This report summarizes our research directions in underwater sensor networks. We highlight potential applications to off-shore oilfields for seismic monitoring, equipment monitoring, and underwater robotics. We identify research directions in short-range acoustic communications, MAC, time synchronization, and localization protocols for highlatency acoustic networks, long-duration network sleepi...

The presence of gas hydrate and associated gas in the Makran Accretionary Prism, offshore Iran, has been confirmed by various seismic indicators, including the bottom-simulating reflector (BSR), amplitude blanking, and bright spot. The pre-stack analysis and the study of amplitude-variation-with-offset (AVO) attributes are the most reliable tools for semi-quantitative study of gas hydrate and f...

This paper reviews applications of acoustic emission sensing techniques in machining. Originally applied to non-destructive testing of structures but now Acoustic Emission Signals are proving to be an effective tool for monitoring of the machining process due to its sensitivity to process parameters. The source of AE is attributed to the release of stored elastic energy that manifests itself in...

In recent years, acoustic-phonetic features (APF) have received great interest as a replacement for phones in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Many studies have focused on improving feature sets and acoustic parameters to describe the APFs. Invariably, these are developed and tested on a limited number of well-researched databases containing read speech. When tested on conversational...