When the boundary of a familiar object is shown by a series of isolated dots, humans can often recognize the object with ease. This ability can be sustained with addition of distracting dots around the object. However, such capability has not been reproduced algorithmically on computers. In this paper, we will introduce a new algorithm that groups a set of dots into multiple overlapping subsets...

This article presents a tutorial information about STRAIGHT and TANDEM-STRAIGHT, a widely used speech modification tool and its successor as well as their application for speech morphing. They share the same concept that periodic excitation found in voiced sounds is an efficient mechanism for transmitting underlying smooth time-frequency representation. They also based on perceptual equivalence...