Grouped pair-wise comparison for subjective sound quality evaluation

In subjective sound quality pair-wise comparison evaluation, test time grows with square of the number of sound stimulus. For this reason, subjective evaluation of large quantity of stimulus is difficult to carry out with pair-wise comparison method. A grouped pair-wise comparison (GPC) method is proposed to greatly decrease time and difficult of subjective comparison test, in which stimuli in the whole evaluation corpus are divided into N test groups, with reference-link stimuli configured in each group. Derived from subjective results of each group, final results of all stimuli are reconstructed, and their perceptual attributes of sound quality can be analyzed. With car interior noise as example, realization of subjective sound quality evaluation with GPC method is introduced. The results of GPC evaluation are in good agreement with those obtained from paired comparison and semantic differential methods.     

Professor Beranek''''s criteria about Acoustical parameters in concert hall acoustics

Professor Beranek talked about the sound qualities of concert hall. The 58 famous concert halls in the world were graded according to the subjective comparison from the professional musicians and music lovers. Six measurable objective parameters were proposed. The ranking according to these parameters were presented.     

Speaker identification based on complete feature corpusand evaluation of mutual information

A speaker model called complete feature corpus (CFC) and an evaluation algorithm of mutual information (MIE) are proposed for text-independent speaker identification. The CFC model represents the speech and pronunciation characteristics of speaker by a feature vector corpus which was trained from some typical speech samples. It hires multi-step mini-max search matching scheme for MIE algorithm to evaluate the similarity of speech features between input speech and the models in distance and information space. Maximum mutual information (MMI) decision criterion is used to decide the identity of speaker. Experiments on performance analysis with comparison to GMM method show that proposed model and evaluation algorithm are quite effective and presented a higher performance than ordinary GMM method.     

Application and measurement of underwater acoustic reciprocity transfer functions in reverberant sound field

The reciprocity measurement theory in anomalous reverberant sound fields was investigated.An improved method Was proposed due to the interrelated errors.The source volume velocity Was corrected by spatial average of measurement results and evaluation of the reverberant sound field influence on acoustic energy density.The result was validated in underwater experiment,corrected reciprocity measurement results were almost the same as direct measurement results.It indicates that reverberant sound field does not affect the validitv of the principle,but influences the obtainment of source volume velocity,then influences the measurement of transfer functions with the principle.The proposed method is simple and effective in anomalous reverberant sound fields.The study mav be valuable for the applications which are based on the principle.     

An improved calculation method for fiber Raman amplifier equations with multi-wavelength pumping

A novel numerical method for fiber Raman amplifier (FRA) from standard propagation equations is presented and derived based on the one-step method for ordinary differential equation (ODE). The proposed algorithm is effective in solving FRA equations including all the interactions among pumps, signals, and noises. Applications of the numerical analysis to practical FRA-based systems show a great reduction in computation time in comparison with the average power method and the fourth-order Runge-Kutta (RK) method, under the same condition. Also the proposed method can decrease the computing time over three orders of magnitude with excellent accuracy promises in comparison with the direct integration method.     

Satellite-station time synchronization information based real-time orbit error monitoring and correction of navigation satellite in Beidou System

Satellite-station two-way time comparison is a typical design in Beidou System(BDS)which is significantly different from other satellite navigation systems.As a type of two-way time comparison method,BDS time synchronization is hardly influenced by satellite orbit error,atmosphere delay,tracking station coordinate error and measurement model error.Meanwhile,single-way time comparison can be realized through the method of Multi-satellite Precision Orbit Determination(MPOD)with pseudo-range and carrier phase of monitor receiver.It is proved in the constellation of 3GEO/2IGSO that the radial orbit error can be reflected in the difference between two-way time comparison and single-way time comparison,and that may lead to a substitute for orbit evaluation by SLR.In this article,the relation between orbit error and difference of two-way and single-way time comparison is illustrated based on the whole constellation of BDS.Considering the all-weather and real-time operation mode of two-way time comparison,the orbit error could be quantifiably monitored in a real-time mode through comparing two-way and single-way time synchronization.In addition,the orbit error can be predicted and corrected in a short time based on its periodic characteristic.It is described in the experiments of GEO and IGSO that the prediction accuracy of space signal can be obviously improved when the prediction orbit error is sent to the users through navigation message,and then the UERE including terminal error can be reduced from 0.1 m to 0.4 m while the average accuracy can be improved more than 27%.Though it is still hard to make accuracy improvement for Precision Orbit Determination(POD)and orbit prediction because of the confined tracking net and the difficulties in dynamic model optimization,in this paper,a practical method for orbit accuracy improvement is proposed based on two-way time comparison which can result in the reflection of orbit error.     

