IMPROVED MULTIPLE BIRDSONG TRACKING WITH DISTRIBUTION DERIVATIVE METHOD AND MARKOV RENEWAL PROCESS CLUSTERING

DS & MP are supported by an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship EP/G007144/1

Reassigned spectrogram and its time-domain conversion

Audio information accounts for a large portion of existing digital data, and numerous researchers are constantly developing new methods and tools for audio analysis. Short-time Fourier transformed based analysis is one of the most prominent analysis tools because of its linearity; however, this mechanism cannot resolve issues with inaccurate localization of energy in both time and frequency, especially for audio editing types of applications. Thus, the reassigned spectrogram method, developed by Auger and Flandrin in 1995, has won its place due to higher accuracy in energy localization by turning discretely sampled signal into continuous domain, and by reassigning the energy to the center of mass for each analysis bin. This method, nevertheless, is non-linear, and it is very di cult to synthesize analysis data back to time-domain representation. This thesis introduces mechanisms to solve this problem and summarizes the result of testing.Ope

Inpainting of long audio segments with similarity graphs

We present a novel method for the compensation of long duration data loss in audio signals, in particular music. The concealment of such signal defects is based on a graph that encodes signal structure in terms of time-persistent spectral similarity. A suitable candidate segment for the substitution of the lost content is proposed by an intuitive optimization scheme and smoothly inserted into the gap, i.e. the lost or distorted signal region. Extensive listening tests show that the proposed algorithm provides highly promising results when applied to a variety of real-world music signals

Compliments and compliment responses in Philippine English

Compliment is a speech act that frequently occurs in everyday conversations. It is often used to start a conversation or to ‘lubricate’ the conversational interaction by reinforcing the rapport between the interlocutors. One line of academic research on compliments is to investigate similarities and differences across varieties of English (Jucker, 2009). So far, many varieties of English, such as American English, New Zealand English, and African English have been explored and it was found that compliments are formulaic in terms of both the meaning and the syntactic forms (e.g. Manes & Wolfson, 1981; Holmes, 1986; Herbert & Straight, 1989). However, only few studies have been done on Philippine English. This paper aims to fill the gap. A Discourse Completion Test (Henceforth DCT) was used to elicit data of giving and receiving compliments from 30 college students in a Philippine University. An analysis is provided of the compliment strategies, the syntactic and lexical patterns characterizing compliments, and the compliment response strategies. It was found that Philippine English speakers tend to use explicit compliments plus a bound semantic formula most frequently. The compliments in Philippine English are as formulaic at syntactic and lexical levels as other varieties of English. Filipinos are more likely to accept the compliment, rather than reject it, when they receive one

State of New York Public Employment Relations Board Decisions from October 26, 2004

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