Identification of Fake Stereo Audio Using SVM and CNN

The number of channels is one of the important criteria in regard to digital audio quality. Generally, stereo audio with two channels can provide better perceptual quality than mono audio. To seek illegal commercial benefit, one might convert a mono audio system to stereo with fake quality. Identifying stereo-faking audio is a lesser-investigated audio forensic issue. In this paper, a stereo faking corpus is first presented, which is created using the Haas effect technique. Two identification algorithms for fake stereo audio are proposed. One is based on Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient features and support vector machines. The other is based on a specially designed five-layer convolutional neural network. The experimental results on two datasets with five different cut-off frequencies show that the proposed algorithm can effectively detect stereo-faking audio and has good robustness.

Transverse Shubnikov–de Haas effect and the manifestation of quantum diffraction

A quantum diffraction interpretation of the transverse Shubnikov–de Haas effect is presented. Within the framework of the conventional theory of this effect, we show that the matrix element for the electron transition from an initial state to a final state used in calculating the transverse electrical conductivity can be represented as a diffraction-type amplitude distribution. The squared modulus of this matrix element under certain conditions exhibits the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern. It is shown that the oscillating part of the transverse conductivity has the same form as the amplitude for Fraunhofer diffraction by an annular aperture.

Quantum Oscillations and Chiral Anomaly in a Bi0.96Sb0.04 Single Crystal

Bi1-xSbx alloys are of special significance in topological insulator research. Here we focus on the Bi0.96Sb0.04 alloy in which the conduction band edge just touches the valence band edge. Transport measurements show quantum oscillations in the longitudinal (Shubnikov–de Haas effect) and transverse magnetoresistance originating from a spheroidal Fermi surface pocket. Further investigation of the longitudinal magnetoresistance for the magnetic field parallel to the electrical current shows a small nonmonotonic magnetoresistance that is attributed to a competition of weak-antilocalization effects and a topological term related to the chiral anomaly.