Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A new generic 3-step protocol for authentication and key agreement in embedded systems

Since now ten years, we have seen many developments to strengthen the security of wireless communication systems. These improvements intended to correct problems related, for example, to defective cryptographic primitives or protocols [8,3] (e.g. the 4-way handshake protocol defined for the Wimedia MAC layer standard [7] used to authenticate and generate session keys). Nowadays, the last versions of the Wifi and Wimax standards include the use of EAP [1] declined in different versions (LEAP EAP using a Radius Server -, EAP-TTLS, etc.). In practice, EAP is interesting for workstations or desktop computers but does not fit the needed security of particular systems such as handheld devices, short-range communication systems or even domestic Wireless LAN devices. The reason being that many versions of EAP use certificates, public key encryption or exhaustive exchanges of information, that are not viable for lightweight wireless devices. In this paper, we propose a new generic protocol with low communication that is based exclusively on symmetric encryptions and hashing functions in order to achieve entities authentication and session keys generation. The existing systems proposed in the literature do not meet all of the needed requirements; indeed, the existing solutions either do not combine authentication and key generation [5,2], use public-key cryptography [9,10], use a trusted entity [5,6], or combine artificially an authentication scheme [4] with a key transport protocol [5]. The ISO/IEC 9798-2 and ISO/IEC 11770-2 protocols differ from the protocol that we are proposing because they do not authenticate the exchanged messages. In particular, because of the lack of messages authentications, the information exchanged during these protocols (that are used to produce the session keys) are not protected against modifications, and are therefore more exposed to denial of services attacks. Moreover, our protocol includes a session key confirmation procedure as well as a synchronization mechanism (in case of repetitive establishments of sessions).
OpenCV computer vision with Python : learn to capture videos, manipulate images, and track objects with Python using the OpenCV Library

A practical, project-based tutorial for Python developers and hobbyists who want to get started with computer vision with OpenCV and Python. This book is written for Python developers who are new to computer vision and want a practical guide to teach them the essentials. Some knowledge of image data would be beneficial. You will need access to at least one webcam and will require a second one for certain exercises.
Simulation and Analysis of Opportunistic Routing Protocols

The purpose of this assignment is to gain familiarity with a network simulation tool and to get experience in basic data analysis. The simulator that will be used is called ONE [2] and is common within the opportunistic networking research community. You will run the simulation using a simple network scenario and investigate the influence of the mobility model and performance of different routing protocols.
24th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE AERONAUTICAL SCIENCES TOOLS FOR FLIGHT DYNAMICS ANALYSIS IN THE DESIGN OF MAVS

A comprehensive review of micro aerial vehicles design and flight dynamics assessment will be carried out and followed by reporting the research activity of Politecnico di Torino concerning the MicroHawk platform. The configuration layout solution adopted will be discussed within the context of the preliminary design and the development phases of the micro aerial platform. The attention will then be focused on the flight dynamics issues, highlighting the attempt to produce a systematic correlation between aircraft dynamic response and MAV flying and handling qualities. The capability to establish a correlation between the above mentioned quantitative results and the qualitative ratings obtained from flight testing activity will be discussed. Finally, the results of a flight simulation implementation dedicated to investigate the dynamic behaviour of the MAV within its operating environment will be summarized.
Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Control

Preface 1. The cardiovascular system under an ergometric workload 2. Respiratory modeling 3. Cardio-Respiratory Modeling 4. Blood volume and the venous system 5. Future directions Appendix A. Supplemental calculations B. A Nonlinear feedback law C. Retarded functional differential equations: Basic theory Bibliography Index.
A sinusoidal-vibration analysis program for experimental data

A program is described for obtaining resonant frequencies, modal amplitudes, and damping of a structure from a sinusoidal force-controlled vibration test. Presented are the theoretical basis for the analysis (the Kennedy-Pancu method), recommendations for a test procedure based on experience with several earlier test programs, and an outline of the data analysis technique. Although the program was developed for structural vibration problems, variations for processing any sinusoidal data are available.
Low-Complexity Stereo Matching and Viewpoint Interpolation in Embedded Consumer Applications

