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Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 8Evaluation of the Makam Scale Theory of Arel for Music Information Retrieval on Traditional Turkish Art Music(Routledge, 2009) Gedik,A.C.; Bozkurt,B.Current music information retrieval (MIR) methods are specifically tailored to the needs of western music. Therefore, it is not straightforward to apply these methods to non-western musics such as traditional Turkish art music (TTAM). Western music theory plays a crucial role in MIR studies. The divergence, however, between theory and practice in traditional Turkish art music (TTAM) results in a lack of a reliable theory of TTAM on which MIR techniques can be based. This is particularly true for theories regarding pitch scales and interval structures in TTAM. In this paper, we evaluate the most influential (yet disputable) theory of TTAM, Arel theory, by means of a makam classification task, to understand whether it can provide a basis for MIR studies on TTAM in a similar way western music theory provides a basis for MIR studies on western music. It is shown that Arel theory is overall successful when applied for modality finding in TTAM and that it can be improved if small modifications are introduced following pitch values obtained from musical practice. © 2009, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.Article Citation - WoS: 13Citation - Scopus: 20Weighing Diverse Theoretical Models on Turkish Maqam Music Against Pitch Measurements: a Comparison of Peaks Automatically Derived From Frequency Histograms With Proposed Scale Tones(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2009) Bozkurt, Barış; Yarman, Ozan; Karaosmanoğlu, M. Kemal; Akkoç, CanSince the early 20th century, various theories have been advanced in order to mathematically explain and notate modes of Traditional Turkish music known as maqams. In this article, maqam scales according to various theoretical models based on different tunings are compared with pitch measurements obtained from select recordings of master Turkish performers in order to study their level of match with analysed data. Chosen recordings are subjected to a fully computerized sequence of signal processing algorithms for the automatic determination of the set of relative pitches for each maqam scale: f0 estimation, histogram computation, tonic detection + histogram alignment, and peak picking. For nine well-recognized maqams, automatically derived relative pitches are compared with scale tones defined by theoretical models using quantitative distance measures. We analyse and interpret histogram peaks based on these measures to find the theoretical models most conforming with all the recordings, and hence, with the quotidian performance trends influenced by them.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 1Euclidean Position Estimation of Static Features Using a Moving Uncalibrated Camera(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2009) Nath, Nitendra; Dawson, Darren M.; Tatlıcıoğlu, EnverIn this paper, a novel Euclidean position estimation technique using a single uncalibrated camera mounted on a moving platform is developed to asymptotically recover the three-dimensional (3D) Euclidean position of static object features. The position of the moving platform is assumed to be measurable, and a second object with known 3D Euclidean coordinates relative to the world frame is considered to be available a priori. To account for the unknown camera calibration parameters and to estimate the unknown 3D Euclidean coordinates, an adaptive least squares estimation strategy is employed based on prediction error formulations and a Lyapunov-type stability analysis. The developed estimator is proven to recover the 3D Euclidean position of the unknown object features despite the lack of knowledge of the camera calibration parameters.Article Citation - WoS: 25Citation - Scopus: 39An Automatic Pitch Analysis Method for Turkish Maqam Music(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2008) Bozkurt, BarışAutomatic pitch analysis of large audio databases is essential for studies on music information retrieval and developing a pitch scale theory for Turkish maqam music. However no such study is available. In this article, we first determine the main obstacle as the alignment of frequency analysis results from multiple files. We then propose a new method to automatically detect the tonic of a recording, align the data, and estimate overall frequency histograms from large databases. We show that such histograms can be successfully used for pitch scale (tuning) studies on the recordings of Tanburi Cemil Bey, an undisputed master of the genreArticle Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 5The Implementation of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Wavelet Network(Urban und Fischer Verlag GmbH und Co. KG, 2006) Özkurt, Nalan; Savacı, Ferit AcarA dynamic wavelet network circuit implementation for modelling the nonlinear dynamical networks has been proposed in this study. The dynamical wavelet network includes static wavelet network with Mexican hat wavelet function, the voltage-controlled switches and capacitors. The circuit simulations have been done in Spice for the period-1 limit cycle, the spiral and double scroll attractors of the Chua's circuit.