This paper describes an approach to the detection of stress in spoken New Zealand English. After identifying the vowel segments of the speech signal, the approach extracts two dif...
Huayang Xie, Peter Andreae, Mengjie Zhang, Paul Wa...
This paper examines tagging models for spontaneous English speech transcripts. We analyze the performance of state-of-the-art tagging models, either generative or discriminative, ...
Vladimir Eidelman, Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harpe...
Applications such as traffic surveillance require a real-time and accurate method for object tracking. We propose to represent scene observations with parabola segments with an alg...
Francis Deboeverie, Kristof Teelen, Peter Veelaert...
Purely bottom-up, unsupervised segmentation of a single
image into two segments remains a challenging task for
computer vision. The co-segmentation problem is the process
of joi...
Metacomputing infrastructures couple multiple clusters (or MPPs) via wide-area networks. A major problem in programming parallel applications for such platforms is their hierarchi...