Lips segmentation is a very important step in many applications such as automatic speech reading, MPEG-4 compression, special effects, facial analysis and emotion recognition. In ...
Christian Bouvier, Pierre-Yves Coulon, Xavier Mald...
Abstract. This paper explores the use of initial Stochastic Context-Free Grammars (SCFG) obtained from a treebank corpus for the learning of SCFG by means of estimation algorithms....
In this work, the RWTH automatic speech recognition systems for English and German for the second Quaero evaluation campaign 2009 are presented. The systems are designed to transc...
In this paper, we describe recent progress in i-vector based speaker verification. The use of universal background models (UBM) with full-covariance matrices is suggested and tho...
Pavel Matejka, Ondrej Glembek, Fabio Castaldo, M. ...
In statistical machine translation, single-word based models have an important deficiency; they do not take contextual information into account for the translation decision. A poss...