The compact representation of harmonic amplitudes in the sinusoidal coding of voiced speech is often achieved by the all-pole modeling of a spectral envelope. The perceptual accuracy of the representation may be enhanced by the use of frequency-scale warping prior to LP modeling. The effectiveness of a frequency warping function has been shown in previous work to depend on the underlying signal...

Conventional voxel-based group analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data typically requires warping each subject’s brain images onto a common template to create an assumed voxel correspondence. The implicit assumption is that aligning the anatomical structures would correspondingly align the functional regions of the subjects. However, due to anatomical and functional inter-...

The sequence database is a set of data sequences, each of which is an ordered list of elements [1]. Sequences of stock prices, money exchange rates, temperature data, product sales data, and company growth rates are the typical examples of sequence databases [2, 8]. Similarity search is an operation that finds sequences or subsequences whose changing patterns are similar to that of a given quer...

This note introduces the concept of image warping and treats the special case of Euclidean warping along with a discussion of a Matlab implementation. Secondly an application of image warping is given; namely image mosaicing where images are stitched together – e.g. to form a panoramic view. Effort has been put into making the text as self-containing as possible. However, basic knowledge of lin...

House price increases have been steady over much of the last 40 years, but there have been occasional declines, most notably in the recent housing bust that started around 2007, on the heels of the preceding housing bubble. We introduce a novel growth model that is motivated by time-warping models in functional data analysis and includes a non-monotone time warping component that allows the inc...

This project is a combined analytical and experimental activity to study warping deformation in shafts of non-circular cross section subjected to torsion. This is a supplemental activity for the junior level Mechanics of Materials course. The students see the warping in square sections and their pronounced effects in ductile materials such as aluminum when the stresses exceed the material yield...

In this paper, a handwritten character recognition experiment using a monotonic and continuous twodimensional warping algorithm is reported. This warping algorithm is based on dynamic programming and searches for the optimal pixel-to-pixel mapping between given two images subject to two-dimensional monotonicity and continuity constraints. Experimental comparisons with rigid matching and local p...

Phonemeand formant-specific warping has been shown to decrease formant and cepstral mismatch. These findings have not yet been fully implemented in speech recognition. This paper discusses a few reasons how this can be. A small experimental study is also included where phoneme-independent warping is extended towards phoneme-specific warping. The results of this investigation did not show a sign...

This note introduces the concept of image warping and treats the special case of Euclidean warping along with a discussion of a Matlab implementation. Secondly an application of image warping is given; namely image mosaicing where images are stitched together – e.g. to form a panoramic view. Effort has been put into making the text as self-containing as possible. However, basic knowledge of lin...

In this study, analytical solution is presented to calculate the free vibration frequencies of nonuniform microbeams. Scale effects are modelled using modified couple stress theory and the microbeam is assumed to be thin while Poisson's ratio effects are also taken into account. Nonuniformity is presented by exponentially varying width among the microbeam while the thickness remains constant. R...