This paper describes the integration of language identification (LID) into a multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for spoken conversations containing code-switches between Mandarin and English. We apply a multistream approach to combine at frame level the acoustic model score and the language information, where the latter is provided by an LID component. Furthermore, we advanc...

ShareCam is a robotic pan, tilt, and zoom web-based camera controlled by simultaneous frame requests from online users. A companion paper describes the system. This paper, Part II, focuses on algorithms. The ShareCam problem is to find a camera frame that optimizes a measure of total user satisfaction. We present a grid-based approximation algorithm: given camera frame requests from n users, an...

1. Determinations were made of several physical properties of the viscid and frame silks of the orb-webs built by the spider Araneus sericatus (Cl.). 2. Both types of silk show a breaking stress of approximately 1 GN/m and an initial resilience of approximately 0-35. 3. The breaking extension ratio of viscid silk (A = 3*00) is much greater than that of frame silk (A = i2s), and the viscid silk ...

Multi-level control of quantum coherence exponentially reduces communication and computation resources required for a variety of applications of quantum information science. However, it also introduces complex dynamics to be understood and controlled. These dynamics can be simplified and made intuitive by employing group theory to visualize certain four-level dynamics in a 'Bell frame' comprisi...

for any reduced commutative $f$-ring with identity and bounded inversion, we show that a condition which is obviously necessary for the socle of the ring to coincide with the socle of its bounded part, is actually also sufficient. the condition is that every minimal ideal of the ring consist entirely of bounded elements. it is not too stringent, and is satisfied, for instance, by rings of conti...

In this work, we give parallel transport frame of a curve and we introduce the relations between the frame and Frenet frame of the curve in 4-dimensional Euclidean space. The relation which is well known in Euclidean 3-space is generalized for the …rst time in 4-dimensional Euclidean space. Then we obtain the condition for spherical curves using the parallel transport frame of them. The conditi...

We describe proposed enhancements to the ATM Unspeciied Bit Rate (UBR) service that guarantee a minimum rate at the frame level to the UBR VCs. These enhancements have been called Guaranteed Frame Rate (GFR). In this paper, we discuss the motivation, design and implementation issues for GFR. We present the design of buuer management and policing mechanisms to implement GFR. We study the eeects ...

This paper proposes a control algorithm for parallel active power filters, based on current-controlled pulsewidth-modulated converters, which allows precise compensation of selected harmonic currents produced by distorting loads. The approach is based on the measurement of line currents and performs the compensation of the selected harmonics using closed-loop synchronous frame controllers. Than...

One of the methods for retrofitting reinforced concrete moment frames is the use of steel braces. In this research, the seismic performance of a double-skinned concrete framing system reinforced with two concentric (CBF) and eccentric (EBF) steel bracing, was investigated under seven near-fault earthquake records of varying intensity. For this purpose, two ten-story concrete frames with five sp...