Vedran Jurdana

Dr. Vedran Jurdana

Department of Automation and Electronics, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering, Rijeka, Primorsko-Goranska Županija, Croatia
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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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28 March 2024 in IEEE Access
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TDTamas Dozsa
Tamas Dozsa
Vedran JurdanaVedran Jurdana
Vedran Jurdana
Sandi Baressi ŠegotaSandi Baressi Šegota
Sandi Baressi Šegota
JVJános Volk
János Volk
JRJanos Rado
Janos Rado
PKPéter Kovács
Péter Kovács
Smart tire technologies offer a novel sensing methodology for vehicle environment perception by providing direct measurements of tire dynamics parameters. This information can be utilized in advanced driver assistance systems as well as autonomous vehicle control to enhance vehicle performance and safety. Considering these criteria, we develop algorithms for categorizing road types based on tire sensor signals. Road differentiation is a complex task due to the non-linear and non-stationary nature of the measured tire signals. To address this challenge, we fuse time-frequency distributions with machine learning approaches. Maintaining the robustness of the predictions, we integrate our own measurement system into a Nissan Leaf test vehicle and collect data involving diverse environmental factors and operational conditions, mimicking real-world scenarios. We showed that by experiments our predictions strongly correlate with road quality, which can be utilized in automatic vehicle control, such as intelligent speed adaptation.


1 November 2021 in Digital Signal Processing
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IVIvan Volaric
Ivan Volaric
VSVictor Sucic
Victor Sucic

20 April 2023 in Sensors
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Vedran Jurdana
Nikola LopacNikola Lopac
Nikola Lopac
MVMiroslav Vrankic
Miroslav Vrankic
Compressive sensing (CS) of the signal ambiguity function (AF) and enforcing the sparsity constraint on the resulting signal time-frequency distribution (TFD) has been shown to be an efficient method for time-frequency signal processing. This paper proposes a method for adaptive CS-AF area selection, which extracts the magnitude-significant AF samples through a clustering approach using the density-based spatial clustering algorithm. Moreover, an appropriate criterion for the performance of the method is formalized, i.e., component concentration and preservation, as well as interference suppression, are measured utilizing the information obtained from the short-term and the narrow-band Rényi entropies, while component connectivity is evaluated using the number of regions with continuously-connected samples. The CS-AF area selection and reconstruction algorithm parameters are optimized using an automatic multi-objective meta-heuristic optimization method, minimizing the here-proposed combination of measures as objective functions. Consistent improvement in CS-AF area selection and TFD reconstruction performance has been achieved without requiring a priori knowledge of the input signal for multiple reconstruction algorithms. This was demonstrated for both noisy synthetic and real-life signals.

11 May 2023 in Sensors
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Vedran Jurdana
MVMiroslav Vrankic
Miroslav Vrankic
Nikola LopacNikola Lopac
Nikola Lopac
GJGuruprasad Madhale Jadav
Guruprasad Madhale Jadav
Instantaneous frequency (IF) is commonly used in the analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals to detect oscillatory-type seizures. However, IF cannot be used to analyze seizures that appear as spikes. In this paper, we present a novel method for the automatic estimation of IF and group delay (GD) in order to detect seizures with both spike and oscillatory characteristics. Unlike previous methods that use IF alone, the proposed method utilizes information obtained from localized Rényi entropies (LREs) to generate a binary map that automatically identifies regions requiring a different estimation strategy. The method combines IF estimation algorithms for multicomponent signals with time and frequency support information to improve signal ridge estimation in the time–frequency distribution (TFD). Our experimental results indicate the superiority of the proposed combined IF and GD estimation approach over the IF estimation alone, without requiring any prior knowledge about the input signal. The LRE-based mean squared error and mean absolute error metrics showed improvements of up to 95.70% and 86.79%, respectively, for synthetic signals and up to 46.45% and 36.61% for real-life EEG seizure signals.

1 July 2020
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Vedran JurdanaVedran Jurdana
Vedran Jurdana
IVIvan Volaric
Ivan Volaric
VSVictor Sucic
Victor Sucic
Observing a non-stationary signal with the time and frequency representation being mutually exclusive often does not provide enough information. Thus, the joint time-frequency distribution (TFD) is used as a convenient and powerful tool for analysis of such signals. Although TFD overcomes many signal representation limitations, it also introduces additional challenges. The removal of artefacts, also called the cross-terms, while maintaining a high concentration of the signal components (auto-terms) is the main problem of the time-frequency (TF) signal analysis. Among different approaches of solving this problem, in this paper we are investigating the advantages of the TFD sparsity, that is, the fact that the energy is accumulated around the instantaneous frequency law of the signal components. In this paper, we present a sparse TFD reconstruction algorithm based on the iterative shrinkage algorithm. The shrinkage is performed independently for each TFD time-and frequency-slice by taking advantage obtained from the short-term and the narrow-band Rényi entropy. Using the TFD concentration measure and reconstruction algorithm execution time, the obtained results have been compared to the state-of-the-art sparse reconstruction algorithms.