Background The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is one of the most important characteristics when testing materials in order to understand their behavior when it comes to temperature change. The CTE is the rate at which a material expands with an increase in temperature. It is determined at a constant pressure without a phase change within the...

Background Materials play an important role in the transportation infrastructure. Globally, about 90% of roads are made of asphalt mixtures. In the United States, 500 million tons of asphalt mixtures are produced annually at a cost of around $40 billion. Improving pavement materials properties, such as thermal conductivity and expansion-contraction,...

Background Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the standard go-to solution for the majority of computer vision applications for the ease of design of such networks. Challenging computer vision tasks like image classification and object recognition, previously regarded to be extremely difficult have seen great results due to the use of DNNs. In...

Many different graphic file formats are used for storing graphics: JPEG, TIF, GIF, etc. Highly desirable characteristic for all still digital image compression formats are quality and compression size. JPEG 2000 was developed as an open, ISO compliant technology that improved upon the JPEG file format. With the increased use in digital imaging technology...