While WiFi has been proposed for multimedia content distribution, its lack of adequate support for multicast services hinders its ability to provide multimedia content distribution to a large number of devices. In our recent papers we proposed AMuSe, a scalable and adaptive system for WiFi multicast which is based on accurate receiver feedback and that incurs a small control overhead. Specifica...

Genetic art is a recent art form generated by computers based on the genetic algorithms (GAs). In this paper, the components of a GA embedded into a genetic art tool named AMUSE are introduced. AMUSE is used to generate improvised melodies over a musical piece given a harmonic context. Population of melodies is evolved towards a better musical form based on a fitness function that evaluates ten...

Blind source separation (BSS) is widely used to analyse brain recordings like the magnetoencephalogram (MEG). However, few studies have compared different BSS decompositions of real brain data. Those comparisons were usually limited to specific applications. Therefore, we aimed at studying the consistency (i.e., similarity) of the decompositions estimated for real MEGs from 26 subjects using fi...

Eye movement artifacts represent a critical issue for quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) analysis and a number of mathematical approaches have been proposed to reduce their contribution in EEG recordings. The aim of this paper was to objectively and quantitatively evaluate the performance of ocular filtering methods with respect to spectral target variables widely used in clinical and fu...

Astronomical phenomena are governed by processes on all spatial and temporal scales, ranging from days to the age of the Universe (13.8 Gyr) as well as from kilometre size up to the size of the Universe. This enormous range in scales is contrived, but as long as there is a physical connection between the smallest and largest scales it is important to be able to resolve them all, and for the stu...

This study compares diverse Blind Source Separation (BSS) techniques applied to magnetoencephalogram (MEG) background activity in order to improve the classification of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) patients. MEG recordings from 18 AD patients and 13 control subjects were decomposed with the following BSS algorithms: AMUSE, SOBI, FastICA, and extended Infomax. Whereas AMUSE ranked the extracted BSS ...

OBJECTIVE One of the principal drawbacks of magnetoencephalography (MEG) is its high sensitivity to metallic artifacts, which come from implanted intracranial electrodes and dental ferromagnetic prosthesis and produce a high distortion that masks cerebral activity. The aim of this study was to develop an automatic algorithm based on blind source separation (BSS) techniques to remove metallic ar...

In this work a generalized version of AMUSE, called dAMUSE is proposed. The main modification consists in embedding the observed mixed signals in a high-dimensional feature space of delayed coordinates. With the embedded signals a matrix pencil is formed and its generalized eigendecomposition is computed similar to the algorithm AMUSE. We show that in this case the uncorrelated output signals a...