{"title":"V-NIIRS fusion modeling for EO/IR systems","authors":"Erik Blasch, B. Kahler","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443033","url":null,"abstract":"The Video National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale (V-NIIRS) is an emerging standard of the Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB). V-NIIRS extends NIIRS to from image-based scene characterization to streaming video for image quality assessment of object recognition. To apply V-NIIRS for image fusion, there is a need to understand the operating conditions of the sensor type, environmental phenomenon, and target behavior (SET). In this paper, we explore V-NIIRS as related to resolution, ground sampling distance, and probability of detection, recognition, and identification success. In a modeling analysis, we determine the issues and capabilities of using V-NIIRS video quality ratings to determine task success. Scenarios are provided that allow one to determine the V-NIIRS requirement for a given operational parameter.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114943107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farzaneh Abolmaali, N. Limberopoulos, A. Urbas, V. Astratov
{"title":"Observation of the influence of the gain on parity-time-symmetric properties of photonic molecules with coupled whispering gallery modes","authors":"Farzaneh Abolmaali, N. Limberopoulos, A. Urbas, V. Astratov","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443047","url":null,"abstract":"Parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking in coupled whispering gallery mode type resonators is studied by finite-difference time-domain modeling. Normal mode splitting is studied as a function of the coupling strength. It is demonstrated that in bi-atomic molecules with distributed gain and loss, reduction of the coupling beyond a certain value leads to PT symmetry breaking.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116302361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power and energy analysis and modeling of high performance computing systems using WattProf","authors":"Mohammad J. Rashti, Gerald Sabin, B. Norris","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443098","url":null,"abstract":"Modeling power/energy consumption of HPC applications and analyzing its correlation with application performance characteristics can reveal interesting insights and provide useful recommendations for improving power/energy efficiency. For that purpose, fine-grained tools are needed that can synchronize power/energy measurements with application activity. In this paper we use WattProf, a new power monitoring tool that enables high frequency (multiple kilohertz) direct power measurement of hardware components in a compute node (e.g., CPU, DRAM, GPU, NIC, PCIe cards, fans, hard drives, SSD). The platform includes support for streaming the collected data to the host, storing them on the controller, and streaming via network. Software enables synchronization of the measurements with applications under test to allow fine-grained application power profiling. Using this tools, we perform application monitoring and modeling on some benchmarks and mini-applications.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129522571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robust understanding of EEG patterns in silent speech","authors":"P. Ghane, G. Hossain, A. Tovar","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443095","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the secondary research on feature extraction and selection for decoding the brain electroencephalograph (EEG) signals in designing a prosthetic arm, a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system. It considers EEG pattern recognition using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for Feature Extraction. The data used for this research is the EEG signal that is recorded during the imagination of vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ by 20 subjects. Since brain signals are very noisy in nature, a robust PCA is also used to extract the best solution to find principal patterns of the data. The final goal of our research is to train the system based on the information in the sample EEG data and make it ready to classify the pattern correctly.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129779427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SPICE analysis of dense memristor crossbars for low power neuromorphic processor designs","authors":"C. Yakopcic, Raqibul Hasan, T. Taha, D. Palmer","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443088","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an analysis of neuromorphic circuits that are capable of learning logic functions. In this paper the training simulations are carried out in SPICE. Our simulations capture low level circuit functionality within the memristor crossbars as well as wire resistances between memristors. This is essential when properly modeling crossbar circuits. Wire resistances, wire capacitances, output comparators, and the number of data inputs are all investigated in this paper to show how these may impact a larger neuromorphic crossbar. Furthermore, it was shown that neural networks can properly train the passive memristor-based crossbars without having to use virtual ground mode operational amplifiers as suggested in previous work. This reduces the number of transistors required by the circuit by about 3 times and reduces the circuit power consumption by about 50 times when compared to the virtual ground design. The key impact of this study is the demonstration through low level circuit simulations that dense memristor crossbars can be effectively utilized to build neuromorphic processors.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116201491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yangcheng Li, Farzaneh Abolmaali, N. Limberopoulos, A. Urbas, V. Astratov
{"title":"Coupling properties and sensing applications of photonic molecules","authors":"Yangcheng Li, Farzaneh Abolmaali, N. Limberopoulos, A. Urbas, V. Astratov","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443046","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic molecules formed by microresonators with coupled whispering gallery modes were studied by finite-difference time-domain modeling. Mode splitting was observed due to coherent coupling. Spatial mode distribution was shown to be different for each coupled mode. The advantages of photonic molecules over single resonators for sensing applications were demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123833899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jimmy J. Lohrman, C. Kodama, R. Lake, T. Laurvick, R. Coutu
{"title":"Mechanical logic using MEMS","authors":"Jimmy J. Lohrman, C. Kodama, R. Lake, T. Laurvick, R. Coutu","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443076","url":null,"abstract":"For many decades, transistorized logic has been the foundational design of computing, which relies on simple representations of 1's and 0's in the binary language. However, binary strings can be symbolized through other various methods besides transistors, like with techniques utilized in magnetic and optical data storage media. Utilizing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology based on the PolyMUMPs fabrication process, a mechanical logic gate was designed to demonstrate the AND logic truth table and to provide useful work on another MEMS device. This logic gate utilizes clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations to represent binary digits, and relies on a novel sliding bar mechanism with two unique features: a flexible, gear-meshed cantilever arm and floating gear attachments. The simulated device was found to successfully operate under the assumed operating conditions of 3.02 nJ of input energy per cycle.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"41 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114042669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMPOSIT: A practical real-time video feature overlaying solution","authors":"J. Walrath, Herb Hirsch","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443097","url":null,"abstract":"TDKC's Compositing Overlays for Maps and Operational Symbologies in Real-Time (COMPOSIT) project is developing innovative ways to automatically overlay digital map, feature, and symbol graphics upon real-time video. Novel, distributive, vector data to video frame registration methods; and innovative, real-time, GIS-based metadata correction techniques are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114299197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Almutiry, M. Wicks, A. Nassib, Y. Guzel, L. Monte
{"title":"Extraction of weak target features from radar tomographic imagery","authors":"M. Almutiry, M. Wicks, A. Nassib, Y. Guzel, L. Monte","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443065","url":null,"abstract":"Radar Tomography is the process of 3D reconstruction of a measurement domain using a multistatic distribution of transmitters and receivers. Geometric diversity of these elements increases the information contained in the measurements. The process of determining the permittivity and conductivity profile of the measurement domain, and therefore the shape of the target, from the scattered field measurements is an inverse problem. This is solved using principles of linear scattering (Born approximation), which lead to a linear relationship between the measured returns and the target shape. One limitation of radar tomography is that strong scatterer sidelobes in the measurement domain can interfere with the echoes from weak scatterers, decreasing the system's ability to detect certain target feature. In this paper, we propose a method to increase overall image quality by modelling the strong scatterers in the measurement domain as dipoles which behave as secondary transmitters. The purpose of this model is to reduce the effects of the sidelobes from the strong scatterers. We estimate the electromagnetic characteristics for each dipole in the model by representing the cells in the measurement domain's image as dyadic functions. The eigenvalue and eigenvector for each cell represents phase and magnitude for the modelled dipole. The process of modelling targets as dipoles can be repeatedly applied, addressing one strong scatterer at a time, to decrease uncertainty in the measurement domain. Simulations and results demonstrate this concept.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"723 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123426556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comprehensive survey on intrusion detection on various hardware and software","authors":"Venkataramesh Bontupalli, T. Taha","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2015.7443081","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of digital technology have dramatically increased the security threats for computer networks over the last decade. Intrusion detection and prevention systems are designed to prevent and avoid any malicious attempts into the systems employing different types of hardware, software and classifiers. There are numerous studies developed to identify the virus attacks, protect the system from unauthorized access, abnormal activities, and strengthen the cyber security of the critical systems. With the increase in the security mechanisms and its technology, there is a great need for a structured and a broad overview of extensive research on intrusion detection systems to identify the different approaches, different solutions along with its strengths and weakness. In this paper, we will focus and describe the greatest contributions to effective Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to provide as a basis for future researchers the present challenges and issues in designing an intrusion detection system that could provide high performance, inherent learning capability and yet consume low power.","PeriodicalId":133804,"journal":{"name":"2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"29 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113967946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}