499 research outputs found
Development and Characterisation of Nanoclays from Indian Clays
Indian clays are known for their smecticity. One such clay sample collected from Bhuj (Gujarat)was characterised and modified by successive sedimentation processes for different time intervals.The non-plastic components of clay, viz., quartz, illite, iron oxide, CaO, MgO, and organic matterwere removed in different steps, as the heavy impurities in the clay-water suspensions, settledown during sedimentation. The free iron oxide present in clay suspension was reduced bygiving sodium citrate-bicarbonate-dithionite treatment and iron content was further reducedfrom 12Œ15 per cent to 5Œ7 per cent respectively. The organic matter was removed by sodiumacetate-H2O2 treatment. The modified clay so obtained was characterised by thermal analysis,FTIR, and XRD, SEM and TEM. The cation exchange capacities of original and modified clayswere determined both by methylene blue method and ammonium acetate method. The cationex change capacity is found to enhance from 120Œ130 meq/100 g to 135Œ145 meq/100 g. Usingthe above procedure, 92 per cent smecticity was obtained. Organo philisation of purified clay(smectite) was carried out by intercalation with alkyl ammonium salt. The XRD analysis show edenhancement of interlamellar spacing from 1.294 nm to 2.855 nm.Defence Science Journal, 2008, 58(4), pp.517-524, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.58.167
CONSTRUCTION OF ASYMMETRICAL RESPONSE SURFACE DESIGNS
The paper proposes several methods for constructing both rotatable and non-rotatable asymmetrical response surface designs. The idea of modified rotatable design is introduced. In most of the experiments conducted by the experimenter it is not necessary that all the factors under study may have equal number of levels The methods proposed will have wider use under these circumstances
Dissimilarity Based Contrastive Divergence for Anomaly Detection
This paper describes training of a Re-
stricted Boltzmann Machine(RBM) using
dissimilarity-based contrastive divergence to
obtain an anomaly detector. We go over the
merits of the method over other approaches
and describe the method's usefulness to ob-
tain a generative model
MAST: Multiscale Audio Spectrogram Transformers
We present Multiscale Audio Spectrogram Transformer (MAST) for audio
classification, which brings the concept of multiscale feature hierarchies to
the Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST). Given an input audio spectrogram we
first patchify and project it into an initial temporal resolution and embedding
dimension, post which the multiple stages in MAST progressively expand the
embedding dimension while reducing the temporal resolution of the input. We use
a pyramid structure that allows early layers of MAST operating at a high
temporal resolution but low embedding space to model simple low-level acoustic
information and deeper temporally coarse layers to model high-level acoustic
information with high-dimensional embeddings. We also extend our approach to
present a new Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) method called SS-MAST, which
calculates a symmetric contrastive loss between latent representations from a
student and a teacher encoder. In practice, MAST significantly outperforms AST
by an average accuracy of 3.4% across 8 speech and non-speech tasks from the
LAPE Benchmark. Moreover, SS-MAST achieves an absolute average improvement of
2.6% over SSAST for both AST and MAST encoders. We make all our codes available
on GitHub at the time of publication.Comment: Submitted ICASSP 202
Formation of Silicon Carbide Whiskers from Organic Precursors Via Sol-Gel Method
Silicon Carbide (SiC) was synthesized by carbothermal reduction of silica precursor and carbon precursor. The silica precursor was obtained from tetraethoxysilane. Sucrose was used as carbon source. Tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) was hydrolyzed in acidic water (pH = 2). The molar ratio of TEOS-H2O-EtOH was taken as 1:8:2 in the sol-gel processing. Hydrolysed silica sol was polymerized with sucrose to incorporate carbon precursor into the silica network. The gel thus obtained was dried in an oven at 70 oC and at 100 oC. The solid mass obtained on drying was heat treated at 1000 °C in nitrogen atmosphere to obtain the black glass. It was characterized by FTIR, SEM and TGA. The black glass was further heated to 1500 oC in argon to yield silicon carbide. this resulted in formation of β-SiC whiskers
Stable Distillation: Regularizing Continued Pre-training for Low-Resource Automatic Speech Recognition
Continued self-supervised (SSL) pre-training for adapting existing SSL models
to the target domain has shown to be extremely effective for low-resource
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). This paper proposes Stable Distillation, a
simple and novel approach for SSL-based continued pre-training that boosts ASR
performance in the target domain where both labeled and unlabeled data are
limited. Stable Distillation employs self-distillation as regularization for
continued pre-training, alleviating the over-fitting issue, a common problem
continued pre-training faces when the source and target domains differ.
Specifically, first, we perform vanilla continued pre-training on an initial
SSL pre-trained model on the target domain ASR dataset and call it the teacher.
Next, we take the same initial pre-trained model as a student to perform
continued pre-training while enforcing its hidden representations to be close
to that of the teacher (via MSE loss). This student is then used for downstream
ASR fine-tuning on the target dataset. In practice, Stable Distillation
outperforms all our baselines by 0.8 - 7 WER when evaluated in various
experimental settings.Comment: Accepted to ICASSP 2024. Code:
https://github.com/cs20s030/stable_distillatio
Studies on synthesis and Reduction of Graphene Oxide from Natural Graphite by using Chemical Method
Graphene is a material with rapidly growing interest. It consists of flat monolayer of carbon atoms tightly packed into a two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattice and is basic building block for all graphitic materials. Interest in Graphene is because of its excellent mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical properties and its very high specific surface area. Studies have been performed on wet oxidation of natural graphite by using Modified Hummers Method followed by exfoliation and reduction in order toВ synthesise graphene from Graphite Oxide (GO). Acid route has been followed for oxidation whereas reduction has been carried out in water with hydrazine hydrate and Sodium Borohydrate. It results in to a material with characteristics that are comparable to those of pristine graphite. The reaction at every step has been characterized by using FTIR, TGA, XRD, Raman spectroscopy and surface area measurement
Change Vector Analysis using Enhanced PCA and Inverse Triangular Function-based Thresholding
Change vector analysis is a very sophisticated method to evaluate land-use/land-cover changes meaningfully. By making proper choice of input data in the form of bands (for instance, red, NIR etc) or features (for instance, greenness, brightness, wetness etc), information about both the magnitude as well as the type/nature of changes can be extracted. However, improper selection of thresholds is always a hindrance to a good change detection algorithm. The paper has proposed an improved technique to select threshold appropriately by means of principal component difference and inverse triangular function. The changes have been represented using class-based circular wheel representation. Results have been shown to further testify the performance of proposed algorithm.Defence Science Journal, 2012, 62(4), pp.236-242, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.62.107
UNFUSED: UNsupervised Finetuning Using SElf supervised Distillation
In this paper, we introduce UnFuSeD, a novel approach to leverage
self-supervised learning and reduce the need for large amounts of labeled data
for audio classification. Unlike prior works, which directly fine-tune a
self-supervised pre-trained encoder on a target dataset, we use the encoder to
generate pseudo-labels for unsupervised fine-tuning before the actual
fine-tuning step. We first train an encoder using a novel self-supervised
learning algorithm (SSL) on an unlabeled audio dataset. Then, we use that
encoder to generate pseudo-labels on our target task dataset via clustering the
extracted representations. These pseudo-labels are then used to guide
self-distillation on a randomly initialized model, which we call unsupervised
fine-tuning. Finally, the resultant encoder is then fine-tuned on our target
task dataset. Through UnFuSeD, we propose the first system that moves away from
generic SSL paradigms in literature, which pre-train and fine-tune the same
encoder, and present a novel self-distillation-based system to leverage SSL
pre-training for low-resource audio classification. In practice, UnFuSeD
achieves state-of-the-art results on the LAPE Benchmark, significantly
outperforming all our baselines. Additionally, UnFuSeD allows us to achieve
this at a 40% reduction in the number of parameters over the previous
state-of-the-art system. We make all our codes publicly available.Comment: Under review at ICASSP 2023 SASB Worksho
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