— One primary goal in rescue robotics is to deploy a team of robots for coordinated victim search after a disaster. This requires robots to perform subtasks, such as victim detec...
An audio-assisted system is investigated that detects if a movie scene is a dialogue or not. The system is based on actor indicator functions. That is, functions which define if an...
The success of Support Vector Machine (SVM) gave rise to the development of a new class of theoretically elegant learning machines which use a central concept of kernels and the a...
Asbestos-related illnesses become a nationwide problem in Japan. Now human inspectors check whether asbestos is contained in building material or not. To judge whether the specimen...
In this paper, we present new results from our research into the vulnerability of a speaker verification (SV) system to synthetic speech. We use a HMM-based speech synthesizer, w...