The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Oct 1, 2019
Human listeners localize sounds to their sources despite competing directional cues from early room reflections. Binaural activity maps computed from a running signal can provide useful information about the presence of room reflections, but must be ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Sep 1, 2019
When a feed-forward neural network (FNN) is trained for acoustic source ranging in an ocean waveguide, it is difficult evaluating the FNN ranging accuracy of unlabeled test data. The label is the distance between source and receiver array. A fitting-...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Placental assessment through routine obstetrical ultrasound is often limited to documenting its location and ruling out placenta previa. However, many obstetrical complications originate from abnormal focal or global placental development. Technical ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Quantitative acoustic microscopy (QAM) permits the formation of quantitative two-dimensional (2D) maps of acoustic and mechanical properties of soft tissues at microscopic resolution. The 2D maps formed using our custom SAM systems employing a 250-MH...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Objective- The distinction of snoring and loud breathing is often subjective and lies in the ear of the beholder. The aim of this study is to identify and assess acoustic features with a high suitability to distinguish these two classes of sound, in ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Automatic cough detection is key to tracking the condition of patients suffering from tuberculosis. We evaluate various acoustic features for performing cough detection using deep architectures. As most previous studies have adopted features designed...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Jun 1, 2018
The severe hearing loss problems that some people suffer can be treated by providing them with a surgically implanted electrical device called cochlear implant (CI). CI users struggle to perceive complex audio signals such as music; however, previous...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
May 1, 2018
The work presented in this paper focuses on the use of acoustic systems for passive acoustic monitoring of ocean vitality for fish populations. Specifically, it focuses on the use of acoustic systems for passive acoustic monitoring of ocean vitality ...
Despite great advances in hearing-aid technology, users still experience problems with noise in windy environments. The potential benefits of using a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) for reducing wind noise were assessed. The RNN was trained using...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Nov 1, 2017
Goodness of pronunciation (GOP) is the most widely used method for automatic mispronunciation detection. In this paper, a transfer learning approach to GOP based mispronunciation detection when applying maximum F1-score criterion (MFC) training to de...
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