A statistical parametric approach to speech synthesis based HMMs has grown in popularity over the last few years. In this approach, spectrum, excitation, and duration of speech are simultaneously modeled by context-de...
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A statistical parametric approach to speech synthesis based HMMs has grown in popularity over the last few years. In this approach, spectrum, excitation, and duration of speech are simultaneously modeled by context-dependent HMMs, and speech waveforms are generated from the HMMs themselves. Since December 2002, we have publicly released an opensource software toolkit named "HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS)" to provide a research and development toolkit for statistical parametric speech synthesis. This paper describes recent developments of HTS in detail, as well as future release plans.
Sparse coding has high-performance encoding and ability to express images, sparse encoding basis vector plays a crucial role. The computational complexity of the most existing sparse coding basis vectors of is relativ...
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Sparse coding has high-performance encoding and ability to express images, sparse encoding basis vector plays a crucial role. The computational complexity of the most existing sparse coding basis vectors of is relatively large. In order to reduce the computational complexity and save the time to train basis vectors. A new Hebbian rules based method for computation of sparse coding basis vectors is proposed in this paper. A two-layer neural network is constructed to implement the task. The main idea of our work is to learn basis vectors by removing the redundancy of all initial vectors using Hebbian rules. The experiments on natural images prove that the proposed method is effective for sparse coding basis learning. It has the smaller computational complexity compared with the previous work.
We present a computational model of human eye movements based on a genetic algorithm (GA). The model can generate elemental raw eye movement data in a four-second eye viewing window with a 25 Hz sampling rate. Based o...
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We present a computational model of human eye movements based on a genetic algorithm (GA). The model can generate elemental raw eye movement data in a four-second eye viewing window with a 25 Hz sampling rate. Based on the physiology and psychology characters of human vision system, the fitness function of the GA model is constructed by taking into consideration of five factors including the saliency map, short time memory, saccades distribution, Region of Interest (ROI) map, and a retina model. Our model can produce the scan path of a subject viewing an image, not just several fixations points or artificial ROI's as in the other models. We have also developed both subjective and objective methods to evaluate the model by comparing its behavior with the real eye movement data collected from an eye tracker. Tested on 18 (9 times 2) images from both an obvious-object image group and a non-obvious-object image group, the subjective evaluations shows very close scores between the scan paths generated by the GA model and those real scan paths; for the objective evaluation, experimental results show that the distance between GA's scan paths and human scan paths of the same image has no significant difference by a probability of 78.9% on average.
While computing is entering a new phase in which CPU improvements are driven by the addition of multiple cores on a single chip, rather than higher frequencies. Parallel processing on these systems is in a primitive s...
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This paper proposes a Sample-Consensus method for viewpoint independent sign language recognition under data deficiency (matched features are possibly deficient with regard to some frame pairs). The proposed method is...
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This paper proposes a Sample-Consensus method for viewpoint independent sign language recognition under data deficiency (matched features are possibly deficient with regard to some frame pairs). The proposed method is based on the epipolar geometry and inspired by RANSAC. The basic idea is that all corresponded frames between two sequences of the same sign can be roughly considered as captured synchronously by a virtual stereo vision system and thus they will satisfy the same fundamental matrix. In addition, the fundamental matrix can be estimated from point correspondences contained by some part of corresponding frames. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method. Moreover, this Sample-Consensus method can be easily extended to some similar problems, such as viewpoint independent activity analysis and rigid-motion analysis.
With the fast development of World Wide Web, the quantity of web information is increasing in an unprecedented pace, a great many of which are generated dynamically from background databases, and can't be indexed ...
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With the fast development of World Wide Web, the quantity of web information is increasing in an unprecedented pace, a great many of which are generated dynamically from background databases, and can't be indexed by traditional search engine, so we call them Deep Web. For the heterogeneous and dynamic features of Deep Web sources, classifying the Deep Web source by domain effectively is a significant precondition of Deep Web sources integration. In this paper, we consider the visible features of Deep Web and Maximum Entropy approach, and then on the basis of binary classification, we propose a new multivariate classification approach based on Maximum Entropy towards Deep Web sources. In addition, we propose a Feedback algorithm to improve the accuracy of classification. An experimental evaluation over real Web data shows that, our approach could provide an effective and general solution to the multivariate classification of Deep Web sources.
With the startup of the Golden Agriculture Project, the step of being-information of agriculture is becoming rapid. And the transformation and share of data is indispensable to the being-information of agriculture. Ho...
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With the startup of the Golden Agriculture Project, the step of being-information of agriculture is becoming rapid. And the transformation and share of data is indispensable to the being-information of agriculture. How to implement data combination, data transformation and data receiving applications are the important means to complete the information share safely and enhance the efficiency. The paper starts with searching of methods to implement data interchange, and introduce some of the methods, points of the techniques, etc. Basing on this, the paper also introduces the detail requirement analyses, system design and detail implementation of the system. According to the requirement and trait of the project, a data interchange system is researched and completed. And a data interchange model based on message-oriented middleware (MOM) is presented in this paper, which builds a middleware between the province and the ministry taking part in data interchange. The system has traits as follows: 1. keeping the data safe and credible while it is transformed. 2. having excellent transplantable and applied capability. 3. doesn't need intervention of workman in the process of data interchange. 4. applying the data interchange between databases of different structure. 5. being simple to be developed and applied. MOM TongLink/Q offers interfaces for application development, and it completes the data transformation through the internet. The integration adapters developed do the data management, which are developed based on the Frame for Applications Integration TongIntegrator. This method offers a new approach to resolve the question of data interchange. Now the system has been successfully applied in the data interchange project of Ministry of Agriculture.
information granulation and entropy theory are two main approaches to research uncertainty of an information system, which have been widely applied in many practical issues. In this paper, the characterizations and re...
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information granulation and entropy theory are two main approaches to research uncertainty of an information system, which have been widely applied in many practical issues. In this paper, the characterizations and representations of information granules under various binary relations are investigated in information systems, an axiom definition of information granulation is presented, and some existing definitions of information granulation become its special forms. Entropy theory in information systems is further developed and the granulation monotonicity of each of them is proved. Moreover, the complement relationship between information granulation and entropy is established. This investigation unifies the results of measures for uncertainties in complete information systems and incomplete information systems.
One key point in atmospheric and environmental research today is forecasting of air quality because the health is impacted by the pollutants existing in urban air. Support vector machine (SVM) has been used in air qua...
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One key point in atmospheric and environmental research today is forecasting of air quality because the health is impacted by the pollutants existing in urban air. Support vector machine (SVM) has been used in air quality prediction as a new learning method developed in recent years. The selection of kernel function is one of important branches in SVM researches. This paper presents a new kernel function based on time correlation for time series data, which incorporates the cyclical feature of time series into SVM. Simulation experiments demonstrate the presented kernel function can help to improve the fitting effect and obtain better generalization performance of SVR.
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