Information & computer science publications
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Computationally-Efficient Endpointing Features for Natural Spoken Interaction with Personal-Assistant Systems
We elicit personal-assistant speech using a recognizer with a dramatically increased endpoint threshold, and find frequent non-final pauses. Based on the new data, we develop low-cost acoustic features to discriminate…
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On the Feasibility of Deploying Cell Anomaly Detection in Operational Cellular Networks
In this paper, we build on our previous work and study the feasibility of an operational deployment of an adaptive ensemble-method framework for modeling cell behavior.
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Highly Accurate Phonetic Segmentation Using Boundary Correction Models and System Fusion
Accurate phone-level segmentation of speech remains an important task for many subfields of speech research. We investigate techniques for boosting the accuracy of automatic phonetic segmentation based on HMM acoustic-phonetic…
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Towards Quantifying the Completeness of BDI Goals
We sketch a pragmatic but principled mechanism for quantifying the level of completeness of goals in a Belief-Desire-Intention--like agent.
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Simplified VTS-Based I-Vector Extraction in Noise-Robust Speaker Recognition
In this work, we propose an efficient simplification scheme, named sVTS, in order to show that the VTS approach gives improvements in large scale applications compared to state-of-the-art systems.
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Submodular Subset Selection for Large-Scale Speech Training Data
We address the problem of subselecting a large set of acoustic data to train automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To this end, we apply a novel data selection technique based…
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Clock Synchronization on the RAX Spacecraft
The Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) is a CubeSat that was developed to study space weather in Earth׳s ionosphere. Accuracy of the onboard clock is critical for processing the radar measurements.
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Tripod Fall: Concept and Experiments of a Novel Approach to Humanoid Robot Fall Damage Reduction
This paper addresses a new control strategy to reduce the damage to a humanoid robot during a fall. Instead of following the traditional approach of finding a favorable configuration with…
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Forensic Prescreening System Using Coded Aperture Snapshot Spectral Imager
We present a camera system for instantaneous, non-destructive capture of spectral signatures for forensic analysis. Our system detects highly probative samples in the forensic scene mixed by the multiple target…
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Unscented Transform for iVector-Based Noisy Speaker Recognition
In this paper, it is proposed to substitute the first order VTS by an unscented transform, where unlike VTS, the nonlinear function is not applied over the clean model parameters…
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The Gradual Verifier
We propose a gradual verification approach, GraVy. For a given piece of Java code, GraVy partitions the statements into those that are unreachable, or from which exceptional termination is impossible, inevitable, or…
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ISOMER: Informative Segment Observations for Multimedia Event Recounting
This paper describes a system for multimedia event detection and recounting. The goal is to detect a high level event class in unconstrained web videos and generate event oriented summarization…