52 research outputs found
Advanced Television and Signal Processing Program
Contains an introduction and reports on two research projects.Advanced Television Research Progra
Advanced Television and Signal Processing Program
Contains an introduction and reports on fifteen research projects.Advanced Television Research ProgramAdams-Russell Electronics, Inc.National Science Foundation Fellowship Grant MIP 87-14969National Science Foundation FellowshipU.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1489U.S. Air Force - Electronic Systems Division Contract F1 9628-89-K-004
MSAT-X: A technical introduction and status report
A technical introduction and status report for the Mobile Satellite Experiment (MSAT-X) program is presented. The concepts of a Mobile Satellite System (MSS) and its unique challenges are introduced. MSAT-X's role and objectives are delineated with focus on its achievements. An outline of MSS design philosophy is followed by a presentation and analysis of the MSAT-X results, which are cast in a broader context of an MSS. The current phase of MSAT-X has focused notably on the ground segment of MSS. The accomplishments in the four critical technology areas of vehicle antennas, modem and mobile terminal design, speech coding, and networking are presented. A concise evolutionary trace is incorporated in each area to elucidate the rationale leading to the current design choices. The findings in the area of propagation channel modeling are also summarized and their impact on system design discussed. To facilitate the assessment of the MSAT-X results, technology and subsystem recommendations are also included and integrated with a quantitative first-generation MSS design
APCO project 25 wireless data services over land mobile radio channel for smaller law enforcement agencies
Digital data messages are very important in modern communication systems and advanced mobile data technologies have opened the door to a wide range of applications and services in the public safety environment. Still, the availability of mobile data services among public safety agencies is hampered by two issues of the implementation of data communication: the reliability of commercial data services and the high cost of the equipment needed to support mixed voice and data transmissions over private land mobile radio channels.
This thesis describes the design and development of an inexpensive Software Defined APCO Project 25 Data Base Station that allows smaller law enforcement agencies to enable data services in their cruisers in a cost effective way. The data base station is comprised of a standard PC interfaced to a commercial analog VHF FM transceiver via a commercial PC sound card. The base station is compliant with commercial P25 digital mobile radios and operates in parallel to commercial P25 digital voice communications equipment
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED APPROACH TO MODELLING OF PIPE ORGANS
The aim of the project was to develop a new Artificial Intelligence-based method to aid
modeling of musical instruments and sound design. Despite significant advances in music
technology, sound design and synthesis of complex musical instruments is still time
consuming, error prone and requires expert understanding of the instrument attributes
and significant expertise to produce high quality synthesised sounds to meet the needs
of musicians and musical instrument builders. Artificial Intelligence (Al) offers an effective
means of capturing this expertise and for handling the imprecision and uncertainty
inherent in audio knowledge and data.
This thesis presents new techniques to capture and exploit audio expertise, following
extended knowledge elicitation with two renowned music technologist/audio experts, developed
and embodied into an intelligent audio system. The Al combined with perceptual
auditory modeling ba.sed techniques (ITU-R BS 1387) make a generic modeling framework
providing a robust methodology for sound synthesis parameters optimisation with
objective prediction of sound synthesis quality. The evaluation, carried out using typical
pipe organ sounds, has shown that the intelligent audio system can automatically design
sounds judged by the experts to be of very good quality, while significantly reducing the
expert's work-load by up to a factor of three and need for extensive subjective tests.
This research work, the first initiative to capture explicitly knowledge from audio
experts for sound design, represents an important contribution for future design of electronic
musical instruments based on perceptual sound quality will help to develop a new
sound quality index for benchmarking sound synthesis techniques and serve as a research
framework for modeling of a wide range of musical instruments.Musicom Lt
Implementation of a real-time voice encryption system
In this master thesis, a voice encryption system was programmed as a real-time
software application. The idea was based on a previous graduation thesis and is
meant to show an example of the possibilities of signal processing for educational
use. The application uses a frequency scrambling technique on an audio signal taken
from the computer microphone input and plays it scrambled back to the speakers, or
other way around to descramble the signal. The basic idea is to use a frequency
channel decomposition through digital signal filtering and down-sampling.
Reassembling these sub-bands in a different order, a scrambled voice signal is the
result. In addition, the scrambling process is embedded into a “software framework”
which allows the use of an audio data stream from and to a sound card through
different APIs so a computer platform real-time application can be accomplished
Proceedings of the Second International Mobile Satellite Conference (IMSC 1990)
Presented here are the proceedings of the Second International Mobile Satellite Conference (IMSC), held June 17-20, 1990 in Ottawa, Canada. Topics covered include future mobile satellite communications concepts, aeronautical applications, modulation and coding, propagation and experimental systems, mobile terminal equipment, network architecture and control, regulatory and policy considerations, vehicle antennas, and speech compression
A configurable vector processor for accelerating speech coding algorithms
The growing demand for voice-over-packer (VoIP) services and multimedia-rich
applications has made increasingly important the efficient, real-time implementation of
low-bit rates speech coders on embedded VLSI platforms. Such speech coders are
designed to substantially reduce the bandwidth requirements thus enabling dense multichannel
gateways in small form factor. This however comes at a high computational cost
which mandates the use of very high performance embedded processors.
This thesis investigates the potential acceleration of two major ITU-T speech coding
algorithms, namely G.729A and G.723.1, through their efficient implementation on a
configurable extensible vector embedded CPU architecture. New scalar and vector ISAs
were introduced which resulted in up to 80% reduction in the dynamic instruction count
of both workloads. These instructions were subsequently encapsulated into a parametric,
hybrid SISD (scalar processor)–SIMD (vector) processor. This work presents the research
and implementation of the vector datapath of this vector coprocessor which is tightly-coupled
to a Sparc-V8 compliant CPU, the optimization and simulation methodologies
employed and the use of Electronic System Level (ESL) techniques to rapidly design
SIMD datapaths
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