A static view of the world permeates most research in speech and hearing. In this idealised situation, sources don’t move and neither do listeners; the acoustic environment doesn’t change; and speakers speak without any effect of auditory input from their own voice or other speakers. Corpora for speech research and most behavioural tasks have grown to reflect the static viewpoint. Yet it is cle...

management framework is being developed for Active Networks. The management system is tailored to address the specific management requirements for Active Networking and supports a flexible delegation approach to adapt to management strategies by different actors (i.e., network operators and service providers) in order to customise the management architecture to their business needs. This paper ...

Active databases utilize Event-Condition-Action rules to provide active capability to the underlying system. An event was initially defined to be an instantaneous, atomic occurrence of interest and the time of occurrence of the last event in an event expression was used as the time of occurrence for an entire event expression (detection-based semantics), rather than the interval over which an e...

This paper describes unifying Active Appearance Model and Simulated Annealing for automatic Cephalometric analysis. A complete model of shape and texture was built from a dataset of manually annotated images, and then tested with unseen images. A comparison with Active Shape Models was presented. Twenty randomly selected cephalograms were used for training and seven cephalograms for testing. 25...

Unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) require an obscuring dusty torus around the central engine. Torus sizes of hundreds of parsecs were deduced from early theoretical modeling efforts, but high-resolution IR observations now show that the torus size is no more than a few parsecs. This conflict is resolved when the clumpy nature of the torus is taken into account. The compact torus m...