on 2-spinor aspects of quantum information processing
PublicationZastosowanie formalizmu 2-spinowego do kwantowego przetwarzania informacji zilustrowane przykładem teleportacji i relatywistycznej korelacji błędu.
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Methods of Assessing Odour Emissions from Biogas Plants Processing Municipal Waste
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Architecture for Aggregation, Processing and Provisioning of Data from Heterogeneous Scientific Information Services
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Interfacial properties of PET and PET/starch polymers developed by air plasma processing
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The Use of Effective Microorganisms as a Sustainable Alternative to Improve the Quality of Potatoes in Food Processing
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The Research into the Effect of Conditions of Combined Electric Powered Diamond Processing on Cutting Power
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Research of Influence Electric Conditions Combined ElectroDiamond Processing by on Specific Consumption of Wheel*
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The effect of structural material on the properties of post-coagulation sludge for fish processing wastewater
PublicationPrzeprowadzono badania unieszkodliwiania osadów pokoagulacyjnych powstających w czasie oczyszczania ścieków z przetwórstwa rybnego. Osady pokoagulacyjne charakteryzują się wysokim stopniem uwodnienia oraz podatnością na zagniwanie. Do poprawy właściwości osadów wybrano metodę mieszania ich z materiałami strukturotwórczymi: kredą podwęglową, torfem, trocinami oraz bentonitem. W mieszaninach oznaczano zmiany zawartości suchej masy,...
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Colorimetric study of the post-processing effect due to pulsed laser cleaning of paper.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań procesu oczyszczania papieru implulsami laserowymi o różnej długości fali. Oceny dokonywano na podstawie pomierzonych wartości parametrów kolorymetrycznych. Badania obejmowały próbki papieru o różnym wieku.
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The utilization of sludge generated in coagulation of fish processing wastewater for liquid feed production
PublicationWykorzystano koagulację do wydzielenia ze ścieków z przemysłu rybnego białek i tłuszczów. Uzyskany osad pokoagulacyjny dodawano do produkcji rybnych hydrolizatów białkowych. Zmodyfikowano proces wytwarzania rybnych hydrolizatów z wykorzystaniem kwasów siarkowego (VI) oraz ortofosforowego (V).
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Thermal Image Processing for Respiratory Estimation from Cubical Data with Expandable Depth
PublicationAs healthcare costs continue to rise, finding affordable and non-invasive ways to monitor vital signs is increasingly important. One of the key metrics for assessing overall health and identifying potential issues early on is respiratory rate (RR). Most of the existing methods require multiple steps that consist of image and signal processing. This might be difficult to deploy on edge devices that often do not have specialized...
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Network-assisted processing of advanced IoT applications: challenges and proof-of-concept application
PublicationRecent advances in the area of the Internet of Things shows that devices are usually resource-constrained. To enable advanced applications on these devices, it is necessary to enhance their performance by leveraging external computing resources available in the network. This work presents a study of computational platforms to increase the performance of these devices based on the Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) paradigm. The main...
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Architecture of Request/Response and Publish/Subscribe System Capable of Processing Multimedia Streams
PublicationAbstrakt Analiza ''w locie'' (ang. on-the-fly) strumieni multimedialnych, zawierających wysokiej jakości dane obrazu i dźwięku, wciąż stanowi wyzwanie dla projektantów oprogramowania. Praca przedstawia architekturę systemu zdolnego do przetwarzania w czasie rzeczywistym strumieni multimedialnych przy użyciu komponentów działających w architekturze Publish/Subscribe oraz Request/Response, korzystających z możliwości Java Multimedia...
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Influence of accelerometer signal pre-processing and classification method on human activity recognition
PublicationA study of data pre-processing influence on accelerometer-based human activity recognition algorithms is presented. The frequency band used to filter-out the accelerometer signals and the number of accelerometers involved were considered in terms of their influence on the recognition accuracy. In the test four methods of classification were used: support vector machine, decision trees, neural network, k-nearest neighbor.
