Authors: Marco Liuni, Luc Ardaillon, Louise Bonal, Lou Seropian, Jean-Julien Aucouturier
arXiv
Vocal arousal, the non-linear acoustic features taken on by human and animal vocalizations when highly aroused, has an important communicative function because it signals aversive states such as fear,...
Authors: Victor Geadah, Giancarlo Kerg, Stefan Horoi, Guy Wolf, Guillaume Lajoie
arXiv
Dynamic adaptation in single-neuron response plays a fundamental role in neural coding in biological neural networks. Yet, most neural activation functions used in artificial networks are fixed and mo...
Authors: Sharif Mahmood
arXiv
The paper presents an investigation of estimating treatment effect using different matching methods. The study proposed a new method which is computationally efficient and convenient in implication-'l...
Authors: Fabian David Tschopp, Michael B. Reiser, Srinivas C. Turaga
arXiv
What can we learn from a connectome? We constructed a simplified model of the first two stages of the fly visual system, the lamina and medulla. The resulting hexagonal lattice convolutional network w...
Authors: Anil Gore, Sharayu Paranjpe
arXiv
This report answers queries about extending the blinding index approach to a situation with measurements at multiple time points. The key question is how to test if there is progressive unblinding. A...
Authors: Max Talanov, Yuriy Gerasimov, Victor Erokhin
arXiv
In this technical report we present novel results of the dopamine bio-plausible neuromodulation excitatory (eSTDP) and inhibitory (iSTDP) learning. We present the principal schematic for the neuromodu...
Authors: M. G. Palacio, S. B. Ferrero, A. C. Frery
arXiv
Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images are an important source of information. Speckle noise gives SAR images a granular appearance that makes interpretation and analysis hard tasks. A...
Authors: J. Lin, S. Guha, S. Ramanathan
arXiv
Information in the central nervous system (CNS) is conducted via electrical signals known as action potentials and is encoded in time. Several neurological disorders including depression, Attention De...
Authors: Soumen Dey, Mohan Delampady, Arjun M. Gopalaswamy
arXiv
A vast amount of ecological knowledge generated recently has hinged upon the ability of model selection methods to discriminate among various ecological hypotheses. The last decade has seen the rise o...
Authors: Stephen L R Ellison
arXiv
This paper illustrates the use of selected robust estimators of covariance or correlation in the identification of anomalous laboratory results in inter-laboratory data. It is shown that robust estima...
Authors: Gustavo Thomas, Luiz R. Nakamura, Rafael A. Moral, Clarice G. B. Demétrio
arXiv
Count data with high frequencies of zeros are found in many areas, specially in biology. Statistical models to analyze such data started to be developed in the 80s and are still a topic of active rese...
Authors: Federica Turi, Nathalie Gayraud, Maureen Clerc
arXiv
Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) based on visual evoked potentials (VEP) allow for spelling from a keyboard of flashing characters. Among VEP BCIs, code-modulated visual evoked potentials (c-VEPs) are...
Authors: Bin Wang, Ruodu Wang, Yuming Wang
arXiv
In this paper, we provide a negative answer to a long-standing open problem on the compatibility of Spearman's rho matrices. Following an equivalence of Spearman's rho matrices and linear correlation...
Authors: Liyuan Jiang, Shuang Zhou, Keren Li, Fangfang Wang, Jie Yang
arXiv
We develop a new nonparametric approach for estimating the risk-neutral density of asset prices and reformulate its estimation into a double-constrained optimization problem. We evaluate our approach...
Authors: Daniel J. Eck, Olga Morozova, Forrest W. Crawford
arXiv
Randomized trials of infectious disease interventions, such as vaccines, often focus on groups of connected or potentially interacting individuals. When the pathogen of interest is transmissible betwe...