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We develop a new method called Discriminated Hub Graphical Lasso (DHGL) based on Hub Graphical Lasso (HGL) by providing the prior information of hubs. We apply this new method in two situations: with known hubs and without known hubs. Then we compare DHGL with HGL using several measures of performance. When some hubs are known, we can always estimate the precision matrix better via DHGL than HGL.

We propose a noise shaping method to improve the sound quality of speech signals generated by WaveNet, which is a convolutional neural network (CNN) that predicts a waveform sample sequence as a discrete symbol sequence. Speech signals generated by WaveNet often suffer from noise signals caused by the quantization error generated by representing waveform samples as discrete symbols and the prediction error of the CNN.

Spoken content processing (such as retrieval and browsing) is maturing, but the singing content is still almost completely left out. Songs are human voice carrying plenty of semantic information just as speech, and may be considered as a special type of speech with highly flexible prosody. The various problems in song audio, for example the significantly changing phone duration over highly flexible pitch contours, make the recognition of lyrics from song audio much more difficult. This paper reports an initial attempt towards this goal.

In recent years, there is a growing effort in the learning algorithms area to propose new strategies to detect and exploit sparsity in the model parameters. In many situations, the sparsity is hidden in the relations among these coefficients so that some suitable tools are required to reveal the potential sparsity. This work proposes a set of LMS-type algorithms, collectively called Feature LMS (F-LMS) algorithms, setting forth a hidden feature of the unknown parameters, which ultimately would improve convergence speed and steady-state mean-squared error.

Object detection is a fundamental process in traffic management systems and self-driving cars. Deformable part model (DPM) is a popular and competitive detector for its high precision. This paper presents a programmable, low power hardware implementation of DPM based object detection for real-time applications.

Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LIDAR is a promising technology for next-generation integrated 3D imaging systems. However, it has been considered difficult to apply FMCW LIDAR for long-distance (>100m) targets, such as those in automotive and airborne applications. Maintaining coherence between the reflected beam from the target and locally forwarded beam becomes a significant challenge for tunable laser design.