Section 10.4 El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
Climate.gov https://www.climate.gov/enso
The El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. These variations shift the degree of cold upwelling that occurs along the South American coast, and are connected to larger cycles of periodic warming events connected to global climate.
ENSO conditions are assessed by a range of methods, including
SOI (Southern Oscillation Index): the difference in pressure between Tahiti and Darwin, Australia;
the SST and SSTA patterns in the equatorial eastern Pacific
the release of latent heat and outgoing radiation as precipitation patterns shift
monitoring of sea level variations across the equatorial Pacific basin
Normal ("cold") phase (+SOI)
upwelling along South American coast
strong trade winds in tropics
high pressures in east-central Pacific (Tahiti > Darwin or +SOI)
cold water moving westward across equatorial Pacific
piling up of water in the western Pacific
dry conditions over east-central Pacific, wet conditions in western Pacific
La Nina can be considered an unusually intense manifestation of this cold phase
El-Nino ("warm") phase (-SOI)
downwelling along South American coast
weakened trade winds in tropics (or even some low-level westerly flow)
low pressures in east-central Pacific (Tahiti < Darwin or -SOI)
warm water moving eastward across equatorial Pacific
piling up of water in the eastern Pacific
the entire Walker cell weakens and most eastward
wetter conditions over east-central Pacific, dry conditions in western Pacific
Hadley circulation strengthens; stronger subtropical jet stream
Global climate and teleconnection
the changes above influence weather and climate conditions over very large distances. These affects are sometimes referred to as climate teleconnections.
El Nino conditions strengthen the subtropical jet and weaken the polar jet stream. This tends to lead to milder winters in the upper Midwest of the United States, and wetter conditions in the American southwest.
La Nina conditions tend to strengthen the polar jet stream, tending to yield colder and more intense winters in the upper Midwest (i.e. we may find ourselves more often north of the polar front).


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ANALYZE THIS (Warner Bros. - 1999) Cast: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Chazz Palminteri Screenplay by Peter Tolan and Harold Ramis and Kenneth Lonergan Produced by Paula Weinstein and Jane Rosenthal Directed by Harold Ramis Running time: 103 minutes
Note: Some may consider portions of the following text to be spoilers. Be forewarned.
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Harold Ramis' comedy ANALYZE THIS is a film whose central conceit winds up being more interesting than its screen realisation. Lampooning mafioso stereotypes with abandon, the picture runs out of gas fairly early on and lurches the remainder of the way to the finish line.
With the public's fascination with the dangerous glamour of organized crime reaching the level where media saturation on the topic has made the John Gotti-led Gambino crime family as fabled and familiar to the masses as the Corleones, it was inevitable that accompanying cinematic attention to the Mafia would ultimately lead to the evolution of an unlikely film sub-genre -- the mob comedy. Joining Andrew Fleming's THE FRESHMAN and Jim Abraham's unfortunate MAFIA! in this category is ANALYZE THIS, which attacks one of the more curious what-if scenarios of late (though not *singularly* curious -- I understand that there's a new HBO series operating on the same basic premise): what if a mob boss was stricken with panic attacks and enlisted the services of a psychiatrist?
Billy Crystal, adorning the requisite shrink beard, plays the doctor and Robert De Niro lends his iconic status as the angst-ridden gangster who finds his life as fearsome New York mob boss Paul Vitti increasingly crippled by his volatile emotional state.  Can't perform in bed? For a macho overlord whose dominance over the Big Apple is threatened by a rival mobster (Chazz Palminteri), this simply will not do. And becoming teary-eyed at sentimental commercials? Unforgivable.
Vitti commandeers the unwilling services of Crystal's mild-mannered Dr. Ben Sobel at a rather inopportune time -- the shrink is headed on vacation to Miami where he's scheduled to marry reporter Laura MacNamara (Lisa Kudrow). After this setup, the Florida-based segment of this film mostly plays like a Mafia-tinged version of WHAT ABOUT BOB?, where the befuddled Sobel is constantly hounded by his demanding new patient who continues to appear at the most inappropriate moments. Of course, fitting the stature of a crime boss, it's not Vitti himself who pesters Sobel -- his dim, sad-eyed right-hand man Jelly (Joe Viterelli) is the one to break into the shrink's hotel room and haul him out of bed in the middle of the night.
The culture clash between the hardened world of the mob and Sobel's suburbanite is often amusing, and there are several funny comic routines and sight gags, but it gradually becomes apparent that the film is content to skewer the Mafia in a series of repetitive riffs, toying with the tough, family-loving, God-fearing, honour-bound archetype familiar from the movies; the picture establishes a rhythm which plays itself out quickly. On the flip side, although hinting at it on several occasions (at one point, when instructed to be vague, Sobel notes that his profession has left him well-equipped for imprecision), the picture fails to add a little variety to the comedy by doing little to send-up the psychiatric profession, and indeed winds up endorsing mushy therapeutic cliches during the story's uninvolving resolution, dulling the carefree irreverence of the picture.
Beyond its premise, the film doesn't really have much of a compelling story to speak of, and what that there is evolves in the weaker latter half of the picture as the action shifts back to New York. It's mostly routine and uncompelling material -- FBI stings, mob summits, yet *more* goofy wedding ceremony fiascoes (a tired gag which has been pretty much been run into the ground) and serves as a rather flimsy hanger upon which to float more comic bits. Howard Shore attempts to inject energy into the piece with a jaunty score which only serves to underline how muddled the film has become.
