Publications related to Performance of Sigma-Delta Quantizations in Finite Frames

A 0.14-nJ/b 200-Mb/s 2.7-3.5-GHz Quasi-Balanced FSK Transceiver With PLL-Based Modulation and Sideband Energy Detection

This paper describes a balanced frequency shift keying (FSK) modulation, namely quasi-balanced FSK (QB-FSK), for energy-efficient high-data-rate communication. Not suffering from data-pattern dependency, the proposed modulation method enables frequency mod ...

2024

Optimal digital filter selection for remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signal conditioning

Ata Jedari Golparvar

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) using camera-based imaging has shown excellent potential recently in vital signs monitoring due to its contactless nature. However, the optimum filter selection for pre-processing rPPG data in signal conditioning is still ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Biomaterial devices on Arecanut palm leaf for microwave applications

Anja Skrivervik, Sujith Raman

This paper presents an investigation on the possibility of arecanut palm leaf as a biomaterial substrate for various microwave devices such as transmission lines, antenna, filter and a radio frequency identification device (RFID). The dielectric properties ...

IEEE2023

Filter-Informed Spectral Graph Wavelet Networks for Multiscale Feature Extraction and Intelligent Fault Diagnosis

Olga Fink, Tianfu Li

Intelligent fault diagnosis has been increasingly improved with the evolution of deep learning (DL) approaches. Recently, the emerging graph neural networks (GNNs) have also been introduced in the field of fault diagnosis with the goal to make better use o ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Convex Quantization Preserves Logconcavity

Pol del Aguila Pla

A logconcave likelihood is as important to proper statistical inference as a convex cost function is important to variational optimization. Quantization is often disregarded when writing likelihood models, ignoring the limitations of the physical detectors ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Unsupervised Voice Activity Detection by Modeling Source and System Information using Zero Frequency Filtering

Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step for speech technology applications. The task consists of deriving segment boundaries of audio signals which contain voicing information. In recent years, it has been shown that voice source ...

ISCA2022

Text as signal. A tutorial with case studies focusing on social media (Twitter)

Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez

Sentiment analysis is the automated coding of emotions expressed in text. Sentiment analysis and other types of analyses focusing on the automatic coding of textual documents are increasingly popular in psychology and computer science. However, the potenti ...

SPRINGER2022

Penalized denoising of vehicle trajectories collected by a swarm of drones

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis, Georgios Anagnostopoulos

Vehicle trajectory datasets collected in urban traffic environments with drones pose unique chal- lenges in terms of denoising due to extensive visual restrictions, perspective distortions and human- induced errors. This article taps into the unexplored po ...

2022

Electrical Signal Modeling in Cochlear Implants. Study of Temperature and Humidity Effects

Maria-Alexandra Paun

The present paper discusses the climatic effects of humidity and temperature on cochlear implant functioning and the quality of the electrical sound signal. MATLAB Simulink simulations were prepared, offering insights into signal behavior under such climat ...

MDPI2021

Parallel Analog Computing Based on a 2×2 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Metasurface Processor With Asymmetric Response

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Ali Momeni, Amirhossein Babaee

We present a polarization-insensitive metasurface processor to perform spatial asymmetric filtering of an incident beam, thereby allowing for real-time parallel analog processing. To enable massive parallel processing, we introduce a multiple-input multipl ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Ultra-Compact Ka-band Metamaterial Waveguide Filters, Fabricated by Lost-Wax Casting

Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam, Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

This paper proposes a novel technique for the design of miniaturized Ka-band filters based on locally resonant metamaterials (LRMs), which are fabricated monolithically using lost wax casting. We implement ultra-small metamaterial filters by exploiting a n ...

IEEE2021

Figlearn: Filter And Graph Learning Using Optimal Transport

Pascal Frossard, Matthias Minder, Mireille El Gheche, Zahra Farsijani

In many applications, a dataset can be considered as a set of observed signals that live on an unknown underlying graph structure. Some of these signals may be seen as white noise that has been filtered on the graph topology by a graph filter. Hence, the k ...

IEEE2021

Medium Voltage Impedance and Admittance Measurement and System Identification Techniques

Marko Petkovic

The recent trend of an increasing share of renewable energy sources in modern power systems, as well as the integration of power electronics equipment, is shaping the requirements for stable grid infrastructure. These requirements mainly come from the stab ...

EPFL2021

Finite-Level Quantization Procedures for Construction and Decoding of Polar Codes

Emre Telatar, Yunus Inan

We consider finite-level, symmetric quantization procedures for construction and decoding of polar codes. Whether polarization occurs in the presence of quantization is not known in general. In [1], it is shown that a simple three-level quantization proced ...

IEEE2020

Learning Temporary Block-Based Bidirectional Incongruity-Aware Correlation Filters for Efficient UAV Object Tracking

Yujie He

In the field of UAV object tracking, correlation filter based approaches have received lots of attention due to their computational efficiency. The methods learn filters by the ridge regression and generate response maps to distinguish the specified target ...

2020

Stabilization and Performance Improvement of Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Using a Robust Data-Driven Method

Alireza Karimi, Seyed Sohail Madani

Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) setups have gained high importance in validation of the performance of newly developed instruments and devices with low risk and implementation cost. However, the interconnection of a power hardware with a simulated model ...

2022

A Wideband Low-Power Cryogenic CMOS Circulator for Quantum Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

Quantum computers require classical electronics to ensure fault-tolerant operation. To address compactness and scalability, it was proposed to implement such electronics as integrated circuits operating at cryogenic temperatures close to those at which qua ...

2020

A CMOS Analog Front-End for Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring System

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

This paper presents an energy-efficient analog front-end circuit to monitor the pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) with piezoresistive pressure sensors. A low-power capacitively-coupled instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) is developed in order to boost the ampli ...

IEEE2019

5 GHz laterally-excited bulk-wave resonators (XBARs) based on thin platelets of lithium niobate

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

In a free-standing 400-nm-thick platelet of crystalline ZY-LiNbO3, narrow electrodes (500 nm) placed periodically with a pitch of a few microns can eXcite standing shear-wave bulk acoustic resonances (XBARs), by utilising lateral electric fields oriented p ...

2019

Optimized Quantization in Distributed Graph Signal Filtering

Pascal Frossard, Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre

Distributed graph signal processing algorithms require the network nodes to communicate by exchanging messages in order to achieve a common objective. These messages have a finite precision in realistic networks, which may necessitate to implement message ...

2019