One problem in concatenative speech synthesis is how to incorporate prosodic factors in the unit selection. Imposing a predicted prosodic target is error-prone and does not benefi...
— This paper is motivated by the real world problem of search and rescue by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider the problem of tracking a static target from a bird’sey...
Andrew Colquhoun Symington, Sonia Waharte, Simon J...
We present a novel pedestrian detection system based on probabilistic component assembly. A part-based model is proposed which uses three parts consisting of head-shoulder, torso a...
Martin Rapus, Stefan Munder, Gregory Baratoff, Joa...
Social networking has provided powerful new ways to find people, organize groups, and share information. Recently, the potential functionalities of the ubiquitous infrastructure le...
Modeling subspaces of a distribution of interest in high dimensional spaces is a challenging problem in pattern analysis. In this paper, we present a novel framework for pose inva...