This paper describes the interpolation of head related transfer functions (HRTFs) for all directions. The interpolation of HRTFs enables us to reduce the number of measurements for new user’s HRTFs, and also reduce the data of HRTFs in auditory virtual systems. A linear interpolation and the spline interpolation are evaluated and the advantages of both methods are clarified. The interpolation m...

Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTF’s) characterize the transformation of a sound source to the sounds reaching the eardrums, and are central to binaural hearing. Because they are the result of wave propagation and difiraction, they can only be approzimated by finitely parameterized filters. The functional dependence of the HRTF on azimuth und elevation is described, the requirements for a mo...

We study unconditionally secure 1-out-of-2 Oblivious Transfer (1-2 OT). We first point out that a standard security requirement for 1-2 OT of bits, namely that the receiver only learns one of the bits sent, holds if and only if the receiver has no information on the XOR of the two bits. We then generalize this to 1-2 OT of strings and show that the security can be characterized in terms of bina...

Accurate transfer function estimation of linear, noise-free, dynamic systems is an easy task for SigLabTM. Often, however, the system being analyzed is noisy or not perfectly linear. All realworld systems suffer from these deficiencies to some degree, but control systems are usually the worst offenders. Obtaining an accurate transfer function estimation from a noisy and nonlinear system require...

We show how to optimize the shape of the transfer function of a linear time invariant (LTI) single-input-single-output (SISO) system. Since any transfer function is rational, this can be formulated as an optimization problem for the coefficients of polynomials. After characterizing the cone of polynomials which are nonnegative on intervals, we formulate this problem using semidefinite programmi...

New parallel codes have been developed to carry out simulational experiments of magnetotelluric investigation in the spherical coordinates by solving the electromagnetic induction equation in the time domain. In our previous paper published in this journal1 we tested the Cartesian code and showed that the code can achieve good performance of parallel processing. The extension to the spherical c...

A magnetotelluric monitoring station has been installed in the Val d’Agri area (southern Italy), to investigate the physics underlying the generation mechanisms of the electrokinetic effect, due to rapid pore pressure changes and fluid flows near the focal area of incoming earthquakes. It is well known that the magnetotelluric method reveals variations in electrical resistivity within the Earth...

The inversion of electromagnetic sounding data does not yield a unique solution, but inevitably a single model to interpret the observations is sought. We recommend that this model be as simple, or smooth, as possible, in order to reduce the temptation to overinterpret the data and to eliminate arbitrary discontinuities in simple layered models. To obtain smooth models, the nonlinear forward pr...

[1] Interpretation of the EarthScope MT (magnetotelluric) data requires the development of a large‐scale inversion method which can address two common problems of 3D MT inversion: computational time andmemory requirements. We have developed an efficient method of 3D MT inversion based on an IE (integral equation) formulation of the MT forward modeling problem and a receiver footprint approach, ...