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		<description>TOC Alert for Publication# 30 </description>
		<year>2013</year>
		<month>May      </month>
		<day>21</day>
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			<title><![CDATA[IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics - Table of contents]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Presents the cover/table of contents for this issue of the periodical.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>59</volume>
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			<title><![CDATA[IEEE Consumer Electronics Society]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490231]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Provides a listing of current committee members and society officers.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
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			<title><![CDATA[2013 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Administrative Committee]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490232]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Provides a listing of current staff, committee members and society officers.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
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			<title><![CDATA[2013 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Officers and Committee Chairs]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490233]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Provides a listing of current staff, committee members and society officers.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490233]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>ii</startPage>
			<endPage>ii</endPage>
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			<title><![CDATA[An elastic error correction code technique for NAND flash-based consumer electronic devices]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490234]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash-based consumer electronic devices suffer from random multiple bit errors that grow exponentially with the increase of program/erase counts. Numerous error correction codes (ECCs) have been developed to detect and correct these multiple erroneous bits within a codeword, such as bose-chaudhuri-hocquenghem (BCH) and reed-solomon (RS) codes. However, most of these existing techniques do not take into account the uneven distribution of bit errors over flash pages, thus they cannot meet varying correction needs of the flash memories during its lifetime. Specifically, weak ECCs are eventually unable to correct some particular pages' bit errors beyond their correction capabilities, while powerful ECCs can protect each page longer yet incur unnecessary computation overhead too early. In this paper, an elastic error correction code (EECC) technique is proposed, which can progressively enhance the error correction capability for each page when performing program operation. In particular, based on a scalable coding mapping model, EECC technique can enhance the ECC level progressively, by allowing each page to employ changeable ECC parity in its own spare out-of-band area according to its own remaining lifetime as well as the hot level of the data in it. In this way, this technique not only meets the changing error correction demands for different page, but also obtains a good reliability-performance tradeoff. Analytically and experimentally, the results demonstrate EECC scheme is efficient in many aspects of performance, and particularly is able to make significant power consumption savings without degrading the error correction capability <sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>1</startPage>
			<endPage>8</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Yu-Peng Hu;Nong Xiao;Xiao-Fan Liu;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Detection method for digital radio mondiale plus in hybrid broadcasting mode]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490235]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we propose a detection method for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Plus suitable for hybrid mode broadcasting of both DRM Plus and analog FM (Frequency Modulation) within the same frequency band. The guard-interval correlation method of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is good for DRM Plus signal detection, but the false alarm possibility increases when FM signal is received. The proposed method includes a reference block in the guard-interval correlation which increases the identification rate of weak DRM Plus signals and decreases the false alarm possibility when analog FM is received. The performance of the proposed method is verified through simulations<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>9</startPage>
			<endPage>15</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Seong-Jun Kim;Kyung-Won Park;Kyung-Taek Lee;Hyung-Jin Choi;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[TDS-OFDM based HDTV transmission over fast fading channels]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490236]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Consumer electronics are expecting high-definition television (HDTV) services not only at home, but also in high-speed vehicles like cars, train, subways, etc. However, time domain synchronous OFDM (TDS-OFDM) could only provide HDTV services in static or low-speed channels, but not in fast fading channels due to the severe mutual interferences between the time-domain training sequence (TS) and the OFDM data block. Without changing the original TDS-OFDM signal structure, this paper firstly proposes the idea of regarding transmission parameter signaling (TPS) symbols embedded in the OFDM data block as frequency-domain pilots. This new perspective breaks the conventional concept that the training information of TDS-OFDM exists only in the time domain. Then, the two-dimensional channel estimation method jointly exploiting the time-domain TS as well as the frequency-domain pilots is proposed to improve the system reliability over fast fading channels. Simulation results demonstrate that reliable HDTV transmission could be achieved when the moving speed of consumer electronics is up to 120 km/h<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490236]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>16</startPage>
			<endPage>23</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Changyong Pan;Linglong Dai;Zhixing Yang;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Energy efficient burst scheduling in mobile TV services]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490237]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[With the advancement of mobile communication technology, Mobile TV has emerged and is becoming increasingly popular. However, viewing is limited with battery-powered mobile devices. To reduce the energy consumption, burst transmission has been proposed for mobile devices. The optimal burst scheduling problem for energy saving has been proven to be NP-complete. This paper proposes a sub-optimal burst scheduling algorithm called Regulated Period Scheduling (RPS) for energy saving in Mobile TV networks. Simulation results demonstrate that the resulting energy saving of the proposed algorithm is about 10% greater than the state of the art algorithm can achieve while maintaining very low computation complexity.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490237]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>24</startPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Bo Li;Sungkwon Park;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reading lamp-based visible light communication system for in-flight entertainment]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490238]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper explores the use of a reading lamp as an access point for a Visible Light Communications (VLC) downlink channel. We have established an infrared uplink channel based on a network adapter, supporting both a VLC receiver and an infrared emitter. The optical signal power distribution over the passenger area has been also studied using a Monte Carlo Ray-Tracing algorithm. The hardware implementation and testing results are also presented.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490238]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>31</startPage>
