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ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
GHT based implementation of the expectation maximization for mixtures of multi-Gaussians and its applications to video tracking
In this work, the problem of the estimation of parameters in case of mixtures of models composed by the sum of multiple Gaussians is considered. It will be shown how this estimati...
Francesco Monti, Carlo S. Regazzoni
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Restoration-based iron oxide particles quantification in MR images
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging modality that provides structural and functional information. To improve the contrast of MR images, contrast agents, such as ...
Delphine Charpigny, Thomas Grenier, Christophe Ode...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Clap your hands! Calibrating spectral subtraction for dereverberation
Reverberation effects as observed by room microphones severely degrade the performance of automatic speech recognition systems. We investigate the use of dereverberation by spectr...
Uwe Zah, Korbinian Riedhammer, Tobias Bocklet, Elm...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
CBCD based on color features and landmark MDS-assisted distance estimation
Content-Based Copy Detection (CBCD) of digital videos is an important research field that aims at the identification of modified copies of an original clip, e.g., on the Intern...
Marzia Corvaglia, Fabrizio Guerrini, Riccardo Leon...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Exploring statistical properties for semantic annotation: sparse distributed and convergent assumptions for keywords
Does there exist a compact set of visual topics in form of keyword clusters capable to represent all images visual content within an acceptable error? In this paper, we answer thi...
Xianming Liu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Building pair-wise visual word tree for efficent image re-ranking
Bag-of-visual Words (BoW) image representation is getting popular in computer vision and multimedia communities. However, experiments show that the traditional BoW representation ...
Shiliang Zhang, Qingming Huang, Yijuan Lu, Wen Gao...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Feature extraction for robust speech recognition based on maximizing the sharpness of the power distribution and on power floori
This paper presents a new robust feature extraction algorithm based on a modified approach to power bias subtraction combined with applying a threshold to the power spectral dens...
Chanwoo Kim, Richard M. Stern
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Blind rhythmic source separation: Nonnegativity and repeatability
An unsupervised method is proposed aiming at extracting rhythmic sources from commercial polyphonic music whose number of channels is limited to one. Commercial music signals are ...
Minje Kim, Jiho Yoo, Kyeongok Kang, Seungjin Choi
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Learning in Gaussian Markov random fields
This paper addresses the problem of state estimation in the case where the prior distribution of the states is not perfectly known but instead is parameterized by some unknown par...
Thomas J. Riedl, Andrew C. Singer, Jun Won Choi
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Video-based fingerprint verification
In this paper, fingerprint videos are used to improve the accuracy of a fingerprint verification system. We define the “inside-similarity” and “outside-similarity” to ...
Wei Qin, Yilong Yin, Chunxiao Ren, Lili Liu