Magnitude-Estimation Scaling: An Effective Method for the Measurement of the Quality of Filtered Speech

1994 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 348-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Fucci ◽  
Steve Domyan ◽  
Lee Ellis ◽  
Daniel Harris
Keyword(s):  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Speech Stimulus ◽  
Stimulus Quality ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
Filtered Speech ◽  
High Pass

17 subjects provided magnitude estimations in the form of quality judgments of a filtered speech stimulus which was a nonsense sentence containing all of the consonants of English from Fairbanks. It was presented to subjects at 8 high-pass and 8 low-pass filtering conditions. Consistent magnitude estimations to the filtered stimulus were similar for both conditions. Also, for both conditions, subjects' numerical responses consistently increased in value as stimulus quality was judged to be poorer.

The Effect of Image Quality on Search for Static and Dynamic Targets: MTFA-Performance Correlations

1979 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-343
Author(s):  
James C. Gutmann ◽  
Harry L. Snyder ◽  
Willard W. Farley ◽  
John E. Evans
Keyword(s):  
White Noise ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Search Task ◽  
Search Time ◽  
Video Signal ◽  
Modulation Transfer ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Pass

This report contains the results of two experiments which investigated the effects of the quality of a televised image on eye movements and search-related measures. The first experimental search task involved having subjects perform an air-to-ground search during a simulated flight. The quality of the image presented was varied by either passing, low-pass filtering, or attenuating the video signal and by adding electrical white noise to the video signal. Low to moderate correlations between modulation transfer function area (MTFA) and performance measures generally indicated that as MTFA increases performance improves and fixation durations decrease. The search task of the second experiment consisted of having the subjects search for a designated letter or numeral across a televised picture of randomly positioned letters and numerals. The quality of the picture was varied by either passing, low-pass filtering, high-pass filtering, or attenuating the video signal and by adding electrical white noise to the video signal. Correlations between MTFA and performance measures indicated that increases in MTFA lead to decreases in search time and decreases in fixation duration.

scholarly journals Affective Properties of Mothers' Speech to Infants With Hearing Impairment and Cochlear Implants

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria V. Kondaurova ◽  
Tonya R. Bergeson ◽  
Huiping Xu ◽  
Christine Kitamura
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Affective Quality ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
Maternal Speech ◽  
Speech Information ◽  
Filtered Speech ◽  
Fine Tune

Purpose The affective properties of infant-directed speech influence the attention of infants with normal hearing to speech sounds. This study explored the affective quality of maternal speech to infants with hearing impairment (HI) during the 1st year after cochlear implantation as compared to speech to infants with normal hearing. Method Mothers of infants with HI and mothers of infants with normal hearing matched by age (NH-AM) or hearing experience (NH-EM) were recorded playing with their infants during 3 sessions over a 12-month period. Speech samples of 25 s were low-pass filtered, leaving intonation but not speech information intact. Sixty adults rated the stimuli along 5 scales: positive/negative affect and intention to express affection, to encourage attention, to comfort/soothe, and to direct behavior. Results Low-pass filtered speech to HI and NH-EM groups was rated as more positive, affective, and comforting compared with the such speech to the NH-AM group. Speech to infants with HI and with NH-AM was rated as more directive than speech to the NH-EM group. Mothers decreased affective qualities in speech to all infants but increased directive qualities in speech to infants with NH-EM over time. Conclusions Mothers fine-tune communicative intent in speech to their infant's developmental stage. They adjust affective qualities to infants' hearing experience rather than to chronological age but adjust directive qualities of speech to the chronological age of their infants.

CURRENT-MODE ACTIVE-C FILTER EMPLOYING REDUCED NUMBER OF CCCII+s

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 507-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHAHRAM MINAEI ◽  
ERKAN YUCE
Keyword(s):  
Current Mode ◽  
Pass Band ◽  
Passive Component ◽  
Resistorless Filter ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
Component Matching ◽  
Band Pass ◽  
High Output Impedance ◽  
Quality Factor Q ◽  
High Pass

In this paper, a universal current-mode second-order active-C filter for simultaneously realizing low-pass, band-pass and high-pass responses is proposed. The presented filter employs only three plus-type second-generation current-controlled conveyors (CCCII+s). This filter needs no critical active and passive component matching conditions and no additional active and passive elements for realizing high output impedance low-pass, band-pass and high-pass characteristics. The angular resonance frequency (ω0) and quality factor (Q) of the proposed resistorless filter can be tuned electronically. To verify the theoretical analysis and to exhibit the performance of the proposed filter, it is simulated with SPICE program.

