Development of exploratory research tools based on TANDEM-STRAIGHT

APSIPA ASC 2009 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association 2009 Annual Summit and Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-120

  Kawahara, Hideki ^a   Takahashi, Toru ^b   Morise, Masanori ^c   Banno, Hideki ^d  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FLEXIBLE TOOL; MORPHING; NEW TOOLS; PERIODIC SIGNAL; SAMPLING THEORY; SOLID BASIS; STATIC POWER;

DATA PROCESSING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77950593099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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