Automated lip-sync animation as a telecommunications aid for the hearing impaired (2008)
David Mcallister, Robert Rodman, Donald Bitzer, Andrew Freeman
Vocal communication is most effective when the listener is able to observe the mouth of the speaker. This is especially true for the hearing impaired, and dramatically true for the deaf, who rely on...
An Algorithm for V/UV/S Segmentation of Speech by (2008)
Meng Wang, Donald Bitzer, David Mcallister, Robert Rodman, Jamie Taylor
Let f(n) be a sampled voice signal. Our goal is to identify the voiced (V) portions of f (as opposed to the silence (S) and unvoiced (UV) portions). In the following discussion, the sampling rate is...
Speaker Independence in Lip Synchronization of Vowels (2008)
Jamie Taylor, Donald Bitzer, Robert Rodman, David Mcallister, Meng Wang
This paper presents a method for achieving speaker independence in the lip synchronization of vowels by performing an affine transformation on the moments of the spectrum of the speech. A speech...
Identification and delivery of immunodominant antigens of Neospora caninum / (2005)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Glasgow, 2005.
i UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY Remote Estimation of Leaf Area Index in Forested Ecosystems (2005)
David Mcallister, David Michael Mcallister
ii Leaf area index (LAI) is defined as the ratio of the foliage area contained within a given area divided by the ground area in question. This quantity is a useful input parameter in various...
Manuel M. Oliveira, Gary Bishop, David McAllister
We present an extension to texture mapping that supports the representation of 3-D surface details and view motion parallax. The results are correct for viewpoints that are static or moving, far away...
Manuel Oliveira Gary, Manuel M. Oliveira, Gary Bishop, David Mcallister
We present an extension to texture mapping that supports the representation of 3-D surface details and view motion parallax. The results are correct for viewpoints that are static or moving, far away...
Youth custody throughcare : the role of the community based probation officer. (1990)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hull, 1990.