Viewpoint interpolation is the process of synthesizing plausible in-between views so-called virtual camera views from a couple of surrounding fixed camera views. To make viewpoint interpolation possible for low/moderate-power consumer applications, a further quality/complexity trade-off study is required to conciliate algorithmic quality to architectural performance. In essence, the inter-dependencies between the different algorithmic steps in the processing chain are thoroughly analyzed, aiming at an overall quality-performance model that pinpoints which algorithmic functionalities can be simplified with minor global input-output quality degradation, while maximally reducing their implementation complexity w.r. t. arithmetic and line buffer requirements. Compared to state-of-the-art CPU and GPU platforms running at several GHz clock speed, our low-power 100 MHz FPGA implementation achieves speedups with one to two orders of magnitude, without impeding on the visual quality, reaching over 100 frames per second VGA high-quality, 64-disparity search range stereo matching and enabling viewpoint interpolation in low-power, embedded applications.
A Detection Study of an NRL Steganographic Method

Abstract : In this report we analyze in detail a method of image steganography developed by NRL. Our conclusion is that this method of steganography is undetectable by current pragmatic statistical stego detection techniques, primarily because it alters a very small number of pixels. The small size of the embedded message is the key to the lack of detection, provided that a non-anomalous cover image is used.
Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies

What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enoughor should we look further? In Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that make digital media function, is essential. Wardrip-Fruin suggests that it is the authors and artists with knowledge of these processes who will use the expressive potential of computation to define the future of fiction and games. He also explores how computational processes themselves express meanings through distinctive designs, histories, and intellectual kinships that may not be visible to audiences. Wardrip-Fruin looks at "expressive processing" by examining specific works of digital media ranging from the simulated therapist Eliza and the first major story-generation system Tale-Spin to the complex city-planning game SimCity. Digital media, he contends, offer particularly intelligible examples of things we need to understand about software in general; if we understand, for instance, the capabilities and histories of artificial intelligence techniques in the context of a computer game, we can use that understanding to judge the use of similar techniques in such higher-stakes social contexts as surveillance. Most books on digital media focus on what the machines of digital media look like from the outside but ignore the computational machines that make digital media possible. With this book--the first to approach computational processes from the perspective of media, games, and fiction--Wardrip-Fruin examines both the outside and the inside of digital media's machines. Software Studies series
Studi Literature Essential oil bioactivity of Curry leavess (Murraya koeginii ) as slimming aromatherapy

Curry leaves is an aromatic plant that contained essential oil. The essential oil mostly has potential as aromatherapy. The aim of this research is to separate the compounds in the essential oil of Kari leaf through fractionation technique and to analyze the potential of the active compound as slimming aromatherapy. The sliming aromatherapy of the obtained each separated essential is evaluated in vivo in male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats by aromatherapy and inhalation technique. Twenty four rats were used and divided into four groups, namely positive control, negative control, inhale the crude essential oil and inhale the active compound of essential oil. This article contains the research to be done.
Meeting Recorder Project: Dialog Act Labeling Guide

Abstract : This labeling guide is adapted from work on the Switchboard recordings and the accompanying manual (Jurafsky et al. 1997). The Switchboard-DAMSL (SWBD-DAMSL) manual for labeling one-on-one phone conversations provided a useful starting point for the types of dialog acts (DAs) that arose in the ICSI meeting corpus. However, the tagset for labeling meetings presented here has been modified as necessary to better reflect the types of interaction we observed in multiparty face-to-face meetings. This guide consists of five major sections: Quick Reference Information, Segmentation, How to Label, Adjacency Pairs, and Tag Descriptions. The first section supplies definitions for terms used throughout this guide and contains the correspondence of the Meeting Recorder DA (MRDA) tagset, which is the tagset detailed within this guide, to the SWBD-DAMSL tagset. This section also contains the entire MRDA tagset organized into groups according to syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and functional similarities of the utterances they mark. The section entitled Segmentation, as its name indicates, details the rules and guidelines governing what constitutes an utterance along with how to determine utterance boundaries. The third section, How to Label, provides instruction regarding label construction, the management of utterances requiring additional DAs or containing quotes, and the use of the annotation software. The section entitled Adjacency Pairs details how adjacency pairs are constructed and the rules governing their usage. The section entitled Tag Descriptions provides explanations of each tag within the MRDA tagset. Two appendices are also found within this guide. The first provides a labeled portion of a meeting and the second contains information regarding tags used for a select number of meetings.
An Introduction to Bayesian Methodology via WinBUGS and PROC MCMC

