Abstract. One of the key challenge in social behavior analysis is to automatically discover the subset of features relevant to a specific social signal (e.g., backchannel feedback...
We consider model-based reinforcement learning in finite Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), focussing on so-called optimistic strategies. Optimism is usually implemented by carryin...
Constrained cepstral systems, which select frames to match various linguistic “constraints” in enrollment and test, have shown significant improvements for speaker verificatio...
The successful deployment of next-generation distributed multimedia systems is signi cantly dependent on the e cient management support that improves the performance and the relia...
We present a new grammar formalism for parsing with freer word-order languages, motivated by recent linguistic research in German and the Slavic languages. Unlike CFGs, these gram...