The main research area of this Ph.D. thesis is video sequence processing and analysis for description and indexing of visual content. Its objective is to contribute in the development of a computational system with the capabilities of object-based segmentation of audiovisual material, automatic content description, summarization for preview and browsing, as well as content-based retrieval….
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The research in this thesis addresses the problem of automatic speech recognition in noisy environments. Automatic speech recognition systems obtain acceptable performances in noise free conditions but these performances degrade dramatically in presence of additive noise. This is mainly due to the mismatch between the training and the noisy operating conditions. In the time-frequency representation…
Digital signal processing (DSP and, in particular, image processing, has been studied for many years. However, only the recent advances in computing technology have made it possible to use DSP in day-to-day applications. Images are now commonly used in many applications. The increasingly ubiquitous use of images raises new challenges. Users expect the images to…
Parametric modelling of speech signals finds its use in various speech processing applications. Recently, publications concerning sinusoidal speech modelling have been increasingly appeared in scientific literature. The thesis is mainly devoted to the sinusoidal model with harmonically related component sine waves, i.e. the harmonic model. The main objective is to find new approaches to synthetic…
Motion Estimation is an important research field with many commercial applications including surveillance, navigation, robotics, and image compression. As a result, the field has received a great deal of attention and there exist a wide variety of Motion Estimation techniques which are often specialised for particular problems. The relative performance of these techniques, in terms…
Digital video technology has been characterized by a steady growth in the last decade. New applications like video e-mail, third generation mobile phone video communications, videoconferencing, video streaming on the web continuously push for further evolution of research in digital video coding. In order to be sent over the internet or even wireless networks, video…
