A runtime reconfigurable very-large-scale integration (VLSI) architecture for image and video scaling by arbitrary factors with good antialiasing performance is presented in this paper. Video scal- ing is used in a ...A runtime reconfigurable very-large-scale integration (VLSI) architecture for image and video scaling by arbitrary factors with good antialiasing performance is presented in this paper. Video scal- ing is used in a wide range of applications from broadcast, medical imaging and high-resolution video effects to video surveillance, and video conferencing. Many algorithms have been proposed for these applications, such as piecewise polynomial kernels and windowed sinc kernels. The sum of three shifted versions of a B-spline function, whose weights can be adjusted for different applications, is adopted as the main filter. The proposed algorithm is confirmed to be effective on image scaling ap- plications and also verified by many widely acknowledged image quality measures. The reconfigu- rable hardware architecture constitutes an arbitrary scaler with low resource consumption and high performance targeted for field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. The scaling factor can be changed on-the-fly, and the filter can also be changed during runtime within a unifying framework.展开更多
This paper, as a part of a larger research project entitled Amazon. Realities in the Novels and the Imaginary Reports of Travelers, focuses on the following objectives: (1) the "referentiality" of the text to the...This paper, as a part of a larger research project entitled Amazon. Realities in the Novels and the Imaginary Reports of Travelers, focuses on the following objectives: (1) the "referentiality" of the text to the external world (goal, empirical stuff); and (2) understanding fictionality in terms of"make-believe" and the principle of"internal coherence". The main section sets out the theoretical foundation of the relation between facts/events and fiction, both as pragmatic and fictional texts. Then, the paper investigates in which forms and ways existing facts, data, occurrences, events and narratives in various kinds of texts constitute a representation and interpretation of the world. The central focus of the study is on the Amazon region. The study is an experiment in joining together different types of texts around the notion of"referentiality"; emphasizing reference to the external world (factuality), the reading of the component elements of a language and a discourse (narratology), historical reading against the horizon of expectation (reception theory) and the interpretation of the retrospective.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60972126)the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U0935002/L05)+1 种基金the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation(No.4102060)the State Key Program of the National Natural Science of China(No.61032007)
文摘A runtime reconfigurable very-large-scale integration (VLSI) architecture for image and video scaling by arbitrary factors with good antialiasing performance is presented in this paper. Video scal- ing is used in a wide range of applications from broadcast, medical imaging and high-resolution video effects to video surveillance, and video conferencing. Many algorithms have been proposed for these applications, such as piecewise polynomial kernels and windowed sinc kernels. The sum of three shifted versions of a B-spline function, whose weights can be adjusted for different applications, is adopted as the main filter. The proposed algorithm is confirmed to be effective on image scaling ap- plications and also verified by many widely acknowledged image quality measures. The reconfigu- rable hardware architecture constitutes an arbitrary scaler with low resource consumption and high performance targeted for field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. The scaling factor can be changed on-the-fly, and the filter can also be changed during runtime within a unifying framework.
文摘This paper, as a part of a larger research project entitled Amazon. Realities in the Novels and the Imaginary Reports of Travelers, focuses on the following objectives: (1) the "referentiality" of the text to the external world (goal, empirical stuff); and (2) understanding fictionality in terms of"make-believe" and the principle of"internal coherence". The main section sets out the theoretical foundation of the relation between facts/events and fiction, both as pragmatic and fictional texts. Then, the paper investigates in which forms and ways existing facts, data, occurrences, events and narratives in various kinds of texts constitute a representation and interpretation of the world. The central focus of the study is on the Amazon region. The study is an experiment in joining together different types of texts around the notion of"referentiality"; emphasizing reference to the external world (factuality), the reading of the component elements of a language and a discourse (narratology), historical reading against the horizon of expectation (reception theory) and the interpretation of the retrospective.