Time Encoded Signal Processing And Recognition Research Articles

Assessment Method for Rolling Bearing Performance Degradation Using TESPAR and GMM

Rolling bearing performance degradation assessment has been receiving much attention for which itscrucial role to realize CBM(condition-based maintenance).This paper proposed a novel bearing performance degradation method based on TESPAR(Time Encoded Signal Processing and Recognition)and GMM(Gauss Mixture Model). TESPAR is used to extracted features which constitute A-matrix. GMM is utilized to approximate the density distribution of singular values decomposed by A-matrix. TENLLP(Time-Encoded Negative Log Likelihood Probability) serves as a fault severity which can display the similarity of the singular values between normal samples and fault samples as quantificational. Results of its application to bearing fatigue test show that this performance degradation assessment can detect the incipient rolling bearing fault and be sensitive to the change of fault.

Bearing defect detection and diagnosis using a time encoded signal processing and pattern recognition method

Many new bearing monitoring and diagnosis methods have been explored in the last two decades to provide a technique that is capable of picking up an incipient bearing fault. Vibration analysis is a commonly used condition monitoring technique in world industry and has proved an effective method for rolling bearing monitoring systems. The focus of this paper is to combine two conventional methods: wavelet transform and envelope analysis with the Time Encoded Signal Processing and Recognition (TESPAR) to develop a better technique for detection of small bearing faults. Results show that TESPAR with these two combinations provides good fault discrimination in terms of location and severity for different bearing conditions.

EEG under anesthesia—Feature extraction with TESPAR

We investigated the problem of automatic depth of anesthesia (DOA) estimation from electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. We employed Time Encoded Signal Processing And Recognition (TESPAR), a time-domain signal processing technique, in combination with multi-layer perceptrons to identify DOA levels. The presented system learns to discriminate between five DOA classes assessed by human experts whose judgements were based on EEG mid-latency auditory evoked potentials (MLAEPs) and clinical observations. We found that our system closely mimicked the behavior of the human expert, thus proving the utility of the method. Further analyses on the features extracted by our technique indicated that information related to DOA is mostly distributed across frequency bands and that the presence of high frequencies (>80 Hz), which reflect mostly muscle activity, is beneficial for DOA detection.

Linear Discriminant Analysis F-Ratio for Optimization of TESPAR & MFCC Features for Speaker Recongnition

This paper deals with implementing an efficient optimization technique for designing an Automatic Speaker Recognition (ASR) System, which uses average F-ratio score of TESPAR(Time Encoded Signal Processing And Recognition) and MFCC(Mel frequency Cepstral Coefficients) features, to yield high recognition accuracy even in adverse noisy conditions. A new ranking scheme is also proposed in order to stabilize the rank of features in various noise levels by taking Arithmetic Mean of the F-Ratio scores obtained from various levels of Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). The result is presented for a Text-Dependent ASR system with 20 speaker database. An RBF (Radial Basis Function) Neural Network is used for Recognition purpose. Also a comparative study has been performed for recognition accuracies of optimized MFCC and TESPAR features and we conclude that new proposed average F-Ratio technique has resulted in better accuracy compared to simple F-ratio in noisy environment and also we came to know that TESPAR features are more redundant compared to MFCC.

Speaker identification for security systems using reinforcement-trained pRAM neural network architectures

Speaker identification may be employed as part of a security system requiring user authentication. In this case, the claimed identity of the user is known from a magnetic card and PIN number, for example, and an utterance is requested to confirm the identity of the user. A fast response is necessary in the confirmation phase and a fast registration process for new users is desirable. The time encoded signal processing and recognition (TESPAR) digital language is used to preprocess the speech signal. A speaker cannot be identified directly from the single TESPAR vector since there is a highly nonlinear relationship between the vector's components such that vectors are not linearly separable. Therefore the vector and its characteristics suggest that classification using a neural network will provide an effective solution. Good classification performance has been achieved using a probabilistic RAM (pRAM) neuron. Four probabilistic pRAM neural network architectures are presented. A performance of approximately 97% correct classifications has been obtained, which is similar to results obtained elsewhere (M. Sharma and R.J. Mammone, 1996), and slightly better than a MLP network. No speech recognition stage was used in obtaining these results, so the performance relates only to identifying a speaker's voice and is therefore independent of the spoken phrase. This has been achieved in a hardware-realizable system which may be incorporated into a smart-card or similar application.

TESPAR paves the way for smart sensors

Suggests that classical Fourier‐based methods are proving inadequate for the smart sensor concept. Presents a new approach labelled TESPAR (time encoded signal processing and recognition). Explains the nature of the process and outlines its performance advantages over conventional Fourier‐based methods.

Detection and location of internal defects in the insulation of power transformers

With the development of fast, and low-cost analog-digital converters (ADCs) and new mathematical procedures for waveform description, e.g., time encoded signal processing and recognition (TESPAR), novel approaches to detect and locate internal defects in the insulation of power transformers become feasible if the following requirements are fulfilled: the equivalent circuit of the insulating system, suitable for the fast partial discharge (PD) signals with risetimes of approximately 10 ns, is known; the response of the insulating system to PD signals injected at least at three different sites of each winding (top, center, bottom) is calculated, or measured at the signal tap-off points (i.e., bushings); and the pattern matrix of all calculated or measured signals exists: e.g., encoded and signal processes with TESPAR as a reference. The above mentioned requirements are examined for quasi-simultaneous detection and location of internal defects in power transformers. The method is applied to PD measurements on power transformers.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>