Diseño y análisis de unidades didácticas para Procesado Digital de la Señal.

Este Proyecto Fin de Carrera pretende desarrollar una serie de unidades didácticas orientadas a mejorar el aprendizaje de la teoría de procesado digital de señales a través de la aplicación práctica. Con tal fin, se han diseñado una serie de prácticas que permitan al alumno alcanzar un apropiado nivel de conocimiento de la asignatura, la adquisición de competencias y alcanzar los resultados de aprendizaje previstos. Para desarrollar el proyecto primero se ha realizado una selección apropiada de los contenidos de la teoría de procesado digital de señales en relación con los resultados de aprendizaje esperados, seguidamente se han diseñado y validado unas prácticas basadas en un entorno de trabajo basado en MATLAB y DSP, y por último se ha redactado un manual de laboratorio que combina una parte teórica con su práctica correspondiente. El objetivo perseguido con la realización de estas prácticas es alcanzar un equilibrio teórico/práctico que permita sacar el máximo rendimiento de la asignatura desde el laboratorio, trabajando principalmente con el IDE Code Composer Studio junto con un kit de desarrollo basado en un DSP. ABSTRACT. This dissertation intends to develop some lessons oriented to improve about the digital signal processing theory. In order to get this objective some practices have been developed to allow to the students to achieve an appropriate level of knowledge of the subject, acquire skills and achieve the intended learning outcomes. To develop the project firstly it has been made an appropriate selection of the contents of the digital signal processing theory related with the expected results. After that, five practices based in a work environment based on Matlab and DSP have been designed and validated, and finally a laboratory manual has been drafted that combines the theoretical part with its corresponding practice. The objective with the implementation of these practices is to achieve a theoretical / practical balance to get the highest performance to the subject from the laboratory working mainly with the Code Composer Studio IDE together a development kit based on DSP.

Desarrollo de herramientas para la autoevaluación del Laboratorio de Procesado Digital de la Señal

Este proyecto tiene como objetivo el desarrollo de una herramienta que permita al alumno la autocorrección de prácticas de la asignatura de Procesado Digital de la Señal. La herramienta será diseñada por medio del GUI de Matlab, que permite la creación de interfaces gráficos de usuario para la interacción con el alumno, así él mismo podrá comprobar si los resultado obtenidos para el enunciado de la práctica facilitado son correctos. La evaluación del alumno se llevará a cabo pidiendo distintas respuestas sobre las prácticas y comparándolas posteriormente con los resultados correctos. El código invisible al usuario será el encargado de indicar si el resultado es correcto o no lo es. ABSTRACT. The aim of this project is to develop a tool for the students of Digital Signal Processing that help them self-correct their lab exercises. The tool will be designed using the Matlab GUI, which allows the creation of graphical user interfaces to interact with the student, who can check whether the results obtained are correct or not. The student will be asked about different results of the exercises and the answers will be compared with the correct results. A part of the tool hidden to the student will reveal to the lecturer the outcome of this comparison.

Towards a unified sentiment lexicon based on graphics processing units

This paper presents an approach to create what we have called a Unified Sentiment Lexicon (USL). This approach aims at aligning, unifying, and expanding the set of sentiment lexicons which are available on the web in order to increase their robustness of coverage. One problem related to the task of the automatic unification of different scores of sentiment lexicons is that there are multiple lexical entries for which the classification of positive, negative, or neutral {P, Z, N} depends on the unit of measurement used in the annotation methodology of the source sentiment lexicon. Our USL approach computes the unified strength of polarity of each lexical entry based on the Pearson correlation coefficient which measures how correlated lexical entries are with a value between 1 and -1, where 1 indicates that the lexical entries are perfectly correlated, 0 indicates no correlation, and -1 means they are perfectly inversely correlated and so is the UnifiedMetrics procedure for CPU and GPU, respectively. Another problem is the high processing time required for computing all the lexical entries in the unification task. Thus, the USL approach computes a subset of lexical entries in each of the 1344 GPU cores and uses parallel processing in order to unify 155802 lexical entries. The results of the analysis conducted using the USL approach show that the USL has 95.430 lexical entries, out of which there are 35.201 considered to be positive, 22.029 negative, and 38.200 neutral. Finally, the runtime was 10 minutes for 95.430 lexical entries; this allows a reduction of the time computing for the UnifiedMetrics by 3 times.

