Scalar quantizers with the minimum mean square error are designed in the case where the input signal and the quantization noise are uncorrelated. The probability density function (pdf) of the stochastic signal is assu...
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(纸本)0780366859
Scalar quantizers with the minimum mean square error are designed in the case where the input signal and the quantization noise are uncorrelated. The probability density function (pdf) of the stochastic signal is assumed to be known. This design is then generalized to vector quantizers in the case where the expected value of the inner product between the input and quantization noise vector are equal to zero. The results show that the representation levels of the proposed quantizers are scaled versions of the representation levels of the well-known pdf optimized quantizers. The proposed quantizers are useful in subband coding applications.
It is observed that by designing a filter with marginally stricter specifications than the desired one without any increase in order, i.e., length of the filter, a multiplierless implementation of recursive filters is...
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(纸本)9539676940
It is observed that by designing a filter with marginally stricter specifications than the desired one without any increase in order, i.e., length of the filter, a multiplierless implementation of recursive filters is feasible utilizing some class of low sensitivity structure. These implementations are not associated with an increase in the order of the filter that involves more shift registers, data paths, control circuits, etc., and, hence, an increase in complexity, i.e. indirect overheads. The approach appears to be especially suitable for filters with high sensitivity. In low sensitivity structures the modified coefficients can be realized with multipliers of shorter wordlength, i.e., in fewer bits. When these are implemented in minimum numbers of signed powers of two (MNSPT) form, we have a multiplierless implementation.
We present a new scheme to increase the performance of edge-preserving image smoothing algorithm from the parameter tuning of a Markov random field (MRF) function. This method is based on an automatic control of the i...
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We present a new scheme to increase the performance of edge-preserving image smoothing algorithm from the parameter tuning of a Markov random field (MRF) function. This method is based on an automatic control of the image-smoothing strength in the MRF function in which the parameter control of the function depends on edge magnitude resulted from discontinuities of image intensity. Without any binary decision for the edge magnitude, direct use of full edge magnitude could improve the performance of discontinuity-preserving image smoothing technique.
Measurements have been conducted in an anechoic chamber for a comparison to current acoustic theory with regard to radiation directivity from a cylindrical pipe with toneholes. Several difficulties arise in measuremen...
Measurements have been conducted in an anechoic chamber for a comparison to current acoustic theory with regard to radiation directivity from a cylindrical pipe with toneholes. Several difficulties arise in measurements of this sort, including (1) the generation of sufficient driving signal strength at the pipe input for pickup by an external microphone; (2) external source‐to‐pickup isolation; (3) measurement contamination due to nonlinear driver distortion. Time‐delay spectrometry using an exponentially swept sine signal was employed to determine impulse responses at points external to the experimental air column. This technique is effective in clearly isolating nonlinear artifacts from the desired linear system response along the time axis, thus allowing the use of a strong driving signal without fear of nonlinear distortion. The experimental air column was positioned through a wall conduit into the anechoic chamber such that the driver and pipe input were located outside the chamber while the open pipe end and tone holes were inside the chamber, effectively isolating the source from the pickup. Measured results are compared to both transmission‐line, frequency–domain simulations, as well as time–domain digital waveguide calculations.
The segmentation of a signal based on a piecewise polynomial model is reexamined here in light of the recent advances in applying the MDL principle to the exponential density family. The critical case of discriminatin...
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Interpolated and warped digital waveguide mesh algorithms have been developed to overcome the problem caused by direction and frequency-dependence of wave travel speed in digital waveguide mesh simulations. This paper...
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This paper summarizes our recent achievements in developing signalprocessing methods for model-based synthesis of plucked-string instruments. The methods discussed are applicable to a broad family of musical instrume...
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A synthesis model for the clavichord is developed applying the principles of digital waveguide modeling. A commuted waveguide synthesis model is used, where each tone is generated with two coupled string models that a...
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Stereophonic sound becomes more important in a growing number of hands-free applications where spatial realism is demanded. Such hands-free systems need stereophonic acoustic echo cancellers to reduce echoes that resu...
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A new methodology for perceptual quality measure is presented. The new method defines the bark coherence function (BCF) as a new cognition module. False prediction errors are occasionally observed in previously develo...
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(纸本)7801501144
A new methodology for perceptual quality measure is presented. The new method defines the bark coherence function (BCF) as a new cognition module. False prediction errors are occasionally observed in previously developed perceptual measures when they are applied to the end-to-end speech quality measurement of communication systems. Those errors are mainly caused by the linear distortion of the analogue interface of the system being evaluated. The BCF itself normalizes those effects of linear filtering, so that it is ideal for the speech quality assessment of mobile communication systems. In addition, the proposed scheme does not require the local as well as global scaling, so that it is robust to the difference between the original and received speech levels. To evaluate the performance of the new perceptual model, the regression analysis was performed with CDMA digital cellular, CDMA personal communication service (PCS) and speech codec's. The correlation coefficients computed using the BCF showed noticeable improvements over the PSQM that is recommended by ITU-T. Robustness of the BCF to various conditions was also tested.
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