This paper illustrates the synergic advantages of a multi-modal sound localization system utilizing 2 cameras and a 3-element microphone array. The 2 cameras were used as part of a stereo feature-detection based visual object localization system, while the microphones were combined to produce a sound localization system incorporating a Temporal Power Fusion (TPF) algorithm. The cameras and micr...

Cognate words are vocabulary items which occur in two or more historically related languages, such that they have similar meanings, and one can be transformed into the other by a predictable series of phonological changes. The discovery of such sound changes is potentially relevant to Cross-Language Information Retrieval: the automatic conversion of query terms in one language into their equiva...

Endowing the negotiation agent with a learning ability such that a more beneficial agreement might be obtained is increasingly gaining emphasis in agent negotiation. In this paper, we present a novel bilateral negotiation model based on Bayesian learning to enable self-interested agents to adapt negotiation strategies dynamically during the negotiation process. Specifically, we assume that two ...

Computational ethnomusicology (CE) refers to the use of computational techniques for the study of musics from around the world. It has been a growing field that has benefited from the the many advances that have been made in music information retrieval (MIR). The historical development of CE and the types of tasks that have been addressed so far, is traced in this paper. The use of computationa...

This paper updates and extends the work by Bunker, et al. (2004) that reviewed developments in the Philosophical Foundations of IS (PFIS) mini-track from 1996 through 2003. We first describe the history of the mini-track, concentrating on 1996, when C. West Churchman served on a PFIS panel and presented a luncheon address. His work on inquiring systems continues to be the basis for many of the ...

The availability of large volumes of multimedia data presents many challenges to content retrieval. Sophisticated modern systems must efficiently process, index, and retrieve terabytes of multimedia data, determining what is relevant based on the user's query criteria and the system's domain specific knowledge. This paper reports our approach to information extraction from crosslingual multimed...

Before 18 February P2 requests feedback on the following points: ¥ Do the proposed applications cover your project? Does it inspire and challenge you, and will it give the answers that you need? What is lacking? ¥ Can your project be mapped over the proposed partitionings that are given in the Appendix? Are there discrepancies between our partitioning and your project? ¥ Do you see problems wit...

Sound-field imaging, the visualization of spatial and temporal distribution of acoustical properties such as sound pressure, is useful for understanding acoustical phenomena. This study investigated the use of parallel phase-shifting interferometry (PPSI) with a high-speed polarization camera for imaging a sound field, particularly high-speed imaging of propagating sound waves. The experimental...

Four-month-old infants viewed, for a duration of several minutes, two objects that bounced in synchrony with two percussion sounds. This synchrony was the only information tying each sound to its respective object. During the viewing the infants learned about the relationships between sound and object. Learning was revealed in two ways. In a search test. infants looked for an object when its so...

Myra P. Bussemakers, Ab de Haan Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information University of Nijmegen Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands +31 24 3612648 [email protected] ABSTRACT In this research a categorization paradigm is used to study the multimodal integration processes that take place when working with an interface. Redundant auditory icons are used with visual in...