Segmentation of video foreground objects from background has many important applications, such as human computer interaction, video compression, multimedia content editing and man...
Monaural speech segregation in reverberant environments is a very difficult problem. We develop a supervised learning approach by proposing an objective function that directly rel...
CriterionSM Online Essay Evaluation Service includes a capability that labels sentences in student writing with essay-based discourse elements (e.g., thesis statements). We descri...
Derrick Higgins, Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Clau...
Most image and video compression algorithms that have been proposed to improve picture quality relative to compression efficiency have either been designed based on objective crite...
Image segmentation techniques are predominately based on parameter-laden optimization processes. The segmentation objective function traditionally involves parameters (i.e. weights...