This paper describes an accent identification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The system is designed to be ...
A limitation of most speech recognizers is that they only recognize words from a fixed vocabulary. In this paper, we explore a technique for addressing this deficiency using aut...
In this paper, we investigate the possibility of enhancing the usability of iris recognition via exploration of the specular spots in iris images. Firstly, the spatial configurat...
Recently graph-cut optimization has been extensively explored for interactive image segmentation. In this paper we propose Discriminative Gaussian Mixtures (DGMs) to boost the per...
The automatic extraction of handwriting styles is an important process that can be used for various applications in the processing of handwriting. We propose a novel method that e...