ParAlign: a parallel sequence alignment algorithm for rapid and sensitive database searches

There is a need for faster and more sensitive algorithms for sequence similarity searching in view of the rapidly increasing amounts of genomic sequence data available. Parallel processing capabilities in the form of the single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) technology are now available in common microprocessors and enable a single microprocessor to perform many operations in parallel. The ParAlign algorithm has been specifically designed to take advantage of this technology. The new algorithm initially exploits parallelism to perform a very rapid computation of the exact optimal ungapped alignment score for all diagonals in the alignment matrix. Then, a novel heuristic is employed to compute an approximate score of a gapped alignment by combining the scores of several diagonals. This approximate score is used to select the most interesting database sequences for a subsequent Smith–Waterman alignment, which is also parallelised. The resulting method represents a substantial improvement compared to existing heuristics. The sensitivity and specificity of ParAlign was found to be as good as Smith–Waterman implementations when the same method for computing the statistical significance of the matches was used. In terms of speed, only the significantly less sensitive NCBI BLAST 2 program was found to outperform the new approach. Online searches are available at http://dna.uio.no/search/

Spatial processing in the auditory cortex of the macaque monkey

The patterns of cortico-cortical and cortico-thalamic connections of auditory cortical areas in the rhesus monkey have led to the hypothesis that acoustic information is processed in series and in parallel in the primate auditory cortex. Recent physiological experiments in the behaving monkey indicate that the response properties of neurons in different cortical areas are both functionally distinct from each other, which is indicative of parallel processing, and functionally similar to each other, which is indicative of serial processing. Thus, auditory cortical processing may be similar to the serial and parallel “what” and “where” processing by the primate visual cortex. If “where” information is serially processed in the primate auditory cortex, neurons in cortical areas along this pathway should have progressively better spatial tuning properties. This prediction is supported by recent experiments that have shown that neurons in the caudomedial field have better spatial tuning properties than neurons in the primary auditory cortex. Neurons in the caudomedial field are also better than primary auditory cortex neurons at predicting the sound localization ability across different stimulus frequencies and bandwidths in both azimuth and elevation. These data support the hypothesis that the primate auditory cortex processes acoustic information in a serial and parallel manner and suggest that this may be a general cortical mechanism for sensory perception.

Classificação das amostras do ensaio de Baumann através do processamento digital de imagens.

O presente trabalho apresenta uma alternativa ao processo de classificação do defeito da segregação central em amostras de aço, utilizando as imagens digitais que são geradas durante o ensaio de Baumann. O algoritmo proposto tem como objetivo agregar as técnicas de processamento digital de imagens e o conhecimento dos especialistas sobre o defeito da segregação central, visando a classificação do defeito de referência. O algoritmo implementado inclui a identificação e a segmentação da linha segregada por meio da aplicação da transformada de Hough e limiar adaptativo. Adicionalmente, o algoritmo apresenta uma proposta para o mapeamento dos atributos da segregação central nos diferentes graus de severidade do defeito, em função dos critérios de continuidade e intensidade. O mapeamento foi realizado por meio da análise das características individuais, como comprimento, largura e área, dos elementos segmentados que compõem a linha segregada. A avaliação do desempenho do algoritmo foi realizada em dois momentos específicos, de acordo com sua fase de implementação. Para a realização da avaliação, foram analisadas 255 imagens de amostras reais, oriundas de duas usinas siderúrgicas, distribuídas nos diferentes graus de severidade. Os resultados da primeira fase de implementação mostram que a identificação da linha segregada apresenta acurácia de 93%. As classificações oriundas do mapeamento realizado para as classes de criticidade do defeito, na segunda fase de implementação, apresentam acurácia de 92% para o critério de continuidade e 68% para o critério de intensidade.

TextMess 2.0: las tecnologías del lenguaje humano ante los nuevos retos de la comunicación digital

El objetivo general de este proyecto se centra en el estudio, desarrollo y experimentación de diferentes técnicas y sistemas basados en Tecnologías del Lenguaje Humano (TLH) para el desarrollo de la próxima generación de sistemas de procesamiento inteligente de la información digital (modelado, recuperación, tratamiento, comprensión y descubrimiento) afrontando los actuales retos de la comunicación digital. En este nuevo escenario, los sistemas deben incorporar capacidades de razonamiento que descubrirán la subjetividad de la información en todos sus contextos (espacial, temporal y emocional) analizando las diferentes dimensiones de uso (multilingualidad, multimodalidad y registro).

Vibration frequency measurement using a local multithreshold technique

In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a video camera for measuring the frequency of small-amplitude vibration movements. The method is based on image acquisition and multilevel thresholding and it only requires a video camera with high enough acquisition rate, not being necessary the use of targets or auxiliary laser beams. Our proposal is accurate and robust. We demonstrate the technique with a pocket camera recording low-resolution videos with AVI-JPEG compression and measuring different objects that vibrate in parallel or perpendicular direction to the optical sensor. Despite the low resolution and the noise, we are able to measure the main vibration modes of a tuning fork, a loudspeaker and a bridge. Results are successfully compared with design parameters and measurements with alternative devices.

An algorithm for solving linear recurrence systems on parallel and pipelined machines /

"UILU-ENG 78 1745."

Adaptive merging by parallel disjoint comparisons /

Includes bibliographical references.

A parallel QR-algorithm for tridiagonal symmetric matrices /

"NSF-OCA-GJ-36936-000008."

Parallel techniques.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Parallel direct Poisson and biharmonic solvers /

"NSF - OCA - GJ-36936 - 000006."

Parallel algorithms for network routing problems and recurrences /

"Grant no. US NSF MCS75-21758."

Control structures for parallel machines /

"UILU-ENG 79 1724"