A Self-Synchronizing, Low-Power, Low-Complexity Transceiver for Body-Coupled Communication.

This paper presents a self-synchronizing, low-power, low-complexity body-coupled communication (BCC) transceiver using the recently proposed Pulsed-Index Communication (PIC) techniques. The unique features of these techniques are used to simplify the BCC transceiver hardware and reduce its power consumption by eliminating the need for circuitries dedicated to clock and data recovery (CDR) and duty cycle correction. The self-synchronizing feature of the transceiver is achieved by exploiting the edge-coding property of PIC which consists of using pulse edges for encoding and detecting transmitted pulses rather than bit times or duty cycles.

EEG-based Emotion Detection Using Unsupervised Transfer Learning.

Emotion classification using EEG signal processing has the potential of significantly improving the social integration of patients suffering from neurological disorders such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or the acute stages of Alzheimer's disease. One important challenge to the implementation of high-fidelity emotion recognition systems is the inadequacy of EEG data in terms of Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), duration, and subject-to-subject variability. In this paper, we present a novel, integrated framework for semi-generic emotion detection using (1) independent component analysis for EEG preprocessing, (2) EEG subject clustering by unsupervised learning, and (3) a convolutional neural network (CNN) for EEG-based emotion recognition.