Voice conversion aims at converting speech from one speaker to sound as if it was spoken by another specific speaker. The most popular voice conversion approach based on Gaussian mixture modeling tends to suffer either from model overfitting or oversmoothing. To overcome the shortcomings of the traditional approach, we recently proposed to use dynamic kernel partial least squares (DKPLS) regres...

Applications that automatically capture some details of a live experience and provide future access to that experience are increasingly common in the ubiquitous computing community. However, there remains a largely unexplored design space of potential new applications, and very few of the previous systems have been able to evolve in functionality over an extended period of time. To overcome the...

This paper describes the design and implementation of INCA, an open architecture for the distributed management of multi-service networks and systems applications. The Intelligent Network Control Architecture is populated by stationary and mobile intelligent agents. These agents perform monitoring and control of network and systems components, thereby supporting the integrated management of net...

People’s daily lives provide them with memories and records that they often want to review later. They must expend time and effort to record these experiences manually for future retrieval. To address this issue, applications that automatically capture details of a live experience and provide future access to that experience have become an increasingly common theme of research in ubiquitous com...