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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Approach for Sound Approaching Detection
The detection of approaching vehicles is a very important topic on the development of complementary traffic safety systems. However, the majority of the proposed approaches are very complex and not suitable fo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Multiple Sound Source Recognition System Using Pulsed Neuron Model with Short Term Synaptic Depression
Many applications would emerge from the development of artificial systems able to accurately localize and identify sound sources. However, one of the main difficulties of such kind of system is the natural pre...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Approach for Hardware Based Sound Localization
Sound localization is an important ability intrinsic to animals, being currently explored by several researches. Even though several systems and implementations have being proposed, the majority is very comple...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Detection of an Approaching Sound Source Using Pulsed Neural Network
Current automobiles’ safety systems based on video cameras and movement sensors fail when objects are out of the line of sight. This paper proposes a system based on pulsed neural networks able to detect if a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Complete Hardware Implementation of an Integrated Sound Localization and Classification System Based on Spiking Neural Networks
Several applications would emerge from the development of artificial systems able to accurately localize and identify sound sources. This paper proposes an integrated sound localization and classification syst...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimal edge detection under difficult imaging conditions
This paper incrementally extends the energy minimization techniques for image analysis developed by [Koch et al. 1986]. Our application is edge extraction and we use the dual intensity and line processes intro...