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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Instantaneous pose estimation using rotation vectors
An algorithm for estimating the pose, i.e., translation and rotation, of an extended target object is introduced. Compared to conventional methods, where pose estimation is perfor...
Frederik Beutler, Marco F. Huber, Uwe D. Hanebeck
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Interference alignment via alternating minimization
Using interference alignment, it has been shown that the number of degrees of freedom in the interference channel scales linearly with the number of users. Unfortunately, closed-f...
Steven W. Peters, Robert W. Heath Jr.
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Voice convergin: Speaker de-identification by voice transformation
Speaker identification might be a suitable answer to prevent unauthorized access to personal data. However we also need to provide solutions to secure transmission of spoken infor...
Qin Jin, Arthur R. Toth, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Bl...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Beacon-assisted spectrum access with cooperative cognitive transmitter and receiver
—Spectrum access is an important function of cognitive radios for detecting and utilizing spectrum holes without harming the legacy systems. In this paper, we propose novel coope...
Ali Tajer, Xiaodong Wang
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Trajectory training considering global variance for HMM-based speech synthesis
This paper presents a novel method for training hidden Markov models (HMMs) for use in HMM-based speech synthesis. The primary goal of HMM parameter optimization is to ensure that...
Tomoki Toda, Steve Young
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
ViBE: A powerful random technique to estimate the background in video sequences
Background subtraction is a crucial step in many automatic video content analysis applications. While numerous acceptable techniques have been proposed so far for background extra...
Olivier Barnich, Marc Van Droogenbroeck
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Q-SIFT: Efficient feature descriptors for distributed camera calibration
We consider camera self-calibration, i.e. the estimation of parameters for camera sensors, in the setting of a visual sensor network where the sensors are distributed and energy-c...
Chao Yu, Gaurav Sharma
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Quadtree structured restoration algorithms for piecewise polynomial images
Iterative shrinkage of sparse and redundant representations are at the heart of many state of the art denoising and deconvolution algorithms. They assume the signal is well approx...
Adam Scholefield, Pier Luigi Dragotti
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A study of pronunciation verification in a speech therapy application
Techniques are presented for detecting phoneme level mispronunciations in utterances obtained from a population of impaired children speakers. The intended application of these ap...
Shou-Chun Yin, Richard Rose, Oscar Saz, Eduardo Ll...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using fourier-based shape alignment to add geometric prior to snakes
In this paper, we present a new algorithm of snakes with geometric prior. A method of shape alignment using Fourier coefficients is introduced to estimate the Euclidean transform...
Mohamed Ali Charmi, Faouzi Ghorbel, Stéphan...