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Speech emotion recognition is important to understand users' intention in human-computer interaction. However, it is a challenging task partly because we cannot clearly know which feature and model are effective to distinguish emotions. Previous studies utilize convolutional neural network (CNN) directly on spectrograms to extract features, and bidirectional long short term memory (BLSTM) is the state-of-the-art model. However, there are two problems of CNN-BLSTM. Firstly, it doesn't utilize heuristic features based on priori knowledge.

We propose a benchmark curve that measures the inherent complexity of a detection problem. The benchmark curve is built using a sequence of simple detection methods based upon random projection. It is parameterized by the area above the receiver-operating characteristic curve of the detection method and its computational cost. It divides the plane into regions that can be used to characterize the computational and structural advantages of a given detection method. Numerical illustrations are provided.

We introduce deep transform learning – a new
tool for deep learning. Deeper representation is learnt by
stacking one transform after another. The learning proceeds in
a greedy way. The first layer learns the transform and features
from the input training samples. Subsequent layers use the
features (after activation) from the previous layers as training
input. Experiments have been carried out with other deep
representation learning tools – deep dictionary learning,
stacked denoising autoencoder, deep belief network and PCANet

This paper presents preliminary results for motion behavior analysis of Madagascar hissing cockroach biobots subject to stochastic and periodic neurostimulation pulses corresponding to randomly applied right and left turn, and move forward commands. We present our experimental setup and propose an unguided search strategy based stimulation profile designed for exploration of unknown environments. We study a probabilistic motion model fitted to the trajectories of biobots, perturbed from their natural motion by the stimulation pulses.

Practical limitations on the duration of individual fMRI scans have led neuroscientist to consider the aggregation of data from multiple subjects. Differences in anatomical structures and functional topographies of brains require aligning data across subjects. Existing functional alignment methods serve as a preprocessing step that allows subsequent statistical methods to learn from the aggregated multi-subject data. Despite their success, current alignment methods do not leverage the labeled data used in the subsequent methods.

Remote cardiac health management is an important healthcare application. We have developed Heartmate that enables basic screening of cardiac health using low cost sensors or smartphone-inbuilt sensors without manual intervention. It consists of robust denoising algorithm along with effective anomaly analytics for physiological signals. Heartmate identifies and eliminates signal corruption as well as detects cardiac anomaly condition from physiological cardiac signals like heart sound or phonocardiogram (PCG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG).