In this review a strategy for the design of bioinspired, smart, multiscale interfacial (BSMI) materials is presented and put into context with recent progress in the field of BSMI materials spanning natural to artificial to reversibly stimuli-sensitive interfaces. BSMI materials that respond to single/dual/multiple external stimuli, e.g., light, pH, electrical fields, and so on, can switch reve...

Recent studies have shown that the correct labeling of phonetic classes may help current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) when combined with classical parsing automata based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM). Through the present paper a method for Phonetic Class Labeling (PCL) based on bio-inspired speech processing is described. The methodology is based in the automatic detection of formants and...

Welcome to this Special Issue on Bio-Inspired Information Hiding. Research in information hiding started in the early 1990s. With the widespread use of Internet and wireless networks, and the blooming growth in consumer electronic devices and advances inmultimedia compression techniques, multimedia streams are easily acquired nowadays. Hence, how to achieve copyright protection of the above-men...

Bio-inspired communication (BC) is the next generation of communications at nano-scale, especially, in fluid media. Recent researches on BC still remains limited, questions on how to build a communication system from a bio-physical environment, or how to modulate information in such a environment are really challenging. Further, geometric shape of medium (free space, half space, box...) also af...

This paper describes the bio-inspired visual detection for the smart user experience based on neuromorphic system, mimicking the visual cortex. The neuromorphic system is investigated for visual detection of users and their reaction, based on the VLSI neurons and synapses by CMOS conductance and Hodgkin-Huxley formalism. The proposed neuromorphic system exhibits the biologically plausible intel...

To generate polyethersulfone membranes with a biocatalytically active surface, pancreatin was covalently immobilized. Pancreatin is a mixture of digestive enzymes such as protease, lipase, and amylase. The resulting membranes exhibit self-cleaning properties after “switching on” the respective enzyme by adjusting pH and temperature. Thus, the membrane surface can actively degrade a fouling laye...

The amount of information in the new emerging all-embracing pervasive environments will be enormous. Current Internet protocol conceived almost forty years ago, were never planned for these emerging pervasive environments. The communications requirements placed by these protocols on the low cost sensor and tag nodes are in direct contradiction to the fundamental goals if these nodes, being smal...

Ad hoc wireless multi-hop networks (AHWMNs) are communication networks that consist of wireless nodes, placed together in an ad hoc manner, i.e. with minimal prior planning. All nodes in the network have routing capabilities and forward data packets for other nodes in multi-hop fashion. AHWMNs pose substantially different challenges to routing protocols than more traditional wired networks. AHW...

Pedestrian detection and tracking remains a popular issue in computer vision, spawning many applications in robotics, surveillance and security, biometrics and humancomputer interaction. In this paper we present a biological framework for detecting and tracking pedestrians by using a monocular moving camera. This framework is based on visual cortex cells, namely complex and end-stopped cells, t...