In this paper it is shown how estimates of local structure and orientation can be obtained using a set of spherically separable quadrature lters. The method is applicable to signals of any dimensionality the only requirement being that the lter set spans the corresponding orientation space. The estimates produced are 2:nd order tensors, the size of the tensors corresponding to the dimensionalit...

Twofish is a 128-bit block cipher submitted as an AES candidate [SKW+98]. Mirza and Murphy [MM99] recently noted two interesting properties in the Twofish key schedule for 128-bit keys: there is a non-uniform distribution of 128-bit whitening keys, and the 64-bit round subkeys are non-uniformly distributed over each subset of keys that fixes the S-boxes. This paper extends these results and exp...

We examine the use of a blind adaptive “pre-whitening” filter to precede an equalizer adapted by the constant modulus algorithm (CMA). The idea is based on results presented in which the use of a (fixed, or non-adaptive) pre-whitening filter provides an isometry (i.e. geometry preserving transformation) between the combined channel-equalizer (or global space) and the equalizer tap space. As muc...

In this paper, we describe methods for computing fractionally spaced blind equalizers directly from second-order statistics of the observations. The equalizers with all possible delays are computed simultaneously, and the one with the best delay is picked by a blind constant modulus index. Our algorithm utilizes the equalizer output whitening property of the blind equalizers, i.e., output white...

Joint diagonalization for ICA is often performed on the orthogonal group after a pre-whitening step. Here we assume that we only want to extract a few sources after pre-whitening, and hence work on the Stiefel manifold of p-frames in R. The resulting method does not only use second-order statistics to estimate the dimension reduction and is therefore denoted as soft dimension reduction. We empl...

In our efforts to find new whitening agent materials, we focused on wood of Artocarpus heterophyllus which is anti melanogenesis. By activity-guided fractionation of A. heterophyllus wood extract, norartocarpetin and artocarpesin were isolated which inhibited both mushroom tyrosinase activity and melanin formation in B16 melanoma cells. This compound is a strong candidate as a remedy for hyperp...

It is well known that a discrete band-limited signal can be made broad-banded if we randomly permute its entries. In this paper, we study the efficacy of such spectral whitening procedure and its application to Sigma Delta quantization in Compressed Sensing. As a side result, we show that a similar whitening phenomenon can be observed in a broad class of non-Fourier orthogonal transformations.

Although there are several case reports of vital tooth bleaching in children, there is limited clinical trial evidence of the safety or efficacy of this practice. Accordingly, a new clinical trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of 2 different bleaching systems, a 6.5% hydrogen peroxide strip system and a 10% carbamide peroxide tray system, in a population of preteens and teens. A total o...