This paper describes a novel feature-space VTLN method that models frequency warping as a linear interpolation of contiguous Mel filter-bank energies. The presented technique aims to reduce the distortion in the Mel filter-bank energy estimation due to the harmonic composition of voiced speech intervals and DFT sampling when the central frequency of band-pass filters is shifted. The presented i...

Echo planar (EP) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) permits in vivo identification of the orientation and coherence of brain white matter tracts but suffers from field inhomogeneity-induced geometric distortion. To reduce spatial distortion, polynomial warping corrections were applied and the effects tested on measures of fractional anisotropy (FA) in the genu and splenium of corpus callosum. Imple...

A kinematically correct choice of velocity focuses subsurface offset image gathers at zero offset. Infinitesimal warping from the current image towards its focus can be approximated by a horizontal contraction. The image residual can be then taken as the difference between the warped and the original image to account for the velocity error. Least squares fitting of the effect of a velocity pert...

Speech can be represented as a constellation of constricting events, gestures, which are defined at distinct vocal tract sites, in the form of a gestural score. Gestures and their output trajectories, tract variables, which are available only in synthetic speech, have recently been shown to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance paper we propose an iterative analysis-by-synthesi...

The human visual system has a limited perception of detail. In immersive virtual reality systems, perceptually based computer graphics techniques are often used to optimize system performance. Priority rendering is a rendering technique used in conjunction with an Address Recalculation Pipeline virtual reality system, in order to reduce the overall rendering load. Further reductions to the over...

Our paper proposes an enhanced video watermarking approach. The fundamental idea is to use geometric warping for watermarks with high predictable robustness to lossy compression. We explain the basic watermarking approach which uses a block based statistic (Normed Centre of Gravity NCG) to describe the geometric structure of blocks. The NCG also is used to choose robust blocks. To embed the wat...

Relevance feedback is a widely adopted approach to improve content-based information retrieval systems by keeping the user in the retrieval loop. Among the fundamental relevance feedback approaches, feature space warping has been proposed as an effective approach for bridging the gap between high-level semantics and the low-level features. Recently, combination of feature space warping and quer...

We analyze the AneuRisk65 curvature functions using a likelihoodbased warping method for sparsely sampled curves, and combine it with logistic regression in order to discriminate subjects with aneurysms at or after the terminal bifurcation of the internal carotid artery (the most life-threatening) from subjects with no aneurysms or aneurysms along the carotid artery (the less serious). Signific...

A DSP technique that transforms a digital signal by warping the frequency axis is discussed. The technique corresponds to a mapping of the samples in the z-domain such that they are unevenly spaced around the unit circle. A spectral warping network has the property that a timeshifted impulse function is transformed into a chirp function. This can have useful applications in the analysis of the ...

In this paper we address the problem of temporal alignment applied to captured communicative gestures conveying different styles. We propose a representation space that may be considered as robust to the spatial variability induced by style. By extending a multilevel dynamic time warping algorithm, we show how this extension can fulfil the goals of time correspondence between gesture sequences ...