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2017年 24卷 2期 刊出日期：2017-04-30



Artificial Intelligence

Noisy speech emotion recognition using sample reconstruction and multiple-kernel learning

姜晓庆 夏克文 林永良 白建川

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60193-6

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Speech emotion recognition (SER) in noisy environment is a vital issue in artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, the reconstruction of speech samples removes the added noise. Acoustic features extracted from the reconstructed samples are selected to build an optimal feature subset with better emotional recognizability. A multiple-kernel (MK) support vector machine (SVM) classifier solved by semi-definite programming (SDP) is adopted in SER procedure. The proposed method in this paper is demonstrated on Berlin Database of Emotional Speech. Recognition accuracies of the original, noisy, and reconstructed samples classified by both single-kernel (SK) and MK classifiers are compared and analyzed. The experimental results show that the proposed method is effective and robust when noise exists.

Lateral control of autonomous vehicles based on learning driver behavior via cloud model

高洪波 Xie Guotao Liu Hongzhe 张新钰 李德毅

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60194-8

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In order to achieve the lateral control of the intelligent vehicle, use the bi-cognitive model based on cloud model and cloud reasoning, solve the decision problem of the qualitative and quantitative of the lateral control of the intelligent vehicle. Obtaining a number of experiment data by driving a vehicle, classify the data according to the concept of data and fix the input and output variables of the cloud controller, design the control rules of the cloud controller of intelligent vehicle, and clouded and fix the parameter of cloud controller: expectation, entropy and hyper entropy. In order to verify the effectiveness of the cloud controller, joint simulation platform based on Matlab/Simulink/CarSim is established. Experimental analysis shows that: driver’s lateral controller based on cloud model is able to achieve tracking of the desired angle, and achieve good control effect, it also verifies that a series of mental activities such as feeling, cognition, calculation, decision and so on are fuzzy and uncertain.

Research on formalization of efficient query application problems with compound condition in software development

杨宇晨 Wang Xiaofang Yin Guisheng

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60195-X

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This paper provides a formalized definition of the application problem of compound condition query (CCQ) and a formal method of applying requirements elicitation based on trace information space derived from trace algebra. With the formalized process of solving the application problem of CCQ, formal requirements specification of application of CCQ is given, a formalized and automatic mapping of the results of requirements elicitation to the formal requirements specification is performed, the software system model and the application code are developed. Through a sample application of comprehensive query on housing information, the feasibility of formalized and automatic software development for the application problem of CCQ is proved. The result has important implications for the other problems regarding formalization and automatic software development.

Compressed sensing method for human activity recognition using tri-axis accelerometer on mobile phone

宋辉 王忠民

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60196-1

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The diversity in the phone placements of different mobile users’ dailylife increases the difficulty of recognizing human activities by using mobile phone accelerometer data. To solve this problem, a compressed sensing method to recognize human activities that is based on compressed sensing theory and utilizes both raw mobile phone accelerometer data and phone placement information is proposed. First, an over-complete dictionary matrix is constructed using sufficient raw tri-axis acceleration data labeled with phone placement information. Then, the sparse coefficient is evaluated for the samples that need to be tested by resolving L1 minimization. Finally, residual values are calculated and the minimum value is selected as the indicator to obtain the recognition results. Experimental results show that this method can achieve a recognition accuracy reaching 89.86%, which is higher than that of a recognition method that does not adopt the phone placement information for the recognition process. The recognition accuracy of the proposed method is effective and satisfactory.

GrabCut image segmentation algorithm based on structure tensor

张勇 袁家政 刘宏哲 李青

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60197-3

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This paper attempts to present an interactive color natural images segmentation method. This method extracts the feature of images by using the nonlinear compact structure tensor (NCST) and then uses GrabCut method to obtain the segmentation. This method not only realizes the non-parametric fusion of texture information and color information, but also improves the efficiency of the calculation. Then, the improved GrabCut algorithm is used to evaluate the foreground target segmentation. In order to calculate the simplicity and efficiency, this paper also extends the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) constructed base on the GrabCut to the tensor space, and uses the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence instead of the usual Riemannian geometry. Lastly, an iteration convergence criterion is proposed to reduce the time of the iteration of GrabCut algorithm dramatically with satisfied segmentation accuracy. After conducting a large number of experiments on synthetic texture images and natural images, the results demonstrate that this method has a more accurate segmentation effect.

Wireless

Blind interference detection and recognition for the multi-carrier signal

张星 胡建浩

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60198-5

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For the interference hidden in the expected multi-carrier signal, this paper proposes a novel detection and recognition algorithm. The algorithm cannot only detect the single-carrier interference (SCI) by the high-order cumulant, but also finds the multi-carrier signal based on spectrum character. Besides, the algorithm can distinguish the modulation types of the SCI. The algorithm does not depend on any prior knowledge and data-aided, which is propitious to practical applications. The analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is effective.