While De Niro demonstrates his good sportsmanship in the picture through his cheerfully straight portrayal of the stressed mob boss, Kudrow's imitable quirkiness is largely wasted in a tiny, generic role, and Palminteri's saddled with a two-dimensional character he could play in his sleep. On the other hand, it's been so long since his heyday with WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... and CITY SLICKERS that I'd begun to actually forget about Crystal as a solid screen comedian and found myself thinking of him mostly as The Guy Who Knows How To Host The Oscars. In the final reel of ANALYZE THIS, he gets to shed the second banana role worn throughout the bulk of the picture to deliver one of his best onscreen moments in quite some time. The result was silly and predictable, but it had me chuckling.
[ ** 1/2 (out of four stars) | Alternate Rating: C+ ]
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Supervisors : Roland Badeau, Telecom ParisTech, France
Antoine Liutkus, Inria, France
Jury : Rémi Gribonval, Inria Rennes, France
Hermine Biermé, Université de Poitiers, France
Antoine Lejay, Inria Nancy Grand-Est, France
Angélique Drémeau, ENSTA Bretagne, France
Outline
I - State of the Art : Signal Processing and Single-channel Audio Source Separation
    I-A Introduction to signal processing
    I-B Audio source separation
II - Audio Source Localization
III - Multivariate$\alpha-$stable Filtering Theory
IV - Hybrid Model and Single-channel Speech Enhancement
V - Conclusion
I-A: Introduction to signal processing
Stochastic signal models
Definition
Let$\mathcal{N}$ be a countable or uncoutable set (e.g.$\lbrace{0, ..., N\rbrace},~\mathbb{R},~\mathbb{C}$)
A stochastic process$\left(x(n)\right)_{n \in \mathcal{N}}$ is a family (usually infinite) of random variables indexed by$n$
A stochastic process is usually characterized by two statistical parameters:
Time representation
    $\rightarrow~~~ x\left(t\right)\in \mathbb{R}$ is an input discrete time signal representation sampled every fixed period$\tau$
Direct amplitude representation
Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT)
    $\rightarrow~~~$ Fourier transform + multiplication with a window function$w$ on each time frame:
$$x\left(f,t\right) = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}x\left(\tau\right)w\left(\tau-t\right)e^{-2i\pi f\tau}d\tau \in \mathbb{C}$$
More interpretability
The STFT is used in this presentation.
Problem Statement
Which probabilistic laws are stable by linear combination ?
$\alpha-$ stable distribution
Definition
Let $\bold{X}^{(1)},\bold{X}^{(2)}$ be two independent copies of a random vector$\bold{X}$.$\bold{X}$ is stable iff $\forall~a, b>0$ $\exists c\in\mathbb{R}$
and a vector$\bold{D}$ such that:
$$a\bold{X}^{(1)}+b\bold{X}^{(2)} \stackrel{d}{=} c\bold{X}+\bold{D}$$
where$\stackrel{d}{=}$ denotes equality in distribution.
$\exists\color{blue}{\alpha}\in(0,2],\:c^{\color{blue}{\alpha}}=a^{\color{blue}{\alpha}}+b^{\color{blue}{\alpha}}$ called characteristic exponent
the smallest$\color{blue}{\alpha}$ is, the heavier the tails of the distribution are
Properties
for $\alpha \notin \{0.5,1,2\}$, no closed-form of probabilistic density function
A linear combination of$\alpha-$stable distributions is an$\alpha-$stable distribution
If$x$ is an$\alpha-$stable variable and$p\geq \alpha$, then$\mathbb{E}\left(|x|^p\right)=+\infty$
Moreover, its characteristic function $\varphi_x:\theta\mapsto\mathbb{E}\left[\text{exp}\left(i\theta x\right)\right]$ is
$$ \forall \theta \in \mathbb{R},~\varphi_x\left(\theta\right) = \begin{cases}
\exp\left[i\theta\color{purple}{\mu}-\left|\color{green}{\sigma} \theta\right|^{\color{blue}{\alpha}}\left(1-i\color{red}{\beta}\text{sign}\left(\theta\right)\tan\left(\frac{\pi\color{blue}{\alpha}}{2}\right)\right)\right] & \color{blue}{\alpha}\neq1\\
\exp\left[i\theta\color{purple}{\mu}-\left|\color{green}{\sigma} \theta\right|\left(1-i\color{red}{\beta}\text{sign}\left(\theta\right)-\frac{2}{\pi}\ln\left|\theta\right|\right)\right] & \color{blue}{\alpha}=1
\end{cases}$$
    $\rightarrow~~~ \color{blue}{\alpha}$: characteristic exponent $\text{(heaviness of the tails)}$
    $\rightarrow~~~ \color{red}{\beta}$: skewness parameter $\text{(measure of asymmetry)}$
    $\rightarrow~~~ \color{purple}{\mu}$: shift parameter $\text{(localize the mode)}$
    $\rightarrow~~~ \color{green}{\sigma}^\color{blue}{\alpha}$: scale parameter $\text{(measure of the width)}$
Symmetric$\alpha-$stable distributions
$x$ $\alpha-$stable and $x \sim -x \Rightarrow x \sim S\alpha S\left(\sigma^\alpha\right)$ ($\sigma^\alpha>0:$ scale parameter)
$\alpha=2$: Wide-Sense Stationary Gaussian Process (WSS-GP)
Definition
A stochastic process$\left(x\left(n\right)\right)_{n\in \mathcal{N}}$ is wide-sense stationary Gaussian (WSS-GP) iff.
The mean$\mu_{x}$ is independent of$n$
The covariance$C_x\left(n,n'\right)\triangleq k_x\left(n'-n\right)$ depends only on$n'-n$
$\forall L, n_1,\cdots,n_L;~$ $x\left(n_1\right), \cdots, x\left(n_L\right)$ are jointly Gaussian random variables
Property
Let$\tilde{\bold{x}}$ be an outcome of a WSS-GP and$\bold{x}\triangleq\mathcal{F}\left(\bold{\tilde{x}}\right)$ its Fourier transform.
