Higher quality synthesized speech is required for widespread use of text-to-speech (TTS) technology, and prosodic pattern is the key feature that makes synthetic speech sound unna...
—Patch-based face recognition is a recent method which uses the idea of analyzing face images locally, in order to reduce the effects of illumination changes and partial occlusio...
Zero-days attacks are one of the most dangerous threats against computer networks. These, by definition, are attacks never seen before. Thus, defense tools based on a database of ...
Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...
In this paper, two block-based texture methods are proposed for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The approaches use the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) texture feature as the sourc...