Electrical Engineering and Systems Science

Authors and titles for September 2021

[651] arXiv:2109.14685 [pdf, other]

Title: Automatic Estimation of Ulcerative Colitis Severity from Endoscopy Videos using Ordinal Multi-Instance Learning

Evan Schwab, Gabriela Oana Cula, Kristopher Standish, Stephen S. F. Yip, Aleksandar Stojmirovic, Louis Ghanem, Christel Chehoud

Comments: *Co-Senior Authors. Accepted for publication in the Special Issue Journal of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization and presented at the MICCAI 2021 AE-CAI $|$ CARE $|$ OR 2.0 Workshop

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[652] arXiv:2109.14689 [pdf, other]

Title: Machine Learning Assisted Phase-less Millimeter-Wave Beam Alignment in Multipath Channels

Benjamin W. Domae, Ruifu Li, Danijela Cabric

Comments: Accepted to 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 6 pages (without copyright notice), 8 figures

Subjects: Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[653] arXiv:2109.14742 [pdf, html, other]

Title: A Convex Method of Generalized State Estimation using Circuit-theoretic Node-breaker Model

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Larry Pileggi

Subjects: Systems and Control (eess.SY); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[654] arXiv:2109.14754 [pdf, other]

Title: MetaHistoSeg: A Python Framework for Meta Learning in Histopathology Image Segmentation

Zheng Yuan, Andre Esteva, Ran Xu

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[655] arXiv:2109.14760 [pdf, other]

Title: Chest X-Rays Image Classification from beta-Variational Autoencoders Latent Features

Leonardo Crespi, Daniele Loiacono, Arturo Chiti

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[656] arXiv:2109.14775 [pdf, other]

Title: A Prior Knowledge Based Tumor and Tumoral Subregion Segmentation Tool for Pediatric Brain Tumors

Silu Zhang, Angela Edwards, Shubo Wang, Zoltan Patay, Asim Bag, Matthew A. Scoggins

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[657] arXiv:2109.14779 [pdf, other]

Title: Time Coordination of Multiple UAVs over Switching Communication Networks with Digraph Topologies

Hyungsoo Kang, Hyung-Jin Yoon, Venanzio Cichella, Naira Hovakimyan, Petros Voulgaris

Subjects: Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[658] arXiv:2109.14792 [pdf, other]

Title: Automated airway segmentation by learning graphical structure

Yihua Yang

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[659] arXiv:2109.14805 [pdf, other]

Title: Unsupervised Landmark Detection Based Spatiotemporal Motion Estimation for 4D Dynamic Medical Images

Yuyu Guo, Lei Bi, Dongming Wei, Liyun Chen, Zhengbin Zhu, Dagan Feng, Ruiyan Zhang, Qian Wang, Jinman Kim

Comments: accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[660] arXiv:2109.14818 [pdf, other]

Title: Spark in the Dark: Evaluating Encoder-Decoder Pairs for COVID-19 CT's Semantic Segmentation

Bruno A. Krinski, Daniel V. Ruiz, Eduardo Todt

Comments: Paper accepted in the 18th IEEE Latin American Robotics Symposium - LARS 2021

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[661] arXiv:2109.14831 [pdf, other]

Title: USEV: Universal Speaker Extraction with Visual Cue

Zexu Pan, Meng Ge, Haizhou Li

Comments: Accepted by TASLP

Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Sound (cs.SD)

[662] arXiv:2109.14837 [pdf, other]

Title: End-to-End Image Compression with Probabilistic Decoding

Haichuan Ma, Dong Liu, Cunhui Dong, Li Li, Feng Wu

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[663] arXiv:2109.14854 [pdf, other]

Title: Stability Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Voltage Control

Yuanyuan Shi, Guannan Qu, Steven Low, Anima Anandkumar, Adam Wierman

Subjects: Systems and Control (eess.SY); Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[664] arXiv:2109.14918 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensing Integrated DFT-Spread OFDM Waveform and Deep Learning-powered Receiver Design for Terahertz Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems

Yongzhi Wu, Filip Lemic, Chong Han, Zhi Chen

Subjects: Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[665] arXiv:2109.14919 [pdf, other]

Title: A Deep Learning Localization Method for Measuring Abdominal Muscle Dimensions in Ultrasound Images

Alzayat Saleh, Issam H. Laradji, Corey Lammie, David Vazquez, Carol A Flavell, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, 1 tables, Accepted for Publication in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) 25-May-2021

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[666] arXiv:2109.14942 [pdf, other]

Title: Neural Networks-based Equalizers for Coherent Optical Transmission: Caveats and Pitfalls

Pedro J. Freire, Antonio Napoli, Bernhard Spinnler, Nelson Costa, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky

Comments: Invited Paper at Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics - IEEE

Subjects: Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[667] arXiv:2109.14956 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparative Validation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Surgical Workflow and Skill Analysis with the HeiChole Benchmark

Martin Wagner, Beat-Peter Müller-Stich, Anna Kisilenko, Duc Tran, Patrick Heger, Lars Mündermann, David M Lubotsky, Benjamin Müller, Tornike Davitashvili, Manuela Capek, Annika Reinke, Tong Yu, Armine Vardazaryan, Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Nicolas Padoy, Xinyang Liu, Eung-Joo Lee, Constantin Disch, Hans Meine, Tong Xia, Fucang Jia, Satoshi Kondo, Wolfgang Reiter, Yueming Jin, Yonghao Long, Meirui Jiang, Qi Dou, Pheng Ann Heng, Isabell Twick, Kadir Kirtac, Enes Hosgor, Jon Lindström Bolmgren, Michael Stenzel, Björn von Siemens, Hannes G. Kenngott, Felix Nickel, Moritz von Frankenberg, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Lena Maier-Hein, Stefanie Speidel, Sebastian Bodenstedt

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[668] arXiv:2109.14994 [pdf, other]

Title: An investigation of pre-upsampling generative modelling and Generative Adversarial Networks in audio super resolution

James King, Ramon Viñas Torné, Alexander Campbell, Pietro Liò

Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Sound (cs.SD)

[669] arXiv:2109.15032 [pdf, other]

Title: An optimal reeling control strategy for pumping airborne wind energy systems without wind speed feedback

Andrea Berra, Lorenzo Fagiano

Comments: Extended version of paper in print in the proceedings of the 19th European Control Conference, June 29 - July 2 2021, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Subjects: Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[670] arXiv:2109.15043 [pdf, other]

Title: DOA Estimation in Nonuniform Sensor Noise

Majdoddin Esfandiari, Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Subjects: Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[671] arXiv:2109.15047 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep Contextual Video Compression

Jiahao Li, Bin Li, Yan Lu

Comments: Accepted by NeurIPS 2021, codes are in this https URL

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Multimedia (cs.MM)

[672] arXiv:2109.15063 [pdf, other]

Title: Workflow Augmentation of Video Data for Event Recognition with Time-Sensitive Neural Networks

Andreas Wachter, Werner Nahm

Comments: Submitted to Medical Image Analysis

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[673] arXiv:2109.15091 [pdf, other]

Title: Subcarrier Number and Indices-Based KeyGeneration for Future Wireless Networks

Haji M. Furqan, Jehad M. Hamamreh, Huseyin Arslan

Comments: Submitted to IEEE WCNC

Subjects: Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[674] arXiv:2109.15092 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust Multi-Domain Mitosis Detection

Mustaffa Hussain, Ritesh Gangnani, Sasidhar Kadiyala

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[675] arXiv:2109.15094 [pdf, other]

Title: A novel class of fixed-time consensus protocols for multi-agent systems with simple dynamics

Yuquan Chen, Fumian Wang, Bing Wang

Comments: 26 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[676] arXiv:2109.15098 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep Homography Estimation in Dynamic Surgical Scenes for Laparoscopic Camera Motion Extraction