Then, all entries of$\bold{x}$ are independent and
Generalization for$\alpha\neq2$ ?
$\alpha-$Harmonizable Processes
$\alpha-$stable isotropic distribution
A complex random variable$x=\Re\left(x\right)+i\Im\left(x\right)$ is an$\alpha-$stable isotropic distribution iff
$\left[\Re\left(x\right)\Im\left(x\right)\right]^\top$ is a stable vector and$\forall\phi\in[0,2\pi),\:e^{i\phi}x\stackrel{d}{=} x$
$x\sim S\alpha S_c\left(\sigma^\alpha\right)$ is fully described by$\alpha$ and a scale parameter$\sigma^\alpha\geq0$
$\alpha-$harmonizable processes
$\bold{x}$ is an$\alpha-$harmonizable process$\Leftrightarrow$ the samples$x(n_1), \cdots,x(n_L)$ of$\bold{x}$
are$S\alpha S_c$ distributed and independent
Generalizes the stability of spectral representation. Filtering method available$\forall \alpha \in \left(0,2\right]$ ?
Fractional power spectrograms &$\alpha-$Wiener filtering
The separation task can be achieved by the following$\alpha-$Wiener filtering:
$$
\mathbb{E}\left[y_j\left(f,t\right)~|~ x\left(f,t\right),\left\{\sigma_j^{\alpha}\left(f,t\right)\right\}_{j,f,t}\right] = \frac{\sigma_j^{\alpha}\left(f,t\right)}{\sum_{j^{\prime}}\sigma_{j^{\prime}}^{\alpha}\left(f,t\right)}x\left(f,t\right)
$$
Classical approximation (C.A.) for$\alpha=2$ and extension:
C.A. "more validated" for $\alpha=1.2$ $\text{[Liu. 2015]}$. How estimate$\sigma_j^\alpha\left(f,t\right)$ ?
Liutkus, A., & Badeau, R. (ICASSP 2015, April). Generalized Wiener filtering with fractional power spectrograms.
Parameters Estimation
Maximum Likelihood (for $\alpha\in \{0.5, 1,2\}$)
Let$\Theta \triangleq $ be the parameters to estimate.
Idea: maximize$p\left(x \left(f,t\right)\mid \Theta\right)$ w.r.t.$\Theta$. Equivalent to the following update:
Estimate$\phi$ using a Metropolis-Hastings approach and apply a$2-$Wiener filter
Nikias, C. L., & Shao, M. (1995). Signal processing with alpha-stable distributions and applications.
Şimşekli, U., Liutkus, A., & Cemgil, A. T. (SPL, 2015). Alpha-stable matrix factorization.
Liutkus, A., Fitzgerald, D., & Badeau, R. (WASPAA, 2015). Cauchy nonnegative matrix factorization.
II: Audio Source Localization
Problem Statement
Given several microphones$x_{1},\cdots,x_{K}$ randomly positioned
Localize audio sources$s_{1},\cdots,s_{L}$ by estimating their magnitudes
Acoustic & Probabilistic Modeling
Mixing model
STFT observations at TF bins$\left(f,t\right)$ denoted by$\bold{x}\left(f,t\right)\in\mathbb{C}^{K}$ are approximated by:
$$\forall\left(f,t\right),\:\bold{x}\left(f,t\right)\simeq\sum_{l=1}^{L}\bold{A}_{l}\left(f\right)s_{l}\left(f,t\right)$$
$\bold{A}_{l}\left(f\right)\in\mathbb{C}^{K}$: frequency response at the$l^{th}$ position in the room at frequency band$f$ or steering vector
(depends on the acoustic model)
Probabilistic model
We assume the following probabilistic model with$\Upsilon_l \geq 0$
$\bold{\Upsilon}=\left[\Upsilon_{1},\cdots,\Upsilon_{L}\right]^{\top}$: discrete spatial measure$\Rightarrow$ magnitude of each potential source in the room
Levy Exponent
The$\alpha-$ stable theory provides the following analytical form:
Choosing$\left[\bold{\Psi}_{f}\right]_{l'l}=\left|\left\langle \bold{a}_{l'}\left(f\right),
\bold{a}_{l}\left(f\right)\right\rangle \right|^{\alpha}$ yields:
M. Fontaine, C. Vanwynsberghe, A. Liutkus, and R. Badeau. (LVA/ICA, 2017) Sketching for nearfield acoustic imaging of heavy-tailed sources.
Parameters Estimation
Data fit cost function: $\hat{\bold{\Upsilon}}\leftarrow\arg\min_{\bold{\Upsilon}\geq0}
d_{\beta}\left(\bold{\hat{I}}|\bold{\Psi}\bold{\Upsilon}\right)+\lambda\|\bold{\Upsilon}\|_{1}$
$$\hat{\bold{\Upsilon}}\leftarrow\hat{\bold{\Upsilon}}
\cdot\frac{\bold{\Psi}^{\top}\left(\left(\bold{\Psi}\hat{\bold{\Upsilon}}\right)^{\beta-2}
\cdot\bold{\hat{I}}\right)}{\bold{\Psi}^{\top}\left(\left(\bold{\Psi}\hat{\bold{\Upsilon}}\right)^{\beta-1}\right)+\lambda}$$
Sketching approach: data only used once for estimating the Levy exponent
N. Keriven and al. (ICASSP, 2016). Sketching for large-scale learning of mixture models.
Evaluation
$J=5$ speech signals distributed randomly on a$5~\text{x}~4$ m plane within a$5~\text{x}~4~\text{x}~3$ meters simulated room with a$0.4$s reverberation time
$\beta=0$,$\alpha=1$ (Cauchy case) and$\lambda=1$
2500 trial simulations are carried out
Evaluated by correlations between the estimated and ground truth maps
$\bold{A}_l\left(f\right):$ Fourier transform of the room impulse responses
$\left[\bold{A}_{l}\left(f\right)\right]_{k}=\frac{1}{r_{kl}}\exp\left(-i\frac{\omega_{f}r_{kl}}{c_{0}}\right)$: Nearfield region assumption
Conclusion & Future Works
A new competitive method for acoustic imaging
Requires going through the observed multichannel signals only once in order to estimate$\bold{\Upsilon}$
Future work may include time-varying DSM and an estimation of$\alpha$
M. Fontaine, C. Vanwynsberghe, A. Liutkus, and R Badeau.(LVA/ICA, 2017) Sketching for nearfield acoustic imaging of heavy-tailed sources.
