In this paper, several experiments on F0 transformation within the voice conversion framework are presented. The conversion system is based on a probabilistic transformation of line spectral frequencies and residual prediction. Three probabilistic methods of instantaneous F0 transformation are described and compared. Moreover, a new modification of inter-speaker residual prediction is proposed ...

In this paper we consider the Moutard transformation [9] which is a twodimensional version of the well-known Darboux transformation. We give an algebraic interpretation of the Moutard transformation as a conjugation in an appropriate ring and the corresponding version of the algebro-geometric formalism for two-dimensional Schrödinger operators. An application to some problems of the spectral th...

This paper develops a spectral expansion approach to the valuation of contingent claims when the underlying state variable follows a one-dimensional diffusion with the infinitesimal variance a(x), drift b(x) and instantaneous discount (killing) rate r(x). The Spectral Theorem for self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space yields the spectral decomposition of the contingent claim value function. Ba...

This paper describes a novel spectral envelope estimation technique which adapts to the characteristics of the observed signal. This is possible via the introduction of a second bilinear transformation into warped minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) spectral envelope estimation. As opposed to the first bilinear transformation, however, which is applied in the time domain, the second...

Spectral image analysis problems often begin by performing a preprocessing step composed of applying a transformation that generates an alternative representation of the spectral data. In this paper, a transformation based on a Markov-chain model of a random walk on a graph is introduced. More precisely, we quantify the randomwalk using a quantity known as the average commute time distance and ...

The method proposed here has been devised for solution of the spectral problem for the Lamé wave equation (see [2]), but extended lately to more general problems. This method is based on the phase function concept or the Prüfer angle determined by the Prüfer transformation cot θ(x) = y′(x)/y(x), where y(x) is a solution of a second order self-adjoint o.d.e. The Prüfer angle θ(x) has some useful...

Digital watermarking is already used to establish the copyright of graphics, audio and text, and is now increasingly important for the protection of geometric data as well. Watermarking polygonal models in the spectral domain gives protection against similarity transformation, mesh smoothing, and additive random noise attacks. However, drawbacks exist in analyzing the eigenspace of Laplacian ma...

ABSTRACT: Traditionally, the color transformation method such as IHS transformation is usually used as a fusion technique to color higher spatial resolution panchromatic image from lower spatial resolution multi-spectral image. However, the analysis indicates that the success of this image fusion technique depends heavily on a small proportion of spatial resolution between multi-spectral and pa...

Spectral indices from models of inflation which incorporate a Generalized Einstein Theory (GET) gravity sector are calculated to first order in a slow-roll expansion. By quantizing a suitably-generalized measure of the intrinsic curvature perturbation, the spectral indices as calculated in the Jordan frame now match those as calculated following a conformal transformation, in the Einstein frame...