An Introduction to Bayesian Methodology via WinBUGS & PROC MCMC Heidi L. Lindsey Department of Statistics, BYU Master of Science Bayesian statistical methods have long been computationally out of reach because the analysis often requires integration of high-dimensional functions. Recent advancements in computational tools to apply Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are making Bayesian data analysis accessible for all statisticians. Two such computer tools are WinBUGS and SAS R © 9.2’s PROC MCMC. Bayesian methodology will be introduced through discussion of fourteen statistical examples with code and computer output to demonstrate the power of these computational tools in a wide variety of settings.
The Impact of the Workflow Technology on the Software Development Process Model

A Proposal of Indicators for the Selection of a Workflow Product For the purposes of this study, the indicators have been classified into two categories in order to group the technical and organization aspects separately. Technological variables cover all the features and functionality’s inherent to a Workflow product. Likewise, they include all technical requirements and documentation accompanying the product. Organization indicators encompass company aspects (such as the users using the tool, the implementation, the acceptance) as well as the supplying company (technical support, sales personnel). All these indicators were obtained from a study of each variable and indicator used to evaluate a Workflow tool, as defined as follows. A method is further proposed to examine these so as to obtain an integral evaluation on the Workflow software.
Reservation-based Resource-Brokering for Grid Computing

In this paper we present the design and implementation of the Migol brokering framework. Migol [10, 7] is a Grid middleware, which addresses the fault-tolerance of long-running and compute-intensive applications. The framework supports e.g. the automatic and transparent recovery respectively the migration of applications. Another core feature of Migol is the discovery, selection, and allocation of resources using advance reservation. Grid broker systems can significantly benefit from advance reservation. With advance reservation brokers and users can obtain execution guarantees from local resource management systems (LRM) without requiring detailed knowledge of current and future workloads or of the resource owner’s policies. Migol’s Advance Reservation Service (ARS) provides an adapter layer for reservation capabilities of different LRMs, which is currently not provided by existing Grid middleware platforms. Further, we propose a shortest expected delay (SED) strategy for scheduling of advance reservations within the Job Broker Service. SED needs information about the earliest start time of an application. This is currently not supported by LRMs. We added this feature for PBSPro. Migol depends on Globus and its security infrastructure. Our performance experiments show the substantial overhead of this serviceoriented approach.
Micro-expressions audio-visuelles dans la communication expressive : enjeux pluri-culturels

L'evolution des habitudes sociales cree chaque jour de nouveaux besoins dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique de la Langue. Plus particulierement dans le cas des technologies de la parole, l'un des enjeux majeurs est l'analyse des bruits non lexicalises, accompagnes de gestes specifiques, premisses du langage humain. Ces objets sont designes sous le terme de micro-expressions de la parole dans le cadre de cette etude. En reconnaissance, ces objets permettent de comprendre les attitudes socio-affectives de l'humain qui sont au cœur des nouveaux enjeux applicatifs actuels. Ainsi, si nous avons dors et deja des pistes d'investigation sur les aspects acoustiques de ces micro-expressions, l'analyse visuelle en est une toute autre affaire. Il est alors interessant de voir comment les nouveaux courants a la mode tels que la synergologie peut servir a une recherche scientifique. L'etude en cours vise a comprendre tous ces mecanismes et ces enjeux a travers une experience de perception des micro-expressions de la parole en contraste francais-japonais.
The planning and control of action in normal infants and children with Williams syndrome

The development of action control was studied in normal infants between 5-15 months and in children with Williams syndrome, a group in whom it is thought that the visual processing stream controlling action (the dorsal stream) may be specifically impaired. In the first set of experiments, looking and reaching measures were taken as infants were resented with pairs of objects of different sizes. An increase in frequency of reaches to raspable objects and in the time spent inspecting objects before reaching was observed after 8 1/2 months, reflecting a developing ability to use visual information to predict the 'graspability' of objects. There were concurrent changes in the kinematics of the reach; infants at this age exhibited slower reaches, with an extended 'homing-in' phase. referential looking measures showed that as infants get older, visual orienting to objects in personal space becomes less dependent on the visual salience of the object. Lastly, there was evidence that reaches tended to follow the direction of the first look in any given trial. Flexibility in the choice of a target for reaching may therefore depend upon the development of an ability to selectively inhibit neural circuits controlling looking and reaching. The second set of experiments investigated how far the visuo-motor difficulties experienced by children with Williams syndrome are due to atypical dorsal stream development, or in the ability to plan ahead in simple actions. The ability to adapt grip size to object size (a 'dorsal stream') function was compared with the ability to make a perceptual size judgment (a 'ventral stream' function). Deficits were observed in both tasks, with no relative deficit in dorsal stream, compared to ventral stream function. Tests of motor planning indicated that children with WS are less likely than controls to select an initial grip that ensures a comfortable end-state posture of the arm. However, this ability seems to be unevenly distributed in children with WS. Further work will need to be done to identify whether these differences between individuals are related to different compensatory strategies or are correlated with the extent of the genetic deletion in WS.
High dynamic range video merging, tone mapping, and real-time implementation