			<endPage>37</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Quintana, C.;Guerra, V.;Rufo, J.;Rabadan, J.;Perez-Jimenez, R.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Development of T-DMB emergency broadcasting system and trial service with the legacy receivers]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490239]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The emergency broadcasting system based on T-DMB network have been developed and installed in tunnel environment. This paper describes implementation and field test results of the T-DMB emergency broadcasting system in practical tunnel environment. The developed emergency broadcasting system can execute the on-channel repeating function in common environment. And the system provides emergency broadcasting service in accident or disaster environment to legacy T-DMB receivers. According to the field test results, the smooth operation is evaluated for both emergency broadcasting function and on-channel repeating function with legacy T-DMB receivers.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490239]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>38</startPage>
			<endPage>44</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Myung-Sun Baek;Yong-Hoon Lee;Geon Kim;So-Ra Park;Yong-Tae Lee;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Energy efficient peak power reduction in OFDM with amplitude predistortion aided by orthogonal pilots]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490240]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) is a main drawback of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. We propose a twostep technique to reduce the PAPR consisting of a metric-based constellation extension method, such as Simple Amplitude Predistortion (SAP) algorithm, aided by Orthogonal Pilot Sequences (OPS) in a previous step, where we also provide a low-complex implementation of OPS scheme. We show that our proposal, named OP-SAP, outperforms previous approaches in terms of PAPR reduction, due to joining the benefits of Orthogonal Pilots with SAP algorithm. Moreover, it is energy efficient within two aspects: transmitted energy and implementation energy. OP-SAP saves up to 57% of transmitted energy per predistorted symbol compared to SAP. Regarding implementation energy, PAPR reduction techniques introduce some additional computational complexity, which requires extra cycles in the processor that demand energy consumption. We present an exhaustive analysis on computational power cost that shows the low power consumption of OP-SAP compared to other methods as SeLected Mapping (SLM), what yields a remarkable energy saving in its practical implementation<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490240]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>45</startPage>
			<endPage>53</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Paredes Paredes, M.C.;Fernandez-Getino Garcia, M.J.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reduce the standby power consumption of a microwave oven]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490241]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A touch panel microwave oven which is turned off does not mean that it is not consuming electric power. Although it is turned off, it still consumes 1 to 3 W when it is plugged into an ac socket. In this design the touch panel microwave oven consumes 3 mW when it is turned off and yet plugged in. A more effective circuit design for a touch panel microwave oven is proposed to reduce the standby power consumption, which is also easy to apply to future products. This power consumption in the standby state is lower than that of others and not only simple to set up but also inexpensive<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490241]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>54</startPage>
			<endPage>61</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Cheng-Hung Tsai;Ying-Wen Bai;Ming-Bo Lin;Jhang, R.J.R.;Chih-Yu Chung;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[DEHEMS: creating a digital environment for large-scale energy management at homes]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490242]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Located at the consumer-end of the Smart Grid, domestic energy monitoring and management systems aim to provide direct energy feedback whilst (or shortly after) consumption occurs, so as to persuade users to achieve energy saving and efficiency. However, existing solutions are challenged by the lack of large-scale practice and study on user behaviours and preferences. In this paper, we present a domestic energy management system (DEHEMS), which deploys electricity and gas monitoring in European-wide homes. The system has been developed in three cycles in order for households to participate and contribute. Results based on both qualitative and quantitative data analysis show that less energy has been consumed using the system. Additionally, positive behavioural changes have been achieved among households.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490242]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>62</startPage>
			<endPage>69</endPage>
			<fileSize>5584</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Qi Liu;Cooper, G.;Linge, N.;Takruri, H.;Sowden, R.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Intelligent household LED lighting system considering energy efficiency and user satisfaction]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490243]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Saving energy has become one of the most important issues these days. The most waste of energy is caused by the inefficient use of the consumer electronics. Particularly, a light accounts for a great part of the total energy consumption. Various light control systems are introduced in current markets, because the installed lighting systems are outdated and energy-inefficient. However, due to architectural limitations, the existing light control systems cannot be successfully applied to home and office buildings. Therefore, this paper proposes an intelligent household LED lighting system considering energy efficiency and user satisfaction. The proposed system utilizes multi sensors and wireless communication technology in order to control an LED light according to the user's state and the surroundings. The proposed LED lighting system can autonomously adjust the minimum light intensity value to enhance both energy efficiency and user satisfaction. We designed and implemented the proposed system in the test bed and measured total power consumption to verify the performance. The proposed LED lighting system reduces total power consumption of the test bed up to 21.9%<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490243]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>70</startPage>
