This paper describes a system used in acoustic event detection task of the CLEAR2007 evaluation. The objective of the task is to detect acoustic events (door slam, steps, paper wrapping etc.) using acoustic data from a multiple microphone set up in the meeting room environment. A system based on hidden Markov models and multichannel audio data was implemented. Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coe cients ...

Insulation used in transformer is mostly oil pressboard insulation. Insulation failure is one of the major causes of catastrophic failure of transformers. It is established that partial discharges (PD) cause insulation degradation and premature failure of insulation. Online monitoring of PDs can reduce the risk of catastrophic failure of transformers. There are different techniques of partial d...

Statistical evaluation of the passive structure for the vessel detection is considered. The passive detection structure is based on the statistical likelihood ratio test and on the Neyman-Pearson statistical criterion. The assumption is that a vessel is approximately so-called noisy vessel. It means that the underwater acoustic vessel noise is approximately a stationary ergodic stochastic zero ...

Acoustic wave detection of various underivatized amino acids that were hydrodynamically introduced into and electrokinetically migrated along a capillary tube has been achieved. The detection principle is based on the measurement of the ultrasonic absorption and density change of the aqueous amino acid samples as they pass by the detection zone. Acoustic wave detection of underivatized leucine ...

This tutorial reviews acoustic methods that have been used to characterize vocal function. The most persuasive argument for the use of acoustic measures is that all of the information used by listeners to make judgments about speech is to be found in the acoustic signal. Acoustic methods have been used clinically to differentiate normal from abnormal voices, to aid in differential diagnosis, to...

Introduction When a liquid is irradiated with high-intensity and low-frequency ultrasound, acoustic cavitation occurs and there are some methods to determine and quantify this phenomenon. The existing methods for performing these experiments include sonochemiluminescence (SCL) and chemical dosimetric methods. The particles in a liquid decrease the ultrasonic intensity threshold needed for cavit...

Vibrating mechanical structure characterization is demonstrated using contactless techniques best suited for mobile and rotating equipments. Fast measurement rates are achieved using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices as real-time digital signal processors. Two kinds of algorithms are implemented on FPGA and experimentally validated in the case of the vibrating tuning fork. A first ap...

this paper addresses the signal processing principles in passive bistatic radar (pbr) systems. in this case, the detection problem in the presence of system noise, clutter/multipath, direct signal and interfering target signals is investigated. to this light, two types of detectors are studied. in the first one, which is based on intuitive sense, we examine two detectors. in the second type det...