Automatic extraction of content description from commercial audio recordings has a number of important applications, from indexing and retrieval through to novel musicological ana...
Chord sequences are a compact and useful description of music, representing each beat or measure in terms of a likely distribution over individual notes without specifying the not...
We address the feature selection problem for hidden Markov models (HMMs) in sequence classification. Temporal correlation in sequences often causes difficulty in applying featur...
Pei Yin, Irfan A. Essa, Thad Starner, James M. Reh...
The BYBLOS continuous speech recognition system is applied to on-line cursive handwriting recognition. By exploiting similarities between on-line cursive handwriting and continuou...
John Makhoul, Thad Starner, Richard M. Schwartz, G...
We consider the problem of computing the likelihood of a gesture from regular, unaided video sequences, without relying on perfect segmentation of the scene. Instead of requiring ...