SACCHI , Claudio

This work aims at proposing a higher-order moments analysis, in order to obtain an effective characterisation (in a non-Gaussian sense) of the global DS/CDMA noise in the case of few-user systems and short spreading codes. The use of the Edgeworth series expansion, whose terms are directly linked with the statistical cumulants allows to reach a...

The most widely used video-based surveillance systems generally employ two or more monochromatic cameras that are connected to one or more monitors. In the case of remote video-based surveillance systems, the unattended surveyed environments are generally located quite far from the control centre, where the result of the processing is displayed...

The provision of broadband multimedia services to residential users belonging to the last network mile is one of the most interesting technological challenges of this end of millennium. Some current R&D topics concerning this technological field (e.g. IV and V CEC Framework Programmes) are focusing their attention on the provision of services...