—Virtual Human (VH) creation aims to provide virtual characters with realistic behavior, which implies endowing them with autonomy in an inhabited virtual environment. Autonomous...
This paper explores a new approach to community building. It is based on the concept of salutogenesis; a proactive approach to community health which seeks preventative measures i...
Hands-free devices are often used in a noisy and reverberant environment. Therefore, the received microphone signal does not only contain the desired near-end speech signal but als...
Emanuel A. P. Habets, Sharon Gannot, Israel Cohen,...
Many current state-of-the-art speaker diarization systems exploit agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) as their speaker clustering strategy, due to its simple processing str...
Abstract--Today's storage systems place an imperative demand on energy efficiency. A storage system often places single-rotationrate disks into standby mode by stopping them f...