Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for determining a pulse signal from a video sequence, the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to obtain a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; form a plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from each image frame in a subset of the image frames, wherein each image frame is divided into a plurality of frame segments; for a first video sub-sequence formed from frame segments from a first subset of image frames, comparing a representative value for the first video sub-sequence to representative values for video sub-sequences formed from frame segments from a second subset of image frames; concatenate the first video sub-sequence to a second video sub-sequence formed from frame segments from the second subset of image frames based on the comparison of representative values; and determine a pulse signal from the concatenated video sub-sequences.

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for identifying living skin tissue in a video sequence, the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to receive a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; divide each of the image frames into a plurality of frame segments, wherein each frame segment is a group of neighboring pixels in the image frame; form a plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from two or more of the plurality of image frames; analyze the plurality of video sub-sequences to determine a pulse signal for each video sub-sequence; determine a similarity matrix based on pairwise similarities for each determined pulse signal with each of the other determined pulse signals; and identify areas of living skin tissue in the video sequence from the similarity matrix.

Abstract: A method, a device, a client apparatus, and an electronic device for presenting webpages are disclosed. The method comprises: receiving webpage data; obtaining, based on page presentation-related interface information in the webpage data, corresponding interface elements of a local application; and at least partially using the interface elements of the local application to present a webpage of the webpage data. User experience can be improved according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device, system and method for skin detection. To enable a reliable, accurate and fast detection the proposed device comprises an input interface (30) for obtaining image data of a scene, said image data comprising a time sequence of image frames, an extraction unit (31) for extracting a photoplethysmography (PPG) signal from a region of interest of said image data, a transformation unit (32) for transforming said PPG signal into a spectral signal, a sorting unit (33) for sorting said spectral signal to obtain a sorted spectral signal representing a descriptor, and a classifier (34) for classifying said region of interest as skin region of a living being or as non-skin region based on the descriptor.

Abstract: Signal transmitting/receiving electronic devices or terminals in the present disclosure are configured to conduct per-beam signal synchronization in massive MIMO communication with a signal receiving/transmitting device or base station. During the massive MIMO communication, the devices or terminals are configured to transmit/receive signals via a set of beams to or from the signal receiving/transmitting device or base station. For beam domain signal of each individual beam of the plurality beams, the devices or terminals are configured to determine target time adjustments based on time shifts of the beam domain signals induced by multipath effect and target frequency adjustments based on frequency offsets of the beam domain signals induced by the Doppler effect; adjust time independent variables of the beam domain signals by the time adjustments; and adjust frequency independent variables of the beam domain signals by the frequency adjustments.

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for identifying living skin tissue in a video sequence, the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to obtain a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; divide each of the image frames into a first plurality of frame segments; form a first plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from the first plurality of frame segments for two or more of the image frames; divide each of the image frames into a second plurality of frame segments, the second plurality of frame segments comprising a greater number of frame segments than the first plurality of frame segments; form a second plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from the second plurality of frame segments for two or more of the image frames; analyze the video sub-sequences in the first plurality of video sub-sequences and the second plurality of video sub-sequences to determi

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for identifying living skin tissue in a video sequence, the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to receive a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; divide each of the image frames into a plurality of frame segments, wherein each frame segment is a group of neighboring pixels in the image frame; form a plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from two or more of the plurality of image frames; analyze the plurality of video sub-sequences to determine a pulse signal for each video sub-sequence; determine a similarity matrix based on pairwise similarities for each determined pulse signal with each of the other determined pulse signals; and identify areas of living skin tissue in the video sequence from the similarity matrix.

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for identifying living skin tissue in a video sequence, the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to obtain a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; divide each of the image frames into a first plurality of frame segments; form a first plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from the first plurality of frame segments for two or more of the image frames; divide each of the image frames into a second plurality of frame segments, the second plurality of frame segments comprising a greater number of frame segments than the first plurality of frame segments; form a second plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from the second plurality of frame segments for two or more of the image frames; analyze the video sub-sequences in the first plurality of video sub-sequences and the second plurality of video sub-sequences to determi

Abstract: The present invention provides an Offset Modulation Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and multi-access transmission method with a Cyclic Prefix (CP), including a generating method of the sent signal in the sending terminal and a processing method of the received signal in the receiving terminal, the method includes: in the sending terminal, performing generalized discrete Fourier Transform on real-value digital baseband modulated symbols and obtaining the frequency-domain signal; performing conjugate symmetric extension, frequency-domain filtering, sub-carrier mapping on the frequency-domain signal; performing Inverse Fast Fourier Transform on the frequency-domain signal after sub-carrier mapping; inserting a CP and obtaining the time-domain sent signal; in the receiving terminal, including: removing the CP, performing Fast Fourier Transform on CP removed symbols and obtaining the frequency-domain received signal; and based on multiple user joint frequency-domain equalization performing iterat

Abstract: The present invention discloses a detection method, a receiver, and an apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output single-carrier block transmission system. Through sorted QR decomposition (Sorted QR Decomposition, SQRD) decomposition based on a minimum mean squared error (Minimum Mean Squared Error, MMSE) criterion, an matrix inverse operation in minimum mean squared error equalization is avoided, and complexity is significantly reduced. In addition, through layer-by-layer soft interference cancellation detection after the SQRD decomposition and further iterative processing, better detection performance may be obtained. Especially, inter-stream interference suppression may be performed in first iteration.

