Based on new observations, it is shown here that the amplitude of one of the three well known and stable short periods in the β Cep variable 16 Lac has changed: while the radial modeP1 = 0.16917 d is near its lower amplitude level and the amplitude variation of the non-radial mode P3 = 0.18173 d is still probably in phase with the orbital period, the amplitude of the NR mode P2 = 0.17077 d has ...

We present a simple yet effective algorithm for noise reduction of speech signals using a lattice LP filter. Based on previous investigations and a theoretical analysis of the lattice filter parameter estimation we introduce an improved parameter estimation algorithm that takes into account the non-stationary nature of speech and expected noise signals, yielding a good suppression of stationary...

Figure 12: a) High-level block diagram of the segmented quantizer; b) quantization block details; c) signal processing model .. Figure 16: Estimated power spectra of a) the quantization noise sequences, and b) the running sums of the quantization noise sequences of the first-order ∆Σ modulator and the segmented quantizer presented in Section IV before and Ian Galton supervised the research whic...

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a common optimization tool for solving constrained and non-differentiable problems. We provide an empirical study of the practical performance of ADMM on several nonconvex applications, including `0 regularized linear regression, `0 regularized image denoising, phase retrieval, and eigenvector computation. Our experiments suggest that AD...

Fetal heart rate extraction from the abdominal ECG is of great importance due to the information that carries in assessing appropriately the fetus well-being during pregnancy. In this paper, we describe a method to suppress the maternal signal and noise contamination to discover the fetal signal in a single-lead fetal ECG recordings. We use a locally linear phase space projection technique whic...

Euclidean distance matrices (EDM) are matrices of squared distances between points. The definition is deceivingly simple: thanks to their many useful properties they have found applications in psychometrics, crystallography, machine learning, wireless sensor networks, acoustics, and more. Despite the usefulness of EDMs, they seem to be insufficiently known in the signal processing community. Ou...

the presence of noise in geophysical measurements has undesirable effects on the seismic data. one of the important problems in seismic data processing is attenuation of the noise to the desired form and keeping the original signal. contamination of seismic data with noise prevents obtaining a proper image of geological structures and seismic data interpretation. in some of the receivers the no...

Short-range scatterometer systems are used to obtain radar backscatter signatures for understanding the interaction between electromagnetic energy and geophysical media in a number of remote sensing applications. Unlike long-range and intermediate-range radar systems, the sensitivity of short-range radars is not limited by thermal noise, but rather by reflections and leakage signals from the an...