This article argues for the growing importance of quality metadata and the equation of that quality with precision and semantic grounding. Such semantic grounding requires metadat...
Evaluations of the state-of-the-art of both academic face recognition algorithms and commercial systems have shown that recognition performance of most current technologies degrad...
This paper proposes a method to improve the quality delivered by statistical parametric speech synthesizers. For this, we use a codebook of pitch-synchronous residual frames, so a...
Thomas Drugman, Alexis Moinet, Thierry Dutoit, Geo...
Abstract. This paper brings together the development of the first Text-toSpeech (TTS) system for Sinhala using the Festival framework and practical applications of it. Construction...
In this paper, we present an automatic face authentication system. Accurate segmentation of prominent facial features is accomplished by means of an extension of the Active Shape M...