Martin Huber, Sébastien Ourselin, Christos Bergeles, Tom Vercauteren

Comments: Accepted for publication in 2021 AE-CAI Special Issue of the Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[677] arXiv:2109.15108 [pdf, other]

Title: Federated Learning in ASR: Not as Easy as You Think

Wentao Yu, Jan Freiwald, Sören Tewes, Fabien Huennemeyer, Dorothea Kolossa

Journal-ref: ITG Conference on Speech Communication, 2021

Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Sound (cs.SD)

[678] arXiv:2109.15113 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning generalized Nash equilibria in monotone games: A hybrid adaptive extremum seeking control approach

Suad Krilašević, Sergio Grammatico

Subjects: Systems and Control (eess.SY); Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[679] arXiv:2109.15125 [pdf, other]

Title: Visualisation to Explain Personal Health Trends in Smart Homes

Glenn Forbes, Stewart Massie, Susan Craw

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, First International Workshop on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Subjects: Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[680] arXiv:2109.15126 [pdf, other]

Title: A Frequency-Domain Approach to Nonlinear Negative Imaginary Systems Analysis

Di Zhao, Chao Chen, Sei Zhen Khong

Comments: This paper has been submitted to Automatica

Subjects: Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[681] arXiv:2109.15127 [pdf, other]

Title: Real-Time Multi-Level Neonatal Heart and Lung Sound Quality Assessment for Telehealth Applications

Ethan Grooby, Chiranjibi Sitaula, Davood Fattahi, Reza Sameni, Kenneth Tan, Lindsay Zhou, Arrabella King, Ashwin Ramanathan, Atul Malhotra, Guy A. Dumont, Faezeh Marzbanrad

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Paper submitted and under review in IEEE Access

Journal-ref: IEEE Access, 2022

Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Sound (cs.SD); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[682] arXiv:2109.15129 [pdf, other]

Title: Convolution-Free Waveform Transformers for Multi-Lead ECG Classification

Annamalai Natarajan, Gregory Boverman, Yale Chang, Corneliu Antonescu, Jonathan Rubin

Comments: Computing in Cardiology - 2021 PhysioNet Challenge

Subjects: Signal Processing (eess.SP); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[683] arXiv:2109.15166 [pdf, other]

Title: PortaSpeech: Portable and High-Quality Generative Text-to-Speech

Yi Ren, Jinglin Liu, Zhou Zhao

Comments: Accepted by NeurIPS 2021. Source code: this https URL

Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Sound (cs.SD)

[684] arXiv:2109.15283 [pdf, other]

Title: Bend-Net: Bending Loss Regularized Multitask Learning Network for Nuclei Segmentation in Histopathology Images

Haotian Wang, Aleksandar Vakanski, Changfa Shi, Min Xian

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.01020

Subjects: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[685] arXiv:2109.00036 (cross-list from stat.ML) [pdf, other]

Title: Half-Space and Box Constraints as NUV Priors: First Results

Raphael Keusch, Hans-Andrea Loeliger

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Signal Processing (eess.SP); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[686] arXiv:2109.00103 (cross-list from cs.SD) [pdf, other]

Title: Automatic non-invasive Cough Detection based on Accelerometer and Audio Signals

Madhurananda Pahar, Igor Miranda, Andreas Diacon, Thomas Niesler

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2102.04997

Journal-ref: Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 2022

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[687] arXiv:2109.00109 (cross-list from cs.CV) [pdf, other]

Title: Two-step Domain Adaptation for Mitosis Cell Detection in Histopathology Images

Ramin Nateghi, Fattaneh Pourakpour

Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)

[688] arXiv:2109.00126 (cross-list from cs.LG) [pdf, other]

Title: Online Dynamic Window (ODW) Assisted Two-stage LSTM Frameworks for Indoor Localization