			<endPage>76</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Jinsung Byun;Insung Hong;Byoungjoo Lee;Sehyun Park;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mobility based energy efficient and multi-sink algorithms for consumer home networks]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490244]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[With the fast development of the Internet, wireless communications and semiconductor devices, home networking has received significant attention. Consumer products can collect and transmit various types of data in the home environment. Typical consumer sensors are often equipped with tiny, irreplaceable batteries and it therefore of the utmost importance to design energy efficient algorithms to prolong the home network lifetime and reduce devices going to landfill. Sink mobility is an important technique to improve home network performance including energy consumption, lifetime and end-to-end delay. Also, it can largely mitigate the hot spots near the sink node. The selection of optimal moving trajectory for sink node(s) is an NP-hard problem jointly optimizing routing algorithms with the mobile sink moving strategy is a significant and challenging research issue. The influence of multiple static sink nodes on energy consumption under different scale networks is first studied and an Energy-efficient Multi-sink Clustering Algorithm (EMCA) is proposed and tested. Then, the influence of mobile sink velocity, position and number on network performance is studied and a Mobile-sink based Energy-efficient Clustering Algorithm (MECA) is proposed. Simulation results validate the performance of the proposed two algorithms which can be deployed in a consumer home network environment<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490244]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>77</startPage>
			<endPage>84</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Jin Wang;Yue Yin;Jianwei Zhang;Sungyoung Lee;Sherratt, R.S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[A study of the environmental impact of wired and wireless local area network access]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490245]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a life cycle assessment of the energy and emission intensity of wired and wireless local area network access. Following a cradle-to-grave approach, the energy consumed and greenhouse gas emissions in the manufacture of Ethernet switches and WiFi access points (including the extraction of raw materials, component manufacturing, assembly, and transportation) as well as during their actual usage are evaluated. The results show that while the manufacturing stage is responsible for a significant fraction of the overall energy consumption, the usage phase accounts for most of the emissions.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490245]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>85</startPage>
			<endPage>92</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Sikdar, B.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Multiple-bits-slot reservation aloha protocol for tag identification]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490246]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system consists of a reader and many tags. In the mobile RFID environment, consumers can obtain product-related information of tags by using readers which are installed in mobile phones. However, the tag collision problem is serious in this environment. This paper proposes a multiple-bits-slot reservation aloha protocol for handling this problem. In the protocol, the reader assigns reservation slots before allocating frame slots, and each tag generates a random sequence in its own reservation slot randomly selected by this tag to reserve a frame slot, then the reader efficiently captures the reservation collisions in reservation slots by Manchester coding. Accordingly, the protocol significantly reduces collision frame slots, and eliminates empty frame slots. Our performance evaluation shows that the proposed protocol outperforms other aloha-based protocols <sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490246]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>93</startPage>
			<endPage>100</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Chen Yihong;Feng Quanyuan;Zheng Ma;Tao Liu;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Optimization of timeout-based power management policies for network interfaces]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490247]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dynamic power management policies are essential for battery-powered consumer electronics devices, which are mostly equipped with power consuming network interfaces. Timeout-based power management policies are implemented on most operating systems, but the selection of the policy parameters generally resort to heuristic approaches and there is lack of support for network interfaces dynamic power management. Therefore, this paper introduces an innovative solution for timeout-based power management policies for network interfaces. The presented policy exploits statistical data analysis and the optimization of both power savings and performance. The effectiveness of the introduced policy is demonstrated by experimental results<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490247]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>101</startPage>
			<endPage>106</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Luiz, S.O.D.;Perkusich, A.;Cruz, B.M.J.;Neves, B.H.M.;da S Araujo, G.M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[RMSS: an efficient recovery management scheme on NAND flash memory based solid state disk]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490248]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In many consumer electronics such as digital camcorders, notebooks, and tablet PCs, hard disk drive (HDD) has been replaced with NAND flash memory based solid state disk (SSD) because of its fast speed and low power consumption. However, since SSD inherits the limitations of NAND flash memory such as erase-before-write architecture and asymmetric read, write, and erase speeds, it may result in severe performance degradation to implement a B-tree on SSD. To address these problems, several methods exploiting the buffer have been proposed so far. However, they have faced with the recovery problem because all index data in the buffer are lost when a sudden power-off occurs. In this paper, we introduce a method called RMSS (recovery management scheme on SSD) that supports an efficient recovery mechanism when a B-tree is built on SSD. Since RMSS flushes all index data and creates a checkpoint whenever updating the root node, it can stably restore the index structure into up-to-date and consistent state. Consequently, RMSS efficiently implements a B-tree on SSD by using a buffer, and also recovers the original B-tree when a power failure occurs. We show the performance of RMSS on SSD through various experiments.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490248]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>107</startPage>
