Anisotropic diffusion (ATD) is an edge-oriented, scale-space based, and iterative image-smoothing process. Two main challenges of ATD are how to automatically stop the iterative p...
This paper looks at a parsing-based alternative to word error rate (WER) for optimizing recognition, SParseval, hypothesizing that it may be a better objective for applications su...
Dustin Hillard, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Mary P. Harper, Mar...
This paper describes an accent identification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The system is designed to be ...
Past research on automatic laughter detection has focused mainly on audio-based detection. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter from speech and we sh...
In this paper, a system for automatic robust video surveillance is described and in particular its application to the problem of locating vehicles that stop in prohibited area is ...
Simone Boragno, Boghos A. Boghossian, James Black,...