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COST
2009
Springer
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Audiovisual Tools for Phonetic and Articulatory Visualization in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training
This paper reviews interactive methods for improving the phonetic competence of subjects in the case of second language learning as well as in the case of speech therapy for subjec...
Bernd J. Kröger, Peter Birkholz, Rüdiger...
COST
2009
Springer
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Multiple Feature Extraction and Hierarchical Classifiers for Emotions Recognition
Abstract. The recognition of the emotional states of speaker is a multidisciplinary research area that has received great interest in the last years. One of the most important goal...
Enrique M. Albornoz, Diego H. Milone, Hugo Leonard...
COST
2009
Springer
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Vulnerability Assessment of Fingerprint Matching Based on Time Analysis
A time analysis of a reference minutiae-based fingerprint matching system is presented. We study the relation between the score generated by the system (NFIS2 from NIST) and the t...
Javier Galbally, Sara Carballo, Julian Fiér...
COST
2009
Springer
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Optimizing Phonetic Encoding for Viennese Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
While developing lexical resources for a particular language variety (Viennese), we experimented with a set of 5 different phonetic encodings, termed phone sets, used for unit sel...
Michael Pucher, Friedrich Neubarth, Volker Strom
COST
2009
Springer
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Illumination Invariant Face Recognition by Non-Local Smoothing
Abstract. Existing face recognition techniques struggle with their performance when identities have to be determined (recognized) based on image data captured under challenging ill...
Vitomir Struc, Nikola Pavesic
COST
2009
Springer
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Biometrics beyond the Visible Spectrum: Imaging Technologies and Applications
Human body images acquired at visible spectrum have inherent restrictions that hinder the performance of person recognition systems built using that kind of information (e.g. scene...
Miriam Moreno-Moreno, Julian Fiérrez-Aguila...
COST
2009
Springer
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On Development of Inspection System for Biometric Passports Using Java
Currently it is possible to implement Biometric Passport applets according to ICAO specifications. In this paper, an ePassport Java Card applet , according to ICAO specifications u...
Luis Terán, Andrzej Drygajlo
COST
2009
Springer
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Handwritten Signature On-Card Matching Performance Testing
This paper presents equipment and procedures for on-card (in-situ) performance testing of biometric on-card comparison implementations using pre-existing databases of biometric sam...
Olaf Henniger, Sascha Müller
COST
2009
Springer
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Multi-biometric Fusion for Driver Authentication on the Example of Speech and Face
Nowadays biometrics becomes an important field in IT security, safety and comfort research for automotive. Aims are automatic driver authentication or recognition of spoken command...
Tobias Scheidat, Michael Biermann, Jana Dittmann, ...
COST
2009
Springer
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A Matching Algorithm Secure against the Wolf Attack in Biometric Authentication Systems
We propose a matching algorithm secure against the wolf attack in one-to-one biometric authentications. Our proposal algorithm first executes a one-to-all comparison using a conve...
Yoshihiro Kojima, Rie Shigetomi, Manabu Inuma, Aki...