Abstract: A multi-antenna channel estimation method based on polyphase decomposition includes: receiving frequency domain received signals transformed using discrete fourier transformation (DFT) in pilot symbols; performing phase correction on the frequency domain received signals; performing polyphase decomposition on the frequency domain received signals which are corrected using phase correction and acquiring polyphase signals; performing interpolation on the polyphase signals and acquiring the estimation values of the multi-antenna channel parameters with various linear combinations on each frequency; acquiring decorrelation array based on the pilot structure of the transmission antenna and decorrelating the estimation values of the multi-antenna channel parameters with various linear combination on each frequency using the decorrelation array and acquiring channel parameters of the pilot symbols on each frequency; acquiring channel parameters of data symbols based on the channel parameters of the pilot symbols.

Abstract: The present invention provides an Offset Modulation Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and multi-access transmission method with a Cyclic Prefix (CP), including a generating method of the sent signal in the sending terminal and a processing method of the received signal in the receiving terminal, the method includes: in the sending terminal, performing generalized discrete Fourier Transform on real-value digital baseband modulated symbols and obtaining the frequency-domain signal; performing conjugate symmetric extension, frequency-domain filtering, sub-carrier mapping on the frequency-domain signal; performing Inverse Fast Fourier Transform on the frequency-domain signal after sub-carrier mapping; inserting a CP and obtaining the time-domain sent signal; in the receiving terminal, including: removing the CP, performing Fast Fourier Transform on CP removed symbols and obtaining the frequency-domain received signal; and based on multiple user joint frequency-domain equalization performing iterat

Abstract: The present invention discloses a detection method, a receiver, and an apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output single-carrier block transmission system. Through sorted QR decomposition (Sorted QR Decomposition, SQRD) decomposition based on a minimum mean squared error (Minimum Mean Squared Error, MMSE) criterion, an matrix inverse operation in minimum mean squared error equalization is avoided, and complexity is significantly reduced. In addition, through layer-by-layer soft interference cancellation detection after the SQRD decomposition and further iterative processing, better detection performance may be obtained. Especially, inter-stream interference suppression may be performed in first iteration.

Abstract: A multi-antenna channel estimation method based on polyphase decomposition includes: receiving frequency domain received signals transformed using discrete fourier transformation (DFT) in pilot symbols; performing phase correction on the frequency domain received signals; performing polyphase decomposition on the frequency domain received signals which are corrected using phase correction and acquiring polyphase signals; performing interpolation on the polyphase signals and acquiring the estimation values of the multi-antenna channel parameters with various linear combinations on each frequency; acquiring decorrelation array based on the pilot structure of the transmission antenna and decorrelating the estimation values of the multi-antenna channel parameters with various linear combination on each frequency using the decorrelation array and acquiring channel parameters of the pilot symbols on each frequency; acquiring channel parameters of data symbols based on the channel parameters of the pilot symbols.

Abstract: A space domain filter detecting method in a multi-antennas wireless communication system, which processes time and space domain interference differently. The space domain filter detecting method comprises the following steps: firstly, the received signals are matched-combined in time domain and space domain; secondly, using the combined signals as an observation value, the space domain filtering is performed; thirdly, an estimated value is subtracted from the filtered signals, and the result is taken as a detection output, which is sent to a determiner in a non-error control coding system to get a hard determination output or is sent to a determiner in an error control coding system to get a soft determination output that is finally sent to a coder. The method promotes the transmission rate and the anti-interference ability and advances the spectrum efficiency.

Abstract: A detection method of space domain maximum posteriori probability (MAP) in a wireless communication system is a kind of detection technique of space domain MAP in a multi-aerial wireless communication system, which makes the detection of iteration soft interference elimination for the interference signals in the other moments, and makes the MAP detection or the simplified MAP detection for the all signals in current time and space domain. It includes the steps of: taking a fading block as a unit; the received signals are matched and combined in time domain and space domain, and calculating an equivalent channel matrix; making the sequence detection, calculating estimation and variance of the signals before the ending of detecting internal iteration; when the internal iteration detection finishes, the result is outputted, or is outputted after hard decision.

Abstract: A space domain filter detecting method in a multi-antennas wireless communication system, processing differently with the interference from the time domain and the space domain, which proceeds the interference elimination in matched filter manner for the interference signals from all antennas in the other time, and proceeds the filtering in corresponding manner for the interference signals from the other antennas in present time, comprises the following steps: firstly, the received signals are matched-combined in time domain and space domain; secondly, with the combined signals as the observation value for detecting, the filtering is proceeded in space domain in corresponding manner; thirdly, the estimated value is subtracted from the filtered signals, and the result is taken as the detecting result to output, and then is sent to the determiner in non-error control coding system to get the symbol hard determination output or is sent to the determiner in error control coding system to get the symbol soft deter

Abstract: A detection method of space domain maximum posteriori probability (MAP) in a wireless communication system is a kind of detection technique of space domain MAP in a multi-aerial wireless communication system, which makes the detection of iteration soft interference elimination for the interference signals in the other moments, and makes the MAP detection or the simplified MAP detection for the all signals in current time and space domain. It includes the steps of: taking a fading block as a unit; the received signals are matched and combined in time domain and space domain, and calculating an equivalent channel matrix; making the sequence detection, calculating estimation and variance of the signals before the ending of detecting internal iteration; when the internal iteration detection finishes, the result is outputted, or is outputted after hard decision.