4 papers
Window Size Matters: Benchmarking Voice Activity Detectors in Noise
Alok Kumar, Mohit Srivastava, Anupam Purwar +4
Voice activity detection (VAD) sits in front of almost every streaming speech recognizer, yet the choice of detector is often made by feel rather than by measurement. We report a f…
Precipitation-dissolution cycling drives intermittent salt creeping
Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Manikuntala Mukhopadhyay, Lijun Thayyil Raju +3
Salt creeping --- the precipitation of salt crystals away from an evaporating liquid interface along surrounding surfaces --- occurs across settings from geology and cultural-herit…
Tunable self-emulsification via viscoelastic control of Marangoni-driven interfacial instabilities
Christoph Haessig, Mehdi Habibi, Uddalok Sen
Interfacial instabilities in multicomponent fluidic systems are widespread in nature and in industrial processes, yet controlling their dynamics remains a challenge. Here, we prese…
Capillary adhesion of stick insects
Guillermo J. Amador, Brett Klaassen van Oorschot, Uddalok Sen +2
Scientific progress within the last few decades has revealed the functional morphology of an insect's sticky footpads -- a soft, sponge-like pad that secretes a thin liquid film. H…