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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project will be the world largest radio telescope array. With its large number of antennas, the number of signals that need to be processed is dramatic. One important element of the SKA's Central Signal…
The characterization of laboratory plasma instabilities, magnetic reconnection and turbulence associated phenomena, require the simultaneous signal sampling from arrays of magnetic sensors (hundreds or even thousands) to obtain spatial…
Applications of Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) in iris segmentation have shown promising advances. For mobile and embedded systems, a significant challenge is that the proposed FCN architectures are extremely computationally demanding.…
In advanced tokamak scenarios, active feedback control of unstable resistive wall modes (RWM) may be required. A RWM is an instability due to plasma kink at higher plasma pressure, moderated by the presence of a resistive wall surrounding…
Accelerator-driven system (ADS) facilities world-wide opens new opportunities for nuclear physics investigations, so that a high flux of neutrons through spallation reactions can be produced at these facilities. It is known that the…
Photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors are a key enabling technology in photonic quantum information processing. Here, we demonstrate the PNR capacity of conventional superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors by performing…
A readout electronic with high time and energy resolution performance is designed for the SDD (Silicon Drift Detector) signals readout, which is aimed for X-ray pulsar based navigation (XNAV). For time measurement, the input signal is fed…
The upcoming ATLAS Phase II upgrade mandates replacing the tracking system with the all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITK), featuring a pixel detector as its core element. The monitoring data of the new system will be aggregated from an…
Two detection systems based on optical readout were developed: a. Integrative optical detector A 2nd generation of Time-Resolved Integrative Optical Neutron (TRION) detector was developed. It is based on an integrative optical technique,…
Observational efforts to image the immediate environment of a black hole at the scale of the event horizon benefit from the development of efficient imaging codes that are capable of producing synthetic data, which may be compared with…
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Energy efficiency is one of the major concern in designing advanced computing infrastructures. From single nodes to large-scale systems (data centers), monitoring the energy consumption of the computing system when applications run is a…
In the field of High Performance Computing, communications among processes represent a typical bottleneck for massively parallel scientific applications. Object of this research is the development of a network interface card with specific…
This study introduces a lightweight U-Net model optimized for real-time semantic segmentation of aerial images, targeting the efficient utilization of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) embedded computing platforms. We maintain the accuracy of…
This study presents an efficient field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of a polynomial spline function-based statistical compression algorithm designed to address the critical challenge of massive data transfer bandwidth in…
A series of test experiments on three different Si-based neutron detectors, namely a 1-d 128 channel, 0.5 mm space resolution Si microstrip sensor coupled to natural Gd converter, a medium size ? 1 cm2 PIN diode coupled to nGd2O3 or…
i-TED is an innovative detection system which exploits Compton imaging techniques to achieve a superior signal-to-background ratio in ($n,\gamma$) cross-section measurements using time-of-flight technique. This work presents the first…
Phase aberration is one of the main contributors to image degradation in ultrasound imaging. Normalized-Cross-Correlation (NCC) is one of the most extensively studied techniques to estimate the arrival delay error and the aberration…
Utilizing optical fibers to detect and pinpoint vibrations, Distributed Optical Fiber Vibration Sensing (DVS) technology provides real-time monitoring and surveillance of wide-reaching areas. This field has been leveraging Convolutional…
Medical imaging plays a vital role in modern diagnostics; however, interpreting high-resolution radiological data remains time-consuming and susceptible to variability among clinicians. Traditional image processing techniques often lack the…