M. Fontaine and al. (EUSIPCO, 2017) Scalable source localization with multichannel alpha-stable distributions.
III - Multivariate$\alpha-$stable Filtering Theory
Separation of multivariate$\alpha-$stable distributions
$\color{blue}{\bold{x}}=\color{red}{\bold{y}_1}+\color{green}{\bold{y}_2}$Spatial representation of multivariate$\alpha-$stable isotropic distribution (denoted$S\alpha S_c^{K}$):
$\bold{x}=\sum_{j}\bold{y}_{j}$
$\forall j,\,\bold{y}_{j}\sim S\alpha S_{c}^{K}\left(\Gamma_j\right) \Rightarrow \bold{x}\sim S\alpha S_{c}^{K}\left(\sum_j\Gamma_j\right)$ $\text{(}\Gamma_j\text{: spatial density of }\bold{y}_j\text{)}$
$\hat{\mathcal{X}}\left(d\bold{\theta}\right)$ such that for any function$\psi$ satisfying
$\int_{\bold{\theta}\in S_{\mathbb{C}}^{K}}\left|\psi\left(\bold{\theta}\right)\right|^{\alpha}\Gamma_{\bold{x}}\left(d\bold{\theta}\right)<+\infty$:
$\hat{\mathcal{X}}\left(d\bold{\theta}\right)$ can be rewritten as $g_{_{_\mathcal{X}}}\left(\bold{x},\bold{\theta}\right)\Gamma_{\bold{x}}\left(d\bold{\theta}\right)$ where$g_{_{_\mathcal{X}}}$ is a fraction of two integrals along the hypersphere$\mathcal{S}_{\mathbb{C}}^{K}$ which depends
of $\theta$, the Lévy-exponent $I_{\bold{x}} \triangleq-\log \varphi_{\bold{x}}$ and two series which can be pre-computed
We assume the knowledge of the spatial densities$\Gamma_j$, for all$j$
Filtering methods
$$MWF:$\alpha \rightarrow 2$ case using the true $\Gamma_j$ in$\bold{P}_{j}=
\int\bold{\theta}\bold{\theta}^{\star}\Gamma_{j}\left(d\bold{\theta}\right)$
$\alpha-$SSF: Spatial spectrum filter with a direct estimation of$g_{_{_\mathcal{X}}}\left(\bold{x},\bold{\theta}\right)$
$\alpha-$CMF: Covariation-minimizing filter with$50$ iterations for the fixed-point method
Integral computation
For $\theta_1, \cdots, \theta_P \in \mathcal{S}^K$, the approximation goes as$\int\bold{\theta}
f\left(\bold{\theta}\right)\Gamma\left(d\bold{\theta}\right)\approx\sum_{p}\bold{\theta}_{p}
f\left(\bold{\theta}_{p}\right)\Gamma\left(\Theta_{p}\right)$
Metric
The mean-absolute error:$\text{MAE}\left(\bold{y},\hat{\bold{y}}\right)=\sum_{j}\mathbb{E}\left(\left|\bold{y}_{j}-\hat{\bold{y}}_{j}\right|\right)$
Performance vs Spatial Distance of Components - Settings
Vectors of dimension$K=2$ on the semi-circle $\bold{\theta}\in\mathcal{S}_{\mathbb{R}}^{K}$
concentration parameter $\kappa=15$ and mean directions $\bold{\mu}_{j}$ for the sources are separated by$\left\{ 5,15,\cdots,85\right\}$ degrees with$\bold{\mu}_{1}$ randomly positioned on the semi-circle
$0.2$ step-size for$\alpha\in\left[1.2,~2\right]$, $P=180$ arcs on the semi-circle,$N=500$ components and$100$ different experiments
Performance vs. Spatial Distance of Components - Results
$\alpha=1.6$
Performance vs. Number of components
Settings
filtering methods in the complex case with $K=2$
$J=2,\cdots,8$ $\alpha\in\left[1.2,2\right]$, $N=500$ independent realizations and 100 independent experiments are run
$0.2$ step-size for$\alpha\in\left[1.2,~2\right]$and $P=180$ arcs on the semi-circle
$\Gamma_{j}=\mathcal{V}_{\bold{\mu}_{j},\kappa_j}$ with random$\mu_j\in \mathbb{R}^4, \kappa_j>0$
Results
Light area: interquartile range
Conclusion and Future works
Conclusion
$S\alpha S$ vector characterized by a spatial density: meaning of deterministic directions of arrivals made for multivariate observations
$\alpha-$SSF based on a spatial spectrum decomposition: combination of nonlinear beamformer followed by a scalar filter
$\alpha-$CMF: a linear filtering which generalize the Multichannel Wiener filter in the $\alpha-$stable theory
Future Works
Estimation of spatial densities
Application to audio processing, image processing
M. Fontaine, A. Liutkus, and R. Badeau. (Signal Processing Elsevier, 2019) Separation of Alpha-Stable Random Vectors (Submitted).
