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A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Circuit and Signal Processing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2023 | Viewed by 3776

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Prof. Dr. Spyridon Nikolaidis

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Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: analysis and design of digital circuits and systems; power consumption modeling; timing analytical models for digital circuits; leakage detection and localization in metallic pipelines
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Dear Colleagues,

Sound is an essential component of nature. Any activity that involves the mediation of mechanical energy produces sounds. The sound characteristics determine the operating state of the system in question. When an abnormality occurs, the produced sound is modulated accordingly. This differentiation can be used to diagnose possible damages. This approach for diagnosis is well known and quite reliable and corresponding electronic systems have been developed for a multitude of applications. The exploitation of sounds is achieved either by using signal processing algorithms or by using artificial intelligence. Fields of application include the detection of damages in moving parts of machines, material defects, and leaks in pipelines, but also classification of vehicles, detection of the health status of living organisms, identification of pieces of music and many others.

The topics of the Special Issue include but are not limited to:

Methods and systems using sound signals for:

Leak detection and localization in pipelines
Defect detection in materials and machines
Classification of ground vehicles
Applications of bioacoustics in animal ecology
Identification in music
Machine learning and deep learning approaches based on acoustic signals
Acoustic signal applications on embedded systems
Hardware for processing acoustic signals

Prof. Dr. Spyridon Nikolaidis
Prof. Dr. Ronald Tetzlaff
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sound signal processing
conventional techniques
machine learning techniques
implementation on embedded systems
hardware solutions

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A 34.7 µW Speech Keyword Spotting IC Based on Subband Energy Feature Extraction

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Electronics 2023, 12(15), 3287; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12153287 - 31 Jul 2023

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In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), voice control has enhanced human–machine interaction and the accuracy of keyword spotting (KWS) algorithms has reached 97%; however, the high power consumption of KWS algorithms caused by their huge computing and storage requirements has limited their application in Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) devices. In this study, voice features are extracted by utilizing the fast discrete cosine transform (FDCT) for frequency-domain transformation and to shorten the process of calculating the logarithmic spectrum and cepstrum. The designed KWS system is a two-stage wake-up system, with a sound detection (SD) awakening KWS. The inference process of the KWS network is achieved using time-division computation, reducing the KWS clock to an ultra-low frequency of 24 kHz.At the same time, the implementation of a depthwise separable convolution neural network (DSCNN) greatly reduces the parameter quantity and computation. Under the GSMC 0.11 µm technology, post-layout simulation results show that the total synthesized area of the entire system circuit is 0.58 mm

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, the power consumption is 34.7 µW, and the F1-score of the KWS is 0.89 with 10 dB noise, which makes it suitable as a KWS system in AIoT devices. Full article

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Classification of Engine Type of Vehicle Based on Audio Signal as a Source of Identification

Mateusz Materlak

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Ewelina Majda-Zdancewicz

Electronics 2023, 12(9), 2012; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12092012 - 26 Apr 2023

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In this work, a combination of signal processing and machine learning techniques is applied for petrol and diesel engine identification based on engine sound. The research utilized real recordings acquired in car dealerships within Poland. The sound database recorded by the authors contains 80 various audio signals, equally divided. The study was conducted using feature engineering techniques based on frequency analysis for the generation of sound signal features. The discriminatory ability of feature vectors was evaluated using different machine learning techniques. In order to test the robustness of the proposed solution, the authors executed a number of system experimental tests, including different work conditions for the proposed system. The results show that the proposed approach produces a good accuracy at a level of 91.7%. The proposed system can support intelligent transportation systems through employing a sound signal as a medium carrying information on the type of car moving along a road. Such solutions can be implemented in the so-called ‘clean transport zones’, where only petrol-powered vehicles can freely move. Another potential application is to prevent misfuelling diesel to a petrol engine or petrol to a diesel engine. This kind of system can be implemented in petrol stations to recognize the vehicle based on the sound of the engine. Full article

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Study of Parameter Configuration on an Embedded System Used for Acoustic Leak Localization in Metallic Pipelines

Georgios-Panagiotis Kousiopoulos

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Spiros Nikolaidis

Electronics 2023, 12(8), 1793; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12081793 - 10 Apr 2023

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The subject of pipeline monitoring for a timely response in the case of leakage has raised intense interest and numerous leak localization methods have been presented in the literature. However, most approaches focus more on the performance of the methods themselves and not on their implementation on a typical embedded system and the way that the main system parameters affect its operation. The present paper aims to contribute to this field. Specifically, an acoustic leak localization method, developed in our previous research, is implemented in C++ on the Raspberry Pi 4B platform. The main system parameters are defined and certain trade-offs between them are examined. These trade-offs concern three basic metrics: the leak localization accuracy, the execution time of the algorithm, and the memory consumption, which rely on the values of the system parameters. Based on the targeted application, the importance of each of the aforementioned metrics can vary. For this reason, an evaluation function, equipped with user-defined weighting coefficients corresponding to the three metrics, is constructed in this paper. With the help of this function, a given parameter combination can be evaluated and the decision about its utilization in a certain application can be made. Full article

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A Novel Deep Learning CNN for Heart Valve Disease Classification Using Valve Sound Detection

Randa I. Aljohani

Hanan A. Hosni Mahmoud

Alaaeldin Hafez

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Magdy Bayoumi

Electronics 2023, 12(4), 846; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040846 - 08 Feb 2023

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Valve sounds are mostly a result of heart valves opening and closing. Laminar blood flow is interrupted and abruptly transforms into turbulent flow, causing some sounds, and is explained by improper valve operation. It has been feasible to demonstrate that the typical and compulsive instances are different for both chronological and spatial aspects through the examination of phono-cardiographic signals. The current work presents the development and application of deep convolutional neural networks for the binary and multiclass categorization of multiple prevalent valve diseases and typical valve sounds. Three alternative methods were taken into consideration for feature extraction: mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and discrete wavelet transform. The precision of both models accomplished F1 scores of more than 98.2% and specificities of more than 98.5%, which reflects the instances that can be wrongly classified as regular. These experimental results prove the proposed model as a highly accurate assisted diagnosis model. Full article

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