Accurate gender classification is useful in speech and speaker recognition as well as speech emotion classification, because a better performance has been reported when separate acoustic models are employed for males and females. Gender classification is also apparent in face recognition, video summarization, human-robot interaction, etc. Although gender classification is rather mature in a...

Collusion approaches in general, and block replacement attacks in particular, have been demonstrated to be a major threat against the security of frame-by-frame embedding strategies in video watermarking. These attacks exploit the redundancy of the host signal to replace each signal block with another perceptually similar one taken from another location. Such an attacking approach can be enforc...

introduction: laryngeal dysfunction may be divided into three categories; organic, neurologic and functional disorders. dysphonia and hoarseness are the most common symptoms and, in some cases, the only signs of laryngeal dysfunction. in differential diagnosis of any type of chronic hoarseness, a neoplastic process must be considered and, thus continuous light video laryngoscopy can provide imp...