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CVPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 9 months ago
Characterizing the shadow space of camera-light pairs
We present a theoretical analysis for characterizing the shadows cast by a point light source given its relative position to the camera. In particular, we analyze the epipolar geo...
Daniel A. Vaquero, Matthew Turk, Ramesh Raskar, Ro...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Admissible stopping in viterbi beam search for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis
Corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis is very popular these days due to its highly natural speech quality. The amount of computation required in the run time, however, is of...
Shinichi Sakai, Tatsuya Kawahara, Shun Nakamura
AI
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Generating and evaluating evaluative arguments
Evaluative arguments are pervasive in natural human communication. In countless situations people attempt to advise or persuade their interlocutors that something is desirable (vs...
Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna D. Moore
CVPR
2009
IEEE
17 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Study of Context in Object Detection
This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the role of context in a contemporary, challenging object detection task – the PASCAL VOC 2008. Previous experiments with context...
Alexei A. Efros, Derek Hoiem, James Hays, Martial ...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
1119views Computer Vision» more  CVPR 2009»
17 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Contour Features in Oriented Granular Space for Human Detection and Segmentation
In this paper, a novel feature named Adaptive Contour Feature (ACF) is proposed for human detection and segmentation. This feature consists of a chain of a number of granules in...
Wei Gao (Tsinghua University), Haizhou Ai (Tsinghu...