Objective: The estimation of perceptive thresholds is a basic element of psychoacoustics. One of the drawbacks of commonly used adaptive algorithms is the lack of reliability when the behavioral response is not robust. To address this issue an adaptive algorithm, TEMA (Threshold Estimation by Managed Algorithm), has been developed. Design: TEMA seeks the 50% point on the psychometric curve base...

In wavelet-based image coding, a variety of masking properties have been exploited that result in spatially-adaptive quantization schemes. It has been shown that carefully selecting uniform quantization step-sizes across entire wavelet subbands or subband codeblocks results in considerable gains in efficiency with respect to visual quality. These gains have been achieved through analysis of wav...

In this paper, we propose a new adaptive wavelet thresholding method for using in speech Enhancement. This modified version of the wavelet thresholding method updates an adaptive threshold in each frame. In the proposed method the selection of the wavelet threshold value depends on the estimates of the clean speech signal features. The evaluation results show that by using the specific features...

Most threshold key encapsulation mechanisms (KEM) have been studied in a weak model–static corruption model or random oracle model. In this paper, we propose a threshold KEM scheme with provable security based on the bilinear groups of composite order in the standard model. We use a direct construction from Boyen-Mei-Waters’ KEM scheme to obtain a threshold KEM scheme that can withstand adaptiv...

A parameterized activation function in the form of an adaptive threshold for a single-layer neural network, which separates a mixture of signals with any distribution (except for Gaussian), is introduced. This activation function is particularly simple to implement, since it neither uses hyperbolic nor polynomial functions, unlike most other nonlinear functions used for blind separation. For so...

A method for optimal adaptive setting of pulse-positionmodulation pulse detection thresholds, which minimizes the total probability of error for the dynamically fading optical free space channel, is presented. The threshold’s adaptive setting, in response to varying channel conditions, results in orders of magnitude improvement in probability of error, as compared to use of a fixed threshold. T...