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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Extensions of absolute discounting (Kneser-Ney method)
Jesús Andrés-Ferrer, Hermann Ney
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating digital audio authenticity with spectral distances and ENF phase change
This paper discusses the use of spectral distances obtained from adaptive filters employed as linear predictors and phase change of the electric network frequency to evaluate dig...
Daniel Patricio Nicolalde, Jose Antonio Apolinario
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Background recovery from video sequences using motion parameters
This paper presents a novel scheme for extracting a still background occluded by a number of foreground objects, moving in different directions and velocities in a video sequence,...
Srenivas Varadarajan, Lina J. Karam, Dinei Florenc...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On the use of Bayesian modeling for predicting noise reduction performance
In speech enhancement applications, a validated metric of noise reduction performance is vital in the relative ranking of noise reduction algorithms and in enhancing the performan...
Nazanin Pourmand, David Suelzle, Vijay Parsa, Yi H...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Comparison of MPEG-7 descriptors for long term selection of reference frames
During the last years, the amount of multimedia content has greatly increased. This has multiplied the need of efficient compression of the content but also the ability to search...
Javier Ruiz Hidalgo, Philippe Salembier
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Pitch bends and tonguing articulation in clarinet physical modeling synthesis
A physical modeling approach is used to investigate playing effects in woodwind instruments. This builds upon prior work concerning both empirical studies of the acoustics of the ...
Mark Sterling, Xiaoxiao Dong, Mark Bocko
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Wrapping snakes for improved lip segmentation
A key step in the process of lip-reading is determining the shape of the speaker’s lips. This has previously been achieved through an energy method known as “snakes”, howeve...
Matthew Ramage, Euan Lindsay
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Query by tapping system based on alignment algorithm
Query-by-tapping systems are content-based music retrieval systems that allow users to tap or clap in a microphone the rhythmic pattern of the melody requested. In this paper, a n...
Pierre Hanna, Matthias Robine
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Bayesian sparse image reconstruction for MRFM
In this paper, we propose a Bayesian model and a Monte Carlo Markov chain (MCMC) algorithm for reconstructing images that consist of only few non-zero pixels. An appropriate distr...
Nicolas Dobigeon, Alfred O. Hero, Jean-Yves Tourne...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A modified distortion metric for audio coding
Current audio coding standards employ the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) where overlapped frames of audio are windowed and transformed to the frequency domain. Encodin...
Vinay Melkote, Kenneth Rose