			<endPage>112</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Hyun-Seob Lee;Sangwon Park;Dong-Ho Lee;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Extended Kalman filter based hand-shake detector for optical image stabilization using a low cost gyroscope]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490249]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Application extended Kalman filter (EKF) based hand-shake detector to an optical image stabilization (OIS) stabilized by fuzzy sliding-mode controller (FSMC) is proposed in this paper to enhance the image sharpness and stabilization rate (SR) of digital cameras. A low-cost gyroscope is used to sense the hand-shake vibration independently in dual-axis and the EKF is designed to online tune the parameters of hand-shake detector for improving the phase-shift phenomenon. The proposed EKF based handshake detector determines the time-varying hand-shake vibration and adopts a multi-rate strategy to reduce the computational load. The developed OIS system equipped with the FSMC and EKF based hand-shake detector is implemented in a fixed-point 16-bit microcontroller. The OIS performance is improved by the EKF based hand-shake detector in the target frequency range 2-12 Hz, and the best SR is -30.46 dB at 8Hz and the largest improvement is 1.82 times (dB) at 2 Hz.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490249]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>113</startPage>
			<endPage>121</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Li, T.-H.S.;Ching-Chang Chen;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[TESA: a temporal and spatial information aware writeback policy for home network-attached storage devices]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490250]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Home Network-Attached Storage (NAS) provides an easy way for data sharing and backup among multiple consumer electronic devices in home networks. Because of large capacity and cost effectiveness, disks are widely adopted in home NAS devices. In addition, data writes are common for many home NAS devices since these devices are usually used for data storage and backup. A writeback policy selects which dirty buffers are to be flushed to the disk, which is critical to the system performance under write-intensive workloads. In this paper, an intelligent writeback policy for home NAS called TESA is proposed. In contrast to most existing writeback policies, TESA considers both temporal and spatial information of the dirty buffers to improve the writeback performance. Considering the temporal information helps to reduce the frequency of writing back recently used dirty buffers, and hence leads to reduced write traffic. Considering the spatial information causes a reduction in the overall seek time and rotation delay of the dirty buffer writeback. The TESA writeback policy was implemented on a NAS evaluation board running Linux kernel. The performance results shows that TESA yields a significant performance improvement (i.e., up to 33.1%) over the original writeback policy of Linux. Moreover, TESA outperforms the policy that considers only the temporal information of the dirty buffers by up to 21.0%, and it also has up to 10.9% performance improvement over a previous policy that considers both the temporal and spatial information.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490250]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>122</startPage>
			<endPage>129</endPage>
			<fileSize>899</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Ting-Chang Huang;Da-Wei Chang;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[LSF: a new buffer replacement scheme for flash memory-based portable media players]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490251]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A portable media player is a consumer electronics device that is capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, image, video, and etc. NAND flash memory has been widely deployed as a storage medium for these portable media players because of its small size, light weight and low power consumption. However, due to distinct characteristics of NAND flash memory such as no in-place update, asymmetric operation unit and speed, conventional disk-based buffer replacement scheme may not yield good performance on flash memory-based storage systems. In this work, we propose a novel buffer replacement scheme considering the features of metadata as well as multimedia data for portable media players. Our proposed scheme classifies the pages into a long sequential reference set and a short sequential reference set by checking the sequential continuity of pages in the buffer. And then, it mainly evicts long sequential reference sets first from the buffer and keeps short sequential reference sets in the buffer as long as possible to improve the hit ratio. By this strategy, we can efficiently reduce the number of write and erase operations to the flash memory when storing and playing digital media. Through various experiments, we show that our proposed scheme yields better performance than its related work<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490251]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>130</startPage>
			<endPage>135</endPage>
			<fileSize>529</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Bo-kyeong Kim;Dong-Ho Lee;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Smart privacy-preserving screen based on multiple sensor fusion]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490252]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Privacy problems arise with the popular usage of personal devices with display screen, e.g., laptop, smart phone or pad, in public areas, one of which is the screen peeping. This paper proposes a smart privacy-preserving screen system that can detect someone else see the consumer's screen and then protect the screen automatically and adaptively. It depends on multiple sensors, i.e., video camera module, ultrasonic distance module, light sensor module, to detect screen peeping, user distance and environmental lightness, and decide whether to adjust the screen's lightness. With limited lightness or contrast, the screen can only be seen by the consumer, while others cannot watch the screen clearly. Especially, the screen peeping detection scheme is composed of several algorithms, i.e., eye detection, eye pair decision and person counting. Based on the video frames captured by the video camera module, the scheme will detect eyes in the video frame, decide the number of persons peeping at the private screen, and inform the smart screen to protect the screen by adjusting the light or contrast. With the smart phone as an example, various experiments are done and comparative results show that the proposed scheme obtains better performance than existing works and is a good solution for automatic screen privacy protection.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490252]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>136</startPage>
			<endPage>143</endPage>
			<fileSize>904</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Shiguo Lian;Wei Hu;Xingguang Song;Zhaoxiang Liu;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Multilevel security in UPnP networks for pervasive environments]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490253]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Security has become a critical concern in pervasive environments, since personal information can be available to malicious users. In this context, some of the major drawbacks in UPnP architecture are the user authentication and service access control, which are not suitable for pervasive environments. Moreover, the inherited heterogeneity of pervasive environments brings different security and privacy requirement concerns depending on the environment and the services provided. This paper introduces a UPnP extension that not only allows multilevel user authentication for pervasive UPnP services, but also provides a flexible security approach that adapts to the network. What is more, it offers a seamless security level negotiation protocol.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490253]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>144</startPage>
