Although Support Vector Machines(SVM) succeed in classifying several image databases using image descriptors proposed in the literature, no single descriptor can be optimal for ge...
Active learning is a framework that has attracted a lot of research interest in the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in recent years. To be effective, an active learning syste...
Most iris recognition systems use the global and local texture information of the iris in order to recognize individuals. In this work, we investigate the use of macro-features th...
One problem in concatenative speech synthesis is how to incorporate prosodic factors in the unit selection. Imposing a predicted prosodic target is error-prone and does not benefi...
The success of data-driven solutions to difficult problems, along with the dropping costs of storing and processing massive amounts of data, has led to growing interest in largesc...