• openAccess   Multi-sensor localization and navigation for remote manipulation in smoky areas 

      Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Sales Gil, Jorge; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J SAGE Publications (2013)
      When localizing mobile sensors and actuators in indoor environments laser meters, ultrasonic meters or even image processing techniques are usually used. On the other hand, in smoky conditions, due to a fire or building ...
    • openAccess   Multi-Sensor Person Following in Low-Visibility Scenarios 

      Sales Gil, Jorge; Marin, Raul; Cervera, Enric; Rodríguez, Sergio; Pérez Soler, Javier MDPI (2010)
      Person following with mobile robots has traditionally been an important research topic. It has been solved, in most cases, by the use of machine vision or laser rangefinders. In some special circumstances, such as a smoky ...
    • closedAccess   Multi-threaded dense linear algebra libraries for low-power asymmetric multicore processors 

      Catalán, Sandra; Herrero Zaragoza, José R.; Igual, Francisco; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Adeniyi-Jones, Chris Elsevier (2018-03)
      Dense linear algebra libraries, such as BLAS and LAPACK, provide a relevant collection of numerical tools for many scientific and engineering applications. While there exist high performance implementations of the BLAS ...
    • openAccess   Multicore implementation of a multichannel parallel graphic equalizer 

      BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Badía, José; León, Germán; Bank, Balázs; Välimäki, Vesa Springer (2022-04-22)
      Numerous signal processing applications are emerging on mobile computing systems. These applications are subject to responsiveness constraints for user interactivity and, at the same time, must be optimized for energy ...
    • openAccess   Multidimensional Author Profling for Social Business Intelligence 

      Lanza Cruz, Indira Lázara; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael; Aramburu Cabo, María José Springer (2023)
      This paper presents a novel author profling method specially aimed at classifying social network users into the multidimensional perspectives for social business intelligence (SBI) applications. In this scenario, being the ...
    • closedAccess   Multimedia Communications Using a Fast and Flexible DVC to H.264/AVC/SVC Transcoder 

      Corrales García, Alberto; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael; Martínez, José Luis; Fernández Escribano, Gerardo; Quiles, Francisco José Springer (2013)
      The evolution of network technologies and mobile devices (equipped with low-cost video cameras) offer new multimedia services for mobile telephony, such as video communications. However, this kind of multimedia services ...
    • openAccess   Multimodal Human-Robot Interface for Accessible Remote Robotic Interventions in Hazardous Environments 

      Lunghi, Giacomo; Marin, Raul; Di Castro, Mario; Masi, Alessandro; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2019-09-04)
      Human-Robot Interfaces have a key role in the design of secure and efficient robotic systems. Great effort has been put during the past decades on the design of advanced interfaces for domestic and industrial robots. ...
    • openAccess   Multimodal Multi-User Mixed Reality Human–Robot Interface for Remote Operations in Hazardous Environments 

      Szczurek, Krzysztof Adam; Marin, Raul; Matheson, Eloise; Rodriguez-Nogueira, Jose; Di Castro, Mario Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (2023-02-15)
      In hazardous environments, where conditions present risks for humans, the maintenance and interventions are often done with teleoperated remote systems or mobile robotic manipulators to avoid human exposure to dangers. The ...
    • openAccess   Multimodal Sensor Data Integration for Indoor Positioning in Ambient-Assisted Living Environments 

      Sansano-Sansano, Emilio; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Gascó Compte, Arturo; Caballer Miedes, Antonio Hindawi (2020)
      A reliable Indoor Positioning System (IPS) is a crucial part of the Ambient-Assisted Living (AAL) concept. The use of Wi-Fi fingerprinting techniques to determine the location of the user, based on the Received Signal ...
    • closedAccess   New approach for a Reconfigurable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention 

      De Novi, G.; Melchiorri, Claudio; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Sanz, Pedro J; Ridao, Pere; Oliver, Gabriel IEEE (2010-11)
      This shows an on-going project named RAUVI (i.e., Reconfigurable AUV for Intervention). This project aims to design and develop an Underwater Autonomous Robot, able to perceive the environment by means of acoustic and optic ...
    • openAccess   Noise estimation for hyperspectral subspace identification on FPGAs 

