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ICAS
2009
IEEE
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Localisation and Mapping Using a Laser Range Finder: A Goal-Seeking Approach
In this paper we examine the problem of localisation and mapping of an unknown environment using data from a laser range finder. In order to support our method we detect landmark...
Sotirios Ch. Diamantas, Richard M. Crowder
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
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Wrapping snakes for improved lip segmentation
A key step in the process of lip-reading is determining the shape of the speaker’s lips. This has previously been achieved through an energy method known as “snakes”, howeve...
Matthew Ramage, Euan Lindsay
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Formant-based technique for automatic filled-pause detection in spontaneous spoken english
Detection of filled pauses is a challenging research problem which has several practical applications. It can be used to evaluate the spoken fluency skills of the speaker, to im...
Kartik Audhkhasi, Kundan Kandhway, Om Deshmukh, As...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
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A New Approach for Skew Correction of Documents Based on Particle Swarm Optimization
This paper presents a novel approach for skew correction of documents. Skew correction is modelled as an optimization problem, and for the first time, Particle Swarm Optimization...
Javad Sadri, Mohamed Cheriet
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
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A Self-Adaptive Method for Extraction of Document-Specific Alphabets
Recognition and encoding of digitized historical documents is still a challenging and difficult task. A major problem is the occurrence of unknown glyphs and symbols which might n...
Stefan Pletschacher