			<endPage>152</endPage>
			<fileSize>356</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Sales, T.M.;Sales, L.M.;Almeida, H.O.;Perkusich, A.;de Sales, M.A.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Conditional privacy preserving security protocol for NFC applications]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490254]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In recent years, various mobile terminals equipped with NFC (Near Field Communication) have been released. The combination of NFC with smart devices has led to widening the utilization range of NFC. It is expected to replace credit cards in electronic payment, especially. In this regard, security issues need to be addressed to vitalize NFC electronic payment. The NFC security standards currently being applied require the use of user's public key at a fixed value in the process of key agreement. The relevance of the message occurs in the fixed elements such as the public key of NFC. An attacker can create a profile based on user's public key by collecting the associated messages. Through the created profile, users can be exposed and their privacy can be compromised. In this paper, we propose conditional privacy protection methods based on pseudonyms to solve these problems. In addition, PDU (Protocol Data Unit) for conditional privacy is defined. Users can inform the other party that they will communicate according to the protocol proposed in this paper by sending the conditional privacy preserved PDU through NFC terminals. The proposed method succeeds in minimizing the update cost and computation overhead by taking advantage of the physical characteristics of NFC<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490254]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>153</startPage>
			<endPage>160</endPage>
			<fileSize>663</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Hasoo Eun;Hoonjung Lee;Heekuck Oh;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Smart user interface for mobile consumer devices using model-based eye-gaze estimation]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490255]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A smart user-interface for mobile consumer devices was developed using a robust eye-gaze system without any hand motion. Using one camera and one display already available in popular mobile devices, the eye-gaze system estimates the visual angle, which shows the area of interest on the display to indicate the position of the cursor. Three novel techniques were developed to make the system robust, userindependent, and head/device motion invariant. First, by carefully investigating the geometric relation between the device and the user's cornea, a new algorithm was developed to estimate the cornea center position, which is directly related to the optical axis of the eye. Unlike previous algorithms, it does not utilize the user-dependent cornea radius. Second, to make the system robust for practical application, an algorithm was developed to compensate for imaging position errors due to the finite camera resolution. Third, a binocular algorithm was developed to estimate the user-dependent angular offsets between the optical and visual axes with only single point calibration. The proposed system was demonstrated to be accurate enough for many practical mobile user interfaces.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490255]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>161</startPage>
			<endPage>166</endPage>
			<fileSize>357</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Iqbal, N.;Hwaran Lee;Soo-Young Lee;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Speech enhancement using a remote wireless microphone]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490256]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Noise reduction is an important problem in hands-free speech capture. This paper discusses the use of a remote wireless microphone to aid the reduction of practical non-stationary noise signals. Such a microphone can be placed close to a noise source to provide a reliable estimate of the undesired signal, which can be used by a noise reduction algorithm. The signal from the remote microphone, however, needs to be wirelessly transmitted to the primary device where the noise reduction is performed. As the remote and primary microphones are located on separate devices, their signals need not be synchronously sampled. Moreover, wireless transmission of data is power-intensive, requiring techniques to reduce the transmission bit-rate. This paper discusses transmission of the time domain signal and frequency domain parameters, analyzes their respective trade-offs between performance and robustness to synchronization errors, and presents methods to reduce the transmission bit-rate.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490256]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>167</startPage>
			<endPage>174</endPage>
			<fileSize>626</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Cvijanovic, N.;Sadiq, O.;Srinivasan, S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Maximum likelihood UEP video streaming technique for WirelessMAN-Advancedsystems]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490257]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, a maximum likelihood (ML) unequal error protection (UEP) video streaming technique is proposed for WirelessMAN-Advanced systems that are equipped with multiple antennas. The assumed video compression method is H.264/AVC which is a commercially successful technique. ML signal detection is optimal in terms of packet error performance for multiple antenna systems. However, common wisdom is that the optimal ML detection cannot be used for an implementation of UEP which is important for video streaming. In this paper, it is shown that UEP can be implemented using the optimal ML detection. With the aid of computer simulations, the proposed ML-UEP technique is shown to improve video quality significantly compared to a recently proposed UEP technique that is based on the suboptimal signal detection QR-LRL. The PSNR improvement by the proposed method comes at the cost of increased computational complexity in the physical layer <sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490257]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>175</startPage>
			<endPage>181</endPage>
			<fileSize>1019</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Jeongsik Yun;Youngok Kim;Jaekwon Kim;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[High quality spatially registered vertical temporal filtering for deinterlacing]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490258]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we propose a high quality deinterlacing method using vertical temporal filtering with spatial registration. Vertical temporal filtering methods generally perform well with low levels of complexity. However, they may also produce visible artifacts in moving scenes since incorrect blocks can be used from adjacent fields. By applying global spatial registration before performing vertical temporal filtering, we reduced these deinterlacing errors. To compute the global motion vector, we used a small number of pixels to reduce the computational complexity. However, this global spatial registration sometimes produced artifacts in stationary areas. To solve this problem, we selectively used the conventional vertical temporal filtering method and the spatially registered vertical temporal filtering method. We conducted experiments using CIF and HD progressive video sequences, some of which contained fast motion scenes. Experimental results show that the proposed method noticeably improved video quality in terms of subjective and objective evaluations. The proposed method showed 2-7 dB improvement in terms of PSNR compared to existing methods in fast moving video sequences.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490258]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>182</startPage>
