Acoustic signal representations used in current audio coding algorithms can be improved by the incorporation of biorthogonality into Malvar's Extended Lapped Transform (ELT). Biorthogonality allows more exibility in the design of the analysis and synthesis windows by increasing the number of degrees of freedom. This paper examines this increase for two special cases and demonstrates the importa...

This extended abstract details a submission to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange in the Audio Genre classification task. This submission is very similar to the system that placed second in the 2004 ISMIR Audio description contest. A novel feature set and segmentation of features is introduced and modifications to the Decision Tree based model used in the 2004 submission are de...

Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition offers to make speech recognition possible in noisy environments. Early and late fusion approaches dominate the field but may ignore linguistically relevant features. Distinctive features offer an alternative unit for fusion and research has shown that this is feasible on subsets of phonemes [1]. This paper outlines two extended models, multi-class and ...

The popularity of on line document databases has led to a new problem nding which text databases out of many candidate choices are the most relevant to a user Identifying the relevant databases for a given query is the text database discovery problem The rst part of this paper presents a practical solution based on estimating the result size of a query and a database The method is termed GlOSS ...

We studied whether vision can teach touch to the same extent as touch seems to teach vision. In a 2 × 2 between-participants learning study, we artificially correlated visual gloss cues with haptic compliance cues. In two "natural" tasks, we tested whether visual gloss estimations have an influence on haptic estimations of softness and vice versa. In two "novel" tasks, in which participants wer...

Many deaf people have significant reading problems. Written content, e.g. on internet pages, is therefore not fully accessible for them. Embodied agents have the potential to communicate in the native language of this cultural group: sign language. However, state-of-the-art systems have limited comprehensibility and standard evaluation methods are missing. In this paper, we present methods and ...

In this paper we describe the SSI algorithm, a structural pattern matching algorithm for WSD. The algorithm has been applied to the gloss disambiguation task of Senseval-3.