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We introduce a novel approach for separating and segmenting individual facades from streetside images. Our algorithm incorporates prior knowledge about arbitrarily shaped repetitive regions which are detected using intensity profile descriptors and a voting–based matcher. In the experiments we compare our approach to extended state–of–the–art matching approaches using more than 600 challenging ...

A Linux-based system for live auralization is described, and its use in recreating the reverberant acoustics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, for a Byzantine chant concert in the recently inaugurated Bing Concert Hall is detailed. The system employed 24 QSC full range loudspeakers and six subwoofers strategically placed about the hall, and used Countryman B2D hypercardioid microphones affixed to the ...

English is a global language but is understood by few percentage of population in India. It continues to remain a barrier for rural population to learn and compete at a global level. Machine translation helps people from different places to understand an unknown language without the aid of human translator. A Text to Speech system generatesspeech from text given as input. The proposed system wi...

Given the high value of the online search market, whether brand perception or quality of search results matters more for users is a highly salient question. This paper presents findings of the largest controlled, systematic preference elicitation study of search quality versus brand perception. We examine a total of 548 instances of sponsored and organic search results from the Google and Bing ...

An effective theory of large NC QCD of mesons has been used to study six Kl4 decay modes. It has been found that the matrix elements of the axial-vector current dominate the Kl4 decays. PCAC is satisfied. A relationship between three form factors of axial-vector current has been found. Non-zero phase shifts are originated in ρ → ππ. The decay rates are calculated in the chiral limit. In this st...

A query classification system for NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 is described in this paper. The system classifies queries in Japanese and English into eight predefined classes by using support vector machines (SVMs) for classification. Feature vectors are created based on snippet similarities instead of snippet word frequency. These vectors, which have fewer dimensions than those made from raw words, redu...

1. Introduction. R. H. Bing showed that an upper semicontinuous decomposition of £3 into points and tame arcs did not necessarily produce a decomposition space topologically equivalent to E3 [1J. M. L. Curtis and R. L. Wilder showed [2] that the decomposition space of Bing was a homotopy manifold, thus negatively answering a question proposed by Griffiths [3J. R. Rosen recently announced [4] a ...