links for 2006-10-27
Posted on October 28, 2006 - Filed Under links, security | Leave a Comment
Schneier on Security: Heathrow Tests Biometric ID
The system under trial at Heathrow is a good use of biometrics. There’s a trusted path from the person through the reader to the verifier; attempts to use fake eyeballs will be immediately obvious and suspicious. The verifier is being asked to match a bio
(tags: biometrics security airport * [...]
Audio-visual speaker verification using continuous fused HMMs
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under fhmm, publications, research, speech | Leave a Comment
Dean, David and Sridharan, Sridha and Wark, Tim (2006) Audio-visual speaker verification using continuous fused HMMs. In Proceedings HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI, Canberra, Australia.
This paper examines audio-visual speaker verification using a novel adaptation of fused hidden Markov models, in comparison to output fusion of individual classifiers in the audio [...]
An examination of audio-visual fused HMMs for speaker recognition
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under fhmm, publications, research, speech | Leave a Comment
Dean, David and Wark, Tim and Sridharan, Sridha (2006) An examination of audio-visual fused HMMs for speaker recognition. In Proceedings Second Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication, Toulouse, France.
Fused hidden Markov models (FHMMs) have been shown to work well for the task of audio-visual speaker recognition, but only in an output decision-fusion configuration of both the [...]
Comparing Audio and Visual Information for Speech Processing
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under publications, research, speech | Leave a Comment
Dean, David and Lucey, Patrick and Sridharan, Sridha and Wark, Tim (2005) Comparing Audio and Visual Information for Speech Processing. In Proceedings The Eighth International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, pages pp. 58-61, Sydney, Australia.
This paper examines the utility of audio-visual speech for the two related tasks of speech and speaker recognition. A [...]
Audio-visual speaker identification using the CUAVE database
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under publications, research, speech | Leave a Comment
Dean, David and Lucey, Patrick and Sridharan, Sridha (2005) Audio-visual speaker identification using the CUAVE database. In Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric and Burnham, Denis and Fels, Sidney, Eds. Proceedings Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2005, British Columbia, Canada.
The freely available nature of the CUAVE database allows it to provide a valuable platform to form benchmarks and compare research. This [...]
QUT ePrints suggestions
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under QUT, research | Leave a Comment
I recently sent this email to QUT’s ePrints service, and I thought I’d post it up here too, in case anyone else is interested.
Hi,
I have been updating my QUT eprints lately, and I would like to give a few suggestions as to how the system could be improved.
1) In lists of publications, make author names [...]
links for 2006-10-23
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under fiction, links, security | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: High Windows, by Lavie Tidhar
Part One:
Saturn/Escape
“You’re not supposed to be here, kid.”
(tags: fiction sf free * *toconvert)
Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards - New York Times
“It’s the classic ‘Let’s depend on security through obscurity — who’s going to look?’ ” he said. “Then, whoops! As soon as somebody does look, [...]
US bans Vegemite
Posted on October 23, 2006 - Filed Under australia, usa, vegemite | Leave a Comment
Courier Mail:
THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.
Expatriates say that enforcement of the ban has been stepped up recently and is ruining lifelong traditions of having Vegemite on toast [...]
links for 2006-10-18
Posted on October 19, 2006 - Filed Under links, software, virtualisation, vmware | Leave a Comment
EasyVMX!: Virtual Machine Creator
EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web.
(tags: virtualisation vmware)
links for 2006-10-17
Posted on October 18, 2006 - Filed Under fiction, links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Winnowing the Herd, by Carrie Vaughn
Nobody was wearing perfume or fancy aftershave. It wasn’t that kind of crowd. But I did smell patchouli, three different kinds of bathing products from the Body Shop, a recently changed baby, more patchouli covering up the smell of pot, and a shedding Ger
(tags: fiction sf free [...]