In this paper we describe the different investigations that are part of the development of a new singing digital musical instrument, adapted to real-time performance. It concerns improvement of low-level synthesis modules, mapping strategies underlying the development of a coherent and expressive control space, and the building of a concrete bi-manual controller.

There are two main issues I want to address in this response to Peter Cheeseman's \An inquiry into computer understanding" (hereafter, abbreviated as Inquiry) and \In defense of`An inquiry into computer understand-ing' " (hereafter, abbreviated as Defense): (1) the \right" approach to reasoning about uncertainty and (2) the relationship between logic and probability. 1 Cheeseman's positions on ...

A region-based approach towards modelling of bottom-up visual attention is proposed with an objective to accelerate the internal processes of attention and make its output usable by the high-level vision procedures to facilitate intelligent decision making during pattern analysis and vision-based learning. A memory-based inhibition of return is introduced in order to handle the dynamic scenario...

Croatian enterprises report relatively low level of innovativeness. The objective of this paper is to identify factors that constraint innovation activity of Croatian fi rms. The analysis is focused on the impact of constraining factors on the decision to abandon and delay innovation development employing Croatian Community Innovation Survey 2006 (CIS2006) data. Exploration of factors leading t...

We present the tool MSCan, which supports MSC-based system development. In particular, it automatically checks high-level MSC specifications for implementability.

Highly predictive sentential contexts can facilitate the generation of expectancies for low-level physical form-based properties of upcoming linguistic input. When contextual information (such as words in a sentence) constrains upcoming input to a specific syntactic category, words with category-typical physical form-based properties are processed more quickly than category atypical words. We a...

With an aim to high-level understanding of the mathematical contents in a document image the requirement of math-zone extraction and recognition technique is obvious. In this paper we present fully auotmatic segmentation of displayed-math zones from the document image, using only the spatial layout information of math-formulas and equations, so as to help commercial OCR systems which cannot dis...

We define a high-level model to mathematically capture the behavioural interface of abstract Virtual Providers (VP), their refinements and their composition into rich mediator structures. We show for a Virtual Internet Service Provider example how to use such a model for rigorously formulating and proving properties of interest.

Nasal coarticulation has been shown to vary systematically in words depending on the number of phonological neighbors: words with many neighbors are produced with a greater degree of vowel nasality than words with fewer phonological neighbors [9]. This study examines the effect of this systematic low-level variation on lexical perception. The degree of nasality in natural real and nonsense word...