While machines struggle to cope with acoustical variability and noise, humans show remarkable robustness to recognize speech content under different conditions of environmental noise. The tonotopic organization of the...
While machines struggle to cope with acoustical variability and noise, humans show remarkable robustness to recognize speech content under different conditions of environmental noise. The tonotopic organization of the spiral human cochlea has motivated the signal processing community for its superb frequency tuning capabilities. In this work, we design and evaluate a novel spiral cochlear cepstrum space, as a novel, directional feature engineering framework, using a cochlear transform approach, that results in tonotopically organized, orthogonal cochlear modes. Such cochlear modes are then transformed to the spiral cochlear cepstral space, yielding cochlear filterbank cepstral coefficients (CFCCs). As opposed to previous works that define the bio-inspired cepstral features based on Mel-, Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidth (ERB) or linear scales, we define the scaling based on the cochlear spiral geometry that spans from θ = 0° at the base to θ = 990° at the apex. We then compute the log function and the discrete cosine transform of the cochlear modes energy yielding spatially supported cepstral features along the spiral cochlear space, spaced by θ = 45°. We assess the impact of noise on the CFCCs and compare the performance to that of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and Gammatone Filterbank Cepstral Coefficients (GFCCs) using the NOIZEUS dataset. We report, for the first time, that the superiority of the CFCCs noise-robustness stems from the geometrical organization of the cochlea (i.e., its tonotopic map) when evaluated on speech signals contaminated with different noise conditions at different SNRs. The proposed CFCCs constitute a platform for a new class, bio-inspired and noise-robust feature extraction for many applications such as speaker recognition.
This paper proposes an 8 bit time-interpolated Vernier digital-to-time converter (DTC) consisting of a 4-bit Vernier delay line coarse DTC and a 4 bit time interpolator fine DTC with applications in a time-based succe...
This paper proposes an 8 bit time-interpolated Vernier digital-to-time converter (DTC) consisting of a 4-bit Vernier delay line coarse DTC and a 4 bit time interpolator fine DTC with applications in a time-based successive approximation register time-to-digital converter (SAR TDC) for power and area efficiency. The design, operation, calibration, and error analysis of the DTC are presented. The DTC is designed in a TSMC 130 nm 1.2 V CMOS technology and analyzed using Spectre with BSIM3 device models. Simulation results show that the DTC achieves a resolution of 0.57-0.69 ps, a dynamic range of 145.4-176 ps, and DNL and INL of 0.5 LSB and 0.52 LSB, respectively and consumes 1.1 mW.
Heart Disease remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. It alarmingly rises at a quick rate, making early heart disease prediction crucial for effective prevention and timely intervention. Heart disease diagnosi...
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Age-related macular degeneration(AMD)causes blindness due to loss of retinal pigment epithelium(RPE)and photoreceptors(PRs),which comprise the two outermost layers of the *** the small size of the macula and the impor...
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Age-related macular degeneration(AMD)causes blindness due to loss of retinal pigment epithelium(RPE)and photoreceptors(PRs),which comprise the two outermost layers of the *** the small size of the macula and the importance of direct contact between RPE and PRs,the use of scaffolds for targeted reconstruction of the outer retina in later stage AMD and other macular dystrophies is particularly *** developed microfabricated,honeycomb-patterned,biodegradable poly(glycerol sebacate)(PGS)scaffolds to deliver organized,adjacent layers of RPE and PRs to the subretinal ***,an optimized process was developed to photocure PGS,shortening scaffold production time from days to *** resulting scaffolds robustly supported the seeding of human pluripotent stem cell-derived RPE and PRs,either separately or as a dual celllayered *** advanced,economical,and versatile scaffolds can accelerate retinal cell transplantation efforts and benefit patients with AMD and other retinal degenerative diseases.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease characterized by progressive or alternate impairment of neurological functions (motor, sensory, visual, and cognitive). Predicting disease progression with a probabilistic ...
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Owing to the advances in sensor technology and the emergence of wearable devices that enable d...
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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are emerging as a key technology for enhancing wireless communications in smart city environments, offering robust, low-latency connectivity. This paper presents the design o...
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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are emerging as a key technology for enhancing wireless communications in smart city environments, offering robust, low-latency connectivity. This paper presents the design of an adaptive control system based on high-voltage, mixed-signal integrated circuits for controlling tunable RISs, tailored for wireless cellular communications in urban areas. The proposed system enables enhanced programmability by dynamically steering beams and fine-tuning signal reflections through the precise control of varactor diodes embedded within the RIS unit cells. This flexible system architecture supports real-time software reconfiguration, allowing RIS units to adapt to varying network conditions and scale seamlessly across smart city infrastructures. Simulated results on a 0.35 μm CMOS high voltage process technology demonstrate the circuit's ability to achieve low power consumption and high reconfiguration speed across a wide temperature range. The control electronics are separated from the RIS panels, this way enabling tiling of multiple surfaces for scalable, cost-effective deployment. This approach offers a promising pathway to meeting the growing demand for seamless, high-speed, and energy-efficient connectivity in next-generation smart city applications, including vehicular networks, Internet of Things, smart traffic management and smart infrastructure.
The advanced function-calling capabilities of foundation models open up new possibilities for deploying agents to perform complex API tasks. However, managing large amounts of data and interacting with numerous APIs m...
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Personalized drug response prediction is an approach for tailoring effective therapeutic strategies for patients based on their tumors’ genomic characterization. While machine learning methods are widely employed in ...
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This paper tackles the issue of control loops in high-frequency switching-mode DC-DC buck converters for post-regulation in automotive applications. Two different control loop implementations, designed in a 120-nm BCD...
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(数字)9798350356830
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(纸本)9798350356847
This paper tackles the issue of control loops in high-frequency switching-mode DC-DC buck converters for post-regulation in automotive applications. Two different control loop implementations, designed in a 120-nm BCD process, are proposed and verified through simulations. Both solutions exploit the advantages of standard voltage mode control (VMC), while improving the transient response by including a one cycle (OC) and a feed forward (FF) loop, respectively. The OC VMC loop achieves 0.92 mV/V line regulation and 0.6 mV/A load regulation, whereas the FF VMC attains 0.17 mV/V line regulation and 4.8 mV/A load regulation, thus both outperforming the state-of-the-art of high-frequency switching-mode buck converters.
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