We describe a modified confocal microscope in which depth discrimination results from matched filtering by a volume hologram instead of a pinhole filter. The depth resolution depends on the numerical aperture of the objective lens and the thickness of the hologram, and the dynamic range is determined by the diffraction efficiency. We calculate the depth response of the volume holographic confoc...

For acoustic measuring of gas temperature and flow, firstly, a processing method for microphone received signal based on the matched filtering with the pre-whitening to the AR modeled noises achieves good performance, in order to identify the time-of-flight under noise contamination. Then, the PRK (phase reversal keying) of the M-sequence appears to be proper for the testing signals, which are ...

This paper presents new visualization techniques for 4D Quadrature-Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), Saha’s Constant Envelope (CE) QPSK, and Cartwright’s CEQPSK in ideal bandlimited channels. The signal diagrams analyzed are: time-signal eye patterns for 4D passband signals, 2D complex trajectory diagrams of baseband signals, and time-signal eye patterns for the 1D outputs of the baseband m...

In Lecture 2 we have learned about matched filtering. We made a number of hypotheses, including that the ‘signal’ is constant, even if it is possibly corrupted by noise. Two questions arise: how do we estimate the signal from noisy examples? (Simple answer: average the examples). What do we do when the signal is not constant? The answer to this second question is more complicated and depends on...

Content-based video retrieval technology holds the key to the efficient management and sharing of video content from different sources, across different platforms and over different communication channels. In this work we present a fast retrieval algorithm based on matched filtering of the video sequence trace characteristics in the principal component space. Techniques to combat scale variance...

In an urban area, the demand for taxis is not always matched up with the supply. This paper proposes mining historical data to predict demand distributions with respect to contexts of time, weather, and taxi location. The four-step process consists of data filtering, clustering, semantic annotation, and hotness calculation. The results of three clustering algorithms are compared and demonstrate...

We compute the overlap function between Post-Newtonian (PN) templates and gravitational signals emitted by binary systems composed of one neutron star and one point mass, obtained by a perturbative approach. The calculations are performed for different stellar models and for different detectors, to estimate how effectual and faithful the PN templates are, and to establish whether effects relate...

The binary confusion noise spectrum at LISA band depends strongly on observational period and abundance of Galactic close white dwarf binaries (CWDBs). We have investigated how the number of the resolved Galactic CWDBs varies with operation period of LISA, and found that the resolved number would typically grows by a factor of 5 when the operation period increases from 1yr to 10yr. We have also...

This paper presents new visualization techniques for 4D Quadrature-Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), Saha’s Constant Envelope (CE) QPSK, and Cartwright’s CEQPSK in ideal bandlimited channels. The signal diagrams analyzed are: time-signal eye patterns for 4D passband signals, 2D complex trajectory diagrams of baseband signals, and time-signal eye patterns for the 1D outputs of the baseband m...

A study of quasi-continuous waveform (QCW) and its performance in detection is presented taking into consideration eclipsing loss and free space decay. Genetic algorithm is then used to optimise the waveform and lower the dynamic range of the matched filtering output. The resulting waveform with high duty cycle and minimal loss at maximal range maintains good detection performance along the who...