1 We consider the problem of scheduling an unknown sequence of tasks for a single server as the tasks arrive with the goal off maximizing the total weighted value of the tasks serv...
This paper investigates the impact of automatic sentence segmentation on speech summarization using the ICSI meeting corpus. We use a hidden Markov model (HMM) for sentence segmen...
Abstract In this paper, we present a human-robot teaching framework that uses "virtual" games as a means for adapting a robot to its user through natural interaction in a...
This paper explores the potential for use of an unaugmented commodity technology—the mobile phone— as a health promotion tool. We describe a prototype application that tracks t...
Ian Anderson, Julie Maitland, Scott Sherwood, Loui...
In this paper, we present our work for automatic generation of textual metadata based on visual content analysis of video news. We present two methods for semantic object detectio...