Recent auditory physiological evidence points to a modulation frequency dimension in the auditory cortex. This dimension exists jointly with the tonotopic acoustic frequency dimension. Thus, audition can be considered as a relatively slowly-varying two-dimensional representation, the " modulation spectrum, " where the first dimension is the well-known acoustic frequency and the second dimension...

Given the increasing interest in the effects of sound on marine mammals, a new modelbased algorithm for localizing transient noises around a sparse, widely-distributed array of receivers has been developed and tested with real acoustic data. The robustness of the algorithm is illustrated in its application to two different scenarios with equal success: localizing humpback whales near Hawaii and...

Recent auditory physiological evidence points to a modulation frequency dimension in the auditory cortex. This dimension exists jointly with the tonotopic acoustic frequency dimension. Thus, audition can be considered as a relatively slowly-varying two-dimensional representation, the “modulation spectrum,” where the first dimension is the well-known acoustic frequency and the second dimension i...

In this paper the application of multirate acoustic echo canceller derived from cochlea model and psychoacustically motivated noise and residual echo attenuation system operating on the signal decomposed in cochlear spaced subbands are described. Polyphase realisation of the FIR filter bank with non-uniform frequency resolution achieved by the frequency transformation of filter characteristic u...

Speaker independent name speech recognition has become hot application in handheld devices such as mobile phones and personal digit assistants (PDAs). This paper presents a new mixed-lingual ASR system that will enable Chinese mobile phone users to conduct Mandarin and English name speech recognition simultaneously without switching language modes. We created an elaborately designed mixed acous...

Cavitation has great application potential in microvessel damage and targeted drug delivery. Concerning cavitation, droplet vaporization has been widely investigated in vitro and in vivo with plasmonic nanoparticles. Droplets with a liquid dodecafluoropentane (DDFP) core enclosed in an albumin shell have a stable and simple structure with good characteristics of laser absorbing; thus, DDFP drop...

In recent years, need to increase the convenience of trips in railway vehicles causes that train operators and manufacturers focus on reducing the noise level which is sensed by passengers. In this paper, first the state of modeling acoustic noise in cab train is discussed and natural frequencies and acoustic mode shapes are derived and then formulation of acoustic pressure in the cab will be o...

Underwater acoustic networks have recently emerged as a promising approach for oceanic applications such as exploration and surveillance. This new type of networks differs from terrestrial wireless sensor networks in that the network nodes are powerful and well equipped with many resources for diverse applications in challenging environments. Existing operating systems for terrestrial wireless ...