This paper introduces the blind source separation (BSS) of convolutive mixtures of acoustic signals, especially speech. A statistical and computational technique, called independent component analysis (ICA), is examined. By achieving nonlinear decorrelation, nonstationary decorrelation, or time-delayed decorrelation, we can find source signals only from observed mixed signals. Particular attent...

Correlated firing among populations of neurons is present throughout the brain and is often rhythmic in nature, observable as an oscillatory fluctuation in the local field potential. Although rhythmic population activity is believed to be critical for normal function in many brain areas, synchronized neural oscillations are associated with disease states in other cases. In the globus pallidus (...

In this paper we propose a model for the lateral connectivity of orientation-selective cells in the visual cortex based on informationtheoretic considerations. We study the properties of the input signal to the visual cortex and find new statistical structures which have not been processed in the retino-geniculate pathway. Applying the idea that the system optimizes the representation of incomi...

The main result of this small note is a quantified version of the assertion that if u and v solve two nonlinear stochastic heat equations, and if the mutual energy between the initial states of the two stochastic PDEs is small, then the total masses of the two systems are nearly uncorrelated for a very long time. One of the consequences of this fact is that a stochastic heat equation with regul...

The dispersion of the optimal estimate of a subsidence motion is determined, and compared with that of Permanent Scatterers, when the targets are progressively decorrelating due to Brownian motion. Approximately, with N consecutive images and revisit time T, the interferogram stack results are equivalent to PS's, if the pixel count in the window grows with N2T, independently of the frequency. I...

The production in high-energy hadron collisions of a pair of jets with large rapidity separation is studied in an improved BFKL formalism. By recasting the analytic solution of the BFKL equation as an explicit order-by-order sum over emitted gluons, the effects of phase space constraints and the running coupling are studied. Particular attention is paid to the azimuthal angle decorrelation of t...

This paper presents the first comparison between repeat-pass coherence from ASAR and JERS-1 SAR. To reduce the influence of temporal decorrelation, repeat-pass pairs acquired during the winter season have been selected. ASAR 35day coherence and JERS-1 44-day coherence from six different test areas in Siberia and northern Europe have been evaluated. The results indicate that the decorrelation is...

We model the process of imaging soft tissues with a 3D ultrasound probe using a linear convolution model, and obtain analytical expressions of both the ultrasound image and its spectrum. We use this model to study the ultrasound decorrelation caused by tissue motion both in the spatial domain and spectral domain. Finally, we propose a spectral-feature-based algorithm to analyze tissue motion. T...

We present algebraic equivalences that allow to unnest nested algebraic expressions for order-preserving algebraic operators. We illustrate how these equivalences can be applied successfully to unnest nested queries given in the XQuery language. Measurements illustrate the performance gains possible our approach.

Recently there has been considerable research on develop ing receivers for multi rate synchronous DS CDMA systems The previously proposed receivers operate on the complete received signal without separating users of di erent rates Multi rate users occupy di erent bandwidths and this pa per explores user separation by exploiting these bandwidth di erences Receiver structures which use lters to a...