In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
This paper considers the enhancement of noisy speech. Earlier studies have revealed that an approach that enhances spectral envelopes by using prior knowledge about the all-pole (...
Takuya Yoshioka, Tomohiro Nakatani, Hiroshi G. Oku...
—We propose an automatic approach to soft color segmentation, which produces soft color segments with an appropriate amount of overlapping and transparency essential to synthesiz...
This paper is aimed at evaluating the semantic information content of multiscale, low-level image segmentation. As a method of doing this, we use selected features of segmentation...
Videotext recognition is challenging due to low resolution, diverse fonts/styles, and cluttered background. Past methods enhanced recognition by using multiple frame averaging, im...