Evaluation of the benefits of sensory aids requires stimulus materials whose psychometric characteristics are known. Generalizability theory was applied to data from two experiments to estimate measurement error arisi...
Evaluation of the benefits of sensory aids requires stimulus materials whose psychometric characteristics are known. Generalizability theory was applied to data from two experiments to estimate measurement error arising from different materials, different talkers, and practice. Stimulus materials consisted of CID sentences and CV nonsense syllables produced by a male and a female talker and stored on video laserdisk. In experiment I, 104 normal‐hearing subjects lipread the CID sentences in a single test session. Results indicate that there are substantial individual differences in lipreading performance among subjects, but that there are also systematic differences among sentences and among talkers that must be taken into account in interpreting test performance. In experiment II, 15 normal‐hearing subjects who participated in an intensive training protocol involving vibrotactile supplements to lipreading were given pre‐ and posttests on the CID sentences and on the CV syllables. Individual differences in performance on sentences were highly stable over the training period, suggesting relatively uniform improvements due to training. Reliability over time was lower for the CV syllables and correlations between the CV and sentence materials were weak both at the pretest and posttest. [Work supported by NIH.]
Underwater acoustic propagation is characterized by multipath or multimode propagation. Ray theory and mode theory are not fully adequate for modeling physical reality. Impulse responses can be more accurately calcula...
Underwater acoustic propagation is characterized by multipath or multimode propagation. Ray theory and mode theory are not fully adequate for modeling physical reality. Impulse responses can be more accurately calculated using Gaussian beam theory. signal processors can be designed to take advantage of the channel complexity if the propagation is actually known so that detectability is increased. The proposed technique, channel matched filtering, synthetically backpropagates the wave front to a hypothesized source location. Accurate passive estimates of source location can be made without knowledge of the signal characteristics. GB theory can easily accommodate a range‐dependent deep water environment. [This research supported by the Office of Naval Research.]
Texture is one of important features of masses in mammograms. A recent texture unit-based texture spectrum approach, referred to as Texture Unit Coding (TUC) has shown promise in texture classification. This paper pre...
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Hyperspectral imagery offers a means of uncovering enormous spectral information that can be used for various applications in data exploitation. How effectively such information is used affects the way image analysis ...
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Spectral measures have been used in material identification and discrimination. They are effective if the spectral signatures are calibrated and not contaminated. However, it may not be true in many real applications,...
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In this paper, we propose the shared mixture GMM classifier. Mixtures of a GMM which represent areas in the feature space must have very less overlap across classes for best performance. If not, patterns of a class be...
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In this paper, we propose the shared mixture GMM classifier. Mixtures of a GMM which represent areas in the feature space must have very less overlap across classes for best performance. If not, patterns of a class belonging to regions of overlap score high likelihoods with not only the mixture of its own class, but also that mixture of another class thereby making a high contribution to the likelihood score with respect to the other class model. We propose a computational method of determining if such mixtures exist and using an automatic method of determining such mixtures based on discriminability between classes, we propose choosing the mixtures for each GMM from the set of all mixtures of all GMMs. Mixtures that have significant overlap with other classes get shared between the contending classes. Weights are based on cluster-class membership matrix defined in the paper. We have compared the performance of this shared mixture GMM with a conventional GMM, for a 14 class music instrument recognition task. The new model performs competitively compared to the conventional GMM, and outperforms it when there is lesser training data.
The Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is a technique used in fracture mechanics to predict how objects deform as cracks form and propagate through them. Here, we propose the use of XFEM to model the deformations r...
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Heart rate variability (HRV) is frequently used to measure autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. However, little is known about the mechanism underlying pharmacologically induced changes in HRV. Previous research h...
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Heart rate variability (HRV) is frequently used to measure autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. However, little is known about the mechanism underlying pharmacologically induced changes in HRV. Previous research has shown that nicotine exposure stimulates the ANS, mediating a wide spectrum of physiological and behavioral effects, including altered respiratory sinus arrhythmia and enhanced arousal and attention. Using Lomb-Welch periodograms, the effect of nicotine on the ANS in 14 nicotinenaive human subjects are studied. Results showed an increase in the low frequency (LF) to high frequency (HF) ratio with little change in mean heart rate. Results suggest that nicotine affects both sympathetic and parasympathetic reactivities and that the LF/HF best characterizes early ANS activated nicotine changes in HRV. The Lomb-Welch periodogram of the HRV is also compared to the conventional interpolated Welch periodogram. The attenuation of the high frequency components due to interpolation of the non-uniform R-R intervals is found to be a function of the power of the high frequency components, increasing with increasing power. Thus analyses using Welch periodograms that make use of the high frequency components may yield erroneous results.
Anomaly detection finds target pixels whose signatures are spectrally distinct from their surrounding pixels. It is generally performed without prior knowledge. This paper presents an adaptive causal anomaly detector ...
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Anomaly detection finds target pixels whose signatures are spectrally distinct from their surrounding pixels. It is generally performed without prior knowledge. This paper presents an adaptive causal anomaly detector (ACAD) which implements a causal anomaly detector in such a fashion that a target pixel will be removed from the data correlation matrix once it is detected as an anomaly. As a result, it improves the commonly used RX algorithm as well as a recently developed causal RX filter
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