This paper describes a multimodal database which consists of image data of human gestures and corresponding speech data for the research on multimodal interaction systems. The purpose of this database is to provide an underlying foundation for research and development of multimodal interactive systems. Our primary concern in selecting utterances and gestures for inclusion in the database was to...

Parallel computing is gradually becoming a main stream tool in geotechnical simulations. The need for high fidelity and for modeling of fairly large 3-dimensional (3D) spatial configurations is motivating this direction of research. A new program ParCYCLIC for seismic geotechnical applications has been developed. Salient characteristics of the employed parallel sparse solver will be presented. ...

The Rosetta Stone TM is a successful CDROM based interactive program for teaching foreign languages, that uses speech comparison to help students improve their pronunciation. The input to a speech comparison system is N+I digitised utterances. The output is a measure of the similarity of the last utterance to each of the N others. Which language is being spoken is irrelevant. This differs from ...

The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas, also called the e-Mouse Atlas Project (EMAP), is an online resource comprised of the e-Mouse Atlas (EMA), a detailed digital model of mouse [7] development, and the e-Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression (EMAGE), a database that identifies sites of gene expression in mouse [7] embryos. Duncan Davidson and Richard Baldock founded the project in 1992, and the Medical Research...

Student diScount order Form 2016/17 Clark’s Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents, Ninth Edition is a comprehensive compendium of model agreements for just about every contract needed in the publishing industry. From general author agreements, via merchandising rights to online licensing, you’ll find it all in this essential resource. Students will benefit from: • Guidance on how to draft...

The Spoken Portuguese: Geographic and Social Varieties project has as its main goal the Portuguese teaching as foreign language. The idea is to provide a collection of authentic spoken texts and to make it friendly usable. Therefore, a selection of spontaneous oral data was made, using either already compiled material or material recorded for this purpose. The final corpus constitution resulted...

This document describes a new tutorial tool developed by NoTAM in which DSP programs, texts, help files and examples make computer music knowledge and practice available to students at the elementary school level and beyond. The educational material is organized on a CD-ROM, where students learn through a demo mode that allows a pre-programmed piece of music to be dissected through calls to the...

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A digital watermark embeds an imperceptible signal into data such as audio, video and images, for a variety of purposes, including captioning and copyright control. As watermarking is increasingly used for a wide variety ∗Portions of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of SPIE, Human Vision & Electronic Imaging II, V 3016, pp 92-99, February 1997. Portions are reprinted, with permission, fro...

This paper discusses issues of electronic journal readability It identi es some of the tech niques that human beings have evolved for reading and skimming paper based journals An attempt is made to identify those manual techniques which could be constructively replicated in electronic form Consideration is also given to the additional functionality provided by online journals and how this can b...