Automatic Segmentation" (MAUS) system labels and segments the phonetic constituents of spoken German in a manner similar to highly trained phoneticians. MAUS has been used to train automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems as well as to provide detailed statistical analyses of spontaneous speech (using the Verbmobil I and RVG I corpora). The MAUS system is a reliable, automatic means of testin...

this study concerns to analyze femininity identity by psychoanalysis approach of lacan. psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most areas of debate within feminist artists. the main question of this research is: “how does video art show the femininity identity?” so, initially we tried to categorize different influential concepts of lacan’s psychoanalysis which is necessary to get to know his at...

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative case study examining why one public library installed video surveillance systems and then later reversed course and completely removed the previously installed systems. We found that the library initially installed the system as a response to specific incidents of crime without central administrative oversight, and that the removal was prompted ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES People who perform a cognitively demanding secondary task while recalling a distressing memory often experience the memory as less emotional, vivid, or accurate during subsequent recollections. In this experiment, we tested whether the emotional valence (positive versus neutral) and sensory modality (visual, auditory, or both) of a secondary task diminishes the emotion...

A bandwidth-sharing scheme for group video conferencing is presented in this paper. The key features of the scheme are the monitoring of user behavior and message passing, which are used by each client in order to identify and report their interest in other group members. Each video sender operates on the information about other users’ interest in order to adjust the sender’s own frame rate, re...

In this paper, we propose a new full-fuzzy video ratecontrol algorithm (RCA) for variable bit rate (VBR) videoapplications. The proposed RCA provides high qualitycompressed video with a low degree computational complexity.By controlling the quantization parameter (QP) on a picturebasis, it produces VBR video bit streams. The proposed RCAhas been implemented on the JM H.264/AVC video codec andth...

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approaches to image recognition are data dependent and computationally expensive. To classify unknown images they need to match the nearest neighbour in the stored database of extracted image features. In this paper, Discrete Cosine Transforms (DCTs) are used to reduce the dimensionality of image space by truncating high frequency DCT components. The remaining...

In this paper an optimized method for unsupervised image clustering is proposed. Generally a Novel Fuzzy C Means (FCM) or FCM based clustering algorithm are used for clustering based image segmentation but these algorithms have a disadvantage of depending upon supervised user inputs such as number of clusters. Our proposed algorithm enhances an unsupervised preliminary process known as Double C...