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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A scale transform based method for rhythmic similarity of music
This paper introduces scale transforms to measure rhythmic similarity between two musical pieces. The rhythm of a piece of music is described by the scale transform magnitude, com...
Andre Holzapfel, Yannis Stylianou
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling and tracking of faces in real-life illumination conditions
In this paper, we address the problem of face tracking across illumination changes and occlusions. The method is based on leveraging the strengths of both Adaboost to deal with cl...
Rahul Thota, Archana Kalyansundar, Amit Kale
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-channel audio segmentation for continuous observation and archival of large spaces
In most real-world situations, a single microphone is insufficient for the characterization of an entire auditory scene. This often occurs in places such as office environments ...
Gordon Wichern, Harvey D. Thornburg, Andreas Spani...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The I4U system in NIST 2008 speaker recognition evaluation
This paper describes the performance of the I4U speaker recognition system in the NIST 2008 Speaker Recognition Evaluation. The system consists of seven subsystems, each with diff...
Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, Kong-Aik Lee, Hanwu Sun, Dongl...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Speaker recognition using syllable-based constraints for cepstral frame selection
We describe a new GMM-UBM speaker recognition system that uses standard cepstral features, but selects different frames of speech for different subsystems. Subsystems, or “const...
Tobias Bocklet, Elizabeth Shriberg
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Small-group learning projects to make signal processing more appealing: From speech processing to OFDMA synchronization
Whereas lecturing is the most widely used mode of instruction, we have explored small-group learning projects to make signal processing more appealing at the University and in Eng...
G. Ferre, Audrey Giremus, Eric Grivel
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised pronunciation validation
This paper addresses selecting between candidate pronunciations for out-of-vocabulary words in speech processing tasks. We introduce a simple, unsupervised method that outperforms...
Christopher M. White, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramab...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling of contours in wavelet domain for generalized lifting image compression
This paper introduces the design of context-based models of contours in the wavelet domain, which are used to construct generalized lifting (GL) mappings for image compression. Th...
Julio C. Rolon, Antonio Ortega, Philippe Salembier
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Probablistic modelling of F0 in unvoiced regions in HMM based speech synthesis
HMM based synthesis has attracted great interest due to its compact and flexible modelling of spectral and prosodic parameters. In this approach, short term spectra, fundamental ...
Kai Yu, Tomoki Toda, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, F...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multiview video compression and streaming based on predicted viewer position
Recent technological advances have made possible a number of new applications in the area of 3D video. One of the enabling technologies for many of these 3D applications is multiv...
Dinei A. F. Florêncio, Cha Zhang