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The Kalman filter provides an optimal estimation for a linear system with Gaussian noise. However when the noises are non-Gaussian in nature, its performance deteriorates rapidly. For non-Gaussian noises, maximum correntropy Kalman filter…
Intraoperative tracking of surgical instruments is an inevitable task of computer-assisted surgery. An optical tracking system often fails to precisely reconstruct the dynamic location and pose of a surgical tool due to the acquisition…
Computing centres, including those used to process High-Energy Physics data and simulations, are increasingly providing significant fractions of their computing resources through hardware architectures other than x86 CPUs, with GPUs being a…
We present efficient realization of Householder Transform (HT) based QR factorization through algorithm-architecture co-design where we achieve performance improvement of 3-90x in-terms of Gflops/watt over state-of-the-art multicore,…
The scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm is considered a classical feature extraction algorithm within the field of computer vision. SIFT keypoint descriptor matching is a computationally intensive process due to the amount of…
This article introduces a new algorithm for nonlinear state estimation based on deterministic sigma point and EKF linearized framework for priori mean and covariance respectively. This method reduces the computation cost of UKF about 50%…
Parameter estimation in cognitive communications can be formulated as a multi-user estimation problem, which is solvable under maximum likelihood solution but involves high computational complexity. This paper presents a time-sharing and…
Kalman-type filtering techniques including cubature Kalman filter (CKF) does not work well in non-Gaussian environments, especially in the presence of outliers. To solve this problem, Huber's M-estimation based robust CKF (RCKF) is proposed…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…
This paper deals with the implementation of the extended robust Kalman filter (ERKF) which was developed considering uncertainties in the parameter matrices of the underlying state-space model. A key contribution of this work is the…
Limits on power dissipation have pushed CPUs to grow in parallel processing capabilities rather than clock rate, leading to the rise of "manycore" or GPU-like processors. In order to achieve the best performance, applications must be able…
We present a practical implementation of the ensemble Kalman (EnKF) filter based on an iterative Sherman-Morrison formula. The new direct method exploits the special structure of the ensemble-estimated error covariance matrices in order to…
The Kalman filter (KF) is one of the most widely used tools for data assimilation and sequential estimation. In this work, we show that the state estimates from the KF in a standard linear dynamical system setting are equivalent to those…
In this treatise, my research on methods to improve efficiency, reliability, and security of reconfigurable hardware systems, i.e., FPGAs, through partial dynamic reconfiguration is outlined. The efficiency of reconfigurable systems can be…
The ever-increasing complexity and operational diversity of modern Neural Networks (NNs) have caused the need for low-power and, at the same time, high-performance edge devices for AI applications. Coarse Grained Reconfigurable…
Experimental data is costly to obtain, which makes it difficult to calibrate complex models. For many models an experimental design that produces the best calibration given a limited experimental budget is not obvious. This paper introduces…
Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are domain-agnostic accelerators that enhance the energy efficiency of resource-constrained edge devices. The CGRA landscape is diverse, exhibiting trade-offs between performance, efficiency, and…
This letter explores covariance matching-based adaptive robust cubature Kalman filter (CMRACKF). In this method, the innovation sequence is used to determine the covariance matrix of measurement noise that can overcome the limitation of…
The optimal fusion of estimates in a Distributed Kalman Filter (DKF) requires tracking of the complete network error covariance, problematic in terms of memory and communication. A scalable alternative is to fuse estimates under unknown…
In this paper, we propose a methodology for partitioning and mapping computational intensive applications in reconfigurable hardware blocks of different granularity. A generic hybrid reconfigurable architecture is considered so as the…