In this paper a non-supervised approach for automatic syllable prominence recognition is presented. Previous research in this field showed that syllable nuclei energy and duration are the main cues… (More)
Offering contents to a visitor in a natural and attractive way is one of the most interesting challenges in promoting cultural heritage. In this paper, we present an ongoing research about the design… (More)
In this paper we will investigate the usefulness of the rhythmogram, a speech rhythm representation based on the Auditory Primal Sketch model, for the automatic detection of prominent syllables. This… (More)
In this paper, we propose a human-robot interaction system that exploits emotion and attention to regulate and adapt the robotic interactive behavior. In particular, we will focus on the relation… (More)
We present OpS, a divide et impera algorithm to address the problem of pitch stylization as an optimization process in O(NlogN). We aim at balancing the quality of the stylized curve and its cost in… (More)
Knowing where to park in advance is a most wished feature by many drivers. In recent years, many research efforts have been spent to analyse massive amount of parking information, to learn… (More)
In this paper we introduce the €motion database, a multilingual emotional database consisting of emotional sentences elicited in four European languages: Italian, French, English and German. Along… (More)
Ubiquitous computing is extending its applications to an increasing number of domains. “Monolithic” approaches use centralised systems, controlling devices and users’ requests. A different solution… (More)
Prosodic prominence is an umbrella term encompassing various related but conceptually and functionally different phenomena such as phonological stress, paralinguistic emphasis, lexical, syntactic,… (More)