NOVEL VOLTAGE-MODE UNIVERSAL FILTER USING ONLY TWO CDBAs

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUDHANSHU MAHESHWARI ◽  
IQBAL A. KHAN
Keyword(s):  
Pass Band ◽  
Universal Filter ◽  
Input Selection ◽  
Voltage Mode ◽  
Single Output ◽  
Control Computer ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
Band Pass ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
High Pass

A novel voltage-mode universal filter employing only two current differencing buffered amplifiers (CDBAs) is proposed. The filter uses four inputs and single output to realize six responses, viz. low-pass, high-pass, inverting band-pass, noninverting band-pass, band-elimination, and all-pass through input selection with independent pole-Q control. Computer simulation results using SPICE are also given to verify the theory.

Coding of temporal parameters of complex sounds by frog auditory nerve fibers

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Feng ◽  
J. C. Hall ◽  
S. Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Nerve ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Nerve Fibers ◽  
Spike Count ◽  
Complex Sounds ◽  
Temporal Parameters ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Auditory Nerve Fibers ◽  
High Pass

1. Physiological recordings were made from single auditory fibers in the frog eighth nerve to determine quantitatively how the different behaviorally relevant temporal parameters (the signal rise-fall time, duration, and rate of amplitude modulation) of complex sounds are encoded in the auditory periphery. Individual temporal parameters were varied. Response functions (RFs) were constructed with respect to each of these parameters using each unit's best excitatory frequency (BF) as the carrier. 2. In response to a change in signal rise-fall time, auditory nerve fibers showed little change in the mean spike count or firing rate, i.e., all fibers displayed ALL-PASS RFrfts. But the transient components, particularly the early phasic component, of responses varied with rise-fall times; these components were more pronounced in the responses to stimuli with shorter rise-fall times. 3. In response to an increase in signal duration, auditory nerve fibers showed a corresponding increase in firing duration and thus in the mean spike count, giving rise to HIGH-PASS RFdurs. The shape of response curves differed among fibers; the difference appeared to be related to the fiber's temporal adaptation characteristic. When the firing rate was measured, all fibers displayed higher mean firing rates in response to shorter duration stimuli than they did to longer duration stimuli, thus giving rise to LOW-PASS response functions. 4. To determine the response transfer functions to modulation rate, pulsed (PAM) and sinusoidally (SAM) amplitude-modulated signals were used. These signals differed substantially in terms of their envelopes and how they varied with AM rate. Data were analyzed by 1) plotting spike counts against the AM rate to derive modulation transfer functions (MTFspks) and 2) plotting synchronization coefficients (SCs) against the AM rate to generate MTFscs. 5. In response to PAM stimuli, all fibers showed an increase in mean spike count with modulation frequency over the range examined, giving rise to HIGH-PASS MTFspks. 6. For SAM stimuli, the average energy and duty cycle are independent of AM rate. Most (79%) auditory fibers showed little selectivity for AM rate over a range of 5-400 Hz, giving rise to ALL-PASS MTFspks. The remaining auditory fibers displayed LOW-PASS MTFspks, i.e., there was a distinct decline in the mean spike count with increasing AM rate. 7. In response to PAM stimuli, most fibers showed good response synchrony at low AM rates but the SC declined with an increase in the AM rate (i.e., LOW-PASS MTFscs). The cut-off frequency was typically very high, averaging 90 pulses/s.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

A semi-lumped microstrip UWB bandpass filter

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darine Kaddour ◽  
Jean-Daniel Arnould ◽  
Philippe Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Group Delay ◽  
Bandpass Filter ◽  
Filter Design ◽  
Sensitivity Study ◽  
Critical Parameters ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Pass Filter ◽  
Low Pass Filter ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
High Pass

In this paper, a miniaturized bandpass filter for ultra-wide-band applications is proposed. It is based on the embedding of high-pass structures in a low-pass filter. A semi-lumped technology combining surface-mounted capacitors and transmission lines has been used. The filter design rules have been carried out. Furthermore, two filters having a 3-dB fractional bandwidth of 142 and 150%, centered at 0.77 and 1 GHz, respectively, have been realized for a proof of concept. Measured characteristics, in good agreement with simulations, show attractive properties of return loss (|S11| <−18 dB), insertion loss (<0.3 dB), and a maximum group delay and group delay variation of 2 and 1.3 ns, respectively. A distributed filter based on the same low-pass/high-pass approach has been also realized and measured for comparison. The size reduction reaches 85% for the semi-lumped filter, and its selectivity is improved with a shape factor of 1.3:1 instead of 1.5:1. The semi-lumped filter's drawback is related to a smaller rejection bandwidth compared to the distributed one. To improve the high-frequency stopband, an original technique for spurious responses suppression based on capacitively loaded stubs has been proposed. Even if the performances do not reach that obtained for the distributed approach, with this technique spurious responses are pushed until eight times the center frequency. A sensitivity study vs. critical parameters has also been carried out, showing the robustness of the design.

