In this paper, we propose a design of far-field single speaker localization system including noisy speech separation and enhancement with two separated channel microphones. First, we perform noisy speech separation si...
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Full-range Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) is generally achieved using a phase shifting algorithm. A novel design is presented for a one-shot full-range Fourier domain optical coherence tomography...
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Aircrafts with high performance requirements or structural damage, often operate in conditions characterized by rapidly changing nonlinear aerodynamic phenomena. A neural network based model-following adaptive control...
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We study the ultrafast non-linear optical properties of a negative-index metamaterial. In particular, we achieve sub-picosecond optical switching allowing for terabits per second modulation at telecommunication wavele...
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This paper explores corpus-based bilingual retrieval where the translation corpora used vary by source and size. We find that the quality of translation alignments and the domain of the bitext are important. In some s...
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Automatic font-written Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is highly desirable for numerous modern information technology (IT) applications. Reliable font-written OCR's for Latin scripts are readily in use since l...
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(纸本)9781424455614
Automatic font-written Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is highly desirable for numerous modern information technology (IT) applications. Reliable font-written OCR's for Latin scripts are readily in use since long. For cursively scripted languages, that are the mother tongues of over one fourth of the world population, such OCR's are however not available at a robust and reliable performance. In this regard, the main challenge is the mandatory connectivity of characters/ligatures (i.e. graphemes) that has to be resolved simultaneously upon the recognition of these graphemes. Among the various approaches tried over decades, Hidden Markov Models (HMM)-based OCR's seem to be the most promising as they capitalize on the ability of HMM decoders to achieve segmentation and recognition simultaneously similar to the widely used HMM-based automatic speech recognition (ASR). Unlike ASR's, what is missing in HMM-based OCR's is the definition of a rigorously founded features vector capable to robustly achieving minimal "font type/size-independent" (omnifont) word error rates comparable to those realized with Latin scripts. Here comes the contribution of this paper that introduces such a sound features vector design, and experimentally shows its superiority in this regard.
In recent years, new structural health monitoring (SHM) methodologies with a concept of "instantaneous baseline damage detection" are being developed by many researchers, since it has been found that the mos...
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(纸本)9781605950075
In recent years, new structural health monitoring (SHM) methodologies with a concept of "instantaneous baseline damage detection" are being developed by many researchers, since it has been found that the most of SHM technologies are too vulnerable to environmental and/or operational variations. In this context, this paper presents online instantaneous baseline structural damage detection using a low cost and low power, in-situ guided waves-SHM system. Firstly, four small, low cost and light weight smart piezoelectric ceramic (PZT) patches are surface-mounted and assumed to have the same bonding conditions to detect structural defects on an aluminum plate. Then, a miniaturized low power guided waves-SHM system with a digital signal processing (DSP) module is employed for signal generation/excitation, signal sensing, and data processing. The instantaneous baseline damage detection based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) analysis is carried out on the DSP module. Finally, effects of Lamb waves due to artificial "cut-damage' with different locations are investigated using both "pitch-catch" and "pulse-echo" wave propagation schemes. Conclusively, this study shows a good potential for online and in-situ crack monitoring on panel structures such as an aircraft wing.
Scale-free network and consensus among multiple agents have both drawn quite much attention. To investigate the consensus speed over scale-free networks is the main topic in this paper. Given a set of different values...
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Scale-free network and consensus among multiple agents have both drawn quite much attention. To investigate the consensus speed over scale-free networks is the main topic in this paper. Given a set of different values for the power-law distribution parameter γ, and a set of different values for the minimum degree ( d min ) for the nodes, the algebraic connectivity (λ 2 ) of the network topology is studied, as well as the time ( t c ) (or iteration ( k c ), for discrete algorithm) taken to reach consensus. The results exhibit that λ 2 decreases while γ increases. The λ 2 increases monotonically as d min grows, and they fit very well in a linear relationship. t c (or k c ) decreases as γ reduces and d min increases. Via observing the behavior of the largest eigenvalue (λ n ) of the Laplacian of the network topology, we draw the conclusion that the robustness over time delays declines while the robustness over node-failures and edge-failures increases.
Clustering methods are potentially the framework for power-conserving wireless sensor networks. These methods are among the most effective approaches aiming for prolonging the lifetime. Power-limited nature of the emp...
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Dramatic development of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in several applications is seeking for multi-application implementation of such networks. In this way, the middlewares contain a runtime environment that sup...
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