ABSTRACT The objective of the project is to implement compressed domain audio streaming capability to the Yima Personal Edition (Yima PE) streaming system. This project aims to implement application layer streaming components based on Request for Comment (RFC) 2250 and 3119 profiles for Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Audio layer – III. The components are then integrated with the Yima strea...

There are more people in the world than ever before, and a far greater part of them want an education. The demand cannot be met simply by building more schools and training more teachers. Education must become more efficient. To this end curricula must be revised and simplified, and textbooks and classroom techniques improved. In any other field a demand for increased production would have led ...

Information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching learning means making the effective use of ICT to teach the subject matter in a more interesting manner to make learning easy and fast for the students. It makes use of projectors, internet, multimedia, audiovisual aids and much more for teaching. The use of ICT in teaching learning have changed the whole concept of education and had pr...

Sample-based music composition often involves the task of manually searching appropriate samples from existing audio. Audio mosaicing can be regarded as a way to automatize this process by specifying the desired audio attributes, so that sound snippets that match these attributes are concatenated in a synthesis engine. These attributes are typically derived from a target audio sequence, which m...

Modern teaching trends in medical education exhibit a paradigm shift from the conventional classroom teaching methods adopted in the past to nonconventional teaching aids so as to encourage interactive forms of learning in medical students through active participation and integrative reasoning where the relationship of the teacher and the taught has undergone tremendous transformation. Some of ...

This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the learning of English of the secondary school students in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The objectives of the study were (1) To find out the factors affecting the learning of English at secondary level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; and (2) To provide a base for improvement of teaching English as a second language at the secondary school level in Pa...

It is well known to enhance the performance of noise robust speaker identification using visual speech information with audio utterances. This paper presents an approach to evaluate the performance of a noise robust audio-visual speaker identification system using likelihood ratio based score fusion in challenging environment. Though the traditional HMM based audio-visual speaker identification...

In her paper, "Aesthetics and Audiovisual Metaphors in Media Perception," Kathrin Fahlenbrach presents a model of audiovisual analysis where focus is on audiovisual aesthetics perceived physically and affectively. Fahlenbrach starts out from the assumption that image and sound are inseparable in audiovisual media and must be treated as a unit, a "synchresis" (Chion). Fahlenbrach proposes that o...

An initial exploration of the relationship between harmonic timbre and visual form, the following study extends the work of Wolfgang Kohler’s 1929 study by using nonspeech sounds. Although previous studies have examined the relationship between language and shape, there has been little work investigating which properties of the acoustical signal contribute to the crossmodal linkage of auditory ...

This study investigates the use of audiovisual cues in the perception of sound contrasts which have a different phonemic status in the listeners’ L1 and L2. Two contrasts differing in the distinctiveness of their visual gestures (/b/-/v/ and /p/-/b/) were presented to Spanish learners of English in audio, visual and audiovisual modalities. Overall identification rates were not significantly hig...