We propose a novel binauralization method that is robust to camera rotation. Since binaural audio can bring a 3D sensation to the listener, it can enhance the immersive experience of the video. Researchers have been explored binaural audio generation from monaural audio to deepen the experience of already captured videos without special recording devices. However, this binauralization on real-world videos can be a challenging task due to camera rotation. Camera rotation makes it difficult to predict the exact sound source position due to the motion of the sound sources and the background in videos. To tackle this problem, we propose a training data generation pipeline using 360° videos for binauralization. We generate monocular videos and binaural audio with camera rotation from 360° videos for the training of binauralization. Additionally, we newly construct a binauralization framework that conducts multi-task learning with camera localization. The camera localization predicts the camera rotation and helps the binauralization. Experimental results show that our method can achieve the binauralization on videos with camera rotation.

In this paper, we present an unobtrusive cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring system based on pulse arrival time (PAT) for facilitating long-term home BP monitoring. The proposed system consists of an electrocardiograph (ECG), a photoplethysmograph (PPG), and a control circuit with a Bluetooth module, all of which are mounted on a common armchair to measure ECG and PPG signals from users while sitting on the armchair in order to calculate continuous PAT. Considering the good linear correlation of systolic BP (SBP) and the nonlinear correlation of diastolic BP (DBP) with PAT, a new BP estimation method was proposed. Ten subjects underwent BP monitoring experiments involving stationary sitting on a chair, lying on a bed, and pedaling using an ergometer in order to assess the accuracy of the estimated BP. A cuff-type BP monitor was used as reference in the experiments. Results showed that the mean difference of the estimated SBP and DBP was within 0.2 ± 5.8 mmHg ( p < 0.00001) and 0.4 ± 5.7 mmHg ( p < 0.00001), respectively, and the mean absolute difference of the estimated SBP and DBP were 4.4 and 4.6 mmHg, respectively, compared to references. Additionally, five subjects participated in data collections consisting of sitting on a chair twice a day for one month. Compared to the reference, the difference did not obviously increase along with time, even though individualized calibration was executed only once at the beginning. These results suggest that the proposed system has quite the potential for long-term home BP monitoring.

For realistic geodynamo simulations, one must solve the magnetohydrodynamic equations to follow time development of thermal convection motion of electrically conducting fluid in a rotating spherical shell. We have developed a new geodynamo simulation code by combining the finite difference method with the recently proposed spherical overset grid called Yin-Yang grid. We achieved performance of 15.2 Tflops (46% of theoretical peak performance) on 4096 processors of the Earth Simulator.