To reduce the classification errors of online handwritten Japanese character recognition, we propose a method for confusing characters discrimination with little additional costs....
Phonetic decision trees are a key concept in acoustic modeling for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. Although discriminative training has become a major line of rese...
We present a novel scheme for indexing "hot spots" in conversations, such as poster sessions, based on the reaction of the audience. Specifically, we focus on laughters ...
We carry out two studies on affective state modeling for communication settings that involve unilateral intent on the part of one participant (the evoker) to shift the affective s...
Fisher linear discriminant analysis (FDA) and its kernel extension--kernel discriminant analysis (KDA)--are well known methods that consider dimensionality reduction and classific...
Zhihua Zhang, Guang Dai, Congfu Xu, Michael I. Jor...