We are social animals that seek to connect with others of our kind. However, this common thought stands in need elaboration. In article, I argue for three theses. First, we pursue certain forms communicative interaction their own sake insofar as they ways connecting another. Second, interpersonal connection is a metaphysically primitive emotional relation which resists reductive analysis terms ...

12 We analyze spectral graph theory based image segmentation algorithms and 13 show there is a natural connection with edge preserving filtering. Based on 14 this connection we show that the normalized cut algorithm is equivalent to 15 repeated application of bilateral filtering. Then, using this interpretation we 16 present and implement a fast normalized cut algorithm. Experiments show 17 tha...

We study the loop representation of the quantum theory for 2+1 dimensional general relativity on a manifold, M = T 2 × R, where T 2 is the torus, and compare it with the connection representation for this system. In particular, we look at the loop transform in the part of the phase space where the holonomies are boosts and study its kernel. This kernel is dense in the connection representation ...

In this paper, a novel tone-based pitch connection control in unit selection is described to improve naturalness of output speech for Mandarin text-to-speech (TTS) baseline system. This study mainly focuses on pitch connections of concatenative syllables. To improve the concatenation quality, we apply offset pitch of preceding syllable and onset pitch of following syllable in unit selection. Ac...