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PR
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Adaptive degraded document image binarization
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for the binarization and enhancement of degraded documents. The proposed method does not require any parameter tuning by the user and c...
Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Per...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Continuous F0 in the source-excitation generation for HMM-based TTS: Do we need voiced/unvoiced classification?
Most HMM-based TTS systems use a hard voiced/unvoiced classification to produce a discontinuous F0 signal which is used for the generation of the source-excitation. When a mixed ...
Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz,...
ICDE
2001
IEEE
121views Database» more  ICDE 2001»
16 years 8 months ago
Integrating Semi-Join-Reducers into State of the Art Query Processors
Semi-join reducers were introduced in the late seventies as a means to reduce the communication costs of distributed database systems. Subsequent work in the eighties showed, howe...
Konrad Stocker, Donald Kossmann, Reinhard Braumand...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
112views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
A random walk approach to sampling hidden databases
A large part of the data on the World Wide Web is hidden behind form-like interfaces. These interfaces interact with a hidden backend database to provide answers to user queries. ...
Arjun Dasgupta, Gautam Das, Heikki Mannila
COST
2009
Springer
184views Multimedia» more  COST 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Cross-Layer Optimization Issues for Realizing Transparent Mesh Optical Networks
In transparent optical networks as the signal propagates through a transparent network it experiences the impact of a variety of quality degrading phenomena that are introduced by ...
Siamak Azodolmolky, Tibor Cinkler, Dimitrios Kloni...