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A neighborhood-based source reassignment technique is proposed for being used on time-frequency masking audio source separation methods. This technique identifies all the time-frequency clusters that form the separation masks in the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) domain, and labels each time-frequency bin with a value that denotes the size of their corresponding clusters. The bins correspo...

Finding a sexually receptive partner of the opposite sex is a challenge; one solution is to advertise. That advertising is usually the province of males has shaped scenarios for sexual selection, especially the ardent active male courting the passive but choosy female. Herein we consider an unusual case in which constraints on reproduction may have led to fertility advertisement by female frogs...

We study energy transfer in a “resonant duet” — a resonant quartet where symmetries support a reduced subsystem with only two degrees of freedom — where one mode is forced by white noise and the other is damped. We consider a physically motivated family of nonlinear damping forms, and investigate their effect on the dynamics of the system. A variety of statistical steady-states arise in differe...

In this paper we present a new source separation method based on dynamic sparse source signal models. Source signals are modeled in frequency domain as a product of a Bernoulli selection variable with a deterministic but unknown spectral amplitude. The Bernoulli variables are modeled in turn by first order Markov processes with transition probabilities learned from a training database. We consi...