Exploiting a tissue-conductive sensor – a stethoscopic microphone – the system developed at NAIST which converts Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) to audible speech by GMM-based statistical mapping is a very promising technique. The quality of the converted speech is however still insufficient for computer-mediated communication, notably because of the poor estimation of F0 from unvoiced speech and beca...

Exploiting a tissue-conductive sensor – a stethoscopic microphone – the system developed at NAIST which converts Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) to audible speech by GMM-based statistical mapping is a very promising technique. The quality of the converted speech is however still insufficient for computer-mediated communication, notably because of the poor estimation of F0 from unvoiced speech and beca...

Since the feasibility study of R&D programs have been initiated for efficient public R&D investments, year 2008, feasibility studies have improved in terms of precision. Although experience related to these studies of R&D programs have increased to a certain point, still methodological improvement is required. The feasibility studies of R&D programs are consisted of various viewpoints, such as ...

Most quasi-static ultrasound elastography methods image only the axial strain, derived from displacements measured in the direction of ultrasound propagation. In other directions, the beam lacks high resolution phase information and displacement estimation is therefore less precise. However, these estimates can be improved by steering the ultrasound beam through multiple angles and combining di...

 Investigate determinantal point processes (DPPs) for discriminative subset selection  Proposemargin based parameter estimation to explicitly track errors in selecting subsets  Balance different types of evaluation metrics, e.g., precision and recall  Improve modeling flexibility by multiple-kernel based parameterization  Attain state-of-the-art performance on the tasks of video and docume...

The GPS double difference carrier phase measurements are ambiguous by an unknown integer number of cycles. High precision relative GPS positioning based on short observational timespan data, is possible, when reliable estimates of the integer double difference ambiguities can be determined in an efficient manner. In this contribution a new method is introduced that enables very fast integer lea...

Introduction: It has been demonstrated that Optimal Sampling Schedule (OSS) theory [1] can be used as an objective strategy for choosing a TI sampling scheme in pulsed arterial spin labelling (PASL) experiments, yielding an improvement in parameter estimation precision [2]. However, this requires a priori estimates of the likely value of the fitted parameters. Adaptive Sequential Design (ASD) a...

The estimation of parameters characterizing dynamical processes is central to science and technology. The estimation error decreases with the number N of resources employed in the experiment (which could quantify, for instance, the number of probes or the probing energy). Typically, it scales as 1/ p N . Quantum strategies may improve the precision, for noiseless processes, by an extra factor 1...