Publications related to Advanced Audio Coding

A Multimodal Dataset for Automatic Edge-AI Cough Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Lara Orlandic, Jérôme Paul Rémy Thevenot

Counting the number of times a patient coughs per day is an essential biomarker in determining treatment efficacy for novel antitussive therapies and personalizing patient care. Automatic cough counting tools must provide accurate information, while runnin ...

New York2023

Systems and methods for digital information decoding and data storage in hybrid macromolecules

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp

Systems and methods for data storage and readout using hybrid nucleic acid- polymeric molecules are herein disclosed. A molecular data storage medium is presented comprising a header and a footer, each comprising or consisting of at least one unit of a fir ...

2022

Landmarking for Navigational Streaming of Stored High-Dimensional Media

Pascal Frossard, Yuan Yuan

Modern media data such as 360 degrees videos and light field (LF) images are typically captured in much higher dimensions than the observers' visual displays. To efficiently browse high-dimensional media, a navigational streaming model is considered: a cli ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A Benders decomposition for maximum simulated likelihood estimation of advanced discrete choice models

Michel Bierlaire, Claudia Bongiovanni

In this paper, we formulate a mixed integer linear program (MILP) for the simulated maximum likelihood estimation (MLSE) problem and devise a Benders decomposition approach to speed up the solution process. This framework can be applied to any advanced dis ...

2022

Enhancing the Reliability of Dense LoRaWAN Networks With Multi-User Receivers

Andreas Peter Burg, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is a low-power wireless technology that provides long-range connectivity to battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) devices. To minimize the energy consumption of the IoT nodes, LoRaWAN networks use for the uplink a pure non-slotted ALOHA multiple ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Simultaneous decoding of cardiovascular and respiratory functional changes from pig intraneural vagus nerve signals

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni, Ivo Strauss

Objective. Bioelectronic medicine is opening new perspectives for the treatment of some major chronic diseases through the physical modulation of autonomic nervous system activity. Being the main peripheral route for electrical signals between central nerv ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

NUQSGD: Provably Communication-efficient Data-parallel SGD via Nonuniform Quantization

Dan Alistarh, Fartash Faghri

As the size and complexity of models and datasets grow, so does the need for communication-efficient variants of stochastic gradient descent that can be deployed to perform parallel model training. One popular communication-compression method for data-para ...

Microtome Publishing2021

ASAP: a Dataset of Aligned Scores and Performances for Piano Transcription

Andrew Philip McLeod

In this paper we present Aligned Scores and Performances (ASAP): a new dataset of 222 digital musical scores aligned with 1068 performances (more than 92 hours) of Western classical piano music.The scores are provided as paired MusicXML files and quantized ...

2020

Multisensory haptic system and method

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Simon Gallo

A computer-implemented method for operating a haptic device, the haptic device comprising a plurality of tactile displays configured to provide haptic stimuli to a user, the method including the steps of (a) processing an audio signal derived from an audio ...

2020

Cross-Packet Coding for Delay-Constrained Streaming Applications

Dario Floreano, Giuseppe Cocco

Delay-constrained streaming from a moving platform is of paramount importance for applications such as the remote control of drones, where a low-delay video stream is required in order to provide visual feedback to the pilot while providing high quality vi ...

2019

Usage of Hints on Coding-Based Summative Assessments

Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

A recent in-class exam in a software engineering course included a section in which students had to write code and/or tests under conditions they might face on real software engineering projects, including complex, multi-part coding questions in which late ...

ACM2019

Light field compression using translation-assisted view estimation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Light field technology has recently been gaining traction in the research community. Several acquisition technologies have been demonstrated to properly capture light field information, and portable devices have been commercialized to the general public. H ...

IEEE2019

Graph-based Transform Coding with Application to Image Compression

Pascal Frossard, Ntorina Thanou, Giulia Fracastoro

In this paper, we propose a new graph-based coding framework and illustrate its application to image compression. Our approach relies on the careful design of a graph that optimizes the overall rate-distortion performance through an effective graph-based t ...

2019

Gaussian channel transmission of images and audio files using cryptcoding

Vladimir Ilievski

Random codes based on quasigroups (RCBQ) are cryptcodes, i.e. they are error-correcting codes, which provide information security. Cut-Decoding and 4-Sets-Cut-Decoding algorithms for these codes are defined elsewhere. Also, the performance of these codes f ...

2019

Adaptive Learning-Based Compressive Sampling for Low-power Wireless Implants

Volkan Cevher, Catherine Dehollain, Mahsa Shoaran, Yusuf Leblebici, Gürkan Yilmaz, Cosimo Aprile, Luca Baldassarre, Kerim Türe, Franco Maloberti

Implantable systems are nowadays being used to interface the human brain with external devices, in order to understand and potentially treat neurological disorders. The most predominant design constraints are the system’s area and power. In this paper, we ...

2018

A graph learning approach for light field image compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Pascal Frossard, Irene Viola, Hermina Petric Maretic

In recent years, light field imaging has attracted the attention of the academic and industrial communities thanks to its enhanced rendering capabilities that allow to visualise contents in a more immersive and interactive way. However, those enhanced capa ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2018

Statistically-Motivated Second-order Pooling

Mathieu Salzmann, Kaicheng Yu

Second-order pooling, a.k.a. bilinear pooling, has proven effective for deep learning based visual recognition. However, the resulting second-order networks yield a final representation that is orders of magnitude larger than that of standard, first-order ...

2018

Hybrid Coding Scheme for Brillouin Optical Time-domain Analysis Based on Golay and Differential Pulses

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Zonglei Li

A hybrid Golay coding method based on differential pulse-pair sequences is proposed for distributed Brillouin sensing. The method provides 1.5 dB signal-to-noise ratio improvement over unipolar Golay with halved measurement time, securing high spatial reso ...

Optical Society of America2018

Object Shape Approximation and Contour Adaptive Depth Image Coding for Virtual View Synthesis

Pascal Frossard, Yuan Yuan

A depth image provides partial geometric information of a 3D scene, namely the shapes of physical objects as observed from a particular viewpoint. This information is important when synthesizing images of different virtual camera viewpoints via depth-image ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Polarization and Channel Ordering: Characterizations and Topological Structures

Rajai Nasser

Information theory is the field in which we study the fundamental limitations of communication. Shannon proved in 1948 that there exists a maximum rate, called capacity, at which we can reliably communicate information through a given channel. However, Sha ...

EPFL2017