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Hervé Bourlard

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Text Identification in Complex Background using SVM

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Hervé Bourlard, Datong Chen

This paper presents a fast and robust algorithm to identify text in image or video frames with complex backgrounds and compression effects. The algorithm first extracts the candidate text line on the basis of edge analysis, baseline location and heuristic ...

IDIAP2001

Text Identification in Complex Background using SVM

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Hervé Bourlard, Datong Chen

2001

Speech Recognition Using Advanced HMM2 Features

Hervé Bourlard, Samy Bengio, Katrin Weber

HMM2 is a particular hidden Markov model where state emission probabilities of the temporal (primary) HMM are modeled through (secondary) state-dependent frequency-based HMMs [12]. As shown in [13], a secondary HMM can also be used to extract robust ASR fe ...

2001

Video OCR for Sport Video Annotation and Retrieval

Hervé Bourlard, Datong Chen

This paper presents a video OCR system that automatically extracts closed captions from video frames as keywords (or as we called "cues") for building annotations of sport videos. In this system, text regions that contain closed captions are first identifi ...

IDIAP2001

Increasing Speech Recognition Noise Robustness with HMM2

Hervé Bourlard, Samy Bengio, Katrin Weber

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the behavior of HMM2 models for the recognition of noisy speech. It has previously been shown that HMM2 is able to model dynamically important structural information inherent in the speech signal, often correspon ...

IDIAP2001

Robust Speech Recognition and Feature Extraction Using HMM2

Hervé Bourlard, Samy Bengio, Katrin Weber, Shajith Ikbal

This paper presents the theoretical basis and preliminary experimental results of a new HMM model, referred to as HMM2, which can be considered as a mixture of HMMs. In this new model, the emission probabilities of the temporal (primary) HMM are estimated ...

IDIAP2001

Text Enhancement with Asymmetric Filter for Video OCR

Hervé Bourlard, Datong Chen

Stripes are common sub-structures of text characters, and the scale of these stripes varies little within a word. This scale consistency thus provides us with a useful feature for text detection and segmentation. In this paper a new form of filter is deriv ...

2001

Text Enhancement with Asymmetric Filter for Video OCR

Hervé Bourlard, Datong Chen

IDIAP2001

A Pragmatic View of the Application of HMM2 for ASR

Hervé Bourlard, Samy Bengio, Katrin Weber

This report investigates the HMM2 approach recently introduced in the framework of automatic speech recognition. HMM2 can be seen as a mixture of HMMs, where a conventional primary HMM (processing a time series of speech data) is supported on a lower level ...

IDIAP2001

Analytic Assessment of Telephone Transmission Impact on ASR Performance Using a Simulation Model

Hervé Bourlard

This paper addresses the impact of telephone transmission channels on automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance. A real-time simulation model is described and implemented, which allows impairments that are encountered in traditional as well as modern ...

IDIAP2001