Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter diversity techniques have been shown to be efficient means of achieving near optimal diversity gain in frequency-selective fading channels. For these syste...
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Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitter diversity techniques have been shown to be efficient means of achieving near optimal diversity gain in frequency-selective fading channels. For these systems, knowledge of the channel parameters is required at the receivers for diversity combining and decoding. In this paper, we propose a low complexity, bandwidth efficient, pilot-symbol-assisted channel estimator for multiple transmitter OFDM systems. The pilot symbols are constructed to be non-overlapping in frequency to allow for the simultaneous sounding of the multiple channels. The time-varying channel responses are tracked by interpolating a set of estimates obtained through periodically transmitted pilot symbols. The effectiveness and limitations of the proposed estimator are verified by simulations.
Point sets obtained from computer vision techniques are often noisy and non-uniform. We present a new method of surface reconstruction that can handle such data sets using anisotropic basis functions. Our reconstructi...
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(纸本)0769511430
Point sets obtained from computer vision techniques are often noisy and non-uniform. We present a new method of surface reconstruction that can handle such data sets using anisotropic basis functions. Our reconstruction algorithm draws upon the work in variational implicit surfaces for constructing smooth and seamless 3D surfaces. Implicit functions are often formulated as a sum of weighted basis functions that are radially symmetric. Using radially symmetric basis functions inherently assumes, however that the surface to be reconstructed is, everywhere, locally symmetric. Such an assumption is true only at planar regions, and hence, reconstruction using isotropic basis is insufficient to recover objects that exhibit sharp features. We preserve sharp features using anisotropic basis that allow the surface to vary locally. The reconstructed surface is sharper along edges and at corner points. We determine the direction of anisotropy at a point by performing principal component analysis of the data points in a small neighborhood. The resulting field of principle directions across the surface is smoothed through tensor filtering. We have applied the anisotropic basis functions to reconstruct surfaces from noisy synthetic 3D data and from real range data obtained from space carving.
We present a new steganographic technique for covert communications. The technique embeds the hidden information in the DFT domain after permuting the image pixels in the spatial domain using a key. The permutation pr...
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We present a new steganographic technique for covert communications. The technique embeds the hidden information in the DFT domain after permuting the image pixels in the spatial domain using a key. The permutation process introduces randomness into the cover image and results in a significant increase in the number of transform coefficients that can be used to transmit the hidden information. The hidden information is embedded using a quantization technique. The perceptual and statistical properties of the cover and the stego images remain similar for small quantization steps. The security of the system is examined against known stego attack.
This paper describes a method for the unsupervised and gender-independent estimation of the average human vocal tract length from the speech waveform, and reports results obtained on Fant's (1960) X-ray vowel data...
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Speech and audio processing algorithms, which are based on the processing of the features and signals, are often written using poor programming styles. Understanding the existing source code and extending it is thus a...
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Speech and audio processing algorithms, which are based on the processing of the features and signals, are often written using poor programming styles. Understanding the existing source code and extending it is thus a time-consuming process that forces researchers to deal with programming problems instead of speech and audio processing innovations. We have developed a new system in C++ to overcome these problems. The programming techniques used in this environment allow a researcher to concentrate on innovations in an environment that still allows the rapid implementation of efficient real-time speech and audio processing applications.
Ultra-wideband synthetic aperture radar (UWB-SAR) systems can be used for imaging underground targets. However, conventional imaging algorithms that assume a constant velocity of propagation will exhibit degradations ...
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(纸本)0780362977
Ultra-wideband synthetic aperture radar (UWB-SAR) systems can be used for imaging underground targets. However, conventional imaging algorithms that assume a constant velocity of propagation will exhibit degradations such as blurred targets and incorrect target locations. A superior approach is to do the processing by migrating the raw data collected by an array of sensors. In this paper, we use a filtering structure for migration as a 2-D all-pass filter, and present a practical processing method for UWB-SAR imaging. Improvements versus conventional SAR image focusing are included.
The embedded hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical model that can be used in many pattern recognition and computer vision applications. This model inherits the partial size invariance of the standard HMM, and, du...
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(纸本)0780362977
The embedded hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical model that can be used in many pattern recognition and computer vision applications. This model inherits the partial size invariance of the standard HMM, and, due to its pseudo two-dimensional structure, is able to model two-dimensional data such as images, better than the standard HMM. We describe the maximum likelihood training for the continuous mixture embedded HMM and present the performance of this model for face detection and recognition. The experimental results are compared with other approaches to face detection and recognition.
We propose a hybrid low bit-rate subband video coding scheme utilizing context models, rate-constrained motion estimation and overlapped motion compensation. Emerging efficient context-based entropy coding techniques ...
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We propose a hybrid low bit-rate subband video coding scheme utilizing context models, rate-constrained motion estimation and overlapped motion compensation. Emerging efficient context-based entropy coding techniques fit very well into wavelet/subband-based coding systems, making them very attractive candidates for the entropy coding part of a wavelet/subband-based video coding scheme. A multidimensional probability modeling technique along with context-based entropy coding are utilized to exploit redundancies in the subband structure, yielding better compression.
Speech and audio processing algorithms, which are based on the processing of the features and signals, are often written using poor programming styles. Understanding the existing source code and extending it is thus a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780365143
Speech and audio processing algorithms, which are based on the processing of the features and signals, are often written using poor programming styles. Understanding the existing source code and extending it is thus a time-consuming process that forces researchers to deal with programming problems instead of speech and audio processing innovations. We have developed a new system in C++ to overcome these problems. The programming techniques used in this environment allow a researcher to concentrate on innovations in an environment that still allows the rapid implementation of efficient real-time speech and audio processing applications.
The quadtree image formation technique is a computationally efficient approximation to standard backprojection. Where the computational load of backprojection is O(N/sup 3/) for N sensors forming an N/spl times/N imag...
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(纸本)0780362977
The quadtree image formation technique is a computationally efficient approximation to standard backprojection. Where the computational load of backprojection is O(N/sup 3/) for N sensors forming an N/spl times/N image, the quadtree method uses a divide-and-conquer strategy similar to the fast Fourier transform (FFT) to reduce the computational load down to O(N/sup 2/ log(N)). However, the quadtree introduces errors in the relative time shifts used to focus pulses. These errors reduce the signal gain in the mainlobe response for isotropic point-like targets. In addition, the oscillations of the sidelobes increase from stage to stage. This paper develops performance bounds for the mainlobe losses under far field conditions and relates these bounds to the slow-time Nyquist rate.
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