Determining similarities among multimedia objects is a fundamental task in many content-based retrieval, analysis, mining, and exploration applications. Among state-of-the-art sim...
Almost all current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems conventionally append delta and double-delta cepstral features to static cepstral features. In this work we describe ...
Recognition systems have generally treated specular highlights as noise. We show how to use these highlights as a positive source of information that improves recognition of shiny...
Margarita Osadchy, David W. Jacobs, Ravi Ramamoort...
The automatic identification of a user's task has the potential to improve information filtering systems that rely on implicit measures of interest and whose effectiveness ma...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...