			<endPage>190</endPage>
			<fileSize>812</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Kwon Lee;Chulhee Lee;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Blind configuration of multi-view video coder prediction structure]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490259]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Efficient coding of 3D multi-view video depends on the group of pictures (GOP) prediction structure and the video stream encoding order. Optimizing the GOP prediction structure and the stream coding order will reduce the coding bit rate, improve the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and reduce the coding complexity. To date, conventional coders are manually configured based on prior knowledge of the geometric arrangement of the video cameras and the properties of the video streams. In this paper, a blind self-configurable multi-view video coder (BC-MVC) algorithm is introduced. The proposed BC-MVC blindly estimates a GOP prediction structure without prior knowledge of the cameras' geometric arrangement. The BC-MVC decomposes the key video frames into independent bases and a projection (mixing) matrix using blind source separation. Based on the mixing matrix, an algorithm is developed to estimate the cameras' geometric arrangement and consequently an optimum GOP prediction structure. The experimental results show that the proposed blind multi-view video coder has better coding efficiency than conventional 3D multi-view video coders with predefined coding structures. It also shows that BC-MVC is robust to camera failures and severe channel errors. Moreover, the numerical complexity analysis shows that the proposed BC-MVC algorithm has lower computational complexity than existing multi-view video prediction schemes.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490259]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>191</startPage>
			<endPage>199</endPage>
			<fileSize>1277</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Hussein, H.S.;El-Khamy, M.;El-Sharkawy, M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[A new touchscreen application to retrieve speech information efficiently]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490260]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we describe an adaptive speech rate control technology for ultrafast listening that is equivalent to skimming. Nowadays, listening to audio books on mobile devices is quite common. Therefore, in the future we will obtain ever-increasing amounts of information through speech instead of conventional printed materials. People read books at various levels of detail from close reading to skimming. Although a similar feature to skimming is required to efficiently obtain information from audio sources, there is no tool equivalent to skimming for audio playback. Thus, we have developed a new speech rate conversion method to efficiently obtain information from audio sources with very fast replay. This algorithm will help not only sighted people to enjoy audio books but also visually impaired people because almost all of their information is obtained from speech. Thus, the implementation of this technology on special audio players for visually impaired people as a new replay function is expected to be useful. Moreover, this technology should be useful for all audio book listeners, not only people with limited sight.<sup>1</sup>]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490260]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>200</startPage>
			<endPage>206</endPage>
			<fileSize>1904</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Imai, A.;Tazawa, N.;Takagi, T.;Tanaka, T.;Ifukube, T.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fast CU size decision and mode decision algorithm for HEVC intra coding]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490261]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The emerging international standard of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a successor to H.264/AVC. In the joint model of HEVC, the tree structured coding unit (CU) is adopted, which allows recursive splitting into four equally sized blocks. At each depth level, it enables up to 34 intra prediction modes. The intra mode decision process in HEVC is performed using all the possible depth levels and prediction modes to find the one with the least rate distortion (RD) cost using Lagrange multiplier. This achieves the highest coding efficiency but requires a very high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a fast CU size decision and mode decision algorithm for HEVC intra coding. Since the optimal CU depth level is highly content-dependent, it is not efficient to use a fixed CU depth range for a whole image. Therefore, we can skip some specific depth levels rarely used in spatially nearby CUs. Meanwhile, there are RD cost and prediction mode correlations among different depth levels or spatially nearby CUs. By fully exploiting these correlations, we can skip some prediction modes which are rarely used in the parent CUs in the upper depth levels or spatially nearby CUs. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can save 21% computational complexity on average with negligible loss of coding efficiency.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490261]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>207</startPage>
			<endPage>213</endPage>
			<fileSize>724</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Liquan Shen;Zhaoyang Zhang;Ping An;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[A virtual touch event method using scene recognition for digital television]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490262]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Because of rich applications, smart operating systems on cell phones are now being migrated to home appliances like televisions. However, applications that are originally designed to be operated by touch screen are not suitable for televisions with these systems. This paper presents a method to manipulate applications with infrared remote control instead of touch screen on televisions without rewriting the code of these applications or adding extra expense on hardware. The principle of the method is to map keystroke events on the remote control to virtual touch-based events according to specific mapping relationship corresponding to each application. Since the mapping relationship is various in each scene within one application, scenes should be recognized with feature information before the mapping process. The feature information and the mapping relationship in each scene have been set up prior to running of the application. When one application is running, the current scene of the application could be identified by scene recognition algorithm, the mapping relationship related to the current scene is able to be acquired, and then keystrokes on the remote control would be mapped to touch-based events. The proposed method is tested on a smart television platform, and the result indicates the method can operate most applications by remote control, while the input response delay brought by the event mapping is negligibly less than one millisecond.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490262]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>214</startPage>
