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MM
2004
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Context for semantic metadata
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...
Kenneth B. Haase
AMFG
2003
IEEE
203views Biometrics» more  AMFG 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
Illumination Normalization for Robust Face Recognition Against Varying Lighting Conditions
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...
Shiguang Shan, Wen Gao, Bo Cao, Debin Zhao
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Using a pitch-synchronous residual codebook for hybrid HMM/frame selection speech synthesis
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...
TSD
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Festival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System
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...
Ruvan Weerasinghe, Asanka Wasala, Viraj Welgama, K...
AMDO
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Pose Correction for Local Feature-Based Face Authentication
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...
Daniel González-Jiménez, Federico Su...