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48 results for cloud technology

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised learning tasks such as object classification and semantic segmentation. While mas…

2019-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a method for conformal parameterization of point clouds without fixed boundaries.

problem Desirable distortion in fixed-boundary parameterizations of point clouds.
method Free-boundary conformal parameterization method involving approximation of point cloud Laplacian and boundary treatment.
result High-quality point cloud meshing achieved through the proposed method.

A registration-free framework monitors shape and color in 4D point clouds.

problem Monitoring shape and color changes in complex parts without registration.
method Laplace-Beltrami operator spectral properties for geometric and color feature capture; combined monitoring scheme for shape and color anomalies.
result Effective detection of shape deformations and color anomalies without registration or mesh reconstruction.

Quantum autoencoders allow for reducing the amount of resources in a quantum computation by mapping the original Hilbert space onto a reduced space with the relevant information. Recently, it was proposed to employ approximate quantum adders to implement quantum autoencoders in quantum technologies. Here, we carry out …

2018-07-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A new rotation invariant method for 3D medical imaging classification.

problem Computational expense and lack of rotation invariance in 3D medical image processing.
method Proposes a rotation invariant convolution operator using hypersphere topology.
result Demonstrates improved classification accuracy and rotation invariance.

Geoeconomic analysis of venture capital portfolios reveals key emerging tech domains and countries.

problem Quantifying geoeconomic power and technological sovereignty through venture capital data.
method Economic complexity methods applied to venture capital portfolios and RVA metrics.
result Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity Tools, and Medtech have the highest concentration of specialization among high-GCI countries.

Satellite imaging is a critical technology for monitoring and responding to natural disasters such as flooding. Despite the capabilities of modern satellites, there is still much to be desired from the perspective of first response organisations like UNICEF. Two main challenges are rapid access to data, and the ability…

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

LEAK learns from mistakes to improve point cloud segmentation.

problem Improving point cloud semantic segmentation performance.
method Coarse-to-fine clustering, class-conditional prototypical feature alignment, fairness weighting.
result State-of-the-art performances on different architectures, datasets, and tasks.

LOT framework embeds high-dimensional cell data into interpretable Euclidean space.

problem Lack of interpretable methods for high-dimensional cell data.
method Adapts Linear Optimal Transport (LOT) to irregular point clouds.
result Accurate and interpretable classification and synthetic data generation.

A new method monitors unstructured 3D shapes without registration.

problem Error-prone registration and mesh reconstruction steps in PCD monitoring.
method Intrinsic geometric properties of shapes, using Laplacian and geodesic distances.
result Effective monitoring of defects without registration and mesh reconstruction.

Voice-enabled interactions provide more human-like experiences in many popular IoT systems. Cloud-based speech analysis services extract useful information from voice input using speech recognition techniques. The voice signal is a rich resource that discloses several possible states of a speaker, such as emotional sta…

2019-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Orchestrating the Twin Transition in GBS: A Socio-Technical Framework

problem MNCs' need to harmonize digital efficiency with environmental stewardship
method Technology Roadmapping (TRM) with ICT-centric innovation ecosystem toolkit
result Central 'operational airlock' for GBS in harmonizing digital and environmental transformation

Optimizes resource allocation for virtualized network functions based on performance profiles.

problem Mapping SLA performance requirements to dynamic virtualized infrastructure resources.
method Profile-based resource allocation using VNF performance datasets and machine learning models.
result A method to predict and recommend optimal resource allocation for network services.

In this contribution, we present a novel approach for segmenting laser radar (lidar) imagery into geometric time-height cloud locations with a fully convolutional network (FCN). We describe a semi-supervised learning method to train the FCN by: pre-training the classification layers of the FCN with image-level annotati…

2018-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent decades, the use of 3D point clouds has been widespread in computer industry. The development of techniques in analyzing point clouds is increasingly important. In particular, mapping of point clouds has been a challenging problem. In this paper, we develop a discrete analogue of the Teichmüller extremal mapp…

2015-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper focuses on a novel generative approach for 3D point clouds that makes use of invertible flow-based models. The main idea of the method is to treat a point cloud as a probability density in 3D space that is modeled using a cloud-specific neural network. To capture the similarity between point clouds we rely o…

2019-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel method compresses point cloud attributes by folding them onto a 2D grid.

problem Efficiently compressing point cloud attributes for storage and transmission.
method Interpreting point clouds as 2D manifolds, folding onto a grid, and mapping attributes to the grid using optimized methods.
result The proposed folding-based approach achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art codecs.

Modern information technology services largely depend on cloud infrastructures to provide their services. These cloud infrastructures are built on top of datacenter networks (DCNs) constructed with high-speed links, fast switching gear, and redundancy to offer better flexibility and resiliency. In this environment, net…

2018-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We proposed a novel graph convolutional neural network that could construct a coarse, sparse latent point cloud from a dense, raw point cloud. With a novel non-isotropic convolution operation defined on irregular geometries, the model then can reconstruct the original point cloud from this latent cloud with fine detail…

2019-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning detects cloud changes due to human aerosols.

problem Uncertainty in the effect of anthropogenic aerosols on cloud properties and Earth's energy balance.
method Deep convolutional neural networks to analyze cloud images.
result Identified and characterized specific cloud perturbations due to human aerosols.

This paper analyzes CNNs for malware detection in cloud IaaS.

problem Malware vulnerability in cloud IaaS environments.
method Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for online malware detection using process-level performance metrics.
result State-of-the-art DenseNets and ResNets effectively detect malware in online cloud systems.

Estimating boundaries from point clouds with improved accuracy and rigorous error estimates.

problem Identifying the boundary of a domain from point cloud samples.
method Developed new estimators for normal vectors, distances, and boundary tests; provided error estimates.
result Efficient and accurate estimators for boundary properties on point clouds.

SPINN optimizes neural network inference on devices and cloud.

problem Inference on mobile devices is challenging due to high computational demands and dynamic connectivity.
method Synergistic progressive inference with a novel scheduler.
result SPINN achieves up to 2x higher throughput and reduces server cost by up to 6.8x.

The cloud-based speech recognition/API provides developers or enterprises an easy way to create speech-enabled features in their applications. However, sending audios about personal or company internal information to the cloud, raises concerns about the privacy and security issues. The recognition results generated in …

2019-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