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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Temporal Order Recovery of the Scanned Handwriting
In this paper, we present a new approach to the temporal order restoration of the off-line handwriting. After the preprocessing steps of the word image, a suitable algorithm makes...
Abdelkarim Elbaati, Monji Kherallah, Abdellatif En...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Low-delay scheduling for Grassmannian beamforming with a SINR constraint
We are presenting an algorithm for scheduling users in a single-cell broadcast scenario. The presented algorithm aims to minimize the number of transmissions that are necessary to...
Claude Simon, Geert Leus
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Wildfire detection using LMS based active learning
A computer vision based algorithm for wildfire detection is developed. The main detection algorithm is composed of four sub-algorithms detecting (i) slow moving objects, (ii) gra...
B. Ugur Töreyin, A. Enis Çetin
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Audio-assisted trajectory estimation in non-overlapping multi-camera networks
We present an algorithm to improve trajectory estimation in networks of non-overlapping cameras using audio measurements. The algorithm fuses audiovisual cues in each camera’s ...
Murtaza Taj, Andrea Cavallaro
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Formant-based technique for automatic filled-pause detection in spontaneous spoken english
Detection of filled pauses is a challenging research problem which has several practical applications. It can be used to evaluate the spoken fluency skills of the speaker, to im...
Kartik Audhkhasi, Kundan Kandhway, Om Deshmukh, As...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Generalized Baum-Welch algorithm for discriminative training on large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system
We propose a new optimization algorithm called Generalized Baum Welch (GBW) algorithm for discriminative training on hidden Markov model (HMM). GBW is based on Lagrange relaxation...
Roger Hsiao, Yik-Cheung Tam, Tanja Schultz
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Maximizing global entropy reduction for active learning in speech recognition
We propose a new active learning algorithm to address the problem of selecting a limited subset of utterances for transcribing from a large amount of unlabeled utterances so that ...
Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex A...
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Information Dissemination Control for Cooperative Active Safety Applications in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Abstract—Vehicular Ad-Hoc networks (VANETs) play a critical role in enabling important active safety applications such as collision warning and vehicle tracking. The most pressin...
Ching-Ling Huang, Yaser P. Fallah, Raja Sengupta, ...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Instance-Optimal Geometric Algorithms
We prove the existence of an algorithm A for computing 2-d or 3-d convex hulls that is optimal for every point set in the following sense: for every set S of n points and for ever...
Peyman Afshani, Jérémy Barbay, Timot...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Planarity Allowing Few Error Vertices in Linear Time
— We show that for every fixed k, there is a linear time algorithm that decides whether or not a given graph has a vertex set X of order at most k such that G − X is planar (w...
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi