Separability of signal mixtures given only one mixture observation is defined as the identification of the accuracy to which the signals can be separated. The paper shows that when signals are separated using the generalised Wiener filter, the degree of separability can be deduced from the filter structure. To identify this structure, the processes are represented on an arbitrary spectral domai...

This paper describes the design and development of new graphical software for spectral audio processing. There are three phases to accomplish the audio processing. First, spectrograms are generated from an input audio signal using Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) analysis, and the sonogram image is continually shifting from right to left. Secondly, the sonogram is transformed by placing prep...

Saccades exhibit remarkably stereotypical motor behavior, both in their bell-shaped velocity trajectories and in their peak velocity–amplitude and duration–amplitude relationships (the “main sequence”). It is sometimes assumed that this is the result of the system optimizing for movement duration, although no direct empirical evidence as such exists. However, formal time-optimal (“bang-bang”) m...

Blocking communication can be runtime optimized into nonblocking communication using memory protection and replacement of MPI functions. All such optimizations come with overhead, meaning no automatic optimization can reach the performance level of handoptimized code.In this paper, we present a method for using previously published runtime optimizers to instrument a program, including measured ...

In this tutorial on time scaling we follow one particular line of thought towards computationally efficient high quality methods. We favor time scaling based on time-frequency representations over model based approaches, and proceed to review an iterative phase reconstruction method for time-scaled magnitude spectrograms. The search for a good initial phase estimate leads us to consider synchro...

Motor planning is the process of preparing the appropriate motor commands in order to achieve a goal. This process has largely been thought to occur before movement onset and traditionally has been associated with reaction time. However, in a virtual line bisection task we observed an overlap between movement planning and execution. In this task performed with a robotic manipulandum, we observe...

A transition time is defined based on the temporal overlap of reflected pulses in room impulse responses. Assuming specular reflections only, the temporal distance between adjacent reflections, which is proportional to the volume of a room, is compared with the characteristic width of a pulse at time t, which is mainly controlled by the absorption characteristics of the boundary surfaces of the...

The stimulus display duration required for subjects to accurately compare the length of two line lengths (known as Inspection Time: IT), reliably correlates around 0.5 with general intelligence. It is not clear, however, if this correlation reflects general “speed of processing”, or some other element of the task. There is a consequent need for new experimental paradigms. We describe a novel IT...