IV - Hybrid Model and Single-channel Speech Enhancement
Motivations
Parameterized Wiener Filter
Wiener filtering$\rightarrow$ minimum mean square error (MMSE) linear estimator of$s\left(f,t\right)$:
Understanding of PWF + provide a fast algorithm$\text{[Fon. 2017]}$
M Fontaine, A Liutkus, L Girin, and R Badeau. (WASPAA, 2017) Explaining the parameterized Wiener filter with alpha-stable processes.
Y. Ephraim and D. Malah. (TASSP, 1984) Speech enhancement using a minimum-mean square error short-time spectral amplitude estimator.
Conditional Gaussianity
$\mathcal{N}_{c}$: ”classical Gaussian”
$S\alpha S_c$: ”Gaussian with a randomly perturbed covariance”
Samoradnitsky, G. (1995). Stable non-Gaussian random processes.
Speech model & Parameterized Wiener filtering
$\alpha_{s}\neq\alpha_{n}$: different characteristics for speech and noise
Impulse Variable Estimation
for$\alpha<1$ and$\beta=1$, the median is close to the mode of an$\alpha-$stable distribution $\Rightarrow$ replacing$\phi_{s}\left(f,t\right)$ and$\phi_{n}\left(f,t\right)$ by their median$\mathbb{M}\left(\phi_{s}\right)$ and$\mathbb{M}\left(\phi_{n}\right)$:
New fast denoising algorithm (63 seconds to denoise 270 seconds of speech)
M Fontaine, A Liutkus, L Girin, and R Badeau.(2017) Explaining the parameterized Wiener filter with alpha-stable processes.
V: Conclusion
Applications of $\alpha-$stable processes
Audio source localization
Using once the observations in order to localize sources
Outperforms classical algorithms in many scenarios
Robust even with few microphones
Many acoustic models possible for the estimation
A new multichannel filtering method
Applicable in all areas of signal processing (imaging, audio, SAR, EEG)
One of them generalizes the classical Wiener filter
Works even with a complex spatial configuration of the sources
Speech Enhancement task
Give a more theoretical approach of parameterized Wiener filter
Provide a fast algorithm in single-channel case which do not use a voice activity detector
Achieve good results in realistic scenarios
Future Works
$\alpha-$Multichannel Filtering ($\alpha-$MF)
Provide an audio source separation algorithm with the$\alpha-$MF inspired by the local Gaussian model of$\text{[Duong 2010]}$
Parametric model for spatial density: Von-Mises, spherical harmonics$\text{[Piv. 2003]}$
$\alpha-$Denoising
Multi-alpha stable denoising in the multichannel case
$\alpha$ which depends on frequency and/or time
Discrete Spatial Measure (DSM)
Estimation of$\alpha$ wrt. observed data
Room geometry estimation using the Discrete Spatial Measure (DSM)$\text{[Doc. 2013]}$
N. Duong and E. Vincent and R. Gribonval. (TASLP, 2010) Under-determined reverberant audio source separation using a full-rank spatial covariance model.
M. Pivato and L. Seco. (Elsevier, 2003). Estimating the spectral measure of a multivariate stable distribution via spherical harmonic analysis.
I. Dokmanic and al. (PNAS, 2013). Acoustic echoes reveal room shape.
Thank you !
M. Fontaine, C. Vanwynsberghe, A. Liutkus, and R. Badeau. (EUSIPCO, 2017) Scalable source localization with multichannel alpha-stable distributions.
M. Fontaine, C. Vanwynsberghe, A. Liutkus, and R. Badeau. (LVA/ICA, 2017) Sketching for nearfield acoustic imaging of heavy-tailed sources.
M. Fontaine, A. Liutkus, L. Girin, and R. Badeau. (WASPAA, 2017) Explaining the parameterized Wiener filter with alpha-stable processes.
M. Fontaine, F-R. Stöter, A. Liutkus, U. Şimşekli, R. Serizel, and R. Badeau (LVA/ICA, 2018) Multichannel Audio Modeling with Elliptically Stable Tensor Decomposition.
M. Fontaine, A. Liutkus, and R. Badeau. (Signal Processing Elsevier, 2019) Separation of Alpha-Stable Random Vectors (Submitted).
M. Fontaine, A.A. Nugraha, R. Badeau, K. Yoshii and A. Liutkus. (EUSIPCO, 2019) Cauchy Multichannel Speech Enhancement with a Deep Speech Prior.


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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
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| class | ViewportManager |
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| def | Close (self) |
| self.accept("wheel_down", self.zoomOut) self.accept("wheel_up", self.zoomIn) self.accept("page_down", self.zoomOut) self.accept("page_down-repeat", self.zoomOut) self.accept("page_up", self.zoomIn) self.accept("page_up-repeat", self.zoomIn) self.accept("mouse3", self.onRightDown) More... | |
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| def | zoomOut (self) |
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| int | VPFRONT = 11 |
| int | VPLEFT = 10 |
| int | VPPERSPECTIVE = 13 |
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| def direct.wxwidgets.ViewPort.Close | ( | self | ) |
self.accept("wheel_down", self.zoomOut) self.accept("wheel_up", self.zoomIn) self.accept("page_down", self.zoomOut) self.accept("page_down-repeat", self.zoomOut) self.accept("page_up", self.zoomIn) self.accept("page_up-repeat", self.zoomIn) self.accept("mouse3", self.onRightDown)
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| def direct.wxwidgets.ViewPort.zoomIn | ( | self | ) |
| def direct.wxwidgets.ViewPort.zoomOut | ( | self | ) |
| int CREATENEW = 99 |
| HORIZONTAL = wx.SPLIT_HORIZONTAL |
| VERTICAL = wx.SPLIT_VERTICAL |
| int VPFRONT = 11 |
| int VPLEFT = 10 |
| int VPPERSPECTIVE = 13 |
| int VPTOP = 12 |


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Why the Assam Elephant That Died Today Was Named Bin Laden
No matter how Laden-like it was, the government should not have taken a 35-year-old elephant in captivity and now that it has died in captivity, the government must answer how it died, said activists.
