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6 Beamforming Combined with Multi-channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation
For audio signal acquisition, beamforming microphone arrays can be efficiently used for enhancing a desired signal while suppressing...
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4 Optimum Beamforming for Wideband Non-stationary Signals
Array processing techniques strive for extraction of maximum information from a propagating wave field using groups of sensors, which are located at...
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9. Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems
Scalable video coding means that a video sequence is only encoded once and the coded bitstream has the capability of sending any sub-bitstream...
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4. Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems
In this chapter, we shall study the stability of nonlinear switched and impulsive systems of the form...
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B Experimental Setups and Acoustic Environments
In this chapter, the experimental setup and the acoustic environments are described, which are used in this work for illustrating the properties of...
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1. Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems
When you begin to read this book, you may ask: “what is a switched and impulsive system?” This is a question that may be best answered through...
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13 Haptic Interfaces: Collocation and Coherence Issues
Multi-modality, collocation and immersive VE nowadays represents the break-trough barrier of human computer interaction. Typical VE systems...
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6 Efficient and Precise Grasp Planning for Real World Objects
With the development of .exible and highly integrated dexterous grip** devices (e.g. fig.6.1) the research results on grasp and manipulation...
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4 Modelling and Controlling the Compliance of a Robotic Hand with Soft Finger-pads
Compliant pads greatly contribute to increase the robustness and the stability of grasps of robot hands, because of their conformability to the...
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9 On Observing Contact States in Overconstrained Manipulation
Estimation of contact state is important to any multi-point interaction that involves frictional stick/slip phenomena. In particular, when there are...
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VO Activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
This paper summarizes the VO activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Cfa has expertise covering virtually all branches...
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A C + + Parser for VOTables
This paper provides a brief description of C + + Parser for VOTables. The parser is developed by Persistent Systems in association with IUCAA as part...
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Automatic Detection-Extraction-Classification for a Large Number of Stellar Spectra from Slitless Wide Field Spectroscopy. A Project for AVO
The distribution of spectral types in extended stellar systems in galaxies can be a powerful mine of information regarding:...
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The Astronomical Data Warehouse
The idea of the astronomical data warehouse has arisen as the natural extension of current trends in astronomical data archives, and from an analysis...
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Building the Infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory: An Information Technology Research Initiative of the National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation is sponsoring the development of the infrastructure for the National Virtual Observatory via its Information...
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Information Hub of the Russian Virtual Observatory
The ultimate goal of the Russian Virtual Observatory (RVO) initiative is to provide every astronomer with on-line access to the rich volumes of data...
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Building Interoperable NASA Archives
Over the past decades NASA has developed an extensive set of archives for space astronomy data. These archives are organized along mission,...
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Using XML-Schema to Model Data from Present and Future Astronomical Databases
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has now become an almost inescapable tool for the exchange of formatted data over the World Wide Web and is now...
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Wide-Field X-Ray Monitoring as a Data Source for the Virtual Observatory
We refer on novel X-ray telescopes with high sensitivity as well as large field of view of order of 1 000 square degrees or even more. The results...