In a conversational system, determining a user’s focus of attention is crucial to the success of the system. Motivated by previous psycholinguistic findings, we are currently e...
Evaluation of complex, collaborative dialogue systems is a difficult task. Traditionally, developers have relied upon subjective feedback from the user, and parametrisation over o...
In this paper, we describe a new multi-purpose audio-visual database on the context of speech interfaces for controlling household electronic devices. The database comprises speec...
Given sensors to detect object use, commonsense priors of object usage in activities can reduce the need for labeled data in learning activity models. It is often useful, however,...
Shiaokai Wang, William Pentney, Ana-Maria Popescu,...
In this paper, we propose a morphing method by which face color images can be freely transformed. The main focus of this work is the transformation of one face image to another. Th...