Although High Dynamic Range (High Dynamic Range (HDR)) imaging has been the subject of significant research over the past fifteen years, the goal of cinemaquality HDR video has not yet been achieved. This work references an optical method patented by Contrast Optical which is used to capture sequences of Low Dynamic Range (LDR) images that can be used to form HDR images as the basis for HDR video. Because of the large difference in exposure spacing of the LDR images captured by this camera, present methods of merging LDR images are insufficient to produce cinema quality HDR images and video without significant visible artifacts. Thus the focus of the research presented is two fold. The first contribution is a new method of combining LDR images with exposure differences of greater than 3 stops into an HDR image. The second contribution is a method of tone mapping HDR video which solves potential problems of HDR video flicker and automated parameter control of the tone mapping operator. A prototype of this HDR video capture technique along with the combining and tone mapping algorithms have been implemented in a high-definition HDR-video system. Additionally, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware implementation details are given to support real time HDR video. Still frames from the acquired HDR video system which have been merged used the merging and tone mapping techniques will be presented.
An Efficient Implementation of the Patterson-Holdsworth Auditory Filter Bank

This report describes an implementation of a cochlear model proposed by Roy Patterson [Patterson1992]. Like a previous report [Slaney1988], this document is an electronic notebook written using a software package called Mathematica™ [Wolfram 1988]. This report describes the filter bank and its implementation. The filter bank is designed as a set of parallel bandpass filters, each tuned to a different frequency. This report extends previous work by deriving an even more efficient implementation of the Gammatone filter bank, and by showing the MATLAB™ code to design and implement an ERB filter bank based on Gammatone filters.
Wireless Networks: From the Physical Layer to Communication, Computing, Sensing and Control

CHAPTER 1: RADIO AND PHYSICAL LAYER / CHAPTER 2: PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS ANTENNAS INCLUDING HUMAN INTERACTIONS / CHAPTER 3: WIRELESS CHANNEL MODEL / CHAPTER 4: AD-HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS / CHAPTER 5: SENSOR NETWORKS / CHAPTER 6: WIRELSS NETWORKS: FROM INFORMATION TRANSFER TO SENSING AND CONTROL / CHAPTER 7: ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL EXPECTATIONS
Theoretical analysis of subband adaptive array combining cyclic prefix data transmission scheme

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of subband adaptive array combining the cyclic prefix transmission scheme (SBAA-CP) in a multipath fading environment. The exact expressions for optimal weights, array outputs and the output signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) are derived. The analysis shows that use of the cyclic prefix data transmission scheme can significantly improve the performance of subband adaptive array (SBAA). We also show that if the output SINR is plotted versus the delay of the delay path then the output SINR of SBAA-CP is in effect the SINR of SBAA shifted by C samples to the right.
Pragmatic model verification

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a popular approach to the development of software which promotes the use of models as first-Class citizens in the software development process. In a MDE-Based software development process, software is developed by creating models to be successively transformed into another models and eventually into the software source code. When MDE is applied to the development of complex software systems, the complexity of models and model transformations increase, thus risking both, the reliability of the software development process and the soundness of the resulting software. Traditionally, ensuring software correctness and absence of errors has been addressed by means of software verification approaches, based on the utilization of formal analysis techniques, and software testing approaches. In order to ensure the reliability of MDE-Based software development processes, these techniques have some how been adapted to try to ensure correctness of models and model transformations. The objective of this thesis is to provide new mechanisms to improve the landscape of approaches devoted to the verification of static models, and analyze how these static model verification approaches can be of assistance at the time of testing model transformations.