This paper discuss the effect of noise on vowel onset point (VOP) detection performance. Noise is one of the major degradation in real-time environments. In this work, initially effect of noise on VOP detection is studied by using recently developed VOP detection method. In this method, VOPs are detected by combining the complementary evidence from excitation source, spectral peaks and modulati...

A filter optimization was investigated to design a set of filters for a five channel multi-spectral camera, three of which result in high colorimetric performance when used alone, and the full set having high quality spectral performance. Each candidate filter was selected from a set of 33 glass filters with three different thicknesses where filters may be combined in optical series. The effect...

In this paper, we propose a new approach to improve the performance of speech enhancement technique based on multi-band spectral subtraction for white Gaussian noise. First, the original power spectral subtraction and multiband spectral subtraction methods are surveyed and implemented. Next, the generalization is applied on multiband spectral subtraction. Finally, the flattened noise spectrum w...

Despite the conclusive potential of cognitive radio for provisioning the dynamic and flexible spectrum/channel allocation, the research community should study the performance gain of physical layer over such a radio with cognition capabilities. To this end, several mechanisms of physical layers such as adaptive modulation, multipleinput multiple output antennas; channel coding and/or combinatio...

With the development of diverse wireless communication technologies, interference has become a key impediment in network performance, thus making effective interference management (IM) essential to accommodate a rapidly increasing number of subscribers with diverse services. Although there have been numerous IM schemes proposed thus far, none of them are free of some form of cost. It is, theref...

Designers of masking schemes are usually torn between the contradicting goals of maximizing the security gains while minimizing the performance overheads. Boolean masking is one extreme example of this tradeoff: its algebraic structure is as simple as can be (and so are its implementations), but it typically suffers more from implementation weaknesses. For example knowing one bit of each share ...

Multiple-symbol detection (MSD) is a powerful technique to improve the power efficiency of noncoherent receivers. In this paper, we derive the MSD metric for impulse-radio ultrawideband for the general case of biorthogonal pulse-position modulation (bPPM) and relate it to its special cases BPSK and PPM. This unified treatment allows us to conduct a comparison of MSD of amplitudeand pulse-positi...