Nowadays, the term cover song (or simply cover) can mean any new version, performance, rendition, or recording of a previously recorded track. Cover song identification is a task...
In this paper, the use of closed-form expressions is compared to the BIC approximation, with respect to speaker clustering. We first show that the particular BIC setting which is...
We propose a new method to characterize a speaker within the Joint Factor Analysis (JFA) framework. Scoring within the JFA framework can be costly and a new method was proposed to...
We study the efficient evaluation of top-k queries over data items, where the score of each item is dynamically computed by applying an item-specific function whose parameter valu...
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jay...
Many traditional methods for shape classification involve
establishing point correspondences between shapes to
produce matching scores, which are in turn used as similarity
meas...