This paper deals with the state estimation of the nonlinear stochastic dynamic discrete-in-time models by a numerical solution to the Bayesian recursive relations represented by the point-mass filter (PMF). In particular, emphasis is placed on the development of the fast convolution, which&#...

Total laryngectomy still plays an essential part in the treatment of laryngeal cancer and loss of voice is the most feared consequence of the surgery. Commonly used rehabilitation methods include esophageal voice, electrolarynx, and implantation of voice prosthesis. In this paper we foc...

This paper deals with the Bayesian state estimation of nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems. The stress is laid on the numerical solution to the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation, which governs the prediction step of the point-mass filter and predictor, using the convolution. A novel density-weigh...

In this article we tackle the problem of hand pose estimation when the hand is interacting with various objects from egocentric viewpoint. This entails a frequent occlusion of parts of the hand by the object and also self-occlusions of the hand. We use a Voxel-to-Voxel ap...

The paper focuses on the description of a system for the automatic evaluation of synthetic speech quality based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier. The speech material originating from a real speaker is compared with synthesized material to determine similarities or differen...

The sigma-point filters, such as the UKF, are popular alternatives to the ubiquitous EKF. The classical quadrature rules used in the sigma-point filters are motivated via polynomial approximation of the integrand, however in the applied context these assumptions cannot always be justified.&#...

Decellularized tissue is an important source for biological tissue engineering. Evaluation of the quality of decellularized tissue is performed using scanned images of hematoxylin-eosin stained (H&E) tissue sections and is usually dependent on the observer. The first step in creating a t...

Reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering of tungsten oxide films using metallic tungsten target (72 mm in diameter) in argon-oxygen atmosphere (total pressure of 0.75 Pa) was carried out. The effect of various discharge parameters on the deposition rate and film oxygen concentration&...

An optimization-based design of a robust multi-mode input shaper is presented with an embedded weighting of the frequency response. By prefixing the delay length in the shaper, the optimization design task is formulated as a standard quadratic programming problem. The shaper robustness ...

This paper describes a new web-based system specially adapted to the education of Czech pupils with visual impairment. The system integrates speech and language technologies with a web framework in lower secondary education, especially in mathematics and physics subjects. A new interface...

The goal of this article is to introduce selected methods of the state estimation, which are used in navigation applications. In particular, the article is focused on navigation applications, which belong into the area of expertise of the IEEE AESS Navigation Systems Panel 34 ...

This paper deals with the model predictive control of an electric drive system. Particularly, it focuses on the use of the L1-norm to penalize a speed deviation in a cost function of the predictive control criterion. The benefits and disadvantages of such penalization are disc...

This paper deals with expressive speech synthesis in a dialogue. Dialogue acts - discrete expressive categories - are used for expressivity description. The aim of the work is to create a procedure for development of expressive speech synthesis for a dialogue system in a limit...

The paper deals with the Bayesian state estimation of nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems. The stress is laid on the point-mass filter, solving the Bayesian recursive relations for the state estimate conditional density computation using the deterministic grid-based numerical integration method. ...

Quality of speech synthesis is a crucial issue in comparison of various text-to-speech (TTS) systems. We proposed a system for automatic evaluation of speech quality by statistical analysis of temporal features (time duration, phrasing, and time structuring of an analysed sentence) together&...

Metrology and measurement processes use some basic quality management tools. For proper security of metrological confirmation, we must use quality management tools at different levels, as metrology, measuring processes and quality management are closely linked.

Some basic quality management tools have been used since the beginning of factory production, additional tools have been developed so as to require continually improving quality management system. Currently, the production quality is important parameter for the management of the company and&...

Metrology and measurement processes use some basic quality management tools. For proper security of metrological confirmation, we must use quality management tools at different levels, as metrology, measuring processes and quality management are closely linked.

The paper focuses on the active fault diagnosis (AFD) of large scale systems. The multiple model framework is considered and two architectures are treated: the decentralized and the distributed one. An essential part of the AFD algorithm is the state estimation, which must be ...