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... 870 JZC Lai Image and Vision Computing 15 (1997) 867871 Table 2 The execution time of enci ading a real image (tiffany) for 3 different algorithms' Number of codewords Available encoding algorithm (seconds) EAWFC (seconds) E... more
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      MathematicsComputer ScienceComputational GeometryCoding
Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) is a popular class of nearest prototype classifiers for multiclass classification. Learning algorithms from this family are widely used because of their intuitively clear learning process and ease of... more
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      Computer ScienceNeural NetworksSampling methodsTraining data
We propose a new algorithm for vector quantization, the Activity Equalization Vector quantization (AEV). It is based on the winner takes all rule with an additional supervision of the average node activities over a training interval and a... more
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      Cognitive ScienceClusteringSupervised LearningUnsupervised Learning
In the recent years, Internet multimedia applications have become very popular. Valuable multimedia content such as digital images, however, is vulnerable to unauthorized access while in storage and during transmission over a network.... more
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      BusinessData CompressionChannel CodingSource Coding
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      Source CodingMean square errorFrequencyDiscrete Cosine Transform
This thesis encapsulates a study conducted to use Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) techniques to identify dog barks from ambient recordings. To achieve this, four different classifiers are developed. The first of which relies on... more
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      Automatic Speech RecognitionVector QuantizationArtifical Neural NetworksMel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients
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      Image ProcessingQuantizationContrastMPEG
A simple yet complex approach to modern sophistication. In this project we used the MFCC approach to build a unique and accurate coefficients extracting processor to extract feature from the voice stored in the database, then on the next... more
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      Speaker RecognitionAutomatic Speech RecognitionSpeech RecognitionMatlab
Compression is the art of representing the information in a compact form rather than in its original or uncompressed form. In other words, using the data compression, the size of a particular file can be reduced. This is very useful when... more
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      Image compressionWavelet TransformLossy CompressionVector Quantization
The paper presents a novel biometric authentication approach using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Regularized-Linear Discriminant Analysis (R-LDA) and supervised neural networks. Low dimensional feature vectors of human face images... more
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      Principal Component AnalysisFace RecognitionBack PropagationRadial Basis Function
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      Image ProcessingQuantizationContrastMPEG
 Is a classical quantization technique from signal processing that allows the modeling of probability density functions by the distribution of prototype vectors. It was originally used for data compression.  It works by dividing a large... more
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      Vector QuantizationK means Clustering
An internally analog, externally digital architecture for parallel vector-matrix multiplication is presented. A threetransistor unit cell combines a single-bit dynamic random-access memory and a charge injection device binary multiplier... more
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      Computer VisionVLSISupport Vector MachinesMachine Vision
This paper presents the architecture and VHDL design of a Two Dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform (2D-DCT) with Quantization and zigzag arrangement. This architecture is used as the core and path in JPEG image compression hardware. The... more
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      Vlsi DesignFPGACommunication systemsDigital FPGA implementation
In this paper, automatic speaker recognition system is implemented by combining feature extraction and feature matching technique. Feature extraction method that is implemented by the Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC). The Vector... more
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      Machine LearningSpeaker RecognitionSpeaker VerificationMFCC
A fundamental goal of image compression is to reduce the bit rate for transmission or data storage while maintaining an acceptable fidelity or image quality. To improve the classical lossless compression of low efficiency, a method of... more
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      Image ProcessingImage compressionWavelet TransformVector Quantization
A new unsupervised competitive learning rule is introduced, called the Self-organizing free-topology map (Softmap) algorithm, for nonparametric density estimation. The receptive fields of the formal neurons are overlapping,... more
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      Cognitive ScienceReceptive FieldVector QuantizationDensity Estimation
In Part I of this paper , an equivalence between the concepts of fuzzy clustering and soft competitive learning in clustering algorithms is proposed on the basis of the existing literature. Moreover, a set of functional attributes is... more
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      Fuzzy LogicPattern RecognitionFuzzy set theoryFuzzy Sets
Clustering is needed in various applications such as biometric person authentication, speech coding and recognition, image compression and information retrieval. Hundreds of clustering methods have been proposed for the task in various... more
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      Cognitive ScienceInformation RetrievalComputational ComplexitySpeaker Recognition
This paper introduces a new approach to control and drive the DC motor, using speech recognition. The speech signal can be provided through microphone that is connected to computer. A DC motor connected through microcontroller can be... more