Mohammadamin Atashi, Mohammad Salimibeni, Arash Mohammadi

Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[689] arXiv:2109.00127 (cross-list from cs.AI) [pdf, other]

Title: Cognitive science as a source of forward and inverse models of human decisions for robotics and control

Mark K. Ho, Thomas L. Griffiths

Comments: Invited submission for Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems

Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[690] arXiv:2109.00140 (cross-list from math.OC) [pdf, other]

Title: Lax Formulae for Efficiently Solving Two Classes of State-Constrained Optimal Control Problems

Donggun Lee, Claire J. Tomlin

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[691] arXiv:2109.00149 (cross-list from cs.RO) [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling and Trajectory Optimization for Standing Long Jumping of a Quadruped with A Preloaded Elastic Prismatic Spine

Keran Ye, Konstantinos Karydis

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[692] arXiv:2109.00154 (cross-list from cs.IT) [pdf, other]

Title: DOA Estimation Using Massive Receive MIMO: Basic Principle and Key Techniques

Jiangzhou Wang, Baihua Shi, Feng Shu, Qi Zhang, Di Wu, Qijuan Jie, Zhihong Zhuang, Siling Feng, Yijin Zhang

Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[693] arXiv:2109.00228 (cross-list from cs.NI) [pdf, other]

Title: Deployable Networks for Public Safety in 5G and Beyond: A Coverage and Interference Study

Zhiqiang Qi, Adrián Lahuerta-Lavieja, Jingya Li, Keerthi Kumar Nagalapur

Subjects: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[694] arXiv:2109.00237 (cross-list from cs.SD) [pdf, other]

Title: Prior Distribution Design for Music Bleeding-Sound Reduction Based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Yusaku Mizobuchi, Daichi Kitamura, Tomohiko Nakamura, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Yu Takahashi, Kazunobu Kondo

Comments: Accepted and will be presented at APSIPA2021

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[695] arXiv:2109.00246 (cross-list from cs.IT) [pdf, other]

Title: On Age of Information for Discrete Time Status Updating System With Ber/G/1/1 Queues

Jixiang Zhang, Yinfei Xu

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for presentation in ITW 2021

Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[696] arXiv:2109.00260 (cross-list from cs.SD) [pdf, other]

Title: A Separable Temporal Convolution Neural Network with Attention for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting

Shenghua Hu, Jing Wang, Yujun Wang, Lidong Yang, Wenjing Yang

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2108.12146

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[697] arXiv:2109.00265 (cross-list from cs.SD) [pdf, other]

Title: Embedding and Beamforming: All-neural Causal Beamformer for Multichannel Speech Enhancement

Andong Li, Wenzhe Liu, Chengshi Zheng, Xiaodong Li

Comments: Submitted to ICASSP 2022, first version

Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[698] arXiv:2109.00281 (cross-list from cs.CR) [pdf, other]

Title: Benchmarking and challenges in security and privacy for voice biometrics

Jean-Francois Bonastre, Hector Delgado, Nicholas Evans, Tomi Kinnunen, Kong Aik Lee, Xuechen Liu, Andreas Nautsch, Paul-Gauthier Noe, Jose Patino, Md Sahidullah, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Massimiliano Todisco, Natalia Tomashenko, Emmanuel Vincent, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi

Comments: Submitted to the symposium of the ISCA Security & Privacy in Speech Communications (SPSC) special interest group

Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

[699] arXiv:2109.00324 (cross-list from cs.IT) [pdf, other]

Title: Covert Beamforming Design for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted IoT Networks

Shuai Ma, Yunqi Zhang, Hang Li, Junchang Sun, Jia Shi, Han Zhang, Chao Shen, Shiyin Li

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.16786

Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[700] arXiv:2109.00339 (cross-list from cs.DM) [pdf, other]

Title: How likely is a random graph shift-enabled?

Liyan Chen, Samuel Cheng, Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic

Comments: 9 pages

Subjects: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM); Signal Processing (eess.SP)