This paper proposes a novel method for segmenting lips from face images or video sequences. A non-linear learning method in the form of an SVM classifier is trained to recognise l...
In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant inf...
We propose a self-supervised word-segmentation technique for Chinese information retrieval. This method combines the advantages of traditional dictionary based approaches with cha...
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick ...
We describe and experimentally evaluate an efficient method for automatically determining small clause boundaries in spontaneous speech. Our method applies an artificial neural ne...
We present a multi-agent coordination technique to maintain throughput of a large-scale agent network system in the face of failures of agents. Failures do not just deteriorate th...