In this paper we propose an algorithm for the robust extraction of pitch combining both temporal (rate) and pattern matching (place) techniques. Following a transformation into the spectral domain via the application of a Gammatone filter bank the rate information is extracted in each band via the zero crossing distances in that band. Next a comb filter with teeth at the harmonics of the curren...

The use of an ensemble of local Common Spatial Patterns (CSP) patches (CSPP) is proposed, which can be considered as a compromise between Laplacians and CSP: CSPP reaches a robust performance with less training data than CSP, while being superior to Laplacian filtering. This property is shown to be particularly useful for the co-adaptive calibration design and is demonstrated in combination wit...

Pattern Databases (PDBs) are a common form of abstractionbased heuristic which are often compressed so that a large PDB can fit in memory. Partial Pattern Databases (PPDBs) achieve this by storing only layers of the PDB which are close to the goal. This paper studies the problem of how to best compress and use the 457 GB 12-edge Rubik’s cube PDB, suggesting a number of ways that Bloom filters c...

In this paper, multiscale directional filter bank (MDFB) is investigated for texture characterization and retrieval. First, the problem of aliasing in decimated bandpass images on directional decomposition is addressed. MDFB is then designed to suppress the aliasing effect as well as to minimize the reduction in frequency resolution. Second, an entropy-based measure on energy signatures is prop...

A new filter bank approach for speaker recognition front-end is proposed. The conventional mel-scaled filter bank is replaced with a speaker-discriminative filter bank. Filter bank is selected from a library in adaptive basis, based on the broad phoneme class of the input frame. Each phoneme class is associated with its own filter bank. Each filter bank is designed in a way that emphasizes disc...

A new filter bank approach for speaker recognition front-end is proposed. The conventional mel-scaled filter bank is replaced with a speaker-discriminative filter bank. Filter bank is selected from a library in adaptive basis, based on the broad phoneme class of the input frame. Each phoneme class is associated with its own filter bank. Each filter bank is designed in a way that emphasizes disc...

the population density and spatial distribution pattern of empoasca decipiens paoli were etermined in tehran area, iran, during 2004-2005 on four species of common bean phaseolus vulgaris (l.) var. talash, lima bean p. lunatus (l.) savi ex hassk. var. sadaf, rice bean p. calcaratus roxb. var. goli and cowpea vigna sinensis (l.) var. parastoo. the higher and lower mean population densities of e....

In this paper, an acoustic echo canceller (AEC) based on an M-channel infinite-impulse response (IIR) cosine-modulated filter bank (CMFB) with near-perfect reconstruction (PR) property is proposed. The use of a 2-channel lossless lattice section with 1 st order allpass filter in the design of the prototype filter that is common to both the analysis and the synthesis filter banks permits the fil...

An auditory model was developed to explain the results of behavioral experiments on perception of speaker size with voiced speech sounds. It is based on the dynamic, compressive gammachirp (dcGC) filterbank and a weighting function (SSI weight) derived from a theory of size-shape segregation in the auditory system. Voiced words with and without highfrequency emphasis (+6 dB/octave) were produce...

In this paper we propose a new strategy for the design of real-valued lterbanks which avoids aliasing in the subbands (\inband aliasing") such that applications where two subband signals have to be compared become possible. One example for such an application is subband adap-tive ltering, where, with the proposed lter-bank structure, the traditionally required cross-term adaptive lters between ...