In Car Audio

This chapter presents implementations of advanced in Car Audio Applications. The system is composed by three main different applications regarding the In Car listening and communication experience. Starting from a high level description of the algorithms, several implementations on different levels of hardware abstraction are presented, along with empirical results on both the design process undergone and the performance results achieved

The hArtes Tool Chain

This chapter describes the different design steps needed to go from legacy code to a transformed application that can be efficiently mapped on the hArtes platform

An Efficient Active Noise Control System with Online Secondary Path Estimation for Snoring Reduction

This paper presents a new active noise control (ANC) technique with online secondary path estimation and subband adaptive filtering (SAF) for snoring reduction. In particular, the combination with the SAF structure allows to obtain a better estimation of the primary path and also has an impact on the algorithm performance, especially in terms of convergence rate. Although the SAF technique is applied only in the primary path estimation, it improves also the performance of the secondary path estimation guaranteeing a better convergence rate. The proposed algorithm has been first validated using white noise and then tested considering snoring signals. The experimental results have confirmed its effectiveness in comparison with the state of the art

A real time subband implementation of an active noise control system for snoring reduction

In this paper, a real time implementation of an active noise control (ANC) system for snoring cancellation is presented. This method is based on an online secondary path estimation procedure and includes a subband adaptive filtering (SAF) structure for the primary path estimation. The introduction of the SAF approach allows to improve the performances on the estimation of both primary and secondary path in terms of convergence rate. The algorithm has been compared with the state of the art through several experiments that have proved the effectiveness of the proposed system in real applications

Voters’ preferences and electoral systems: the EuroVotePlus experiment in Italy

Motivated by the need to understand voting behaviour under different electoral rules, Laslier et al. (Eur Union Polit, 16(4):601–615, 2015) have conducted an online experiment, the EuroVotePlus experiment, focusing on the effects of the different rules adopted to elect members of the European parliament on voters’ behaviour. The experiment took place in several European countries in the 3 weeks before the 2014 elections for the European Parliament. This paper focuses on the Italian data. Firstly, we show that the behaviour of Italian respondents is consistent with the empirical findings at the European level. Then, we exploit the change from open list to closed list elections implemented in Italy in 1993 to investigate whether and how preferences over institutions are affected by experience. We find that respondents who voted using the open list system in Italy are more likely to prefer closed list systems, and that the effect is stronger the higher the number of open list elections the respondents have faced