Stress and its effects in speech signals have been studied by many researchers. A number of studies have been attempted to determine reliable acoustic indicators of stress using such speech production features as fund...
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Stress and its effects in speech signals have been studied by many researchers. A number of studies have been attempted to determine reliable acoustic indicators of stress using such speech production features as fundamental frequency (F0), intensity, spectral tilt, the distribution of spectral energy and others. The findings indicate that more work is necessary to propose a general solution. The goal of this study is to propose a new set of speech features based on dyadic wavelet transform (DyWT) coefficients as potential stress sensitive parameters. The parameters' ability to capture different stress types is evaluated on the basis of separability distance measure between parameters of each stress class for four stress conditions: neutral, loud, question and angry. After an extensive number of scatter distributions were considered a number of clear trends emerged that confirmed that the new speech parameters are well suited for stress classification.
In order to generate local addresses for an array section A(l:h:s) with block-cyclic distribution, an efficient compiling method is required. In this paper, two local address generation methods for the block-cyclic di...
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In order to generate local addresses for an array section A(l:h:s) with block-cyclic distribution, an efficient compiling method is required. In this paper, two local address generation methods for the block-cyclic distribution are presented. One is a simple local address generation method that is modified from the virtual-block scheme. The other is a linear-time /spl Delta/M table construction method. The array elements of A(l:h:s) to be accessed at run-time build up a family of lines. By using the equation of the lines, a /spl Delta/M table can be generated in O(k) time. Experimental results show that a simple local address generation method has poor performance but a linear-time /spl Delta/M table generation method is faster than other algorithms in /spl Delta/M table generation time and access time for 10,000 array elements.
We examine a data structure which uses flexible "adaptivity" to obtain high performance for both serial and parallelcomputers. The data structure is an adaptive grid which partitions a given region into reg...
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By expressing the frequency response of a Nyquist filter as a convolution of two functions, the mathematical complexity required to find the impulse response of the filter is reduced. Moreover, more efficient Nyquist ...
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By expressing the frequency response of a Nyquist filter as a convolution of two functions, the mathematical complexity required to find the impulse response of the filter is reduced. Moreover, more efficient Nyquist filters than the popular Raised Cosine filter (i.e. wider 3 dB bandwidth, same absolute bandwidth, and shorter or same length impulse response) are generated by using well known Window functions such as Ramming and Blackman.
A rate-distortion framework is used to define a displacement vector-field estimation technique for use in video coding. This technique achieves maximum reconstructed image quality under the constraint of a target bit ...
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A rate-distortion framework is used to define a displacement vector-field estimation technique for use in video coding. This technique achieves maximum reconstructed image quality under the constraint of a target bit rate for the coding of the vector sequence. Use of this technique is evaluated for an application area in which the need for high compression of displacement vector fields is particularly acute. Specifically techniques are examined for the coding and transmission of disparity fields. This is needed for the generation at the receiver of intermediate view points by means of spatial interpolation. It is also needed in a number of other applications requiring accurate depth knowledge, including 3D medical data transmission and transmission of scenes that are going to be post processed using depth-keyed segmentation. Experimental results illustrating the performance of the proposed technique in these application areas are presented and evaluated.
This paper describes a simulator for the Shiva multiprocessor system and the simulator construction methodology (SCM) used in its creation. The SCM, based on the active functional unit (AFU) construct, is a modern SCM...
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The delta operator approach to continuous-time cellular neural networks (CT-CNNs) is investigated in terms of a robust realization. It is shown that earlier results concerning the robustness of CT-CNNs can be obtained...
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The delta operator approach to continuous-time cellular neural networks (CT-CNNs) is investigated in terms of a robust realization. It is shown that earlier results concerning the robustness of CT-CNNs can be obtained as a limiting case of this approach, while at the same time, this allows us to formulate robustness considerations for discrete-time CNNs.
Image decomposition based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) has been proposed for efficient storage and progressive transmission of images for visual browsing in digital image libraries. Although the compression...
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Image decomposition based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) has been proposed for efficient storage and progressive transmission of images for visual browsing in digital image libraries. Although the compression aspects of the DWT have been carefully researched, reconstruction errors due to corrupted wavelet coefficients have received less attention. In this paper we consider the problem of bit errors affecting uniformly quantized wavelet coefficients. The proposed method, which is based on a local image model, simultaneously detects and masks corrupted wavelet coefficients.
In this paper, a contrast pyramid based image coding method is described in which a simple nonlinear difference operation is introduced to generate residual information between two contiguous level images. The represe...
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In this paper, a contrast pyramid based image coding method is described in which a simple nonlinear difference operation is introduced to generate residual information between two contiguous level images. The representation of the residual information can be considered as a local contrast measure. As the difference image in established pyramid coding techniques, the contrast image has low variance, and data compression is achieved by quantizing the contrast image. Based on Weber's law and spatial masking of the human visual system, further data compression can be attained by selecting only perceptually significant information from the contrast image and coding it efficiently.
The authors present an analytical solution to the strong acousto-optic interaction problem in three dimensions. They then compare the analytical results to a split-step numerical algorithm. The algorithm is based on t...
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The authors present an analytical solution to the strong acousto-optic interaction problem in three dimensions. They then compare the analytical results to a split-step numerical algorithm. The algorithm is based on the concept of Fourier optics. Analytical and numerical results are presented.
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