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ReFESS-QI: Reference-Free Evaluation For Speech Separation With Joint Quality And Intelligibility Scoring

Ari Frummer, Helin Wang, Tianyu Cao, Adi Arbel, Yuval Sieradzki, Oren Gal, Jesus Villalba, Thomas Thebaud, Najim Dehak ยท 2025

Source separation is a crucial pre-processing step for various speech processing tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR). Traditionally, the evaluation metrics for speech separation rely on โ€ฆ

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On Quantizing Neural Representation for Variable-Rate Video Coding

Junqi Shi, Zhujia Chen, Hanfei Li, Qi Zhao, Ming Lu, Tong Chen, Zhan Ma ยท 2025

This work introduces NeuroQuant, a novel post-training quantization (PTQ) approach tailored to non-generalized Implicit Neural Representations for variable-rate Video Coding (INR-VC). Unlike existing โ€ฆ

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A No-Reference Medical Image Quality Assessment Method Based on Automated Distortion Recognition Technology: Application to Preprocessing in MRI-guided Radiotherapy

Zilin Wang, Shengqi Chen, Jianrong Dai, Shirui Qin, Ying Cao, Ruiao Zhao, Guohua Wu, Yuan Tang, Jiayun Chen ยท 2024

Objective:To develop a no-reference image quality assessment method using automated distortion recognition to boost MRI-guided radiotherapy precision.Methods:We analyzed 106,000 MR images from 10 patiโ€ฆ

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HINER: Neural Representation for Hyperspectral Image

Junqi Shi, Mingyi Jiang, Ming Lu, Tong Chen, Xun Cao, Zhan Ma ยท 2024

This paper introduces {HINER}, a novel neural representation for compressing HSI and ensuring high-quality downstream tasks on compressed HSI. HINER fully exploits inter-spectral correlations by expliโ€ฆ

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Closing the Gap to Quadratic Invariance: a Regret Minimization Approach to Optimal Distributed Control

Daniele Martinelli, Andrea Martin, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, Luca Furieri ยท 2023

In this work, we focus on the design of optimal controllers that must comply with an information structure. State-of-the-art approaches do so based on the H2 or Hinfty norm to minimize the expected orโ€ฆ

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A Study on Incorporating Whisper for Robust Speech Assessment

Ryandhimas E. Zezario, Yu-Wen Chen, Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang, Chiou-Shann Fuh ยท 2023

This research introduces an enhanced version of the multi-objective speech assessment model--MOSA-Net+, by leveraging the acoustic features from Whisper, a large-scaled weakly supervised model. We firโ€ฆ

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Rapid Phase Ambiguity Elimination Methods for DOA Estimator via Hybrid Massive MIMO Receive Array

Xichao Zhan, Yiwen Chen, Feng Shu, Xin Cheng, Yuanyuan Wu, Qi Zhang, Yifang Li, Peng Zhang ยท 2022

For a sub-connected hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver with $K$ subarrays and $N$ antennas, there exists a challenging problem of how to rapidly remove phase ambiguity in only singlโ€ฆ

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Dynamic Control of Service Systems with Returns: Application to Design of Post-Discharge Hospital Readmission Prevention Programs

Timothy C. Y. Chan, Simon Y. Huang, Vahid Sarhangian ยท 2022

We study a control problem for queueing systems where customers may return for additional episodes of service after their initial service completion. At each service completion epoch, the decision makโ€ฆ

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Deep Learning-based Non-Intrusive Multi-Objective Speech Assessment Model with Cross-Domain Features

Ryandhimas E. Zezario, Szu-Wei Fu, Fei Chen, Chiou-Shann Fuh, Hsin-Min Wang, Yu Tsao ยท 2021

In this study, we propose a cross-domain multi-objective speech assessment model called MOSA-Net, which can estimate multiple speech assessment metrics simultaneously. Experimental results show that Mโ€ฆ

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Learning the Globally Optimal Distributed LQ Regulator

Luca Furieri, Yang Zheng, Maryam Kamgarpour ยท 2019

We study model-free learning methods for the output-feedback Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problem in finite-horizon subject to subspace constraints on the control policy. Subspace constraints naturalโ€ฆ

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First Order Methods For Globally Optimal Distributed Controllers Beyond Quadratic Invariance

Luca Furieri, Maryam Kamgarpour ยท 2019

We study the distributed Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem in discrete-time and finite-horizon, where the controller depends linearly on the history of the outputs and it is required to โ€ฆ

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Sparsity Invariance for Convex Design of Distributed Controllers

Luca Furieri, Yang Zheng, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Maryam Kamgarpour ยท 2019

We address the problem of designing optimal linear time-invariant (LTI) sparse controllers for LTI systems, which corresponds to minimizing a norm of the closed-loop system subject to sparsity constraโ€ฆ

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An Input-Output Parametrization of Stabilizing Controllers: amidst Youla and System Level Synthesis

Luca Furieri, Yang Zheng, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Maryam Kamgarpour ยท 2019

This paper proposes a novel input-output parametrization of the set of internally stabilizing output-feedback controllers for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Our underlying idea is to directly trโ€ฆ

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Automated Analysis, Reporting, and Archiving for Robotic Nondestructive Assay of Holdup Deposits

Heather Jones, Siri Maley, Kenji Yonekawa, Mohammadreza Mousaei, J. David Yesso, David Kohanbash, William Whittaker ยท 2019

To decommission deactivated gaseous diffusion enrichment facilities, miles of contaminated pipe must be measured. The current method requires thousands of manual measurements, repeated manual data traโ€ฆ

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A Robot for Nondestructive Assay of Holdup Deposits in Gaseous Diffusion Piping

Heather Jones, Siri Maley, Mohammadreza Mousaei, David Kohanbash, Warren Whittaker, James Teza, Andrew Zhang, Nikhil Jog, William Whittaker ยท 2019

Miles of contaminated pipe must be measured, foot by foot, as part of the decommissioning effort at deactivated gaseous diffusion enrichment facilities. The current method requires cutting away asbestโ€ฆ

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Robust Distributed Control Beyond Quadratic Invariance

Luca Furieri, Maryam Kamgarpour ยท 2018

The problem of robust distributed control arises in several large-scale systems, such as transportation networks and power grid systems. In many practical scenarios controllers might not have enough iโ€ฆ

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Unified Approach to Convex Robust Distributed Control given Arbitrary Information Structures

Luca Furieri, Maryam Kamgarpour ยท 2017

We consider the problem of computing optimal linear control policies for linear systems in finite-horizon. The states and the inputs are required to remain inside pre-specified safety sets at all timeโ€ฆ

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A System Level Approach to Controller Synthesis

Yuh-Shyang Wang, Nikolai Matni, John C. Doyle ยท 2016

Biological and advanced cyberphysical control systems often have limited, sparse, uncertain, and distributed communication and computing in addition to sensing and actuation. Fortunately, the correspoโ€ฆ

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An Algebraic Approach to the Control of Decentralized Systems

Laurent Lessard, Sanjay Lall ยท 2013

Optimal decentralized controller design is notoriously difficult, but recent research has identified large subclasses of such problems that may be convexified and thus are amenable to solution via effโ€ฆ

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Stabilizability and Norm-Optimal Control Design subject to Sparsity Constraints

Serban Sabau, Nuno C. Martins ยท 2012

Consider that a linear time-invariant (LTI) plant is given and that we wish to design a stabilizing controller for it. Admissible controllers are LTI and must comply with a pre-selected sparsity patteโ€ฆ

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