In our previous paper, we presented a speaker identification system using a multi-SNR multi-band method, and reported its robustness against environmental noises. This paper describes two modifications to the system for further enhancement of its noise-robustness. Firstly, 1/f noise is employed instead of white Gaussian noise to make noisy data for training multi-SNR GMMs. Secondly, recombinati...

Noise is a major issue while transferring images through all kinds of electronic communication. One of the most common noise in electronic communication is an impulse noise which is caused by unstable voltage. In this paper, the comparison of known image denoising techniques is discussed and a new technique using the decision based approach has been used for the removal of impulse noise. All th...

In this paper, the prototyping of a new piezoresistive microforce sensor is presented. An original design taking advantage on both mechanical and bulk piezoresistive properties of silicon is presented and enables to easily fabricate a very small, large range, high sensitivity with high integration potential sensor. The sensor is made of two silicon strain gages for which widespread and known mi...

For a wireless sensor network (WSN) with a large number of sensors, a decision fusion rule using the total number of detections reported by local sensors for hypothesis testing, is proposed and studied. Based on a signal attenuation model where the received signal power decays as the distance from the target increases, the system level detection performance, namely probabilities of detection an...

This paper proposes new method to optimize the overall performance in hard cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio. Optimization strategy is proposed in order to optimize the overall performance by variation of SNR. Here given strategy contributes to the methods in the literature by taking their performances to the peak point. Additionally, the effects of spectrum sensing technique type...

background : the recognition of road traffic noise as one of the main sources of environmental pollution has led to develop models that enable to predict noise level from fundamental variables. traffic noise prediction models are required as aids for designing roads and highways. in addition, sometimes are used in the assessment of existing or envisaged changes in traffic noise conditions. in t...

Many of the existing theories on phase-noise generation in oscillators are concerned with the noise originating from the active part and the resonator, while the contribution of the biasing noise is usually neglected. However, some recent theories have enlightened that the contribution of the biasing noise to the overall phase noise of the oscillator, actually, overwhelms all the other contribu...