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Determination of the Stationary State Densities of the Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamical Systems(Elsevier Ltd., 2006) Günel, Serkan; Savacı, Ferit AcarThe stationary state probability densities appear not only in the study of dynamical systems with random vector fields, but also in the deterministic dynamical systems exhibiting chaotic behavior when the uncertainties in the initial conditions are represented with the probability densities. But since it is very hard problem to determine these densities, in this paper the new efficient method to obtain an approximate solution of Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation which arises in the determination of the stationary state probability densities has been given by representing the densities with compactly supported functions. With specific choice of the compactly supported functions as piecewise multivariable polynomials which are supported on the ellipsoidal regions, the parameters to be calculated for determining the densities can be considerably decreased compared to Multi-Gaussian Closure scheme, in which the stationary densities are assumed to be the weighted average of the Gaussian densities. The main motivation to choose the compactly supported functions is that, in the chaotic dynamics the states are trapped in a specific compact subspace of the state space. The stationary state densities of two basic examples commonly considered in the literature have been estimated using the Parzen's estimator, and the densities obtained using the newly proposed method have been compared with these estimated densities and the densities obtained with the Multi-Gaussian Closure scheme. The results indicate that the presented compactly supported piecewise polynomial scheme can be successful compared to Multi-Gaussian scheme, when the system is highly nonlinear.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 6Semiblind Blue Channel Estimation With Applications To Digital Television(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2006) Pladdy, Christopher; Özen, Serdar; Nerayanuru, Sreenivasa M.; Zoltowski, Michael; Fimoff, MarkA semiblind iterative algorithm to construct the best linear unbiased estimate (BLUE) of the channel impulse response (CIR) vector h for communication systems that utilize a periodically transmitted training sequence within a continuous stream of information symbols is devised. The BLUE CIR estimate for the general linear model y = Ah + w, where w is the correlated noise, is given by the Gauss-Markoff theorem. The covariance matrix of the correlated noise, which is denoted by C(h), is a function of the channel that is to be identified. Consequently, an iteration is used to give successive approximations h(k), k = 0, 1, 2,...to hBLUE, where h(0) is an initial approximation given by the correlation processing, which exists at the receiver for the purpose of frame synchronization. A function F(h) for which hBLUE is a fixed point is defined. Conditions under which hBLUE is the unique fixed point and for which the iteration proposed in the algorithm converges to the unique fixed point hBLUE are given. The proofs of these results follow broadly along the lines of Banach fixed-point theorems.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 3The System Modelling and Circuit Implementation From Time-Frequency Domain Signal Specifications(Urban und Fischer Verlag GmbH und Co. KG, 2008) Savacı, Ferit Acar; Özkurt, NalanThe system modelling and the circuit implementation of the nonlinear circuits using the wavelet domain techniques has been accomplished in this study. When the time-frequency domain specifications have been given as the wavelet ridges, the signal with the given ridges has been synthesized. Then, the dynamical wavelet network has been trained for the synthesized signal. The circuit of the wavelet network has been designed and simulated. © 2007 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 7Convolutional Bias Removal Based on Normalizing the Filterbank Spectral Magnitude(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2007) Tüfekçi, ZekeriyaIn this letter, a novel convolutional bias removal technique is proposed. The proposed method is based on scaling the filterbank magnitude by the average of filterbank magnitude over time. The relation between the cepstral mean normalization (CMN) and proposed algorithm is derived. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is more robust than the CMN for both convolutional bias and additive noise. For example, the proposed method reduced the equal error rate by 5.66% and 10.16% on average for the convolutional bias and 12-dB additive noise, respectively.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5The Circuit Realization of Mexican Hat Wavelet Function(Urban und Fischer Verlag GmbH und Co. KG, 2005) Özkurt, Nalan; Savacı, Ferit Acar; Gündüzalp, MustafaA wavelet network circuit implementation for Mexican Hat mother wavelet has been proposed for nonlinear function approximation which can also be used for the realization of the algebraic nonlinear components. The Mexican Hat mother wavelet function has been implemented with discrete circuit components and it has been observed that the experimental waveform obtained from the realized circuit is approximately same as the Spice simulation of the original function. The circuit simulations of exemplar functions implemented in Spice are also given. © 2004 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.