New Delhi: A wild, rogue elephant that was captured by the forest department officials in Assam five days ago died in captivity. What is interesting is that the wild animal has an intriguing name and history.
The elephant was named after terrorist and late al-qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as he was reportedly responsible for many deaths and massive destruction in Sonitpur district. In 2016, it was believed that Osama was shot, but a wrong elephant was shot.
On October 29, Laden, who was also known as Krishna, reportedly killed five people. After it was captured, it was given the new moniker after the name of Hindu God Krishna. On November 11, it was tranquilised.
“The animal was doing fine but the keepers have reported that it died around 5.30 a.m. today (Sunday),” said a senior official of the Orang national park.
The 35-year old bull (male) elephant was captured, after tranquilizing, from Rongjuli forest division in Western Assam’s Goalpara district on November 11. Forest department shifted the rogue to Orang national park on November 12.
“It was a healthy wild elephant and the government took credit for the operation to tranquilise the elephant. Now that the elephant is dead in captivity, the government must make it clear how the elephant died,” wildlife activist and member of the steering committee of Central government on Project Elephant, Soumyadeep Datta told IANS on Sunday.
Animal rights activists were concerned that Laden was too old to be captured.
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Network Flow Algorithms (Ford-Fulkerson), Edmonds Karp, Maxflow-Mincut Theorem, and Project 4 hints.
Extended Euclidean Algorithm, Implications of XGCD for RSA, RSA, Shor's Algorithm, Period-Finding, Groups and Cyclic Subgroups, Review of Binary Representation and Bitwise Operators, and Project 5 Hints.
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1 Plugins Overview
Nitrogen 2.2.0 introduced a plugin system for including Nitrogen elements, actions, validators, modules, handlers, and static resources from external sources (typically as rebar dependencies).
Generally speaking, this provides for a simpler way of handling additional modularity, by creating custom reusable elements that can be shared between applications and/or other programmers.
2 Adding a plugin to your app
The simplest way to include a plugin in your app is to include it as a rebar
dependency. In the deps
section of your rebar.config file, add something
like the following:
{my_plugin, ".*", {git, "git://github.com/user/my_plugin.git", {branch, master}}},
Then run `make` in your application. It will download the plugin, add to your plugins.hrl file a reference to any include files (.hrl files), copy any static resources into your application's directory structure, and finally recompile everything.
What happens when you add a plugin to your app
The Nitrogen Plugin installer does a handful of things to your Application
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site/static/plugins/<pluginname>
directory. Any Erlang includes (.hrl
files) are added as -include
calls to the site/include/plugins.hrl
file.
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The directories above can all be customized with the plugins.config file found in the root of your Nitrogen release (see the "plugins.config" section of Configuration Options for how to customize your plugin configuration.
3 Finding plugins to include in your app
Currently, the list of available plugins are found on our Plugins Wiki Page on GitHub.
If you've created your own plugins, feel free to include it in that list.
4 Creating your own plugins
Sample Nitrogen Plugin
The simplest way to create your own plugin is to start with the Sample Nitrogen Plugin and expand on it to make your own plugin.
Creating your plugin from scratch
Creating a reusable plugin from scratch is a relatively simple task, and it requires following the following steps:
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nitrogen.plugin
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priv/static
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priv/templates
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and call it
include
. - Finally, place your plugin's Erlang source code in the
src
directory.
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What if you have a version of Nitrogen pre-2.2.0, but you still want to add support to your Nitrogen app?
There's actually no technical reason you can't do that. In fact, the core of the plugin system is a single script, executed sometime after dependencies are fetched and before compilation.
That script is called do-plugins.escript and it can be found in the main Nitrogen repo. The easiest way, then to add the plugin system to your app is to do the following in the root of your app:
wget https://raw.github.com/nitrogen/nitrogen/master/rel/overlay/common/do-plugins.escript chmod 755 do-plugins.escript
Then simply modify your Makefile so that ./do-plugins.escript
is executed
before ./rebar compile
For a good practical example of this, check out the standard Makefile that comes with a Nitrogen install.


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THERE came a woman of peace (a fairy) the way of the house of a man in the island of Pabaidh, and she had the hunger of motherhood on her. He gave her food, and that went well with her. She staid that night. When she went away, she said to him, "I am making a desire that none of the people of this island may go in childbed after this." None of these people, and none others that would make their dwelling in the island ever departed in childbed from that time.
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Just Visiting (2001) 2 stars out of 4.. Starring Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Matthew Ross, Malcolm McDowell, Tara Reid and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras. Screenplay by Christian Clavier & Jean-Marie Poire and John Hughes. Based on Les Visiteurs written by Jean-Marie Poire and Christian Clavier. Directed by Jean-Marie Gaubert. Rated PG-13. 88 minutes.
It appears something was lost in the translation when the creative team behind the 1993 French comedy blockbuster Les Visiteurs remade it for Hollywood Pictures as Just Visiting.
Just Visiting has moments of hilarity, but it lacks a cohesion. It plays more like a linked series of comedy sketches than a feature film.
Reprising their roles from the original film are Jean Reno as Count Thibault of Malfete and Christian Clavier as his servant, Andre. Also on board are the original director, Jean-Marie Gaubert, as well as screenwriters Clavier and Jean-Marie Poire. The American addition to the screenwriting team is John Hughes.
Yes, that John Hughes, the man behind the obnoxious Home Alone movies.
