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ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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View control interface for 3D tele-immersive environments
The 3D tele-immersive (3DTI) environments are emerging as the next generation technique for tele-communication. In this paper, we present a novel and generic interface for view co...
Morihiko Tamai, Wanmin Wu, Klara Nahrstedt, Keiich...
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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Automatic character identification in feature-length films
This paper presents a novel approach to automatically identify characters in films using audio visual cues and text analysis. The approach consists of three stages: (i) frontal f...
Yifan Zhang, Changsheng Xu, Hanqing Lu
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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Video search reranking via online ordinal reranking
To exploit co-occurrence patterns among features and target semantics while keeping the simplicity of the keywordbased visual search, a novel reranking methods is proposed. The ap...
Yi-Hsuan Yang, Winston H. Hsu
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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Spatial-temporal attention analysis for home video
In this paper, by considering the multiple spatial-temporal characteristic of visual perception system, we propose a novel home video attention analysis method. Firstly, each fram...
Xuekan Qiu, Shuqiang Jiang, Huiying Liu, Qingming ...
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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Effective post-processing for single-channel frequency-domain speech enhancement
Conventional frequency-domain speech enhancement filters improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), but also produce speech distortions. This paper describes a novel post-processing al...
Weifeng Li
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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Ranking music data by relevance and importance
Due to the rapidly increasing availability of audio files on the Web, it is relevant to augment search engines with advanced audio search functionality. In this context, the rank...
Maria M. Ruxanda, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Christian...
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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Constructing panoramic views through facial gaze tracking
This paper describes a human machine interaction application for building panoramic views easily and efficiently. The panoramas are not limited to the 1D problem (one axis of rot...
Fadi Dornaika, Bogdan Raducanu
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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Phonetic and intonation enhancement of speech for Japanese hearing-impaired speakers
We propose a system that is capable of improving intelligibility of speech by those with hearing impairment. We have found the speech often had problems in the intonation, the dur...
Shogo Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Moriyama, Shinji Ozawa