Various methods have recently appeared to transform foreign-accented speech into its native-accented counterpart. Evaluation of these accent conversion methods requires extensive l...
Slice sampling provides an easily implemented method for constructing a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. However, slice sampling has two major drawbacks: (i) it requires...
Particle systems have been incorporated into a wide variety of applications in both academia and industry. They can be employed to investigate complex natural phenomena, illustrat...
A recent trend in computing are domain-specific program generators, designed to alleviate the effort of porting and reoptimizing libraries for fast-changing and increasingly com...
Real time terrain rendering plays a very important role in many fields, such of GIS, virtual reality, and military simulations. With the rapid development of PC-level hardware, rec...