Biologically Inspired Signal Processing: Analyses, Algorithms and Applications
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Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2012 2012:28
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Particle Swarm Optimization Based Noncoherent Detector for Ultra-Wideband Radio in Intensive Multipath Environments
Given the dense multipath propagation in typical ultra-wideband channels, traditional coherent receivers may become computationally complex and impractical. Recently, noncoherent UWB architectures have been mo...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2011 2011:341836 -
Evolutionary Splines for Cepstral Filterbank Optimization in Phoneme Classification
Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients have long been the most widely used type of speech representation. They were introduced to incorporate biologically inspired characteristics into artificial speech recognize...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2011 2011:284791 -
Evolutionary Approach to Improve Wavelet Transforms for Image Compression in Embedded Systems
A bioinspired, evolutionary algorithm for optimizing wavelet transforms oriented to improve image compression in embedded systems is proposed, modelled, and validated here. A simplified version of an Evolution...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:973806 -
Relevance Analysis of Stochastic Biosignals for Identification of Pathologies
This paper presents a complementary study of the methodology for diagnosing of pathologies, based on relevance analysis of stochastic (time-variant) features that are extracted from t-f representations of biosign...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:532349 -
Flow Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles via an Artificial Lateral Line
Most fish have the capability of sensing flows and nearby movements even in dark or murky conditions by using the lateral line organs. This enables them to perform a variety of underwater activities, such as l...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:806406 -
A Novel Biologically Inspired Attention Mechanism for a Social Robot
In biological vision systems, the attention mechanism is responsible for selecting the relevant information from the sensed field of view. In robotics, this ability is specially useful because of the restricti...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:841078 -
Robust Object Categorization and Segmentation Motivated by Visual Contexts in the Human Visual System
Categorizing visual elements is fundamentally important for autonomous mobile robots to get intelligence such as novel object learning and topological place recognition. The main difficulties of visual categor...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:101428 -
Neural Mechanisms of Motion Detection, Integration, and Segregation: From Biology to Artificial Image Processing Systems
Object motion can be measured locally by neurons at different stages of the visual hierarchy. Depending on the size of their receptive field apertures they measure either localized or more global configuration...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:781561 -
Curvilinear Image Regions Detection: Applications to Mobile Robotics
This paper proposes a novel approach for visual features detection, which is based on the presence of objects whose shape can be modelled using cylinders or generalized cylinders. These specific structures are...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:145232 -
Bayesian Spectral Estimation Applied to Echo Signals from Nonlinear Ultrasound Scatterers
The understanding and exploitation of acoustic echo signals from nonlinear ultrasound scatterers is an active research area that aims to improve the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic imaging. Discrimin...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:146175 -
The Application of Bioinspired Sonar to Cable Tracking on the Seafloor
Marine mammals have developed highly effective sonar systems for detecting, identifying, and following underwater objects. In this paper we demonstrate that bio-inspired wideband sonar offers great capability ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2010 2011:484619