The method for quantifying building-specific functional recovery is based on the performance-based earthquake engineering framework. To quantify building function, the method maps component-level ...

BM3D is a state-of-the-art image denoising algorithm. It can be extended to video denoising, named V-BM3D, which is also implemented in this plugin. This filter is much easier to use with the wrap ...

Surface ElectroMyoGraphy (EMG) signals from the forearm used in prosthetic hand and finger control systems require precise anatomy data of finger muscles that are small and located deep within the ...

GNU Octave 4 [1] with its graphical interface is allowing many more folks to explore the MATLAB [2] programming language who never could have done so before because of the cost. While Octave will ...

Complex systems are increasingly being viewed as distributed information processing systems, particularly in the domains of computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and artificial life. This trend ...