Keyword spotting is a detection task consisting in discovering the presence of specific spoken words in unconstrained speech. The majority of keyword spotting systems are based on generative hidden Markov models and lack discriminative capabilities. However, discriminative keyword spotting systems are based on the estimation of a posteriori probabilities at the frame-level, hence they make use ...

In wildfire science, spotting refers to non-local creation of new fires, due to downwind ignition of brands launched from a primary fire. Spotting is often mentioned as being one of the most difficult problems for wildfire management, because of its unpredictable nature. Since spotting is a stochastic process, it makes sense to talk about a probability distribution for spotting, which we call t...

This paper describes the use of phonological knowledge to enhance current audio word spotting technology based on Hidden Markov Model. It reports on the result of an word-spotting experiment done on an audio data recorded from a live conference. The result of the experiment demonstrates the positive contribution of phonological knowledge towards audio word-spotting.

We propose a novel gesture spotting approach that offers a comprehensible representation of automatically inferred spatiotemporal constraints. These constraints can be defined between a number of characteristic control points which are automatically inferred from a single gesture sample. In contrast to existing solutions which are limited in time, our gesture spotting approach offers automated ...

This paper proposes a method of predicting accuracy of keyword spotting in terms of FA count and spotting score of correct detections. A new measure F for predicting the FA count is calculated by simulation of the keyword spotting for phoneme sequences that phoneme-based language model generates. Another measure C for predicting the spotting score of correct detections is obtained from a produc...

Given a set of handwritten documents, a common goal is to search for a relevant subset. Attempting to find a query word or image in such a set of documents is called word spotting. Spotting handwritten words in documents written in the Latin alphabet, and more recently in Arabic, has received considerable attention. One issue is generating candidate word regions on a page. Attempting to definit...