We present a method to generate mouth animations coupled with moderate movements of the head. Our method uses a coarse 2D textured mesh representation of images. With hardware texture mapping, we obtain 30 frames/sec animations on modest PC platforms. The synthesized animation sequence is realistic and lively. Radial basis functions are used in the underlying animation engine. At each phoneme t...

Reverberation-robust speech recognition has become very important in the recognition of distant-talking speech. However, as no common reverberation criteria for the recognition of reverberantspeech have been proposed, it has been difficult to estimate this. We have thus focused on a reverberation criterion for the recognition of distant-talking speech. The reverberation time is generally curren...

Usually, people talk neutrally in environments where there are no abnormal talking conditions such as stress and emotion. Other emotional conditions that might affect people talking tone like happiness, anger, and sadness. Such emotions are directly affected by the patient health status. In neutral talking environments, speakers can be easily verified, however, in emotional talking environments...

In the last years robotic platforms have appeared in many research and everyday life contexts. An easy way of interacting with them has then become a necessity. Human Robot Interaction is the research field that aims at studying how robots can interact with humans in the most natural way. In this work we will present preliminary studies that we have been done in this direction, focusing on Natu...

Have you ever wished to know and actually feel what your friends feel so you could help them better? Or maybe you have wondered how it is to be one of those celebrities you admire? And how about to become an apple for example? To experience lazy days of hanging on a tree enjoying sunshine and being washed by rains? Or maybe it feels the opposite – a hard life of fighting against worms, decay, a...

The popular press typically describes microorganisms mainly as diseasecausing bugs that should be eliminated using antimicrobial drugs. However, this mindset overlooks both the substantial scientific contributions gleaned from studying microbial biology and our growing understanding that different microorganisms are fundamentally distinct in ways that need to be accounted for in drug discovery ...