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Processing and thermal characterization of polymer derived SiCN(O) and SiOC reticulated foams
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Processing of polymer‐derived, aerogel‐filled, SiC foams for high‐temperature insulation
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Atomic Force Microscope data post-processing algorithm for higher harmonics imaging
PublicationPrevious works have proved that higher harmonics topography imaging using atomic force microscope (AFM) can significantly enhanced its measurement capabilities. Integrated tools dedicated to most of microscopes allow to visualize the investigated surface only by one selected harmonic. Because of the different characteristics of a sample, scanning tip and the environment, appropriate harmonic selection is time consuming and requires...
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Analysis of IMS/NGN call processing performance using phase-type distributions
PublicationThis work is a continuation of our research on the traffic model dedicated for design and analysis of the Next Generation Network (NGN), which is standardized for distribution of current and future multimedia services based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Our analytical and simulation models allow evaluation of mean Call Set-up Delay E(CSD) as well as mean Call Disengagement Delay E(CDD) in a single domain of IMS/NGN. Ensuring...
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EIGHT OLD CULTIVARS OF APPLE TREES – AN EVALUATION OF THEIR POTENTIAL FOR USE BY THE PROCESSING INDUSTRY
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An application of advanced data processing methods to response analysis of electrocatalytic gas sensor
PublicationPrzedstawiono stosowane dotychczas oraz zaproponowano nowe metody analizy odpowiedzi czujników elektrokatalitycznych. Porównano ich właściwości.
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Task Allocation and Scalability Evaluation for Real-Time Multimedia Processing in a Cluster Envirinment
PublicationAn allocation algorithm for stream processing tasks is proposed (Modified best Fit Descendent, MBFD). A comparison with another solution (BFD) is provided. Tests of the algorithms in an HPC environment are descrobed and the results are presented. A proper scalability metric is proposed and used for the evaluation of the allocation algorithm.
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The influence of roasting and additional processing on the content of bioactive components in special purpose coffees
PublicationCoffee being the beverage consumed worldwide is also a very competitive commodity. Consequently, producers seek ways of attracting consumers by proposing e.g. novel ingredient combinations usually without evaluating their health quality. In this study, variations in health-promoting determinants for five special purpose coffee brews were characterized. The major bioactive components - chlorogenic acids (CAs) - detected by HPLC-DAD-MS...
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The Use of Liquid Crystal Thermography an Image Processing in Heat and Fluid-Flow Research
PublicationLiquid crystal thermography (LCT) have been used in many technical, industrial and biomedical applications [1]. During over 20 years it has been successfully applied in Department of Energy and Industrial Apparatus at Gdansk University of Technology for visualization of steady-state and transient temperature fields. In order to demonstrate feasibility of LCT techniques in practical heat transfer contexts, the authors have performed...
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Traffic model for evaluation of call processing performance parameters in IMS-based NGN
PublicationIn the modern world requirements for accurate and fast information distribution are becoming more and more important, which creates a strong necessity for appropriate telecommunication network architecture. Proposition of such an architecture is the Next Generation Network (NGN) concept, which in order to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS), should be correctly designed and dimensioned. For this reason proper traffic models must...
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A digital implementation of the PSK transmitter and receiver as multirate algorithms of the digital signal processing
PublicationIn this paper designs of the transmitter and the receiver of PSK signals as three-rate algorithms of the digital signal processing are described. Additionally we show the examples of the transmitter and the receiver of the following signals: BPSK, QPSK. We discussed also an influence of the cascade of the shaping filter and the receiving filter on the intersymbol interference in the received complex envelope.W pracy opisano projektowanie...
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Endoscopic image processing and analysis of pistons' service failures of marine diesel engines
PublicationThe paper deals with diagnostic issues concerning endoscopic examinations of working spaces within marine diesel engines. In the beginning, endoscopy apparatus being on laboratory equipment of the Department of Ship Power Plants of Gdansk University of Technology has been characterized. The endoscopy considerations have been focused on theoretical bases of a digital image processing and especially - on the "Shadow" measurement...
