62 research outputs found
Automated Classification of Vowel Category and Speaker Type in the High-Frequency Spectrum
The high-frequency region of vowel signals (above the third formant or F3) has received little research attention. Recent evidence, however, has documented the perceptual utility of high-frequency information in the speech signal above the traditional frequency bandwidth known to contain important cues for speech and speaker recognition. The purpose of this study was to determine if high-pass filtered vowels could be separated by vowel category and speaker type in a supervised learning framework. Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) were extracted from productions of six vowel categories produced by two male, two female, and two child speakers. Results revealed that the filtered vowels were well separated by vowel category and speaker type using MFCCs from the high-frequency spectrum. This demonstrates the presence of useful information for automated classification from the high-frequency region and is the first study to report findings of this nature in a supervised learning framework
Self-supervised Interest Point Detection and Description for Fisheye and Perspective Images
Keypoint detection and matching is a fundamental task in many computer vision
problems, from shape reconstruction, to structure from motion, to AR/VR
applications and robotics. It is a well-studied problem with remarkable
successes such as SIFT, and more recent deep learning approaches. While great
robustness is exhibited by these techniques with respect to noise, illumination
variation, and rigid motion transformations, less attention has been placed on
image distortion sensitivity. In this work, we focus on the case when this is
caused by the geometry of the cameras used for image acquisition, and consider
the keypoint detection and matching problem between the hybrid scenario of a
fisheye and a projective image. We build on a state-of-the-art approach and
derive a self-supervised procedure that enables training an interest point
detector and descriptor network. We also collected two new datasets for
additional training and testing in this unexplored scenario, and we demonstrate
that current approaches are suboptimal because they are designed to work in
traditional projective conditions, while the proposed approach turns out to be
the most effective.Comment: CVPR Workshop on Omnidirectional Computer Vision, 202
Open-Fusion: Real-time Open-Vocabulary 3D Mapping and Queryable Scene Representation
Precise 3D environmental mapping is pivotal in robotics. Existing methods
often rely on predefined concepts during training or are time-intensive when
generating semantic maps. This paper presents Open-Fusion, a groundbreaking
approach for real-time open-vocabulary 3D mapping and queryable scene
representation using RGB-D data. Open-Fusion harnesses the power of a
pre-trained vision-language foundation model (VLFM) for open-set semantic
comprehension and employs the Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF) for
swift 3D scene reconstruction. By leveraging the VLFM, we extract region-based
embeddings and their associated confidence maps. These are then integrated with
3D knowledge from TSDF using an enhanced Hungarian-based feature-matching
mechanism. Notably, Open-Fusion delivers outstanding annotation-free 3D
segmentation for open-vocabulary without necessitating additional 3D training.
Benchmark tests on the ScanNet dataset against leading zero-shot methods
highlight Open-Fusion's superiority. Furthermore, it seamlessly combines the
strengths of region-based VLFM and TSDF, facilitating real-time 3D scene
comprehension that includes object concepts and open-world semantics. We
encourage the readers to view the demos on our project page:
https://uark-aicv.github.io/OpenFusio
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