Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems for spoken languages suffer from conversational speech phenomena, in particular, the presence of speech dis uencies. We examine the i...
In this paper, a texture-based segmentation approach using wavelet packets, co-occurrence matrices and normalised modified histogram thresholding is discussed and developed. Back...
The focus of the 2010 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE) [1] was the low false alarm regime of the detection error trade-off (DET) curve. This paper presents several approa...
We present supervised approaches for detecting speaker roles and agreement/disagreement between speakers in broadcast conversation shows in three languages: English, Arabic, and M...
The objective measurement of blocking artifacts plays an important role in the design, optimization, and assessment of image and video coding systems. We propose a new approach th...