Three experiments tested the influence of approach- and avoidance-related lever movements on the perception of masked affectively positive and negative stimuli. A motivational account of the bidirectional evaluation-behavior link predicted an enhanced detection of response-compatible stimuli, whereas a common-coding model predicted a reduced evaluative sensitivity toward such stimuli due to fea...

In this paper we investigate ‘real-time’ watermarking of singlesensor digital camera images (often called ‘raw’ images) and blind watermark detection in demosaicked images. We describe the software-only implementation of simple additive spread-spectrum embedding in the firmware of a digital camera. For blind watermark detection, we develop a scheme which adaptively combines the polyphase compon...

The inability of people to detect changes between consecutively presented visual displays, when separated by a blank screen or distractor, is known as "change blindness". This phenomenon has recently been reported to occur within the auditory and tactile modalities as well. To date, however, only distractors presented within the same sensory modality as the change have been demonstrated to prod...

In this article we investigate 'real-time' watermarking of single-sensor digital camera images (often called 'raw' images) and blind watermark detection in demosaicked images. We describe the software-only implementation of simple additive spread-spectrum embedding in the firmware of a digital camera. For blind watermark detection, we develop a scheme which adaptively combines the polyphase com...

Abstract During the past years, development of assistive technologies for visually impaired (VI)/blind people has helped address various challenges in their lives by providing services such as obstacle detection, indoor/outdoor navigation, scene description, text reading, facial recognition and so on. This systematic mapping review is mainly focused on understanding aspect (e.g., object detecti...

We present a computationally efficient blind sequential detection method for data transmitted over a sparse intersymbol interference channel. Unlike blind sequential detection methods designed for general channels, the proposed method exploits the channel sparsity by using estimated channel sparsity to assist in the detection of the transmitted sequence. A Gaussian mixture model is used to desc...

A subspace-based blind adaptive linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) detector has been proposed for multi-user detection in a direct sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system even when multi-path channels are unknown. In this paper, the applicability of the subspace-based blind adaptive algorithm in multiple access ultra-wideband (UWB) systems is investigated. The problem of blind...

The future wireless communications systems should be able to offer wide variety of applications, which have vastly different quality of service (QoS) requirements. The time-variable QoS may require the support of variable bit rates on the wireless links to the individual users. Multi-rate DS/CDMA is a promising basis on which to support the variable bit rates on the individual wireless links. C...

Introduction: In the recent decade, there have been significant efforts in developing multiuser detection technologies to alleviate the effect of multiple access interference (MAI) in codedivision multiple-access (CDMA) systems. Blind multiuser detection is of special interest for MAI mitigation in CDMA systems since it is impractical to assume perfect knowledge of parameters such as spreading ...

ABSTRACT We consider the problem of multiuser detection for CDMA (code division multiple access) systems where the codes of some users are known while others are unknown, group-blind multiuser detection. An example is at the base station of a cellular communication system with interference from both in-cell users, with known codes, and out-of-cell users, with unknown codes. In this paper we dev...