This technical report presents and extends a recent paper we have proposed for large scale image search. State-of-the-art methods build on the bagof-features image representation. We first analyze bag-of-features in the framework of approximate nearest neighbor search. This shows the sub-optimality of such a representation for matching descriptors and leads us to derive a more precise represent...

This study examines the perception of prominence in speech signals by listeners who are native speakers of Swedish. It represents a continuation of earlier research dealing with perception of prominence by native speakers of English and Estonian (Lehiste and Fox, 1992). The stimuli consisted of the synthesized token [bo a] at a constant fundamental frequency. The basic stimulus token was 400 ms...