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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
A visual attention model combining top-down and bottom-up mechanisms for salient object detection
Selective attention in the human visual system is performed as the way that humans focus on the most important parts when observing a visual scene. Many bottom-up computational mo...
Yuming Fang, Weisi Lin, Chiew Tong Lau, Bu-Sung Le...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic distance SVM with Hellinger-Exponential Kernel for sound event classification
This paper presents a novel method for sound event classification based on probabilistic distance SVM. The basic idea is to embed probabilistic distances into classical SVM to cl...
Tran Huy Dat, Haizhou Li
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Dynamic spectrum management in DSL with asynchronous crosstalk
Dynamic spectrum management (DSM) aims to optimally allocate per-user transmit spectra so that the effect of multiuser interference (crosstalk) is minimized and the capabilities o...
Rodrigo B. Moraes, Paschalis Tsiaflakis, Marc Moon...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
A knapsack problem formulation for relay selection in secure cooperative wireless communication
—Cooperative jamming (CJ) schemes support secure wireless communication in the presence of one or more eavesdroppers. Larger numbers of cooperative relays provide better secrecy ...
Shuangyu Luo, Hana Godrich, Athina P. Petropulu, H...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Language identification for singing
In spoken language processing, considerable research has been accomplished on language identi cation. Singing language identi cation is an important yet challenging area that has ...
Mahnoosh Mehrabani, John H. L. Hansen
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Seam carving with rate-dependent seam path information
In this paper, we present a seam carving, which is a well-known content-aware image resizing method, with a constraint on bitrates for seam path information (SPI). The SPI corresp...
Yuichi Tanaka, Madoka Hasegawa, Shigeo Kato
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Preserve ordering property of generated LSPS for minimum generation error training in HMM-based speech synthesis
Ordering property is an important property of LSP and closely connected with the naturalness of reconstructed speech. When LSP is adopted as spectrum feature in HMM-based parametr...
Ming Lei, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
A single-port non-parametric model of turn-taking in multi-party conversation
The taking of turns to speak is an intrinsic property of conversation. It is expected that models of taking turns, providing a prior distribution over conversational form, can red...
Kornel Laskowski, Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Estimation of fundamental frequency from surface electromyographic data: EMG-to-F0
In this paper, we present our recent studies of F0 estimation from the surface electromyographic (EMG) data using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based voice conversion (VC) techni...
Keigo Nakamura, Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanj...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Rapid joint speaker and noise compensation for robust speech recognition
For speech recognition, mismatches between training and testing for speaker and noise are normally handled separately. The work presented in this paper aims at jointly applying sp...
K. K. Chin, Haitian Xu, Mark J. F. Gales, Catherin...