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    SOUND LOCALIZATION OF MULTIPLE ACOUSTIC SOURCES VIA SPARSE ARRAY PROCESSING

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    Localizing multiple sound sources in reverberant environments is a challenging problem in acoustic signal processing. A room with strong reverberation will cause sounds to reflect off the walls, which makes localization difficult compared to localizing sources in a completely anechoic environment. Instead of using traditional methods involving a single sensor, this thesis focuses on leveraging the many microphones that can be found in our modern-day environment. When we approach source localization and separation with a distributed set of microphones, we can frame a joint-sparsity problem where we wish to solve for source signals and positions with the knowledge of having many more microphones and potential source locations than actual sources. Once we frame the problem as a joint-sparsity problem, we can employ traditional sparse recovery approaches used in compressive sensing to solve for the source locations. This thesis mainly looks at the greedy matching pursuit algorithm Compressive Sampling Matching Pursuit (CoSaMP) that solves a mixed l1-l2 norm minimization problem to solve for source locations. CoSaMP is tested through acoustic simulations and a physical lab experiment

    Sound Localization of Multiple Acoustic Sources via Sparse Array Processing

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    Localizing multiple sound sources in reverberant environments is a challenging problem in acoustic signal processing. A room with strong reverberation will cause sounds to reflect off the walls, which makes localization difficult compared to localizing sources in a completely anechoic environment. Instead of using traditional methods involving a single sensor, this thesis focuses on leveraging the many microphones that can be found in our modern-day environment. When we approach source localization and separation with a distributed set of microphones, we can frame a joint-sparsity problem where we wish to solve for source signals and positions with the knowledge of having many more microphones and potential source locations than actual sources. Once we frame the problem as a joint-sparsity problem, we can employ traditional sparse recovery approaches used in compressive sensing to solve for the source locations. This thesis mainly looks at the greedy matching pursuit algorithm Compressive Sampling Matching Pursuit (CoSaMP) that solves a mixed l1-l2 norm minimization problem to solve for source locations. CoSaMP is tested through acoustic simulations and a physical lab experiment.U of I Only Restriction set for Item 118111 on 2021-08-09T18:42:11Z with date by [email protected] by Janice Progen ([email protected]) on 2021-08-09T18:51:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SP21-ECE499-Thesis-Chivukula, Amith.pdf: 1589122 bytes, checksum: c56561a9447874d7f5b326de4370ff70 (MD5)Approved for entry into archive by Aaron Geiger ([email protected]) on 2021-08-11T19:58:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 SP21-ECE499-Thesis-Chivukula, Amith.pdf: 1589122 bytes, checksum: c56561a9447874d7f5b326de4370ff70 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2021-08-11T19:58:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SP21-ECE499-Thesis-Chivukula, Amith.pdf: 1589122 bytes, checksum: c56561a9447874d7f5b326de4370ff70 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-05Embargo set by: Aaron Geiger for item 118111 Lift date: 10000-01-01 Reason: Undergraduate senior thesis not recommended for open accesUndergraduate senior thesis not recommended for open accesU of I Onl

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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