It would be so simple to blame the filmís failures on Hughes, but they go deeper than that. Basically, the problem with Just Visiting is dead time. The sequences in which Reno as the 12th century nobleman, and Clavier, as his always-hungry lackey, are not involved are static. They are merely redundant expository filler.
Ah, but when Reno and Clavier are on screen the movie comes to life. Even though it grows a bit wearisome watching the duo repeatedly act confused, overwhelmed and confounded by modern technology and culture, the bits are funny ó if not overly obvious.
The two wash themselves with water from the toilet, Thibault covers himself with Chanel No. 5, Clavier wolfs down dog food as if it were a sirloin steak. Well, you get the idea.
Clavier is the filmís scene stealer. His willing-to-please Andre is a wide-eyed buffoon, always looking for a morsel or a damsel.
Christina Applegate is rather bland as Julia, Thibaultís modern-day descendant, while Matthew Ross does nothing but mug outrageously as her scheming fiancé, Hunter.
Malcolm McDowell has a couple of funny bits as the inept wizard who accidentally transports the two Frenchmen to modern-day America.
Reno wisely plays it straight as the chivalrous and romantic count. He is a good actor and knows that the best way to get a laugh in certain situations is to play them seriously. This he does throughout, and it helps keep Just Visiting afloat.
Just Visiting is merely so-so. It has its moments, but lacks a certain quality that would raise it above the merely routine. At 88 minutes, itís an uneven venture offering scattered laughs and a guffaw or two.
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Yelling At Your Dogs Traumatises Them Long-Term, Says New Study
by Emily BrownIt’s all too easy to shout at your dog if you catch them doing something bad, but a new study suggests yelling at pets can traumatise them in the long-term.
This means no one is ever allowed to shout at their dog again. The animals have proved time and again they’re too good for us and we must protect them at all costs.
The findings come from a new study, in which researchers recruited 42 dogs from obedience schools that used reward-based training, and 50 dogs from aversion training schools in order to study the affects each training method had.
Each dog was filmed during the first 15 minutes of three training sessions and saliva samples were used to assess the stress levels each dog experienced, the research paper explains.
Three saliva samples were taken from each dog when they were relaxing at home in order to establish baseline levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and three more were taken from each dog after training.
The researchers, led by biologist Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro of the Universidade do Porto in Portugal, also analysed the dogs’ behaviour during training, looking for stress indicators such as yawning, lip-licking, paw-raising and yelping.
During the study, the researchers found dogs who had experienced shouting and lead-pulling during their training were found to be more stressed, with higher levels of cortisol found in their saliva, as well as elevated stress behaviours, particularly yawning and lip-licking.
In comparison, pups who had calm, gentle teachers displayed fewer stress behaviours and had more normal cortisol levels, Science Alert reports.
Explaining their findings, the researchers wrote:
Our results show that companion dogs trained using aversive-based methods experienced poorer welfare as compared to companion dogs trained using reward-based methods, at both the short- and the long-term level.
Specifically, dogs attending schools using aversive-based methods displayed more stress-related behaviours and body postures during training, higher elevations in cortisol levels after training, and were more ‘pessimistic’ in a cognitive bias task.
Not only did the aversion-trained dogs experience stress immediately after training, but the affects appeared to continue long-term. The dogs were studied again a month later, when researchers trained the dogs to associate a bowl on one side of a room with a sausage snack.
If the bowl was on one particular side it always held a delicious treat but if it was located on the other side the bowl was empty.
The researchers then moved the bowls around the room to see how quickly the dogs would go looking for the treat. A fast approach suggested the dog was anticipating a snack, whereas a slower approach meant the dog was less hopeful about the bowl’s contents.
As anticipated, the more aversive training a dog had received the more slowly it approached the bowl, while the dogs who received positive reinforcement during training actually figured out the bowl location task faster.
Overall, the results suggested reward training is much better for your dog’s happiness.
The researchers added:
Critically our study points to the fact that the welfare of companion dogs trained with aversive-based methods appears to be at risk.
Dogs are known for offering unconditional love to their owners so it’s only fair we do the same, even if they mess up.
Shouting at our fluffy companions might seem like a quick solution at the time, but it’s no good if it traumatises them for longer than anticipated!
Emily Brown first began delivering important news stories aged just 13, when she launched her career with a paper round. She graduated with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University, and went on to become a freelance writer and blogger. Emily contributed to The Sunday Times Travel Magazine and Student Problems before becoming a journalist at UNILAD, where she works on breaking news as well as longer form features.


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To correctly analyze the situation around impeachment inquiry, we have to understand what happened before. This section will show the timeline of events that resulted in Donald Trump Impeachment process.
Yanukovych’s security forces crack down on the demonstrators, killing more than 70 civilians and spurring a political backlash. The president, who had been in office since February 2010, flees to Russia.
Russian forces invade Crimea and stage an illegal and dubious referendum and declare their annexation of the peninsula. That month, the United Nations General Assembly votes to condemn Russian actions, including the referendum.
Russian and pro-Russian forces invade the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and take control, starting a war that continues today and has killed more than 13,000 people.
Joe Biden’s younger son, Hunter Biden, joins the board of Burisma Holdings, the largest private oil and gas extracting company in Ukraine, controlled by founder Mykola Zlochevskiy, who had served as a Cabinet minister under former pro-Russian Presidents Leonid Kuchma and Yanukovych. Both administrations had been suspected of corruption, and once they were ousted, successor administrations pledging reforms targeted previous officials, including Zlochevskiy, for investigation. The company issues a press release about the Biden appointment in May. The appointment draws criticism for the potential perception of a conflict of interest with Vice President Biden’s role as the White House’s point man on Ukraine. News reports later in 2014 reveal that Hunter Biden had been discharged from the Navy in February for testing positive for cocaine (clearly just months before the Burisma board appointment).