Modular handover algorithm for 5G HetNets with comprehensive load index

李丹阳 张治中 高依依

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60199-7

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Most existing handover decision system (HDS) designs are monolithic, resulting in high computational cost and unbalance of overall network. A novel modular handover algorithm with a comprehensive load index for the 5th generation (5G) heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is proposed. In this paper, the handover parameters, serving as the basis for handover, are classified into network’s quality of service (QoS) module, user preference (UP) module and degree of satisfaction (DS) module according to the new modular HDS design. To optimize switching process, the comprehensive network load index is deduced by using triangle module fusion operator. With respect to the existing handover algorithm, the simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can reduce the handover frequency and maintain user satisfaction at a higher level. Meanwhile, due to its block calculation, it can bring about 1.4 s execution time improvement.

Location aided probabilistic broadcast algorithm for mobile Ad-hoc network routing

白媛 安杰 张会兵

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60200-0

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On-demand routing protocols are widely used in mobile Ad-hoc network (MANET). Flooding is an important dissemination scheme in routing discovering of on-demand routing protocol. However, in high-density MANET redundancy flooding packets lead to dramatic deterioration of the performance which calls broadcast storm problem (BSP). A location-aided probabilistic broadcast (LAPB) algorithm for routing in MANET is proposed to reduce the number of routing packets produced by flooding in this paper. In order to reduce the redundancy packets, only nodes in a specific area have the probability, computed by location information and neighbor knowledge, to propagate the routing packets. Simulation results demonstrate that the LAPB algorithm can reduce the packets and discovery delay (DD) in the routing discovery phase.

Distributed data storage solution under sink failures in wireless sensor networks

王珺 易琼 王悦 贾莹莹

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60201-2

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In challenging environment, sensory data must be stored inside the network in case of sink failures, we need to redistribute overflowing data items from the depleted storage source nodes to sensor nodes with available storage space and residual energy. We design a distributed energy efficient data storage algorithm named distributed data preservation with priority (D2P2). This algorithm takes both data redistribution costs and data retrieval costs into account and combines these two problems into a single problem. D2P2 can effectively realize data redistribution by using cooperative communication among sensor nodes. In order to solve the redistribution contention problem, we introduce the concept of data priority, which can avoid contention consultations between source nodes and reduce energy consumption. Finally, we verify the performance of the proposed algorithm by both theory and simulations. We demonstrate that D2P2’s performance is close to the optimal centralized algorithm in terms of energy consumption and shows superiority in terms of data preservation time.

Others

Multiple CRC-aided variable successive cancellation list decoder of polar codes

曹妙 赵爽 赵生妹

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60202-4

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In order to change the path candidates, reduce the average list size, and make more paths pass cyclic redundancy check (CRC), multiple CRC-aided variable successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding algorithm is proposed. In the decoding algorithm, the whole unfrozen bits are divided into several parts and each part is concatenated with a corresponding CRC code, except the last part which is concatenated with a whole unfrozen CRC code. Each CRC detection is performed, and only those satisfying each part CRC become the path candidates. A variable list is setup for each part to reduce the time complexity. Variable list size is setup for each part to reduce the time complexity until one survival path in each part can pass its corresponding CRC. The results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the average list size, and the frame error rate (FER) performance, and has a better performance with the increase of the part number.

Multi-band microwave photonic satellite repeater scheme employing intensity Mach-Zehnder modulators

殷杰 董涛 张斌 郝研 曹桂兴 程子敬 徐坤 周月 戴键

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60203-6

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To solve the satellite repeater’s flexible and wideband frequency conversion problem, we propose a novel microwave photonic repeater system, which can convert the upload signal’s carrier to six different frequencies. The scheme employs one 20 GHz bandwidth dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) and two 10 GHz bandwidth MZMs. The basic principle of this scheme is filtering out two optical sidebands after the optical carrier suppression (OCS) modulation and combining two sidebands modulated by the input radio frequency (RF) signal. This structure can realize simultaneous multi-band frequency conversion with only one frequency-fixed microwave source and prevent generating harmful interference sidebands by using two corresponding optical filters after optical modulation. In the simulation, one C-band signal of 6 GHz carrier can be successfully converted to 12 GHz (Ku-band), 28 GHz, 34 GHz, 40 GHz, 46 GHz (Ka-band) and 52 GHz (V-band), which can be an attractive method to realize multi-band microwave photonic satellite repeater. Alternatively, the scheme can be configured to generate multi-band local oscillators (LOs) for widely satellite onboard clock distribution when the input RF signal is replaced by the internal clock source.

Length minimization of uniform linear antenna array for millimeter wave communications with maximum capacity

陈瑞瑞 张海林

中国邮电高校学报(英文), 2017, 24 (2). doi： 10.1016/S1005-8885(17)60204-8

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For uniform linear antenna array (ULA) based millimeter wave communications, the maximum capacity can be achieved by the optimal antenna separation product (ASP). However, due to the practical size limitation, it is necessary to decrease the ULA length. In this paper, an optimization problem is formulated to minimize the ULA length for millimeter wave communications with maximum capacity. We decompose the problem into two subproblems: length selection optimization and orientation deployment optimization. The optimal length selection can be obtained when the transmit and receive ULAs have equal length. By using the property of trigonometric function, we derive the optimal orientation deployment and study the influence of orientation deviation on ULA length. Simulation results are presented to validate the analyses.