It seems quixotic that we should resist the pull of electronic payments and digital banking and get back to using cash. Why would we give up the ease of swiping our cards or tapping our phones in ...

SEOUL, April 23 (Reuters) - Beijing recently asked South Korean companies not to ship products containing China's rare earth minerals to U.S. defence firms, the Korea Economic Daily reported on ...

The Government’s long-awaited packaging recycling scheme, due to come in to effect this autumn, will lead to a major increase in the use of unrecyclable plastic bags and bottles, The i Paper can ...

Adaptive Computation Time models allowed dynamic determination of computational steps per input but are mainly applied to simple RNN architectures and tested on small-scale tasks without using ...

In this paper, we propose a frequency-aware learned image compression network based on channel-wise attention and Restormer. In encoder, we perform locality-aware encoding based on window-based ...

Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State ...

Abstract: Efficient compression of 360-degree video content requires the application of advanced motion models for inter-frame prediction. The Motion Plane Adaptive (MPA) motion model projects the ...

The Cloud SQL Python Connector is a Cloud SQL connector designed for use with the Python language. Using a Cloud SQL connector provides a native alternative to the Cloud SQL Auth Proxy while providing ...

When using an HDL simulator such as Icarus which provides only a limited possible support for advanced verification methodologies, the following challenges have to be faced: How to define and perform ...

Suppressing the degradation of image quality by the original comp./decomp. processing, drastic reductions of Memory amount and Bandwidth could be realized. This enables the high-performance and cost ...