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ICPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
Face recognition using curvelet based PCA
This paper identifies a novel feature space to address the problem of human face recognition from still images. This is based on the PCA space of the features extracted by a new m...
Tanaya Mandal, Q. M. Jonathan Wu
PREMI
2007
Springer
16 years 13 days ago
Segmenting Multiple Textured Objects Using Geodesic Active Contour and DWT
We address the issue of segmenting multiple textured objects in presence of a background texture. The proposed technique is based on Geodesic Active Contour (GAC) and can segment m...
Surya Prakash, Sukhendu Das
MLMI
2007
Springer
16 years 14 days ago
Using Prosodic Features in Language Models for Meetings
Abstract. Prosody has been actively studied as an important knowledge source for speech recognition and understanding. In this paper, we are concerned with the question of exploiti...
Songfang Huang, Steve Renals
ICMI
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features
Affect sensitivity is of the utmost importance for a robot companion to be able to display socially intelligent behaviour, a key requirement for sustaining long-term interactions ...
Ginevra Castellano, André Pereira, Iolanda ...
HRI
2006
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
FOCUS: a generalized method for object discovery for robots that observe and interact with humans
The essence of the signal-to-symbol problem consists of associating a symbolic description of an object (e.g., a chair) to a signal (e.g., an image) that captures the real object....
Manuela M. Veloso, Paul E. Rybski, Felix von Hunde...