A total corpus-based process of generating prosodic features from text is developed. The process first predicts pauses and phone durations, and then generates F0 contours. Since F...
Speech has a property that the speech unit preceding a speech pause tends to lengthen. This work presents the use of a dynamic Bayesian network to model the prepausal lengthening ...
Ning Ma, Chris Bartels, Jeff A. Bilmes, Phil Green
— A recent approach to steerable needle design is based on combining pre-curved tubes concentrically. By rotating and extending the tubes with respect to each other, the position...
— This paper addresses the problem of coverage control of a network of mobile sensors. In the current literature, this is commonly formulated as a locational optimization problem...
Ajay Deshpande, Sameera Poduri, Daniela Rus, Gaura...
We address the problem of online term recurrence prediction: for a stream of terms, at each time point predict what term is going to recur next in the stream given the term occurre...