Spectro-Temporal Modulations Incorporated Two-Stream Robust Speech Emotion Recognition

Research on Two-Stream Robust Speech Emotion Recognition Based on Spectro-Temporal Modulation Features Academic Background Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a technology that identifies emotions by analyzing the emotional content in human speech. It has broad application potential in areas such as human-computer interaction, customer service mana...

Latent Circuit Inference from Heterogeneous Neural Responses during Cognitive Tasks

Inferring Latent Neural Circuits from Heterogeneous Neural Responses During Cognitive Tasks Academic Background In cognitive tasks, higher cortical areas of the brain (such as the prefrontal cortex, PFC) are responsible for integrating a variety of sensory, cognitive, and motor signals. However, the responses of individual neurons often exhibit com...

Dynamical Constraints on Neural Population Activity

Temporal Dynamics Constraints on Neural Population Activity: Computational Mechanisms of Neural Activity Revealed by Brain-Computer Interfaces Academic Background How neural activity in the brain evolves over time is a central issue in understanding sensory, motor, and cognitive functions. For a long time, network models have posited that the brain...

Neural Mechanisms of Relational Learning and Fast Knowledge Reassembly in Plastic Neural Networks

Neural Mechanisms and Relational Learning: Rapid Knowledge Reassembly in Neural Networks Background Humans and animals possess a remarkable ability to learn relationships between items in experience (such as stimuli, objects, and events), enabling structured generalization and rapid information assimilation. A fundamental type of such relational le...

Interdisciplinary Advances in Microcombs: Bridging Physics and Information Technology

Interdisciplinary Advances in Microcomb Technology: Bridging Physics and Information Technology Academic Background The optical frequency comb (OFC) is a technology that divides the optical frequency domain into a series of discrete, equally spaced frequency lines. It has been widely used in precision measurements, optical communications, atomic cl...

A Spatial-Frequency Patching Metasurface Enabling Super-Capacity Perfect Vector Vortex Beams

The Realization of Super-Capacity Perfect Vector Vortex Beams Research Background and Problem Statement Optical vortices, with their unique orbital angular momentum (OAM) characteristics, have demonstrated great potential in applications such as optical multiplexing, particle manipulation, imaging, holographic display, optical communication, and op...

Impact of Device Design Parameters on Quantum Efficiency of Solar Cells and Revelation of Recombination Mechanism

Study on Quantum Efficiency and Recombination Mechanism of Solar Cells Academic Background In the field of solar cell research, quantum efficiency (Quantum Efficiency, QE) is a core metric for evaluating device performance. It reflects the efficiency of incident photons being converted into electron-hole pairs, thereby revealing key information abo...

Conceptual Design of Multimode Interference-Based Photonic Crystal Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (De)Interleavers

Research Background and Problem Statement With the rapid development of modern optical communication technology, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems play a core role in achieving high-capacity, multifunctional optical networks. Among these, (de)interleavers, as key components of wavelength demultiplexing structures, can efficiently separ...

Design and Study of Graphene-Based Programmable Dual Dipole Antenna with Parasitic Elements

Design and Study of Graphene-Based Programmable Dual Dipole Antenna with Parasitic Elements

Graphene-based Programmable Dual Dipole Antenna Academic Background The terahertz (THz) band (0.1 to 10 THz) has garnered significant attention in fields such as wireless communication, high-resolution imaging, and body-centric communication due to its distinctive characteristics. However, a major drawback of terahertz waves is the substantial prop...

Structural Design of a Mid-Infrared Low-Noise Waveguide Photodetector Integrated with an Ultra-Short Waveguide Taper

Academic Background The mid-infrared spectrum range (2.5 to 20 µm) is widely used in gas detection, optical communication, high-quality imaging, bacterial research, and soil composition analysis due to its characteristic absorption peaks of many molecular bonds. Among these applications, waveguide photodetectors have become a key component in photo...