THE ACOUSTICAL QUALITY OF HALLS——A COMPARISON OF SIMULATION TO EXPERIMENT

The acoustical quality of an ordinary hall,namely the reverberation time and the spatial nonuni-formity of sound pressure level in audience area,was simulated on a microcomputer.Comparisonbetween calculation,measurement and simulation of reverberation time shows that the reverberationtime from simulation is closer to measurement than from calculation,if the absorption of the audience isproperly chosen,in the frequency range from l25 to 4000 Hz;the average deviation is less than 10%.For the spatial nonuniformity of sound pressure level,there is a good correspondency botween thesimulation and the measurement.In addition,some details in simulation were discussed.     

High-resolution bone microstructure imaging based on ultrasonic frequency-domain full-waveform inversion

The main challenge in bone ultrasound imaging is the large acoustic impedance contrast and sound velocity differences between the bone and surrounding soft tissue. It is difficult for conventional pulse-echo modalities to give accurate ultrasound images for irregular bone boundaries and microstructures using uniform sound velocity assumption rather than getting a prior knowledge of sound speed. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposed a frequency-domain fullwaveform inversion(FDFWI) algorithm for bone quantitative imaging utilizing ultrasonic computed tomography(USCT).The forward model was calculated in the frequency domain by solving the full-wave equation. The inverse problem was solved iteratively from low to high discrete frequency components via minimizing a cost function between the modeled and measured data. A quasi-Newton method called the limited-memory Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm(L-BFGS) was utilized in the optimization process. Then, bone images were obtained based on the estimation of the velocity and density. The performance of the proposed method was verified by numerical examples, from tubular bone phantom to single distal fibula model, and finally with a distal tibia-fibula pair model. Compared with the high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography(HR-p QCT), the proposed FDFWI can also clearly and accurately presented the wavelength scaled pores and trabeculae in bone images. The results proved that the FDFWI is capable of reconstructing high-resolution ultrasound bone images with sub-millimeter resolution. The parametric bone images may have the potential for the diagnosis of bone disease.     

High performance photodetectors based on high quality InP nanowires

In this paper,small diameter InP nanowires with high crystal quality were synthesized through a chemical vapor deposition method.Benefitting from the high crystallinity and large specific surface area of InP nanowires,the simply constructed photodetector demonstrates a high responsivity of up to 1170 A·W ~(-1) and an external quantum efficiency of2.8 × 10~5% with a fast rise time of 110 ms and a fall time of 130 ms,even at low bias of 0.1 V.The effect of back-gate voltage on photoresponse of the device was systematically investigated,confirming that the photocurrent dominates over thermionic and tunneling currents in the whole operation.A mechanism based on energy band theory at the junction between metal and semiconductor was proposed to explain the back-gate voltage dependent performance of the photodetectors.These convincing results indicate that fine InP nanowires will have a brilliant future in smart optoelectronics.     

Using the traditional model to evaluate the active force of the human lateral rectus muscle

The information on the force of extraocular muscles(EOMs)is beneficial for strabismus diagnosis and surgical planning,and a direct and simple method is important for surgeons to obtain these forces.Based on the traditional model,a numerical simulation method was proposed to achieve this aim,and then the active force of the lateral rectus(LR)muscle was successfully simulated when the eye rotated every angle from 0°to 30°in the horizontal plane from the nasal to the temporal side.In order to verify these simulations,the results were compared with the previous experimental data.The comparison shows that the simulation results diverged much more than the experimental data in the range of 0°–10°.The errors were corrected to make the simulation results closer to the experimental data.Finally,a general empirical equation was proposed to evaluate the active force of the LR muscle by fitting these data,which represent the relationship between the simulation forces and the contractive amounts of the LR muscle.