This chapter provides an accessible introduction for point processes, and especially Hawkes
processes, for modeling discrete, inter-dependent events over continuous time. We start by …

Today's digital contents are inherently multimedia: text, audio, image, video, and so on.
Video, in particular, has become a new way of communication between Internet users with …

Different from traditional long videos, micro-videos are much shorter and usually recorded at
a specific place with mobile devices. To better understand the semantics of a micro-video …

Internet videos provide a virtually boundless source of audio with a conspicuous lack of
localized annotations, presenting an ideal setting for unsupervised methods. With this …

The human auditory system is very well matched to both human speech and environmental
sounds. Therefore, the question arises whether human speech material may provide useful …

Discovering the linguistic structure of a language solely from spoken input asks for two
steps: phonetic and lexical discovery. The first is concerned with identifying the categorical …

In this paper we present an algorithm for the unsupervised segmentation of a lattice
produced by a phoneme recognizer into words. Using a lattice rather than a single phoneme …

Multimedia computing technology, as one of the most effective and pervasive technologies
in modern society, plays irreplaceable roles in bridging user needs with vast amounts of …

In this paper we present an algorithm for the unsupervised segmentation of a character or
phoneme lattice into words. Using a lattice at the input rather than a single string accounts …

Current audio analysis techniques rely on fairly shallow analysis of audio content, using
symbols or patterns extracted directly from the observed acoustics. We hypothesize that the …