It is a compilation of research works related to intelligent and emerging system design using a range of tools including soft-computation. The book includes reviews, actual designs, research works, discussion and experimental results related to works in the areas of communication, computation, vision sciences, bio-inspired system design, social dynamic, related process design, etc. The audience of this book is expected to be researchers who deal with intelligent and emerging system design through mathematical and computational modeling and experimental designs. Specifically, audiences that are broadly involved in the domains of electronics and communication, electrical engineering, mathematics, computer science, other applied informatics domains and related areas will find the book interesting. The works included in the book broadly covers all areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Technology, Soft-computational Applications, Human Computer Interactive Designs and Social and Economic Dynamics. The works included in the volume have been grouped into Communication, Biomedical and Social Science, HCI and Bio-inspired System Design, Speech Processing and Review totaling sixteen contributions.




Contents
Part I Intelligent Applications in Communication
1 ANFIS-Based Symbol Recovery in Multi-antenna
Stochastic Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Banti Das, Manasjyoti Bhuyan and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
2 STBC Decoding with ANN in Wireless Communication . . . . . . . . 19
Samar Jyoti Saikia and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
3 Carrier Phase Detection of Faded Signals Using Digital
Phase-Locked Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Basab Bijoy Purkayastha and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
4 Adaptive MRC for Stochastic Wireless Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Atlanta Choudhury and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
5 ZF- and MMSE Based-Equalizer Design in IEEE
802.15.4a UWB Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Tapashi Thakuria and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
Part II Selected Issues in Biomedical and Social Science
6 Role of Baby’s Birth Symptoms and Mother’s Pregnancy
Conditions on Children’s Disability Determined
Using Multiple Regression and ANN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Jumi Kalita, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma and Pranita Sarmah
7 A Soft Computational Framework to Predict Alzheimer’s
Disease (AD) from Protein Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Hemashree Bordoloi and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

8 Identification of Stages of Industrial Sickness of Large-
and Medium-Scale Units Using Certain Soft-Computational
Approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Deepak Goswami, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
and Padma Lochan Hazarika
Part III HCI and Bio-inspired System Design
9 Adaptive Hand Segmentation and Tracking
for Application in Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition. . . . . . . 115
Dharani Mazumdar, Madhurjya Kumar Nayak
and Anjan Kumar Talukdar
10 Multicore Parallel Computing and DSP Processor
for the Design of Bio-inspired Soft Computing Framework
for Speech and Image Processing Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Dipjyoti Sarma and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
Part IV Soft Computing and Hybrid System Based Speech
Processing Applications
11 Comparative Analysis of Neuro-Fuzzy Based Approaches
for Speech Data Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Pallabi Talukdar, Mousmita Sarma and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
12 Effective Speech Signal Reconstruction Technique
Using Empirical Mode Decomposition Under
Various Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Nisha Goswami, Mousmita Sarma and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
13 Assamese Vowel Speech Recognition Using GMM
and ANN Approaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Debashis Dev Misra, Krishna Dutta, Utpal Bhattacharjee,
Kandarpa Kumar Sarma and Pradyut Kumar Goswami
Part V Review Chapters on Selected Areas
14 Speech Recognition in Indian Languages—A Survey . . . . . . . . . . 173
Mousmita Sarma and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

15 Recent Trends in Power-Conscious VLSI Design—A Review . . . . 189
Manash Pratim Sarma
16 Application of Soft Computing Tools in Wireless
Communication—A Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Kandarpa Kumar Sarma
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209