The processing of Japanese text is complicated by the fact that there are no word delimiters. To segment Japanese text, systems typically use knowledge-based methods and large lex...
The Student’s-t hidden Markov model (SHMM) has been recently proposed as a robust to outliers form of conventional continuous density hidden Markov models, trained by means of t...
This paper presents a Bayesian method for temporally aligning a music score and an audio rendition. A critical problem in audio-toscore alignment is in dealing with the wide varie...
Akira Maezawa, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Tetsuya Ogata, Ma...
The segmentation of ultrasound images is challenging due to the difficulty of appropriate modeling of their appearance variations including speckle as well as signal dropout. We ...
The maximum a posteriori (MAP) criterion is broadly used in the statistical model-based voice activity detection (VAD) approaches. In the conventional MAP criterion, however, the ...