Psychophysical two-tone suppression and the growth of the (2f• --f2} and • --f•) distortion products were measured in four normal-hearing young adults using a forward-masking paradigm. The stimulus parameters investigated were: (1)f• = 750 and 3000 Hz; (2)f2/f• = 1.1 l, 1.26, and 1.41; (3) L• = 50, 65, 80, and 90 dB SPL; and (4) L2 -L• varied from -20 to + 20 dB in 10-dB increments. It appears ...

general, any n-sequence determines a multiset of (= n!/k!(n-k)!) k-sequences. "J Suppose, conversely, that we are given a multiset 01 k-sequences. Does that multiset come from some sequence? If so, is the source sequence unique? Such questions are reminiscent of the problem of reconstructing graphs from vertex-deleted sub raphs, which has received a great deal of attention in the last twent yea...

The paper deals with a new technique of fragile image watermarking. Proposed technique exploits inter-subband dependencies in order to minimize the influence of inserted watermark on the host image quality. Using the unique watermark based on the low-frequency subband, proposed scheme is resistant against attacks based on series of images analysis. Tampering detection ability of the proposed te...

near-fault ground motions with long-period pulses can place severe demands on structures near an active fault. these pulse-type ground motions can be represented by pulse sequences with simple shapes. half-sinusoidal pulse sequences are used to approximate recorded ground motions and dynamic responses of sdof system under the excitation of these pulse sequences are studied. four cases are consi...

Let G be an additive finite abelian group with exponent exp(G). Let S = g1 · . . . · gl be a sequence over G and k(S) = ord(g1)+· · ·+ord(gl) be its cross number. Let η(G) (resp. t(G)) be the smallest integer t such that every sequence of t elements (repetition allowed) from G contains a non-empty zero-sum subsequence T of length |T | ≤ exp(G) (resp. k(T ) ≤ 1). It is easy to see that t(G) ≥ η(...

Classification of blocks of subband samples according to their energy and variable bit allocation within the subsequent classes has demonstrated considerable gains in coding efficiency. The gains due to classification increase as smaller blocks are used; however, this increases the overheads for transmitting the classification information. In this paper, a quadtree based method is proposed. Thi...

The use of subband coding on image data is discussed. An overviev~ of siibbai~d coding is given. Advantages of subbanding for browsing and progressive resol~itiori ar-e presented. Implementations for lossless and lossy coding are discussed. Algorithn~ considerations and simple implementations of subband systems are given.