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Polynomials are one of the most powerful functions that have been used in many fields of mathematics such as curve fitting and regression. Low order polynomials are desired for their smoothness1, good local approximation and interpolation. Being smooth, they can be used to locally approximate almost any derivable function. This means that when linear functions fail in approximation (e.g. where the first order Taylor expansion equals zero) polynomial functions can be used in local approximation, such that one can achieve better estimations at extremums. In this paper, application of polynomial kernel functions in locally linear neurofuzzy models is shown. Using polynomial kernels in local models, better local approximations in prediction of chaotic time series such as Mackey-Glass is achieved, and the capability of the neurofuzzy network is enhanced.

Recently, a technique has been proposed for image hiding, that is based on block texture similarity where, blocks of secret image are compared with blocks of a set of cover images and the cover image with the most similar blocks to those of the secret image is selected as the best candidate cover image to conceal the secret image. In this paper, we propose a new image hiding method in which, the secret image is initially coded using a fuzzy coding/decoding method. By applying the fuzzy coder, each block of the secret image is compressed to a smaller block. In this way, after compressing the secret image to a smaller one, we hide it in a cover image. Obviously hiding a smaller secret image causes less distortion in the stego-image (the image that has secret image or data) and therefore higher quality stego-image is obtained. Consequently, the proposed method provides higher embedding rate and enhanced security.

This paper describes the theory and implementation of dynamic Bayesian networks in the context of speaker identification. Dynamic Bayesian networks provide a succinct and expressive graphical language for factoring joint probability distributions, and we begin by presenting the structures that are appropriate for doing speaker identification in clean and noisy environments. This approach is notable because it expresses an identification system using only the concepts of random variables and conditional probabilities. We present illustrative experiments in both clean and noisy environments and our experiments show that this new approach is very promising in the field of speaker identification.

The presence of undetected direct path conditions in the TOA (Time of Arrival)-based indoor geolocation introduces major errors into distance measurements. In the proposed location estimation, an improved procedure is introduced in Ultra-wideband (UWB) systems in Line of Sight (LOS) and Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) multipath environments by incorporating the skewness as new statistic information of multipath channel. Weighted least square error (WLS) algorithm is used to estimate source position in this paper. Simulation results show effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, by reducing source localization error. Uncertainty region between NLOS and LOS identification is reduced in the proposed method compared to previous methods..