The Broadcast News Editor (BNE) and Broadcast News Navigator (BNN) are fully implemented systems that exploit integrated image, speech, and language processing to support intellig...
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
To ensure precise tumor irradiation in radiotherapy a stable breathing pattern is mandatory as tumors are moving due to respiratory motion. Consequentially, irregularities of respi...
Motion-based face recognition is a young research topic, inspired mainly by psychological studies on motionbased perception of human faces. Unlike its close relative, appearance-b...