Speech acoustics varies from speaker to speaker, microphone to microphone, room to room, line to line, etc. Physically speaking, every speech sample is distorted. Socially speaking, however, speech is the easiest communication media for humans. In order to cope with the inevitable distortions, speech engineers have built HMMs with speech data of hundreds or thousands of speakers and the models ...

We present a system using semi-autonomous agents to help artists express ideas. Agents control their representation on a canvas via interactions in agent space. They are given rules, which include the ability to form, join, leave and dissolve coalitions. While individually, agents constitute only small parts of the composition, together they form more and more complex parts until the full pictu...

A clear distinction generally exists between processes of design generation and processes of design production. The profusion of digital fabrication tools and technologies make evident such distinctions in the context of design production but at the same time carry potential for material and fabrication-based processes promoting generative design methods. Such strategic application and customiz...

Rhythmic synchronization phenomena in interpersonal communication are classified into two, based on its temporal aspect and behavioural form similarity aspect. We focus on the temporal aspect, movement synchrony, the gestalt-like perception of movement rhythmicity or coordination. With the aid of THEME, we aim to describe it based on statistical definition of objective behavioural data. Behavio...

The Stardinates are a novel interactive Information Visualization (InfoVis) technique which aims at visualizing highly structured data. They represent some Gestalt principles very well, especially the principles of Closure and ’Prägnanz’. As a consequence, Stardinates form very distinct and memorable patterns which make abstraction and aggregation much easier. We give a formal description of th...

Causal Models are like Dependency Graphs and Belief Nets in that they provide a structure and a set of assumptions from which a joint distribution can, in principle, be computed. Unlike Dependency Graphs, Causal Models are models of hierarchical and/or parallel processes, rather than models of distributions (partially) known to a model builder through some sort of gestalt. As such, Causal Model...

We argue for a memory-based approach to music analysis which works with concrete musical experiences rather than with abstract rules or principles. New pieces of music are analyzed by combining fragments from structures of previously encountered pieces. The occurrence-frequencies of the fragments are used to determine the preferred analysis of a piece. We test some instances of this approach ag...

Baingio Pinna’s article “New Gestalt principles of perceptual organization: An extension from grouping to shape and meaning” won the 2009 Metzger Award of the Society for Gestalt !eory and its Applications. In this article, Pinna presented a variety of novel images that probe the way in which local and global factors interact to generate the percepts that we consciously see. As Pinna noted at t...

A new method of video object extraction is proposed to automatically extract the object of interest from actively acquired videos. Traditional video object extraction techniques often operate under the assumption of homogeneous object motion and extract various parts of the video that are motion consistent as objects. In contrast, the proposed active video object extraction (AVOE) approach assu...