In a tournament, a principal sets a prize, and several agents then compete to attain the highest observed output, and win the prize. This paper departs from the existing literature on tournaments by assuming that agents can influence the spread of their distribution of output, in addition to the mean. We ask in which way risk taking and effort interacts in equilibrium. First, under standard tou...

Figure 1: Matching I1 and I2 using DNN flow. Each column shows the matching of different levels. In first row, parallelogram denotes the DNN feature image of I1, where dot represents the feature at that location. Line with arrow denotes the flow vector of the corresponding feature, while curve with arrow denotes guidance from high level to low level. In second row, the color rectangles show I1’...

The trend towards including both acoustic and high level speech features in speaker recognition systems is addressed with the presentation of the speaker verification system developed by QUT for the NIST 2004 Speaker Recognition Evaluation. The system presented is a fusion of five subsystems including acoustic, lexical, phonetic, prosodic and durational speech features and focuses on utilising ...

The primary aim of this study was to determine the relationship between certain aspects of coordination, the time course of a bout and sport-related skill levels in cadet judoists. The study evaluated eight judokas with high sport skill levels. Based on the analysis of tournament matches (N=66), the authors determined the activity, effectiveness of actions and the level of achievement. Ten aspe...