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Combined method of multibeam sonar signal processing and image analysis for seafloor classification
PublicationThe combined approach to seafloor characterisation was investigated. It relies on calculation of several descriptors (parameters) related to seabed type using three types of multibeam sonar data obtained during seafloor sensing: 1) the grey-level sonar images (echograms) of seabed, 2) the 3D model of the seabed surface which consists of bathymetric data, 3) the set of time domain bottom echo envelopes received in the consecutive...
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Evaluation of Multimedia Stream Processing Modeling Language from the Perspective of Cognitive Dimensions
PublicationW referacie zawarto opis zastosowania wymiarów poznawczych do oceny języka modelowania przetwarzania strumieni multimedialnych, nazwanego MSP-ML, w trakcie tworzenia tego języka. Poszczególne części referatu prezentują kontekst i motywacje oceny MSP-ML, metodę oceny, rezultaty oceny oraz porównanie rezultatów oceny z wynikami otrzymanymi za pomocą innych metod oceny języków modelowania wizualnego.
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Analog CMOS processor for early vision processing with highly reduced power consumption
PublicationA new approach to an analog ultra-low power visionchip design is presented. The prototype chip performs low-levelconvolutional image processing algorithms in real time. Thecircuit is implemented in 0.35 μm CMOS technology, contains64 x 64 SIMD matrix with embedded analogue processors APE(Analogue Processing Element). The photo-sensitive-matrix is of2.2 μm x 2.2 μm size, giving the density of 877 processors permm2. The matrix dissipates...
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Optimizing the computation of a parallel 3D finite difference algorithm for graphics processing units
PublicationThis paper explores the possibilities of using a graphics processing unit for complex 3D finite difference computation via MUSTA‐FORCE and WENO algorithms. We propose a novel algorithm based on the new properties of CUDA surface memory optimized for 2D spatial locality and compare it with 3D stencil computations carried out via shared memory, which is currently considered to be the best approach. A case study was performed for...
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Extracting concepts from the software requirements specification using natural language processing
PublicationExtracting concepts from the software require¬ments is one of the first step on the way to automating the software development process. This task is difficult due to the ambiguity of the natural language used to express the requirements specification. The methods used so far consist mainly of statistical analysis of words and matching expressions with a specific ontology of the domain in which the planned software will be applicable....
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Performance evaluation of GPS anti-spoofing system based on antenna array processing
PublicationThis article concerns the problem of detection and mitigation of spoofing attacks in Global Navigation Satellite Systems. First, background information about spoofing and its possible countermeasures is provided. Next, concept of a novel GPS anti-spoofing system based on antenna array processing is presented and implementation of prototype of this system is described. The third section outlines the performance evaluation of proposed...
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Architecture of Request/Response and Publish/Subscribe System Capable of Processing Multimedia Streams
PublicationAnaliza ''w locie'' (ang. on-the-fly) strumieni multimedialnych, zawierających wysokiej jakości dane obrazu i dźwięku, wciąż stanowi wyzwanie dla projektantów oprogramowania. Praca przedstawia architekturę systemu zdolnego do przetwarzania w czasie rzeczywistym strumieni multimedialnych przy użyciu komponentów działających w architekturze Publish/Subscribe oraz Request/Response, korzystających z możliwości Java Multimedia Framework...
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A Solution to Image Processing with Parallel MPI I/O and Distributed NVRAM Cache
PublicationThe paper presents a new approach to parallel image processing using byte addressable, non-volatile memory (NVRAM). We show that our custom built MPI I/O implementation of selected functions that use a distributed cache that incorporates NVRAMs located in cluster nodes can be used for efficient processing of large images. We demonstrate performance benefits of such a solution compared to a traditional implementation without NVRAM...
