—In this paper, we propose a circular blurred shape model descriptor to deal with the problem of symbol detection and classification as a particular case of object recognition. ...
Our goal is to automatically learn a perceptually-optimal target cost function for a unit selection speech synthesiser. The approach we take here is to train a classifier on human...
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Agent technology provides many services to users. The tasks in which agents are involved include information filtering, information retrieval, user's tasks automation, browsin...