Browsing Articles publicats en revistes by Author "Alías Pujol, Francesc"
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A Review of physical and perceptual feature extraction techniques for speech, music and environmental sounds
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Sevillano Domínguez, Xavier (Applied Sciences. 2016, Vol. 6, No.5 (Maig), 2016-05)Endowing machines with sensing capabilities similar to those of humans is a prevalent quest in engineering and computer science. In the pursuit of making computers sense their surroundings, a huge effort ... -
A unit selection text-to-speech-and-singing synthesis framework from neutral speech: proof of concept
Freixes Guerreiro, Marc; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. 2019:22, 2019-12)Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems have been widely used in general-purpose applications based on the generation of speech. Nonetheless, there are some domains, such as storytelling or voice output ... -
A WASN-Based Suburban Dataset for Anomalous Noise Event Detection on Dynamic Road-Traffic Noise Mapping
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Sensors. 2019, Vol. 19, No. 11, 2019-05)Traffic noise is presently considered one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. Several recent technological advances have allowed a step forward in the dynamic computation of road-traffic ... -
Aggregate Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on the WASN-Based Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Urban and Suburban Environments
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 3, 2020-01)Environmental noise can be defined as the accumulation of noise pollution caused by sounds generated by outdoor human activities, Road Traffic Noise (RTN) being the main source in urban and suburban ... -
An Anomalous Noise Events Detector for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Environments
Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Sensors. 2017, Vol.17, No.10, 2017-10)One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is their continued exposure to high Road Traffic Noise (RTN) levels. Until now, noise measurements in ... -
An FPGA-Based WASN for Remote Real-Time Monitoring of Endangered Species: A Case Study on the Birdsong Recognition of Botaurus stellaris
Hervás García, Marcos; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Salvador Marín, Martí (Sensors. 2017, Vol.17 , No. 6, 2017-06)Fast environmental variations due to climate change can cause mass decline or even extinctions of species, having a dramatic impact on the future of biodiversity. During the last decade, different ... -
Aplicació de tècniques de generació automàtica de la parla en producció audiovisual
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi (Quaderns del CAC 37, 2011. Vol. 14, 2 (Desembre), 2011-12)En aquest article es presenta un resum del treball de recerca que porta el mateix títol, realitzat gràcies a l’ajut concedit pel CAC en la VII convocatòria d’Ajuts a projectes de recerca sobre ... -
Asignación automática de marcas de pitch basada en programación dinámica
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi (Procesamiento del lenguaje natural, No. 27 (2001), 2001)En este artículo se presenta la implementación y evaluación de un sistema de generación automática de marcas de pitch, para el etiquetado de un corpus de voz. El sistema está basado en dos conceptos: ... -
Description of Anomalous Noise Events for Reliable Dynamic Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Soundscapes
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Applied Sciences. 2017, Vol.7 No.2 (Febrer), 2017-02)Traffic noise is one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. European authorities have driven several initiatives to study, prevent and reduce the effects of exposure of population to traffic. ... -
Design of a Mobile Low-Cost Sensor Network Using Urban Buses for Real-Time Ubiquitous Noise Monitoring
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hernández Jayo, Unai; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Angulo Martínez, Ignacio (Sensors. 2016, Vol. 17 No.1, 2016-12)One of the main priorities of smart cities is improving the quality of life of their inhabitants. Traffic noise is one of the pollutant sources that causes a negative impact on the quality of life of ... -
Detection of Anomalous Noise Events for Real-Time Road-Traffic Noise Mapping: The Dynamap's project case study
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Noise Mapping. 2018. Vol. 5, No.1, 2018-06)Environmental noise is increasing year after year, especially in urban and suburban areas. Besides annoyance, environmental noise also causes harmful health effects on people. The Environmental Noise ... -
Detection of Anomalous Noise Events on Low-Capacity Acoustic Nodes for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping within an Hybrid WASN
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Orga Vidal, Ferran (Sensors. 2018, Vol.18, No.4, 2018-04)One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is the continuous exposure to high road traffic noise (RTN) levels. Nowadays, thanks to Wireless Acoustic ... -
DYNAMAP - Development of low cost sensors networks for real time noise mapping
Sevillano Domínguez, Xavier; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Bellucci, Patrizia; Peruzzi, Laura; Radaelli, Simone; Coppi, Paola; Nencini, Luca; Cerniglia, Andrea; Bisceglie, Alessandro; Benocci, Roberto; Zambon, Giovanni (Noise Mapping. 2016. Vol. 3, No.1, 2016-05)The Environmental Noise Directive (END) requires that regular updating of noise maps is implemented every five years to check and report about the changes occurred during the reference period. The ... -
Glottal Source Contribution to Higher Order Modes in the Finite Element Synthesis of Vowels
Freixes Guerreiro, Marc; Arnela Coll, Marc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Guasch Fortuny, Oriol (Applied Sciences. 2019, Vol. 9, No. 21, 2019-10)Articulatory speech synthesis has long been based on one-dimensional (1D) approaches. They assume plane wave propagation within the vocal tract and disregard higher order modes that typically appear ... -
Hierarchical Classification of Environmental Noise Sources by Considering the Acoustic Signature of Vehicle Pass-bys
Valero González, Xavier; Alías Pujol, Francesc (Archives Of Acoustics. 2012, Vol. 37, No.4, 2012-12)This work is focused on the automatic recognition of environmental noise sources that affect humans’ health and quality of life, namely industrial, aircraft, railway and road traffic. However, the ... -
homeSound: Real-Time Audio Event Detection Based on High Performance Computing for Behaviour and Surveillance Remote Monitoring
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Navarro Martín, Joan; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Hervás García, Marcos (Sensors. 2017, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2017-04)The consistent growth in human life expectancy during the recent years has driven governments and private organizations to increase the efforts in caring for the eldest segment of the population. These ... -
Un modelo híbrido orientado a la síntesis multimodal del habla
Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Melenchón Maldonado, Javier (Procesamiento del lenguaje natural, No. 29 (2002), 2002)En este articulo se presenta un sistema de conversión texto-habla de alta calidad utilizando voz segmentada en difonemas y trifonemas. El sistema de síntesis implementado se basa en un modelo híbrido ... -
Noise at the time of COVID 19: The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Bellucci, Patrizia; Paolo Cartolano, Pier; Coppa, Ilaria; Peruzzi, Laura; Bisceglie, Alessandro; Zambon, Giovanni (Noise Mapp, 2020, 7, 2020-11)The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Italy at the end of January 2020, when the first positive cases for the virus were identified. At the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all Italian regions ... -
On the Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Urban and Suburban Environments
Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health. 2017.15.1, 2017-12)Noise pollution is a critical factor affecting public health, the relationship between road traffic noise (RTN) and several diseases in urban areas being especially disturbing. The Environmental Noise ... -
Review of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks for Environmental Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Journal of Sensors. 2019, 2019-05)Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Since this proportion is expected to keep rising, the sustainable development of cities is of paramount importance to guarantee ...