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Impact of Shifting Time-Window Post-Processing on the Quality of Face Detection Algorithms
PublicationWe consider binary classification algorithms, which operate on single frames from video sequences. Such a class of algorithms is named OFA (One Frame Analyzed). Two such algorithms for facial detection are compared in terms of their susceptibility to the FSA (Frame Sequence Analysis) method. It introduces a shifting time-window improvement, which includes the temporal context of frames in a post-processing step that improves the...
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An Analog Sub-Miliwatt CMOS Image Sensor With Pixel-Level Convolution Processing
PublicationA new approach to an analog ultra-low power medium-resolution vision chip design is presented. The prototype chip performs low-level image processing algorithms in real time. Only a photo-diode, MOS switches and two capacitors are used to create an analog processing element (APE) that is able to realize any convolution algorithm based on a full 3x3 kernel. The proof-of-concept circuit is implemented in 0.35 µm CMOS technology,...
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Seafloor characterisation using multibeam sonar echo signal processing and image analysis
PublicationThe authors propose the approach to multibeam seafloor characterisation which relies on the combined, concurrent use of two different techniques of multibeam sonar data processing. The first one is based on constructing the grey-level sonar images of seabed using the echoes received in the consecutive beams. Then, the parameters describing the local region of sonar image, namely, the local standard deviation of a grey level, and...
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Elimination of Impulsive Disturbances From Archive Audio Signals Using Bidirectional Processing
PublicationIn this application-oriented paper we consider the problem of elimination of impulsive disturbances, such as clicks, pops and record scratches, from archive audio recordings. The proposed approach is based on bidirectional processing—noise pulses are localized by combining the results of forward-time and backward-time signal analysis. Based on the results of specially designed empirical tests (rather than on the results of theoretical analysis),...
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RENOVATION OF ARCHIVE AUDIO RECORDINGS USING SPARSE AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELING AND BIDIRECTIONAL PROCESSING
PublicationThe paper presents a new approach to elimination of broadband noise and impulsive disturbances from archive audio recordings. The proposed adaptive Kalman-like algorithm, based on a sparse autoregressive model of the audio signal, simultaneously detects noise pulses, interpolates the irrevocably distorted samples and performs signal smoothing. It is shown that bidirectional (forward-backward) processing of the archive signal improves...
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Musical Instrument Tagging Using Data Augmentation and Effective Noisy Data Processing
PublicationDeveloping signal processing methods to extract information automatically has potential in several applications, for example searching for multimedia based on its audio content, making context-aware mobile applications (e.g., tuning apps), or pre-processing for an automatic mixing system. However, the last-mentioned application needs a significant amount of research to reliably recognize real musical instruments in recordings....
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Can high hydrostatic pressure processing be the best way to preserve human milk?
PublicationBreastfeeding is one of the most important factors influencing proper child development. When a mother cannot breastfeed, the best alternative, especially for feeding premature infants, is to then use of human milk (HM) which has been collected, preserved and stored in Human Milk Banks (HMB). Scope and approach: In this review, the impact of some stages of the management of HM in HMB on its final biological value and microbiological...
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Automatic analysis of the aggressive behavior of laboratory animals using thermal video processing
PublicationThe bite detection is very important but difficult element of the social interaction analysis. Standard observation methods like human observer or a camcorder of visible light frequencies fail in this case. However, it is possible to discern cooler spots on the rodent's body that appear after body contact with another individual, and vanish after short time. These spots are assumed to be a saliva trace left on fur after bite. In...
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DATABASE AND BIGDATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS OF AIS MESSAGES IN THE NETBALTIC RESEARCH PROJECT
PublicationA specialized database and a software tool for graphical and numerical presentation of maritime measurement results has been designed and implemented as part of the research conducted under the netBaltic project (Internet over the Baltic Sea – the implementation of a multi-system, self-organizing broadband communications network over the sea for enhancing navigation safety through the development of e-navigation services.) The...