The paper presents a study on music mood categorization. First, a review of music mood models is presented. Then, the preparation of a set of music excerpts to be used in the experiments and music parametrization is described. Next, some listening tasks performed to obtain mood descriptors are introduced. Finally,the correlation between mood descriptors and features extracted from parameters is discussed. The paper concludes with...

This study addresses two issues related to both machine- and subjective-based speech evaluation by investigating five phonological phenomena related to allophone production. Its aim is to use objective parametrization and phonological classification of the recorded allophones. These allophones were selected as specifically difficult for Polish speakers of English: aspiration, final obstruent devoicing, dark lateral /l/, velar nasal...

Penta-graphene (PG) is a 2D carbon allotrope composed of a layer of pentagons having sp2- and sp3-bonded carbon atoms. A study carried out in 2018 has shown that the parameterization of the Tersoff potential proposed in 2005 by Ehrhart and Able (T05 potential) performs better than other potentials available for carbon, being able to reproduce structural and mechanical properties of the PG. In this work, we tried to improve the...