This paper addresses talking head synthesis based on the concatenation of units comprising of both acoustic and visual information. Selection of appropriate diphone units to synthesize a given text string is based on the minimization of a weighted linear combination of four costs that reflect linguistic, acoustic, and visual considerations. We present initial work toward a method to determine a...

In this paper we have studied the role of varying sampling fractions on relative bias of conventional ratio estimator and also for the linear combination of ratio and PPS estimators to the first and second degree of approximations for a wide variety of populations. It will give the survey practitioners an idea whether it is worthwhile to ignore the expressions of mean sum of squares to the orde...

In this paper, a novel multi-objective bus stop location model is proposed, which considers not only the coverage of demand and minimization of access time but also the necessities of suitable stops for transit network design phase. Three objective functions are considered including minimizing (I) sum of the total access distance (time), (II) the weighted combination of stops, and (III) the num...

Linear regression is a very simple regression model, However, the linear relation made by it is not realistic in many data mining application domains. Locally weighted linear regression and Model trees both combine locally learning and linear regression to imoprove linear regression. Our previous work called instance weighted linear regression is designed to improve the accuracy of linear regre...