Precise automated video search is gaining in importance as the amount of multimedia information is increasing at exponential rates. One of the drawbacks that make video retrieval ...
Abstract-- Traditional methods of spoken utterance classification (SUC) adopt two independently trained phases. In the first phase, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module ret...
Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Ac...
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...
Autonomous synthetic actors must invent variations of known material in order to perform given only a limited script, and to assist the director with development of the performance...
Learning semantics from annotated images to enhance content-based retrieval is an important research direction. In this paper, annotation data are assumed available for only a sub...