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News
July 22, 2024
ITS has released a new technical memorandum titled “Joint Analyses of No-Reference Speech Quality Estimation Tools and Conference Speech Recorded in Diverse Real-World Conditions.”...
April 1, 2024
ITS, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense’s FutureG Office, hosted the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Forum in Dallas, Texas, from March 26 to 28.
The 2024 RIC Forum brought government, military, telecommunications...
November 13, 2023
The goal of the two-year 5G Challenge was to accelerate the adoption of 5G open interfaces, interoperable subsystems,...
Recent Publications
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Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, “ISART 2022: Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies: Evolving Spectrum-Sharing Regulation through Data-, Science-, and Technology-Driven Analysis and Decision-making,” Conference Proceedings NITA SP-24-573, August 2024
The topic of the 2022 International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies™ (ISART 2022), which took place fully virtually June 13, 14, 15, and 16, 2022, was “Evolving Spectrum-Sharing Regulation through Data-, Science-, and Technology-Driven Analy...
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Jaden Pieper and Stephen D. Voran, “AlignNet: Learning Dataset Score Alignment Functions To Enable Better Training of Speech Quality Estimators,” Conference Paper, July 2024
We develop two complementary advances for training no-reference (NR) speech quality estimators with independent datasets. Multi-dataset finetuning (MDF) pretrains an NR estimator on a single dataset and then finetunes it on multiple datasets at once,...
This Month in ITS History
September 1952: NBS Chief Called Before House Un-American Activities Committee
On September 5, 1952 Ed Condon, former chief of the National Bureau of Standards, made his second appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) at the behest of Senator Richard Vail. Condon had made political enemies on the committee with his unapologetic demands for civilian control of atomic energy and his support of international organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an organization dedicated to sharing scientific discoveries between the US and USSR. The Committee was especially interested in investigating Truman appointees who were involved with nuclear secrets, and Condon fit the bill perfectly. ...