			<endPage>219</endPage>
			<fileSize>3342</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Kuizhi Mei;Sheng Feng;Guohui Li;Wenlong Chou;Lei Zhang;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[An enhanced personal photo recommendation system by fusing contextual and textual features on mobile device]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490263]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a main means to record scene in personal daily life, personal photos convey high-level semantic information (e.g., who, what, when, where) of an activity user engaged in. Different from other information retrieval tasks, personal photo recommendation depends on the measure of activity relevancy which is implicitly embedded in photos. Spurred by this observation, an enhanced recommendation approach by fusing both contextual and textual features is proposed. First, contextual relevancy is incrementally refined with an enhanced temporal and spatial clustering method respectively. Second, textual similarity of photo annotations is calculated using WordNet to augment the activity relevancy. Third, a fuzzy decision based multi-criteria ranking algorithm i.e., Preference Ranking Organization Method of Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE) is adopted to make recommendations when giving an entry photo. A prototype has been developed on mobile device to illustrate this concept. Experiment results on a real dataset which contains 10,827 photos collected from 50 volunteers during 12 months demonstrate that our approach is more accurate than traditional schemes.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490263]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>220</startPage>
			<endPage>228</endPage>
			<fileSize>524</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Ye Tian;Wendong Wang;Xiangyang Gong;Xirong Que;Jian Ma;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Frame rate up-conversion for high-definition video applications]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490264]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, a novel frame rate up-conversion (FRUC) scheme to achieve better visual quality for high-definition videos is proposed. The proposed algorithm has three main advantages over conventional FRUC algorithms. First, to increase the accuracy of motion estimation, this paper considers the diversity of motions, the retiming motion vectors of the previous motion field, and an adaptive update strategy. Second, the motion vector that is selected by using the sum of the absolute differences criterion is outputted after a geometric-based motion vector restriction, thereby improving the consistency of the motion vectors. Third, post-processing is performed on the estimated motion vectors based on localized global motions which are calculated by using motion histograms. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms that of traditional methods<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490264]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>229</startPage>
			<endPage>236</endPage>
			<fileSize>7249</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Rui Han;Aidong Men;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[High-speed rate estimation based on parallel processing for H.264/AVC CABAC encoder]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490265]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The advanced video codec of H.264/AVC has been extensively employed for data compression for efficient video storage or transmissions. However, its intensive computational complexity causes a bottleneck for its real-time applications. Simultaneously, the sequential operation in the normal encoding process is not favorable with regard to hardware implementations. In this paper, a high-speed and accurate bit-rate estimation scheme is proposed to skip the actual entropy engine of context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC), which is useful for reducing the computational complexity and saving the encoding time in H.264/AVC rate distortion (RD) optimization for mode decision. The characteristics of syntax elements and the principle of CABAC are firstly analyzed. Then guided by the spirit of parallel processing, a novel algorithm is constructed to estimate the bit-rate in RD mode decision. The proposed method significantly accelerates the encoding process while well maintaining the video quality, and is well suited to hardware implementations due to its feature of parallel processing<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490265]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>237</startPage>
			<endPage>243</endPage>
			<fileSize>1803</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Wei Li;Fuzheng Yang;Guangliang Ren;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Acoustic interference cancellation for a voice-driven interface in smart TVs]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490266]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A novel method is proposed to improve the voice recognition performance by suppressing acoustic interferences that add nonlinear distortion to a target recording signal when received by the recognition device. The proposed method is expected to provide the best performance in smart TV environments, where a remote control collects command speech by the internal microphone and performs automatic voice recognition, and the secondary microphone equipped in a TV set provides the reference signal for the background noise source. Due to the transmission channel, the original interference is corrupted nonlinearly, and the conventional speech enhancement techniques such as beamforming and blind signal separation are not applicable. The proposed method first equalizes the interference in the two microphones by maximizing the instantaneous correlation between the nonlinearly related target recording and reference signal, and suppresses the equalized interference. To obtain an optimal estimation of the equalization filter, a method for detecting instantaneous activity of interference is also proposed. The validity of the proposed method is proved by the improvement in automatic voice recognition performance in a simulated TV room where loud TV sounds or babbling speech interfere in a user's commanding speech.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490266]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>244</startPage>
			<endPage>249</endPage>
			<fileSize>453</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Jeong-Sik Park;Gil-Jin Jang;Ji-Hwan Kim;Sang-Hoon Kim;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[VoIP receiver-based adaptive playout scheduling and packet loss concealment technique]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490267]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper proposes a high performance playout scheduling and packet loss concealment algorithm at the receiver for enhancing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) speech quality. In the proposed method, arriving packets are classified by an adaptive thresholding approach based on the analysis of multiple features of short signal segments. The excellent classification results are used in the playout scheduling and packet loss concealment. In adaptive playout, the buffering time is minimized by way of playing out normally or compressing each packet according to accurate network jitter estimation. Additionally, linear prediction-based packet loss concealment delivers high voice quality by alleviating the metallic artifacts due to concealing consecutive packet loss or recovering lost packets<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>250</startPage>
