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Columbia - Ibm News Video Story Segmentation in Trecvid 2004

In this technical report, we give an overview of our technical developments in the story segmentation task in TRECVID 2004. Among them, we propose an information-theoretic framework, visual cue cluster construction (VC), to automatically discover adequate mid-level features. The problem is posed as mutual information maximization, through which optimal cue clusters are discovered to preserve th...

The IBM ASIC/SoC

This paper describes the methodology employed by the IBM Microelectronics Division for the design of its Blue Logic applicationspecific integrated circuits (ASICs) and system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. This methodology is used by both IBM ASIC and SoC designers, as well as OEM customers. A key focus of the IBM ASIC/SoC methodology, outlined in the first section of this paper, is the first-time-ri...

The Ibm Speechviewer

The 'SpeechViewer' system, developed by IBM for using with their PS/2 microcomputers or compatibles, is meant as an aid for speech therapists while working with their clients. This paper reports about its speech training and analyzing facilities that are tested in practice to some extent. Using a hardware vowel generator, the accuracy of the detection of the speech features is tested as well. F...

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The IBM eServer z990 microprocessor

The IBM eServer z990 microprocessor implements many features designed to give excellent performance on both newer and traditional mainframe applications. These features include a new superscalar instruction execution pipeline, highbandwidth caches, a huge secondary translation-lookaside buffer (TLB), and an onboard cryptographic coprocessor. The microprocessor maintains zSeries leadership in RA...