In this paper, we present a novel approach for automatically learning a compact and yet discriminative appearance-based human action model. A video sequence is represented by a ba...
A recent approach to surround sound is to perform exact control of the sound field over a region of space. Here, the driving signals for an array of loudspeakers are chosen to cr...
The use of visual information derived from accurate lip extraction, can provide features invariant to noise perturbation for speech recognition systems and can be also used in a w...
Distributed programming has become a topic of widespread interest, and many programmers now wrestle with tradeoffs between data consistency, availability and latency. Distributed...
Peter Alvaro, Neil Conway, Joe Hellerstein, Willia...
This work explores the problem of cross-lingual pairwise similarity, where the task is to extract similar pairs of documents across two different languages. Solutions to this pro...