scholarly journals Функциональные оптические элементы и устройства терагерцовой фотоники на основе метаповерхностей

2019 ◽  
pp. 84-84
Keyword(s):  
Low Pass ◽  
Band Pass ◽  
High Pass

Освоение диапазона терагерцовых (ТГц) частот электромагнитного спектра (0,1–10 ТГц) делает актуальными задачи разработки и изготовления эффективных оптических элементов для управления характеристиками пучков ТГц-излучения. С инструментальной точки зрения данный спектральный диапазон, соответствующий интервалу длин волн 30÷3000 мкм, удобно позиционирован между примыкающими к нему СВЧ и ИК областями, поскольку позволяет сочетать в терагерцовой аппаратуре инструментальные решения как оптической, так и микроволновой техники. Примером таких решений служат тонкие планарные метало-диэлектрические структуры субволновой топологии, известные в технологии метаматериалов как «метаповерхности» (МП). МП являются, как правило, резонансными электродинамическими структурами, которые эксплуатируются в режиме, когда их характерные резонансные частоты лежат значительно ниже точки возбуждения высших дифракционных гармоник, что отличает такие структуры от дифракционных решеток. Последнее достигается малостью периода расположения элементарных ячеек МП в ее латеральной плоскости в сравнении с рабочей длиной волны. Существенно, что амплитудные, фазовые и поляризационные характеристики МП в заданной полосе частот определяются дизайном ее ячеек, соответствующий выбор которого обеспечивает требуемые функциональные свойства МП-устройств. Последние выгодно сочетают малость толщины/веса и высокую эффективность, которая зачастую не может быть достигнута в рамках решений классической оптики. При этом в ТГц-диапазоне характерный размер элементов топологического рисунка МП в большинстве случаев составляет от нескольких единиц до сотен мкм, что позволяет применять для его производства сравнительно недорогие и хорошо отработанные литографические технологии. В настоящем докладе представлен обзор экспериментальных результатов по разработке оптических элементов и устройств на основе метаповерхностей традиционных и новых конфигураций, которые предназначены как для автономного применения, так и для интеграции с различными метрологическими системами, работающими в области частот от сотни ГГц до нескольких ТГц. Составляя неотъемлемую часть российской элементной базы радиофотоники, разработанные элементы в ряде случаев опережают по функциональным характеристикам отечественные и зарубежные аналоги. Обсуждаются вопросы электродинамического моделирования, технологического производства, спектральной характеризации, а также практического использования следующих типов терагерцовых МП-устройств и систем на их основе: 1) частотные фильтры различных видов: band-pass, low-pass, high-pass; дихроичные мультиплексоры пучков излучения; спектрорадиометрические системы на базе полосовых фильтров; 2) поляризаторы; преобразователи фазы и поляризации; 3) плоские фокусирующие элементы, включая голографические структуры; 4) ультратонкие резонансные поглотители и тепловые детекторы на их основе, включая многоканальные пироэлектрические линейки для спектральных и поляризационных измерений с пространственным разрешением; 5) перестраиваемые ЖК-устройства на основе высокоимпедансных поверхностей; 6) сенсоры тонкопленочных аналитов, включая SEIRA-структуры.

scholarly journals Redesigning a “Writing for Chemists” Course Using Specifications Grading

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mang ◽  
Kate J. McKnelly ◽  
Michael Morris
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Graduation Requirement ◽  
School Year ◽  
Low Pass ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Writing Practice ◽  
High Pass

The Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) instituted an upper-division “Writing for Chemists” course in fall 2017 that fulfills part of UCI’s writing graduation requirement. During the 2019-2020 school year, we re-designed the course using a specifications grading system with the following goals: 1) to teach students how to develop their own writing practice, while mastering chemistry discipline-specific writing conventions, 2) to provide students with frequent and constructive instructor and teaching assistant (TA) feedback by providing ample revision opportunities, 3) to increase transparency in how students can achieve course SLOs, and 4) to provide students with consistent and clear assessment rubrics. This specifications grading approach uses a high-pass, low-pass, unsatisfactory system predicated on whether students meet a certain number of criteria for each assignment. Achievement of Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) was assessed using criteria instead of points so that instructors and students could more objectively measure student learning. Standardized rubrics and a student grade tracker helped students understand the relationship between meeting criteria, achieving SLOs, and earning grades. Students completed surveys at the end of the course to determine if their writing habits and attitudes towards writing changed. After the course, students self-reported increased propensities to pre-write and edit, and several students mentioned that they appreciated the transparency of the specifications rubrics and the control the specifications system gave them over their grades.

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