{"title":"Performance comparison of the optimal and the zero-forcing beamforming algorithms under practical conditions","authors":"Olivia Hu, F. Zheng","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.815819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.815819","url":null,"abstract":"The optimal and the zero-forcing beamformers are two commonly used algorithms in the subspace-based blind beamforming technology. The optimal beamformer is regarded as the algorithm with the best output SINR. The zero-forcing algorithm emphasizes the co-channel interference cancellation. This paper compares the performance of these two algorithms under some practical conditions: the effect of the finite data length and the existence of the angle estimation error. The investigation reveals that the zero-forcing algorithm can be more robust in the practical environment than the optimal algorithm.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134155470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The recognition of car license plate for automatic parking system","authors":"T. Sirithinaphong, K. Chamnongthai","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818210","url":null,"abstract":"The recognition of a car's license plate for an automatic parking system is important for identifying the car at the entrance of the parking area because the car license plate has unique information for each car. This paper proposes the recognition of car license plate which is accurate and robust to environmental variation by using the car's license plate patterns according to motor vehicle regulation and a 4-layer BP neural network with supervised learning. In this method, the candidates regions of the car license plate are determined approximately according to the car license plate regulation such as color, the ratio and shape of the car license plate, the pattern of characters and numbers etc. For the results of recognition by neural networks, the candidate that has characters and numbers according to motor vehicle regulation is certified as license-plate region. Since the results of characters-pattern recognition are used to certify the license plate, the ability of license plate extraction is more accurate and the car can be identified simultaneously. The experimental results of seventy car images with the prototype of the automatic parking system show the performance of car license plate extraction rate of 96%, and the recognition rate is 92%.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"67 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127564858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signal-processing education in the context of multimedia technology","authors":"X. Huang, G. Woolsey","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.815728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.815728","url":null,"abstract":"Multimedia technology is being introduced at all levels of the BE degrees in Electronics and Communications at the University of New England (UNE). In this paper the use of multimedia technology via an example for a fourth-year education package on signal processing is discussed and analysed. We have used the multimedia education package for teaching and learning during formal class periods and encourage students to use this technology in their own private study and projects to increase their engineering generic skills. The success of the venture has encouraged us to extend the technology to other selected units not only in the BE (Electronics and Communications) program but also in the BEngTech (Bachelor of Engineering Technology) program at UNE.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130778097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the polar distribution of snapping shrimp with a wide aperture array","authors":"B. Ferguson, J. Cleary","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.815803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.815803","url":null,"abstract":"A wide-aperture array consisting of three widely separated collinear hydrophones is used to estimate the polar distribution of underwater acoustic transients produced by snapping shrimp. Simultaneous differential time-of-arrival measurements from adjacent pairs of hydrophones are used to estimate the instantaneous range and bearing of the source of each biological transient signal. Plotting the source positions for a series of acoustic transient events produces a spatial distribution of the local snapping shrimp population. When DSTO's Wide Aperture Array was deployed in Sydney Harbour, the spatial distribution of the biological transients coincided with the position of a naval wharf suggesting that the sub-surface structure of the wharf is conducive to snapping shrimp habitation.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131019841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance evaluation of the B-distribution","authors":"V. Sucic, B. Barkat, B. Boashash","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818164","url":null,"abstract":"The properties of the previously proposed B-distribution are investigated. We show that this distribution satisfies most of the desirable properties sought for a time-frequency distribution. That is, we show that the B-distribution is real, time and frequency shift invariant and its first moment with respect to frequency yields the instantaneous frequency of the signal. We also show, using real and synthetic data, that the B-distribution outperforms other quadratic time-frequency distributions in resolving signals' components in the time-frequency domain. It achieves a better time-frequency resolution and a better energy concentration around the instantaneous frequency of the signal, and still significantly suppresses the cross-terms.