For planning grasps and other object manipulation actions in complex environments, 3D semantic information becomes crucial. This paper focuses on the application of recent 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras in the context of semantic scene analysis. For being able to acquire semantic information from ToF camera data, we a) pre-process the data including outlier removal, filtering and phase unwrapp...

There are many sensorless schemes that have been proposed to estimate the rotor speed and position. However high frequency signal injection methods are able to detect the rotor speed and position even at zero speed whereas other schemes fail. Conventionally such methods use estimators based on the phase locked loop structure, which involves some restriction to maintain stability and track accur...

Determination of the timing and duration of paleoclimatic events is a challenging task. Classical techniques for time-series analysis rely too strongly on having a constant sampling rate, which poorly adapts to the uneven time recording of paleoclimatic variables; new, more flexible methods issued from Non-Linear Physics are hence required. In this paper, we have used Huang’s Empirical Mode Dec...

In this paper, we propose a novel time-frequency distribution (TFD) for the analysis of multi-component signals. In particular, we use synthetic as well as real-life speech signals to prove the superiority of the proposed TFD in comparison to some existing ones. In the comparison, we consider the cross-terms suppression and the high energy concentration of the signal around its instantaneous fr...

In this paper, our aim is to derive a phase spectrum representation computed via the short-time Fourier transform. Specifically, we are interested in developing a narrow-band speech representation – employing 20-40 ms analysis windows. Furthermore, this representation should be as physically meaningful as the magnitude spectrum. To achieve these ends, we concentrate on instantaneous frequency (...

In this paper, we characterize all analytic signals with band-limited amplitudes and polynomial phases. We show that a signal with band-limited amplitude and polynomial phase is analytic if and only if it has nonneg-ative constant instantaneous frequency, i.e., the derivative of the phase is a nonnegative constant, and the constant is greater than or equal to the minimum bandwidth of the amplit...

Desorption of a component from a gas mixture being injected through a submerged nozzle, during the bubble formation stage, is tlieoretically studied. The solute is assumed to suffer an instantaneous reaction on the liquid side, the reaction plane being on the liquid/gas interface. The volume elements on the gas bubble are assumed to result from a forced surface renewal coupled with a natural su...

The classic approach for estimating instantaneous parameters relies on using the Hilbert Transform (HT). The HT method extracts the instantaneous parameters by comparing the imaginary part with the real part of an analytical signal. The instantaneous parameters obtained this way are frequently contaminated by noises. Using the wavelet transform (WT), one can extract the instantaneous parameters...

Due to its ability to provide good concentration in the time-frequency plane, the fourth order complex-lag time-frequency distribution has been used for the analysis of signals with highly non-stationary instantaneous frequency. In order to make it available for practical applications, an architecture for realization of this distribution is proposed. The FPGA implementation is provided as well....