Recommendation systems aim to recommend items that are likely to be of interest to users. This paper investigates several issues fundamental to such systems. (1) We model recommendation systems for packages of items. ...
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We present a support vector regression (SVR) rationale for treating complex data, exploiting the notions of widely linear estimation and pure complex kernels. To compute the Lagrangian and derive the dual problem, we ...
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Clear speech is a speaking style adopted by speakers in an attempt to maximize the clarity of their speech and is proven to be more intelligible than casual speech. This work focuses on modifying casual speech to soun...
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(纸本)9781622767595
Clear speech is a speaking style adopted by speakers in an attempt to maximize the clarity of their speech and is proven to be more intelligible than casual speech. This work focuses on modifying casual speech to sound as intelligible as clear speech. First, we examine the role of speaking rate for intelligibility. Clear and casual speech signals are time-scale stretched, matching the average duration of the casual and clear speech respectively. Next, spectral shaping and dynamic range compression are considered for increasing the loudness of the original casual speech while keeping the power of signals unaffected. Subjective tests with speech-in-noise conditions using speech shaped noise at -3, 0, and 5 dB SNR show that clear speech with high speaking rate is less intelligible than the original clear speech but still more intelligible than the unmodified casual speech. However, the intelligibility score for the time-scaled modified casual speech is deteriorated. In contrast, the loudness amplification considerably improved the intelligibility of the casual speech, reaching the scores of original clear speech. Objective measurements based on Speech Intelligibility Index (SE) are well correlated with the subjective test except for the time-scaled casual signal.
In order to design a spatial index, the most important operations are: insertion, deletion and search. We focus on the deletion operation over the xBR-tree, a spatial data secondary memory structure that belongs to th...
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Handheld optical projectors provide a simple way to overcome the limited screen real-estate on mobile devices. We present virtual projection (VP), an interaction metaphor inspired by how we intuitively control the pos...
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(纸本)9781450310154
Handheld optical projectors provide a simple way to overcome the limited screen real-estate on mobile devices. We present virtual projection (VP), an interaction metaphor inspired by how we intuitively control the position, size, and orientation of a handheld optical projector's image. VP is based on tracking a handheld device without an optical projector and allows selecting a target display on which to position, scale, and orient an item in a single gesture. By relaxing the optical projection metaphor, we can deviate from modeling perspective projection, for example, to constrain scale or orientation, create multiple copies, or offset the image. VP also supports dynamic filtering based on the projection frustum, creating overview and detail applications, and selecting portions of a larger display for zooming and panning. We show exemplary use cases implemented using our optical feature-tracking framework and present the results of a user study demonstrating the effectiveness of VP in complex interactions with large displays. Copyright 2012 ACM.
Most social networks allow individuals to share their information with friends but also with unknown people. Therefore, in order to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive, private information, the study of privacy i...
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It is often the case that traditional media provide coverage of a news event on the basis of journalists' viewpoints - a problem termed in the literature as media bias. On the other hand social media have given bi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781450312301
It is often the case that traditional media provide coverage of a news event on the basis of journalists' viewpoints - a problem termed in the literature as media bias. On the other hand social media have given birth to an alternative paradigm of journalism known as "citizen journalism". We take advantage of citizen journalism to detect the bias in traditional media and propose a simple model for empirical measurement of media bias. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).
In this paper, we develop a novel visual saliency based shape enhancement technique for relief surfaces. It consists of three steps. Firstly, we calculate the multi-channel salience map of the underlying shape by comb...
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We analyse two very simple Petri nets inspired by the Oregonator model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction using our stochastic Petri net simulator. We then perform the Krohn-Rhodes holonomy decomposition of the auto...
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We present results of sentiment analysis in Twitter messages that disclose personal health information. In these messages (tweets), users discuss ailment, treatment, medications, etc. We use the author-centric annotat...
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