World Cup 2014 Goal-line Technology

Karim Benzema scored two as France comfortably beat Honduras 3-0. The game also saw the first successful usage of goal-line technology in the tournament.

 

The are several goal-line technology that can determine when the ball has completely crossed the goal line. GoalRef and CAIROS use magnetic fields around the goal and a chip in the ball, while Hawk-Eye and GoalControl are camera-based. The world cup 2014 opt for GoalControl-4D which uses 14 high-speed cameras located around the pitch and directed at both goals. The advantage of GoalControl technology is that no modification is necessary where standard goals, balls and nets can be used. GoalControl cost €200,000 (£170,000) per stadium to install, and €3,000 (£2,550) per match to run.

Why Google Acquire Skybox Imaging?

It's amazing to see how an aircraft and vehicles can be tracked using satellite images in the above video. The full motion HD video from space of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world is taken by Skybox Imaging. Surely many things Google can benefit from acquiring the company.

Google Buys Skybox Imaging -- Not Just For Its Satellites

When Google said Tuesday it had entered into an agreement to acquire Mountain View-based satellite imaging company Skybox Imaging, it tipped its hand a little as to why it was a strategic move.
“Skybox’s satellites will help keep Google Maps accurate with up-to-date imagery,” the company said in a blog post. “Over time, we also hope that Skybox’s team and technology will be able to help improve Internet access and disaster relief — areas Google has long been interested in.”

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You're Being Monitored - Medtronic and Their Implant Sensors

How do you feel if you are being monitored all the time? Medtronic has successfully miniaturize their  cardiac technologies which can be implanted in the heart. The sensors would help with disease management, as they could be programmed to monitor particular organs or systems. 

Medtronic Wants to Implant Sensors in Everyone

By Eliza Strickland

Posted 10 Jun 2014 | 13:00 GMT

Today, when doctors suspect that a patient has a cardiac arrhythmia that could lead to a heart attack, they can implant a tiny cardiac monitor smaller than a AAA battery in the patient's chest, directly over the heart. The company that makes that monitor, Medtronic, thinks the day will come when perfectly healthy people will be clamoring to have that gear inside them as well. 

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Detect Pulse & Breathing using Surveillance Images?

Now you can reveal previously hidden motions, such as a baby's breathing, a construction crane swaying and blood pulsing through arteries in a human wrist. The Eulerian Video Magnification by MIT able to amplifies changes in successive frames of video that are too subtle for the naked eye.

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FPGA Doing My Google Search?

Figure 1. The data center is a huge, unfamiliar world for hardware accelerators. Photo by Connie Zhou (from Google)

Do Hardware Accelerators Have a Role in Data Centers?

Heterogeneous computing is coming to a cloud near you, and that could be a good thing.

Spiraling computing needs are drawing hardware accelerators, including FPGAs, into heterogeneous computing configurations in data centers. But when the new hardware comes in, it finds a very unfamiliar environment. The result could be change that benefits everyone.

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Big Data Week @ Kuala Lumpur (May 5- 11, 2014)

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IEEE TCAS-II Special Issue on Biomedical and Bioelectronic Circuits for Enhanced Diagnosis and Therapy

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Special issue on
Biomedical and Bioelectronic Circuits for Enhanced Diagnosis and Therapy
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The application of innovative circuits and systems to healthcare applications is experiencing remarkable growth worldwide. Examples include electronics for smart biosensors to detect or monitor the progress of various diseases, implantable neural prostheses to replace lost function due to neural damage, wireless brain-machine interfaces for neuroscience research and control of prosthetic devices, and new generation cardiovascular technology with real time monitoring capability. Advances in medical device technology have been shown to greatly improve the quality of life for people with conditions such as Parkinson's disease, diabetes, hearing loss, blindness and heart failure, to name a few. The purpose of this special issue is to report the cutting-edge development of circuits and systems which have the potential to enhance diagnosis and therapy.

Authors are invited to submit Brief papers following the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS II) guidelines, within the remit of this Special Issue call. Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Implantable integrated circuits including brain inspired cognitive chips and VLSI circuits for neuromorphic engineering applications in healthcare
• Bioelectronic and Bio-MEMS integrated systems; integration of heterogeneous technologies such as RF, MEMS and digital signal processing on silicon
• Biomedical imagers
• Lab-on-chip and biosensor circuits
• Innovative circuits for medical instrumentation
• Ultra-low power/sub-threshold, self-powered circuits, wireless communication and power transfer through human body; energy harvesting for wearable body sensors
• Circuits for multimodality sensing platforms
• Biomedical signal processing systems
• Body sensor networks; wearable health monitoring

Submission Guidelines: All submitted manuscripts must (i) conform to TCAS II's normal formatting requirements and page-count limits (at no more than 5 pages); (ii) incorporate no less than 60% of new (previously unpublished) material; (iii) validate principal claims with experimental results and all secondary, difficult-to-test claims with simulations; and (iv) be submitted on line at http://tcas2.polito.it/Forms/Authors/index.html. Please note that you need to select "Special Issue Biomedical and Bioelectronic Circuits for Enhanced Diagnosis and Therapy" when you submit a paper to this Special Issue.

Deadlines
Deadline for Paper Submission: June 15, 2014
Completion of First Review: August 15, 2014
Completion of Final Review: October 15, 2014
Target Publication: February 2015

Guest Editors

Professor Robert Rieger
National Sun Yat-sen University
Taiwan, R.O.C.
rrieger@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

Dr Jaswinder Lota
University of East London
London, U.K.
j.lota@uel.ac.uk

Dr Xiao Liu
University College London
London, U.K.
xiao@ucl.ac.uk

Signal Processing To Help in Finding MH370 Flight

US Navy personnel helping to look for missing Malaysia Air Flight MH370 are using the signal-processing and analysis package Spectrum Laboratory by Wolf Buescher, DL4YHF, to analyze recently detected 37.5 kHz “pings” that may be from the missing plane’s “black box.” Some Spectrum Laboratory screen shots as seen aboard the Australian Defense Vessel Ocean Shield were shown on TV. The US Navy personnel are guests aboard the Australian ship. VLF experimenter Warren Ziegler, K2ORS, said the software is the same package Amateur Radio experimenters used recently to detect transatlantic signals on 29 kHz.

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