Well tuned Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) has been shown to generally be more effective than vocabulary-independent techniques for ranked retrieval of spo...
In this paper, we present an algorithm for the tracking of target speakers in telephone conversations. Speaker tracking consists in retrieving, in an audio recording, segments whi...
In ubiquitous computing environments like smart home, residents can conveniently enjoy various home entertainments, such as watching TV, listening music, etc, through invisible an...
This paper presents experiments that evaluate the effect of different video segmentation methods on text-based video retrieval. Segmentations relying on modalities like speech, vi...
Due to the enormous increase in the stored digital contents, search and retrieval functionalities are necessary in multimedia systems. Though processor speed for standard PCs (Per...