Partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) has been generally used to model agent decision processes such as dialogue management. In this paper, possibility of applying POMDP to a voice activity detector (VAD) has been explored. The proposed system first formulates hypotheses about the current noise environment and speech activity. Then, it decides and observes the features that are e...

In this paper, we proposed an algorithm which efficiently detects salient objects. First of all, yellow and intensity images are generated from input image and the feature map is generated using a contrast difference between red-green and blue-yellow channel. Secondly, Lookup-Table(LUT) is obtained by histogram of the feature map. Finally, the saliency map is obtained from LUT. The proposed sal...

This paper describes a user detection system which employs a saliency system working on an omnidirectional camera delivering a rough and fast estimate of the position of a potential user. It consists of a vision (skin color) and a sonar based component, which are combined to make the estimate more reliable. To make the skin color detection robust under varying illumination conditions, it is sup...

In this work, we study local feature extraction methods and evaluate their performance in detecting local features from the salient regions of images. In order to measure the detectors’ performance, we compared the detected regions to gaze fixations obtained from the eye movement recordings of human participants viewing two types of images: natural images (photographs) and abstract/surreal imag...

This paper presents an architecture well suited for natural image classification or visual object recognition applications. The image content is described by a distribution of local prototype features obtained by projecting local signatures on a self-organizing map. The local signatures describe singularities around interest points detected by a wavelet-based salient points detector. Finally, i...

InSAR data are used to recognise large industrial building complexes. Such buildings often show salient regular patterns of strong scatterers on their roofs. A previous segmentation which uses the intensity, height and coherence information extracts building cues. Strong scatterers are filtered by a spot detector and localised by a cluster formation. Strong scatterers are grouped in rows by a p...