We present two discriminative methods for name transliteration. The methods correspond to local and global modeling approaches in modeling structured output spaces. Both methods do not require alignment of names in different languages – their features are computed directly from the names themselves. We perform an experimental evaluation of the methods for name transliteration from three languag...

Scene structuring is a video analysis task for which no common evaluation procedures have been fully adopted. In this paper, we present a methodology to evaluate such task in home videos, which takes into account human judgement, and includes a representative corpus, a set of objective performance measures, and an evaluation protocol. The components of our approach are detailed as follows. Firs...

1. Abstract Reliability-based design optimizations (RBDO) require evaluation of sensitivities of probabilistic constraints. To develop RBDO utilizing the recently proposed novel second-order reliability method (SORM) that improves the conventional SORM in terms of accuracy, the sensitivities of the probabilistic constraints at the most probable point (MPP) are required. Thus, this study present...

The contemporary high-speed networks, e.g. the Internet and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks provide a convenient and cost-effective communication platform to carry the emerging multimedia applications. However, problems, such as network congestion caused by overloaded traffic get worse day by day. Thus, how to properly control the system while maintaining the quality of service (QoS) ...

Cognitive radio has become a promising technology to increase spectrum utilization through spectrum sharing between licensed users (primary users) and unlicensed users (secondary users). Performance evaluation and analysis is of key importance to get more knowledge of this newly emerged technology. Queueing theory and Markov chain model have been applied to conduct the analysis, where some resu...

High-performance data streaming technologies are increasingly adopted in IT companies to support the integration of heterogeneous and possibly distributed applications. Compared with traditional message queuing middleware, a platform enables implementation event-streaming systems (ESS) which include not only complex queues but also pipelines that transform react streams data. By analysing centr...

background: the pabon lasso model was  applied to assess the performance of six state-run hospitals in the province of kohgilooyeh & boyer-ahmad, to produce information that used by policy makers in their attempt to make the health care sys­tem more productive. methods: this cross-sectional study involved all the six public hospitals in the province, with 607 registered beds. data collec­tion a...

This paper explores how the inand out-domain probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) speaker verification behave when enrolment and verification lengths are reduced. Experiment studies have found that when full-length utterance is used for evaluation, in-domain PLDA approach shows more than 28% improvement in EER and DCF values over out-domain PLDA approach and when short utterances a...