This paper presents our system for transcription of polyphonic piano music – SONIC. SONIC takes an audio signal of a piano performance and tries to determine which notes were played by the performer, thus producing a list of notes and note onset times approximately matching the performance. SONIC is composed of three main parts: partial extractor, onset detector and note recognizer. We present ...

The nature of carbon burning flames in Type Ia supernovae is explored as they interact with Kolmogorov turbulence. One-dimensional calculations using the Linear Eddy Model of Kerstein (1991) elucidate three regimes of turbulent burning. In the simplest case, large scale turbulence folds and deforms thin laminar flamelets to produce a flame brush with a total burning rate given approximately by ...

Realistic specifications of the roughness length and zero-plane displacement are crucial in the boundarylayer parametrisation that plays an important role in numerical mesoscale models (Abdella and Mcfarlane 1996). Martano (2000) proposed a method for estimating the surface roughness length (z0) and the displacement height (d) from single-level sonic anemometer data. This method reduces the pro...

Blade flutter problems will become more serious in the near future for large power generating turbines as unavoidable consequences of increasing share generated by renewable energy sources. The Institute Thermomechanics Czech Academy Sciences (IT CAS) was awarded a grant to initiate blade research program. main thrust IT CAS role this program is pursue advancements experimental technique applic...

Abstract If a long ultrasound driving pulse is chosen such, that its frequency greater than the resonance of one cell type and less another type, cells are separated in different nodes antinodes standing sound field. The purpose this study was to build an experimental setup for ultrasonic fractionation whole blood flow conditions. Blood separation into separate components, commonly used analysi...

We review some accelerator physics topics for circular as well as linear colliders, considering both lepton and hadron beams. Invited Contribution to Review of Accelerator Science & Technology, Vol. 7 (2014), Editors Alexander W. Chao and Weiren Chou, World Scientific Pub., Singapore The research leading to these results has received partial funding from the European Commission under the FP7 Re...

This paper is a design report on a prototype musical controller based on fiberoptic sensing pads from Tactex Controls [8]. It will discuss elements of form factor, technical design, and tuning/sound generation systems tested while building the device I have dubbed ‘the Ski’. The goal is the creation of a fine musical instrument with which a skilled performer can play music from standard reperto...