My thesis aims to contribute towards building autonomous agents that are able to understand their surrounding environment through the use of both audio and visual information. To ...
Virtual machine technologies offer simple and practical mechanisms to address many manageability problems in database systems. For example, these technologies allow for server con...
Umar Farooq Minhas, Jitendra Yadav, Ashraf Aboulna...
This paper presents a melody spotting system based on Variable Duration Hidden Markov Models (VDHMM’s), capable of locating monophonic melodies in a database of raw audio record...
This paper presents a new audio coder that includes two techniques to improve the sound quality of the audio coding system. First, a forward masking model is proposed. This model e...
The recent developments in image-based rendering have enabled a representation of virtual environments based on a simulation of panoramas, which we call virtual panoramas. Current...