The text-to-speech intonation model we are developing derives from both linguistics, and the acoustics and aerodynamics of speech production. Our underlying premise is that in human speech production there are physical processes intrinsic to speech production, and that some of these processes can be cognitively represented – they can therefore become part of the domain of language processing. T...

Environment mapping is a popular technique for creating consistent lighting when compositing a virtual object into a real scene. However, capturing an environment map usually requires physical access to the scene to obtain illumination measurements. But what if all one has available is a single photograph of the scene? In this paper, we study techniques for synthesizing plausible environment ma...