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ATR's speech translation system: ASURA

ASURA is an experimental speech-to-speech translation system. It recognizes Japanese input speech, translates to English and German, and output synthesized voices. The main features concerning speech recognition, interface between speech recognition and language processing, and language translation are described. The performance evaluation of the system is reported, too. The result shows that t...

ASURA: Scalable and Uniform Data Distribution Algorithm for Storage Clusters

In algorithm management, data are distributed in accordance with a data distribution algorithm that is capable of determining, on the basis of the datum ID, the node in which the required data is being stored. Among the requirements for a data distribution algorithm are short calculation times, low memory consumption, uniform data distribution in accordance with the capacity of each node and th...

Automated Modeling of the Great Buddha Statue in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

In the great valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimen-tary rock of the region around the second to fourth centu-ries AD. The larger statue was 53 meters high while the smaller Buddha measured 35 m. The two colossal statues were demolished in March 2001 by the Taleban, using mortars, dynamite and rockets. After the destruction, a consortium w...

ASURA: Kyushu United Team in the Four Legged Robot League

This paper presents our approach to the Sony Four Logged Robot League of RoboCup 2001. The components of our system consist of strategy, vision, localization, behaviors and walking module. We introduce several techniques for these modules: The image based cooperation, TSL color space for robust color classification, accurate localization through observing the nearest marker and enhanced paramet...

Etruscan women’s clothing and its decoration: the polychrome gypsum statue from the ‘Isis Tomb’ at Vulci