The era of distributed systems is upon us. Middlewarespecific concerns, and especially the distribution concern, which is the core of any middleware-mediated application, are addr...
Our research aims at interactive document viewers that can select and highlight relevant text passages on demand. Another related objective is the generation of topic-specific su...
This paper presents the status of a project targeting the development of content-based video indexing tools, to assist a human in the generation of descriptive video for the hard ...
Unit selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthesized phrases by concatenating speech segments from a large database. Recently, increasing demand for de...
Autonomous synthetic actors must invent variations of known material in order to perform given only a limited script, and to assist the director with development of the performance...