View Seminar Video Abstract The open-source speech recognition toolkit “Kaldi” uses weighted finite state transducer (WFSTs) for training and decoding, and uses the OpenFst toolkit as a C++ library. I will give an informal overview[…]
Abstract We introduce a novel approach to data-driven feature extraction stemming from the field of speaker recognition. In the last five years, statistical methods rooted in factor analysis have greatly enhanced the traditional representation of[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract We describe a general approach using Bayesian analysis for the estimation of parameters in physiological pharmacokinetic models. The chief statistical difficulty in estimation with these models is that any physiological model[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract A well-written text contains a mix of general statements and sentences that provide specific details. Yet no current work in computational linguistics has addressed the task of predicting the level of[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract In this talk I will present two related pieces of research for text retrieval and image annotation that both use supervised embedding algorithms over large datasets. Part 1:The first part of[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Consider the following fundamental problem of low level vision: given a large image I an a patch J from another image, find the “best matching” location of the patch J to[…]
Abstract Interacting in time is something we all do, most of the time without thought about how it is accomplished. For many individuals who use technology to mediate their interactions, communication success is problematic. These[…]
