An essential step in the generation of expressive speech synthesis is the automatic detection and classification of emotions most likely to be present in textual input. At last I...
We propose to model relative attributes1 that capture the relationships between images and objects in terms of human-nameable visual properties. For example, the models can captur...
Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach to unsupervised texture segmentation that relies on a very general nonparametric statistical model of image neighborhoods. The method...
This work addresses a novel spatial keyword query called the m-closest keywords (mCK) query. Given a database of spatial objects, each tuple is associated with some descriptive inf...
We consider di usion processes on a class of R trees. The processes are de ned in a manner similar to that of Le Gall's Brownian snake. Each point in the tree has a real value...