Abstract. The aim of the SCHEMA Network of Excellence is to bring together a critical mass of universities, research centers, industrial partners and end users, in order to design a reference system for contentbased semantic scene analysis, interpretation and understanding. In this paper, recent advances in the development of the SCHEMA reference system are reported, focusing on the application of region-based image retrieval using automatic segmentation. More specifically, the first and the second version of the reference system are presented and the motivation behind the different approaches followed during the development of these two versions is discussed. Experimental results for both systems, using a common collection of images, are shown. Additionally, a comparative evaluation of the two versions both in terms of retrieval accuracy and in terms of time-efficiency is performed, allowing the evaluation of the system as a whole as well as the evaluation of the usability of different components integrated with the reference system, such as the MPEG-7 eXperimentation Model. This illustrates the suitability of the SCHEMA reference system in serving as a test-bed for evaluating and comparing different algorithms and approaches pertaining to the content-based and semantic manipulation of visual information, ranging from segmentation algorithms to indexing features and methodologies.
This paper suggests a methodology to decrease the power of a static CMOS standard cell design at layout level by focusing on switched capacitance. The term switched is the key: if a capacitance is not switched often, it may be high. If it is frequently switched, it should be minimized in order to reduce power consumption. This can be done by an algorithm based on forces that automatically optimizes the position and length of every single wire segment in a routed design. The forces are proportional to the toggle activities derived from a gate level simulation. The novelty is that this allows to iteratively find a new topology for the wire segments. Our algorithm takes as input an already given, grid routed layout.
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