			<endPage>258</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Byeong Hoon Kim;Hyoung-Gook Kim;Jichai Jeong;Jin Young Kim;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[An event-driven power management scheme for mobile consumer electronics]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490268]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dynamic processor power management based on periodic monitoring of processor load is being widely used to enhance battery life of mobile consumer electronics. The existing power management schemes, however, often lead to poor user-perceived responsiveness, which is a crucial factor for the quality of user experiences, by making inadequate or delayed decisions on the processor performance level. This paper presents a novel event-driven scheme of the processor power management to guarantee high responsiveness while minimizing ineffective energy consumption. The proposed scheme exploits the characteristic of an interactive event, which is triggered by a user input instead of a periodic timer interrupt. The prototype of the proposed event-driven scheme is implemented for an application launch event as an example. In order to quantify user-perceived responsiveness and energy consumption simultaneously, this paper introduces a latency measurement benchmark program. In the evaluation with the benchmark, the proposed power management scheme showed comparable responsiveness with higher energy savings up to 20 % than the existing dynamic schemes when the interactive workload is mixed with a CPU-intensive background task.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>259</startPage>
			<endPage>266</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Sangwook Kim;Hwanju Kim;Jeaho Hwang;Joonwon Lee;Euiseong Seo;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Feature point classification based global motion estimation for video stabilization]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490269]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The performance of video stabilization is dependent on the accuracy of global motion estimation between two successive frames. In this paper, we propose a novel method to estimate the global motion accurately using the classified background (BG) feature points (FPs). In the proposed method, global motion estimation and FP classification are jointly performed using both the FP correspondences and the global motion parameters of the previous frame. The experimental results show that video stabilization using the proposed method outperforms the conventional stabilization methods, especially when the moving foreground (FG) objects occupy a large part of the image.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490269]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>267</startPage>
			<endPage>272</endPage>
			<fileSize>524</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Seung-Kyun Kim;Seok-Jae Kang;Tae-Shick Wang;Sung-Jea Ko;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Forward error correction with Raptor GF(2) and GF(256) codes on GPU]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490270]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Raptor Galois fields (GF(2)) code and its next generation GF(256), are members of the rateless fountain codes family. Raptor codes have been a preferred technology for the forward error correction (FEC) at the application layer for several important consumer applications like Internet Protocol TV (IPTV). Raptor GF(256) code is proposed for reducing the redundant FEC information to a minimum. However, the improved coding performance comes at the expense of increased encoding and decoding complexity. On the other hand, graphics processing units (GPUs) have become a common place in the consumer market and are finding their way beyond graphics processing into general purpose computing. This paper investigates the suitability of GPU for Raptor GF(2) and GF(256) codes to process large block and symbol sizes in FEC transmission. The serial and parallel implementations of Raptor GF(2) and GF(256) codes are explored on the CPU and GPU platforms, respectively. Our work shows that efficient parallelization on the GPU improves the decoder performance significantly. To understand the performance bottlenecks of Raptor GF(2) and GF(256) codes on both the CPU and GPU platforms, the decoding speed is evaluated for different block and symbol sizes. Furthermore, simulations are performed for the practical realtime requirement in multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) and digital video broadcasting (DVB) for the bearer speed of 21 MHz in high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) network<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>273</startPage>
			<endPage>280</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Linjia Hu;Nooshabadi, S.;Mladenov, T.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Embedded middleware and software development kit for area-based distributed mobile cache system]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490271]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A new area-based distributed mobile cache system, a sustainable distributed Geocast technology, enables data caching temporarily in a designated local area using short-range communication technologies such as WiFi and Bluetooth. This system needs no infrastructure network and servers. This caching capability and mechanisms are expected to enhance short-range communications as a time-offset communication in a physical world. For that reason, it is sure to accelerate new location-based communication services. This paper reports a developed middleware for a widespread embedded operating system, and a software development kit with an open application programming interface. This middleware is expected to spur third-party developers to produce widely various applications using this proposed platform. Some pseudo-code is provided. Procedures to use this platform are also explained using an implemented geolocation social game<sup>1</sup>.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490271]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>281</startPage>
			<endPage>289</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Kasai, H.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Preparation of Papers for Publication in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490273]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Provides instructions and guidelines to prospective authors who wish to submit manuscripts.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490273]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
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			<title><![CDATA[Contents (Continued from front cover)]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490274]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Presents the cover/table of contents for this issue of the periodical.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[February  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6490274]]></guid>
			<volume>59</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
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