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      Computer ScienceSpeech RecognitionMFCCVector Quantization
Speech recognition is always looked upon as a fascinating field in human computer interaction. It is one of the fundamental steps towards understanding human recognition and their behavior. This paper explicates the theory and... more
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      Image ProcessingVector QuantizationLPC
This paper presents some results on the possibilities offered by neural networks for human face recognition. In particular, two algorithms have been tested: learning vector quantization (LVQ) and multilayer perceptron (MLP). Two different... more
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      GeographyImage ProcessingPattern RecognitionFace Recognition
This paper introduces methods for reducing the table storage required for encoding and decoding with unstructured vector quantization (UVQ) or tree-structured vector quantization (TSVQ). Specifically, a low-storage secondary quantizer is... more
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      Cognitive ScienceCorrelationArithmeticVector Quantization
In this letter, a preliminary study of habituation in self-organizing networks is reported. The habituation model implemented allows us to obtain a faster learning process and better clustering performances. The habituable neuron is a... more
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      AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceSystems TheoryConscience
Multi-user wireless systems with multiple antennas can drastically increase the capac- ity while maintaining the quality of service requirements. The best performance of these systems is obtained at the presence of instantaneous channel... more
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      MIMO SystemsQuantizationVector QuantizationLimited- Feedback MIMO Transceiver design
Clustering algorithms aim at modeling fuzzy (i.e., ambiguous) unlabeled patterns efficiently. Our goal is to propose a theoretical framework where the expressive power of clustering systems can be compared on the basis of a meaningful set... more
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      Fuzzy LogicPattern RecognitionFuzzy set theoryFuzzy Sets
The issue of Automatic Relevance Determination (ARD) has attracted attention over the last decade for the sake of efficiency and accuracy of classifiers, and also to extract knowledge from discriminant functions adapted to a given data... more
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      Artificial IntelligenceStatistical AnalysisSupport Vector MachinesGenetic Algorithm
In the recent years, Internet multimedia applications have become very popular. Valuable multimedia content such as digital images, however, is vulnerable to unauthorized access while in storage and during transmission over a network.... more
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      BusinessData CompressionChannel CodingSource Coding
A full-rank under-determined linear system of equations Ax = b has in general infinitely many possible solutions. In recent years there is a growing interest in the sparsest solution of this equation-the one with the fewest non-zero... more
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      EngineeringImage ProcessingSignal ProcessingDictionary
The pyramid image structure can be naturally adapted for progressive image transmission over low-speed channels and hierarchical image retrieving in computerized image archiving. An efficient pyramid image coding system using quadrature... more
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      AccountingSpeech AcousticsImage codingBig Data
This two part paper proposes an intelligent energy management agent (IEMA) for parallel hybrid vehicles. IEMA incorporates a driving situation identification component whose role is to assess the driving environment, the driving style of... more
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      EngineeringMechanical EngineeringTechnologySystem Identification
Novel algorithms for vector quantization codebook design are presented in this paper. Two basic techniques are proposed. The first technique takes into consideration specific characteristics of the blocks of the training sequence during... more
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      Iterative MethodsImage QualityImage compressionShape
The color satellite image compression technique by vector quantization can be improved either by acting directly on the step of constructing the dictionary or by acting on the quantization step of the input vectors. In this paper, an... more
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      Vector QuantizationCompressionEvidence TheoryK Nearest Neighbors
Vector quantization is a compression technique which is used to compress the image data in the spatial domain. Since it is a lossy technique, so maintaining the image quality and the compression ratio is a difficult task. For this, the... more
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      Computer ScienceImage ProcessingMean square errorVector Quantization
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      Cognitive ScienceIterative MethodsFuzzy set theoryClustering Algorithms
Emotion detection is a new research era in health informatics and forensic technology. Besides having some challenges, voice based emotion recognition is getting popular, as the situation where the facial image is not available, the voice... more
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      EmotionSoftware EngineeringSoftware TestingSoftware Development
This paper presents an efficient authentication method for JPEG images based on Genetic Algorithms (GA). The current authentication methods for JPEG images require the receivers to know the quantization table beforehand in order to... more
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      WatermarkingGenetic AlgorithmAuthenticationVector Quantization
This paper studies an application of turbo codes to compressed image/video transmission and presents an approach to improving error control performance through joint channel and source decoding (JCSD). The proposed approach to JCSD... more
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      Distributed ComputingSignal ProcessingChannel CodingSource Coding
The design of feed-forward ADALINE neural networks can be split into two independent optimization problems.
