This study analyses how the reduction of the look-ahead length of a two pass phonetic decoder influences the alignment of the segment boundaries. It is shown how the optimization ...
Speech synthesis by unit selection requires the segmentation of a large single speaker high quality recording. Automatic speech recognition techniques, e.g. Hidden Markov Models (...
Pierre Lanchantin, Andrew C. Morris, Xavier Rodet,...
Abstract. A method for exploiting the information in low-level image segmentations for the purpose of object recognition is presented. The key idea is to use a whole ensemble of se...
The high availability of video streams is making necessary mechanisms for indexing such contents in the Web world. In this paper we focus on news programs and we propose a mechani...
This paper introduces a new operator to characterize a point in an image in a distinctive and invariant way. The robust recognition of points is a key technique in computer vision:...