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133071383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Audio source type segmentation using a perceptually based representation","authors":"K. Melih, R. González","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818110","url":null,"abstract":"Existing audio retrieval systems fall into one of two categories: systems that can accept data of only a single type (e.g. automatic speech recognition systems) or systems that report to offer content based retrieval for audio data of any type. However, systems belonging to the latter category often impose the restriction that only one type of sound can be presented at a time. This requirement is reasonable since the interpretation of various audio qualities such as pitch and rhythm depends upon the audio type. Pitch variation, for example, can be interpreted as the melody line in music while in speech it can be used as a means for detecting change of speaker. The problem, however, is that existing systems either expect segmentation to have been performed a priori or perform the segmentation in a completely separate process. This introduces unnecessary processing and file manipulation overheads. To combat this, a new perceptually based representation has been developed specifically to support content-based retrieval. This paper discusses the application of the new representation to sound source segmentation and identification.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127655562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adaptive split-and-merge method for smoothing and compression of image contours","authors":"Yi Xiao, J. Zou, Hong Yan","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818117","url":null,"abstract":"The contour of a digital image usually has a large number of edges and may suffer from quantization error and noise. In feature extraction or shape matching algorithms, contour smoothing must be performed to reduce noise and quantization error and to compress the data while still keeping its original shape. This study presents a split-and-merge method with adaptive tolerance value for smoothing image contours. The tolerance value depends on the grid constant D and the length of line L in collinearity tests. Experimental results on real binary contours show the method is very effective and precise for smoothing of binary image.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127401250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fuzzy logic based behaviors blending for intelligent reactive navigation of walking robot","authors":"Adel Al-Jumaily, S. Amin","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818136","url":null,"abstract":"The reaction of an autonomous mobile robot to dynamic, uncertain, and changeable environments is one of most difficult issues in control of intelligent autonomous robot movement. Fuzzy control appears as a very useful tool for handling intelligent reactive navigation. The present work deals with building of fuzzy behavior based reactive navigation for obstacle avoidance, and proposes a method to blend and coordinate multi-behaviors at the same time. This method using a fuzzy technique and fixed priority value to reflect the importance of the behavior. We have built our simulation and animation programs that can reflect online the robot movement using a graphical user interface.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133823368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Arunrungrusmi, Dejwoot Khawparisuth, K. Chamnongthai, M. Okuda, S. Ozawa
{"title":"Nondestructive 2D cross-sectional visualization of a Mangosteen","authors":"S. Arunrungrusmi, Dejwoot Khawparisuth, K. Chamnongthai, M. Okuda, S. Ozawa","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818207","url":null,"abstract":"A nondestructive inspection of a fruit inside is an essential way for fruit grading. In this paper, we proposed a nondestructive 2D cross-sectional visualization of a Mangosteen using infrared. The infrared was selected because there is no effect against taste and consumer health. By experiments, the infrared in the frequency range of 480-1,025 nm is found to be appropriate for radiating through the Mangosteen. To obtain a 2D cross-sectional image of the Mangosteen, a series of passing through infrared ray was collected. The collection of profiles, a series of the infrared without a rotation along a cross-sectional axis, around the Mangosteen is used to reconstruction the image. There are a series of 56 infrared for each profile and totally 19 profiles for each Mangosteen. We use wavelet transform (Haar) to detect the peel width and determine the diameter of Mangosteen flesh. The diameter of Mangosteen flesh is used as a factor for preprocessing the profile. The 2D cross-sectional image of Mangosteen can be reconstructed by filtered back projection (FBP) algorithm. From experiments using a prototype that we developed, the result was shown that we can inspect the Mangosteen by 2D cross-sectional visualization of the Mangosteen via the nondestructive method. 70% of the classification rate of Mangosteen hardness is shown when using this frequency range.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115686508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ship motion estimation from ISAR data","authors":"D. Gibbins, J. Symons, B. Haywood","doi":"10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.1999.818180","url":null,"abstract":"The motion of ship's seen through a high resolution coherent radar is of interest in object recognition based on Doppler imaging. This paper describes a preliminary investigation into the estimation of ship motion based on an assumption of sinusoidal motion.","PeriodicalId":302569,"journal":{"name":"ISSPA '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (IEEE Cat. No.99EX359)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115786042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}