Then Vice President Joe Biden tells the Ukrainian government their loan guarantees would be cut unless they fire the federal prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who the U.S. claimed was not doing enough to fight corruption. He is ousted on March 29, 2016.
Donald Trump is elected president of the United States.
The FY2019 federal budget is approved at midnight, containing nearly $400 million in military aid to support Ukraine and NATO efforts to counter Russian forces. Despite assurances from the White House, the funds are not released to Ukraine for months.
Volodymyr Zelensky wins a runoff election in Ukraine.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is removed from her position.
In an interview with ABC, Trump says he would accept political help from a foreign government. The same day, the chairwoman of the Federal Elections Commission issues a statement that doing so would be illegal.
In a phone call, Ukraine’s Zelensky asks Trump for Javelin missiles to use in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia.
Trump then asks Zelensky to “do us a favor.” Focused on a disproven conspiracy theory, Trump asks Zelensky to
investigate Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company that played a role in uncovering Russia’s efforts to influence
the 2016 election. After discussing his concerns about fighting corruption, Trump brings up Hunter Biden and says
that he believes Vice President Joe Biden “stopped the prosecution and a lot of people.” He asks Zelensky to get
in touch with Attorney General Richard Barr and Giuliani. Trump also invites Zelensky to Washington.
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Aid to Ukraine, which had been on hold since mid-July on order of the White House, is released.
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MAD MAX A Film Review Copyright Dragan Antulov 1998
Most people would agree with Wes Craven's saying that "sequels suck", yet there are some notable exceptions to the rule. One of such exception is MAD MAX 2 a.k.a. THE ROAD WARRIOR, one of the most successful and influential movies of the last decade. So, the logical question arises: if the sequel is so revered, is the original also good or even better? Answer to that question lies in MAD MAX, Australian 1979 action movie that launched the careers of director George Miller and today's Hollywood megastar Mel Gibson, as well as a commercial boom of Australian cinema in 1980s.
Although the opening title puts the plot of this movie in the near future, on the surface the world looks pretty same as today's. The only difference is in decline of the public services, including law enforcement, that opened way to psychopathic biker gangs to make the roads and countryside their undisputed realm. The small, yet dedicated police force is using their powerful, and in the same time obsolete, machines in a losing battle to prevent the law and civilisation from becoming distant memory. The best among them is Max Rokatansky (Mel Gibson), supreme killing machine on the road, whose skills are again proven in a deadly confrontation that leaves escaped cop-killing biker Nightrider (Vince Gill) dead. However, Max is in a same time dedicated family man, and after seeing too many of his colleagues hurt or killed in a futile struggle, he contemplates quitting and takes his wife and son to the vacation. Unfortunately, the bikers led by Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) had already marked Max as a target because of Nightrider's death and they kill his family in the process. Having nothing else to live for, Max returns to the road, but this time not as policeman, but avenging maniac, using all of his abilities to track and kill bikers, even in the vast areas abandoned by legal authority.
In many ways, plot of MAD MAX looks like a combination of vigilante cop thriller and B-western. Many also argued that mild futuristic motives serve only as an excuse for hour and half of brutal non-stop violence. On the other hand, even those critics that question movie's originality praise Miller for the talent he showed in his great cinematic debut. MAD MAX was made on a ridiculously small budget (being edited by Miller himself, in his own bedroom), yet it didn't look cheap. On the contrary, some of the stunts and action scenes are spectacular and breathtaking. Small budget also worked into the movie's advantage; being forced to use second-hand equipment as props, Miller painted the picture of industrial decay in order to illustrate the declining state of future civilisation.
Miller's visions of near future, that would be even more developed in next two MAD MAX visions, have been actually inspired by current events. The great fuel crisis of 1973 suddenly showed great, and until than unthinkable, vulnerability of Western civilisation. The loss of faith in progress and technology coincided with the great moral void, left by the breakdown of traditional social values in the 1960s. Miller, and many like him, feared that the fall of industrial institutions would lead to anarchy and new barbarism, because society wouldn't be able to protect individual, now forced to live without any moral compass. Such ideas were already explored in JEREMIAH, cult comic book by French artist Hermann, whose influence, together with MAD MAX movies, would later incite whole sub-genre of post-apocalyptic movies. Anyway, original MAD MAX fell in line with a whole series of dark, dystopian science fiction movies that were very popular in late 1970s and early 1980s.
Apart from dark tone that corresponded with pessimistic feel of the time, MAD MAX succeeded also because it was good movie. Mel Gibson was well-cast in the role of at least nominally civilised policeman that later turns into homicidal maniac, not very different than those he tried to stop. Gibson very effectively portrays his gradual slide into madness, and such experience would later serve him very well in his later role as Martin Riggs in LETHAL WEAPON. Other actors were also good and gave a lot to well-drawn and strong characters, like psychotic Nightrider, evil Toecutter, cool yet dealy Bubba Zanetti (Geoff Parry) or stoned Johnny the Boy (Tim Burns) that would stick long in our memory, despite their relatively short appearance in this relatively short film. Sadly, among them, only Steve Bisley, who plays Max's larger-than-life friend and colleague Jim Goose, got some name recognition in later years. Character of Jesse, Max's wife, was somwhat undeveloped and the family scenes seemed a little bit stereotyped, with the cheerfulness and sentimentalism that is unnecessary contrast towards the dark and pessimistic tone of the whole picture. Brian May's score, on the other hand, was good, yet not as powerful as some other science fiction soundtrack of that era. But, on the whole, MAD MAX, despite being slightly inferior to its more influential sequel, is still very effective piece of cinema, that can entertain us despite forcing us to think about some unpleasant topics.
RATING: 8/10 (+++)
Review written on October 17th 1998
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