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The increase in connected mobile computing devices has created the need for ubiquitous Web access. In many usage scenarios, it would be beneficial to interact multimodally. Current Web user interface description languages, such as HTML and VoiceXML, concentrate only on one modality. Some languages, such as SALT and X+V, allow combining aural and visual modalities, but they lack ease-of-authoring, since both modalities have to be authored separately. Thus, for ease-of-authoring and maintainability, it is necessary to provide a cross-modal user interface language, whose semantic level is higher. We propose a novel model, called XFormsMM, which includes XForms 1.0 combined with modality-dependent stylesheets and a multimodal interaction manager. The model separates modality-independent parts from the modality-dependent parts, thus automatically providing most of the user interface to all modalities. The model allows flexible modality changes, so that the user can decide, which modalities to use and when.

Deep learning has solved many problems that are out of reach of heuristic algorithms. It has also been successfully applied in wireless communications, even though the current radio systems are well-understood and optimal algorithms exist for many tasks. While some gains have been obtained by learning individual parts of a receiver, a better approach is to jointly learn the whole receiver. This, however, often results in a challenging nonlinear problem, for which the optimal solution is infeasible to implement. To this end, we propose a deep fully convolutional neural network, DeepRx, which executes the whole receiver pipeline from frequency domain signal stream to uncoded bits in a 5G-compliant fashion. We facilitate accurate channel estimation by constructing the input of the convolutional neural network in a very specific manner using both the data and pilot symbols. Also, DeepRx outputs soft bits that are compatible with the channel coding used in 5G systems. Using 3GPP-defined channel models, we demonstrate that DeepRx outperforms traditional methods. We also show that the high performance can likely be attributed to DeepRx learning to utilize the known constellation points of the unknown data symbols, together with the local symbol distribution, for improved detection accuracy.

Deep learning methods combined with large datasets have recently shown significant progress in solving several medical tasks. However, collecting and annotating large datasets can be a very cumbersome and expensive task. We tackle these problems with a virtual database approach where training data is generated using computer simulations of related phenomena. Specifically, we concentrate on the following problem: can cardiovascular indices such as aortic elasticity, diastolic and systolic blood pressures, and blood flow from heart be predicted continuously using wearable photoplethysmographic sensors? We simulate the blood flow using a haemodynamic model consisting of the entire human circulation. Repeated evaluation of the simulator allows us to create a database of “virtual subjects” with size that is only limited by available computational resources. Using this database, we train neural networks to predict the cardiac indices from photoplethysmographic signal waveform. We consider two approaches: neural networks based on predefined input features and deep convolutional neural networks taking waveform directly as the input. The performance of the methods is demonstrated using numerical examples, thus carrying out a preliminary assessment of the approaches. The results show improvements in accuracy compared with the previous methods. The improvements are especially significant with indices related to aortic elasticity and maximum blood flow. The proposed approach would provide new means to measure cardiovascular health continuously, for example, with a simple wrist device.

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