A radio network is described for configuring, monitoring, and diagnosing the components of a computer system. Such a network offers several advantages: (a) it improves the robustness of the overall system by not having the monitoring functions rely on the interconnect of the monitored system; (b) by broadcasting information it offers direct communication between the monitoring and monitored com...

In her article "Aboriginal Australian and Canadian First Nations Children's Literature" Angeline O'Neill discusses Canadian First Nations and Australian Aboriginal children's picture books and their appeal to a dual readership. Inuit traditional storyteller and writer Michael Kusugak, Nyoongar traditional storyteller and writer Lorna Little, and Wunambal elder Daisy Utemorrah are cases in point...

 In this paper, we propose a facial modeling technique based on the MPEG-4 Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Coding for automating frame sequence generation of a talking head. With the definition and animation parameters on a generic face object, the shape, textures and expressions of an adapted frontal face can generally be controlled and synchronized by the phonemes transcribed from plain text. By th...

This paper introduces a new technique of multi-microphone processing which aims to provide features for the extraction of fundamental frequency and for the classification of voiced/unvoiced segments in distant-talking speech. A multichannel periodicity function (MPF) is derived from an adaptive weighting of normalized and compressed magnitude spectra. This function highlights periodic clues of ...

LUCIA, a new Italian talking head based on a modified version of the Cohen-Massaro’s labial coarticulation model is described. A semi-automatic minimization technique, working on real cinematic data, acquired by the ELITE optoelectronic system, was used to train the dynamic characteristics of the model. LUCIA is an MPEG-4 standard facial animation system working on standard FAP visual parameter...

A method is described for video-based tracking and analysis of talking heads. Although dots on the face and head are tracked now, clean faces will be tracked once a satisfactory optical flow technique is found. The analysis consists of decomposing the head and face motion components into a common mode and the residual, thus eliminating the need for complex marker tracking and head correction of...

The current study explored the effects of talking on respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) during a semi-structured emotional interview (Adult Attachment Interview) using 76 female undergraduates. The effectiveness of 2 different methodological approaches (i.e. talking baseline or transfer function) was explored as respiratory control during talking tasks. RSA was collected during resting baseline...

In distant-talking speech recognition, the recognition accuracy is seriously degraded by reverberation and environmental noise. A robust speech recognition technique in such environments, HMM separation and composition, has been described in [1]. HMM separation estimates the model parameters of the acoustic transfer function using adaptation data uttered from an unknown position in noisy and re...