A page of a document is a set of small components which are grouped by a human reader into higher level components, such as lines and text blocs. Document image analysis is aimed at detecting these components in document images. We propose the encoding of local information by considering the properties that determine perceptual grouping. Each connected component is labelled according to the loc...

This paper describes an extension of scripts, which have been used to control sequences of robot behavior, to facilitate human-robot coordination. The script mechanism permits the human to both conduct expected, complementary activities with the robot and to intervene opportunistically taking direct control. Scripts address the six major issues associated with human-robot coordination. They all...

The effects of imagining behavioral scripts on personal intentions were investigated in two experiments. Subjects imagined either themselves, a friend, or a disliked acquaintance performing or not performing a series of target behaviors. Subjects also sketched these behavior.alscenarios in cartoon-panel form. Intention changes were assessed in a pre-post design. Experiment I demonstrated that (...

Command-line interfaces are heavily used by system administrators to manage computer systems. Tasks performed at a command line may often be repetitive, leading to a desire for automation. However, the critical nature of system administration suggests that humans also need to supervise an automated system’s behavior. This paper presents a programming by demonstration approach to capturing repet...

The Constitution of India, under its Eight Schedule, has recognized Hindi (in Devanagari Script) and English as Official languages of Union Government, along with other 22 languages as Scheduled languages and given status and official encouragement to these Scheduled Languages. Most of the Optical recognition research work has been done on Devanagari, Telugu, and Bangla scripts etc. D e v e l o...

AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) devices are often used by disabled people who are non-speaking, in order to assist them to communicate. However, many such systems require the user to build up an utterance word-byword each time, and are thus often laborious for the user and slow (and thus less effective) in communication. For this reason, an AAC system was developed which relies...

The logic for handling of application requests to a staged, eventdriven architecture is often distributed over different portions of the source code. This complicates changing and understanding the flow of events in the system. The article presents an approach that extracts request handling logic from regular stage functionality into a set of request scripts. These scripts are executed step-wis...

We present a dataset of telephone conversations in English and Czech, developed to train acoustic models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in spoken dialogue systems (SDSs). The data comprise 45 hours of speech in English and over 18 hours in Czech. All audio data and a large part of transcriptions was collected using crowdsourcing; the rest was transcribed by hired transcribers. We releas...

An approach for detecting feature interactions in IETF’s Call Processing Language (CPL) scripts is presented. The approach is logic based in the sense that it uses a logic representation of CPL scripts, of requirements and of detection rules and, in several cases, specific detection rules are shown to be derived from requirements by logical deduction. The Simple Formal Specification Language (S...

We argue that object-oriented programming is only half of the story. Flexible, configurable applications can be viewed as collections of reusable objects conforming to standard interfaces together with scripts that bind these objects together to perform certain tasks. Scripting encourages a component-oriented approach to application development in which frameworks of reusable components (object...