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      DesignPattern RecognitionLinear ProgrammingNeural Networks
This paper describes a method to randomly generate vectors of symbol probabilities so that the corresponding discrete memoryless source has a prescribed entropy. One application is to Monte Carlo simulation of the performance of noiseless... more
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      BluetoothAdaptive Digital Signal ProcessingAudio Signal Processing/DSP, Acoustics, MusicEcho cancellation
We propose a new feature, namely, pitch-synchronous discrete cosine transform (PS-DCT), for the task of speaker identification. These features are obtained directly from the voiced segments of the speech signal, without any preemphasis or... more
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      Speaker RecognitionSpeech ProcessingDigital Speech ProcessingDiscrete Cosine Transform
This paper reports our study of how to gain consistency of states in a ball-game typed Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) with lag, in peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture. That is, we are studying how to reduce in real-time the difference... more
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      Information SystemsComputer GraphicsLawIntellectual Property
Fingerprints are imprints formed by friction ridges of the skin and thumbs. They have long been used for identification because of their immutability and individuality. Immutability refers to the permanent and unchanging character of the... more
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      FingerprintVector Quantization
This paper presents a novel Vector Quantizer codebook design using Fuzzy Possibilistic C Means (FPCM) clustering technique for image compression using Wavelet Packet. The idea is to achieve higher compression ratio based on clustering the... more
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      Image compressionVector QuantizationDiscrete wavelet transform
Nowadays, face detection plays important roles in many applications, such as: human-computer interaction, security and surveillance, face recognition etc. In this paper, a novel scheme for human face detection in color images under... more
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      Computer ScienceArtificial IntelligenceHuman Computer InteractionComputer Vision
Cet article pr~sente une nouvelle mdthode de codage audionum6rique h faible retard et & d~bit rdduit pour des applications ~mergentes en tdldcommunication telles que l'audioconfgrence ou la vidgoconf(rence. Le codeur dgveloppd permet de... more
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      Signal ProcessingAudio Signal ProcessingPsychoacousticsCoding
This paper describes an encoding technique-multilevel block truncation coding-that preserves the spatial details in digital images while achieving a reasonable compression ratio. An adaptive quantizer-level allocation scheme is... more
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      Computational ComplexityData CompressionImage ReconstructionDigital Images
The foremost issues with most of the existing selective encryption (SE) schemes of images are vulnerability to cryptographic and application specific attacks, reduction in the compression performance, insubstantial computational savings... more
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      CryptographyImage compressionVector QuantizationIndexation
Speech coders operating at low bit rates necessitate efficient encoding of the linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients. Line spectral frequencies (LSF) parameters are currently one of the most efficient choices of transmission... more
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      EngineeringTechnologySignal ProcessingVector Quantization