We have applied two state-of-the-art speech synthesis techniques (unit selection and HMM-based synthesis) to the synthesis of emotional speech. A series of carefully designed perc...
Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon Ki...
Video encoding is a fundamental component of a wide range of real-time multimedia applications. In this paper we present the fine grain MPEG-4 parallelism and describe a modellin...
Ismail Assayad, Philippe Gerner, Sergio Yovine, Va...
We explore a structuring mechanism for reactive systems, based on two ideas: array iterators allow the description of regular systems; logical-time contracts allow local or global...
Skin detection is an important indicator of human presence and actions in many domains, including interaction, interfaces and security. It is commonly performed in three steps: tr...
Stephen Schmugge, Sriram Jayaram, Min C. Shin, Leo...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...