      León, Germán; González, Carlos; Mayo, Rafael; Mozos, Daniel; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer (2019-05)
      We present a reliable and efficient FPGA implementation of a procedure for the computation of the noise estimation matrix, a key stage for subspace identification of hyperspectral images. Our hardware realization is based ...
    • openAccess   Object Detection and Recognition for Assistive Robots: Experimentation and Implementation 

      Martínez Martín, Ester; del Pobil, Angel P. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2017-09)
      Technological advances are being made to assist humans in performing ordinary tasks in everyday settings. A key issue is the interaction with objects of varying size, shape, and degree of mobility. Autonomous assistive ...
    • openAccess   Off-Line Evaluation of Indoor Positioning Systems in Different Scenarios: The Experiences From IPIN 2020 Competition 

      Potortì, Francesco; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Quezada Gaibor, Darwin; Jimenez Ruiz, Antonio Ramon; Seco, Fernando; Perez-Navarro, Antoni; ortiz, miguel; Zhu, Ni; Renaudin, Valerie; Ichikari, Ryosuke Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2022-03)
      Every year, for ten years now, the IPIN competition has aimed at evaluating real-world indoor localisation systems by testing them in a realistic environment, with realistic movement, using the EvAAL framework. The competition ...
    • closedAccess   On the adequacy of lightweight thread approaches for high-level parallel programming models 

      Castelló, Adrián; Mayo, Rafael; Sala, Kevin; Beltran Querol, Vicenç; Balaji, Pavan; Peña Monferrer, Antonio J. Elsevier (2018-07)
      High-level parallel programming models (PMs) are becoming crucial in order to extract the computational power of current on-node multi-threaded parallelism. The most popular PMs, such as OpenMP or OmpSs, are directive-based: ...
    • openAccess   On the benefits of the remote GPU virtualization mechanism: The rCUDA case 

      Silla, Federico; Iserte, Sergio; Reaño, Carlos; Prades, Javier Wiley (2017-07-10)
      Graphics processing units (GPUs) are being adopted in many computing facilities given their extraordinary computing power, which makes it possible to accelerate many general purpose applications from different domains. ...
    • openAccess   On the performance of a GPU-based SoC in a distributed spatial audio system 

      BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Badía, José; Larios Marín, Diego Francisco; Personal, Enrique; Ferrer, Miguel; Fuster, Laura; Lupoiu, Mihaita Alexandru; González, Alberto; León, Carlos; Vidal, Antonio M.; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer (2021-01-04)
      Many current system-on-chip (SoC) devices are composed of low-power multicore processors combined with a small graphics accelerator (or GPU) offering a trade-off between computational capacity and low-power consumption. ...
    • openAccess   On the performance of multi-GPU-based expert systems for acoustic localization involving massive microphone arrays 

      BELLOCH, JOSE A.; González, Alberto; Vidal, Antonio M.; Cobos, Maximo Elsevier (2015)
      Sound source localization is an important topic in expert systems involving microphone arrays, such as automatic camera steering systems, human–machine interaction, video gaming or audio surveillance. The Steered Response ...
    • closedAccess   Optimal renewable power generation systems for Busan metropolitan city in South Korea 

      Baek, Seoin; Park, Eunil; Kim, Min-Gil; Kwon, Sang Jib; Kim, Ki Joon; Ohm, Jay Y.; del Pobil, Angel P. Elsevier (2016-04)
      The metropolitan cities of developed countries comprise more than 50% of the global population and consume over 60% of the world's energy. Many governments plan to enhance their energy infrastructure and the electricity ...
    • openAccess   Optimising Convolutions for Deep Learning Inference On ARM Cortex-M Processors 

      Maciá-Lillo, Antonio; Barrachina Mir, Sergio; Fabregat Llueca, German; Dolz, Manuel F. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (2024-04-30)
      We perform a series of optimisations on the convolution operator within the ARM CMSIS-NN library to improve the performance of deep learning tasks on Arduino development boards equipped with ARM Cortex-M4 and M7 microcontrollers. ...
    • openAccess   Optimized Fundamental Signal Processing Operations For Energy Minimization on Heterogeneous Mobile Devices 

      BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Badía, José; Igual, Francisco; González, Alberto; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. IEEE (2018-05)
      Numerous signal processing applications are emerging on both mobile and high-performance computing systems. These applications are subject to responsiveness constraints for user interactivity and, at the same time, must ...