Common-acoustic-poles/zeros (CAPZ) approximation is a more efficient way to model head-related transfer functions (HRTF’s). In CAPZ approximation, a group of HRTF’s can share a set of poles but use their own zeros. Previous CAPZ works, such as the Prony, Shanks and iterative prefiltering methods, were all based on the linearized least-square criterion. A new state-space approach, jointly balanc...

This paper deals with the use of the vector levelings for coding color images, a class of morphological connected filters which suppresses details but preserves the contours of the remaining objects. If the color images are filtered by independently leveling each color component, new colors may be introduced. In order to avoid this drawback, a total order must be imposed on the color vectors. A...

Use of nonlinear loads at high voltages has increased tremendously in industry. These non-linear loads distort power quality by generating harmonics. Conventional active filters have limitations in high power high voltage systems. Use of multilevel inverter in active filters effectively reduces harmonics in high voltage systems eliminating need of high cost and bulky transformer. This paper pre...

background: cigarette butts have been shown to release numerous kinds of chemicals such as heavy metals in water and may be a continual source of aquatic environments contamination after discarding. the objective of the present study was to determine the concentration of cd and pb in cigarette filters of different iranian and non-iranian brands in smoked and non-smoked samples. methods: ten dif...

The paper presents the programmable multiphase clock generator for switched-capacitor finite impulse response (SC FIR) circular memory filters. The proposed programmable clock circuit enables easy division of such kind of filters into different orders smaller sections, which when connected in series, lead to increase in filter efficiency: reduction of chip area, power dissipation, and rising up...

Denoising is a fundamental imaging problem. Versatile but fast filtering has been demanded for mobile camera systems. We present an approach to multiscale filtering which allows real-time applications on low-powered devices. The key idea is to learn a set of kernels that upscales, filters, and blends patches of different scales guided by local structure analysis. This approach is trainable so t...

The necessity of having low-cost aerospace vehicles with short development times means that control designers need to work with simplified and approximate dynamic models. Aerospace vehicles typically being light and slender, exhibit body bending and flexibility effects at relatively lower frequencies. It may not be possible or practical in every case to carry out detailed test and analyses exer...

background: a boron neutron capture therapy (bnct) facility, based on a dt neutron generator, with the final goal to find out a potential, alternative, solution to existing bnct treatment facilities which are based on nuclear reactors is examined. materials and methods: with the aim of the mcnp4b monte carlo code different beam-shaping assembly (bsa) configurations were considered. lead was sel...

We present a new numerical abstract domain for static analysis of the errors introduced by the approximation by floating-point arithmetic of real numbers computation, by abstract interpretation [3]. This work extends a former domain [4,8], with an implicitly relational domain for the approximation of the floating-point values of variables, based on affine arithmetic [2]. It allows us to analyze...