Franz Kummert

An incremental approach to automated protein localisation (2008)

Tscherepanow, Marko, Jensen, Nickels, Kummert, Franz

Abstract Background The subcellular localisation of proteins in intact living cells is an important means for gaining information about protein functions. Even dynamic processes can be captured,...

Automatic Segmentation of Unstained Living Cells in Bright-Field Microscope Images (2008)

Marko Tscherepanow, Frank Zöllner, Franz Kummert

Abstract. The automatic subcellular localisation of proteins in living cells is a critical step to determine their function. The evaluation of fluorescence images constitutes a common method of...

THE MONEY CHANGING PROBLEM REVISITED: COMPUTING THE FROBENIUS NUMBER IN TIME O(k a1) (2008)

Abteilung Informationstechnik, Sebastian Böcker, Zsuzsanna Lipták, Impressum Herausgeber, Robert Giegerich, ...

Abstract. The Money Changing Problem is as follows: Let a1 < a2 < · · · < ak be fixed positive integers with gcd(a1,..., ak) = 1. Given some integer n, are there non-negative integers...

Suffix Tree Construction and Storage with Limited Main Memory (2008)

Abteilung Informationstechnik, Klaus-bernd Schürmann, Jens Stoye, Impressum Herausgeber, Robert Giegerich, ...

Abstract. Suffix trees have been established as one of the most versatile index structures for unstructured string data like genomic sequences and other strings. In this work, our goal is the...

Subcellular Localisation of Proteins in Living Cells Using a Genetic Algorithm and an Incremental Neural Network (2008)

Marko Tscherepanow, Franz Kummert

Abstract. The subcellular localisation of proteins in living cells is a crucial means for the determination of their function. We propose an approach to realise such a protein localisation based on...

2-Stage Fault Tolerant Interval Group Testing (2008)

Abteilung Informationstechnik, Ferdinando Cicalese, José Augusto, Amgarten Quitzau, Impressum Herausgeber, ...

Abstract. We study the following fault tolerant variant of the interval group testing model: Given three positive integers n, p,e, determine the minimum number of questions needed to identify a...

Subcellular Localisation of Proteins in Living Cells Using a Genetic Algorithm and an Incremental Neural Network (2008)

Marko Tscherepanow, Franz Kummert

Abstract. The subcellular localisation of proteins in living cells is a crucial means for the determination of their function. We propose an approach to realise such a protein localisation based on...

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Christel Brindopke, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

This paper presents an HMM-based recognition system for perceptive relevant pitch movements of spontaneous German speech. The pitch movements are defined according to the perceptively and...

Understanding (2007)

Frank Lomker, Hans Br, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

Abstract. In this paper we present a distributed and problem independent control strategy for the knowledge representation language ERN

A HYBRID SPEECH RECOGNIZER COMBINING HMMS AND POLYNOMIAL CLASSIFICATION (2007)

Franz Kummert, Gernot A. Fink, Gerhard Sagerer

In this paper, we present a hybrid speech recognizer combining Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and a polynomial classifier. In our approach the emission probabilities are not modeled as a mixture of...

GENERATION OF UTTERANCES BASED ON VISUAL CONTEXT INFORMATION (2007)

Susanne Kronenberg, Franz Kummert

A major aspect of spontaneous dialogs is resembled by the collaborative process of communication where participants of a dialog cooperate by the production of utterances. Accordingly, not only...

MODELING OF TIME CONSTITUENTS FOR SPEECH UNDERSTANDING (2007)

Bernd Hildebr, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

The analysis and interpretation of time constituents is important for most applications of speech understanding systems. Problems can be caused by the varying distribution of constituents. A basic...

UNDERSTANDING OF TIME CONSTITUENTS IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE DIALOGUES (2007)

Bernd Hildebr, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

The analysis and interpretation of time constituents is a rather complex enterprise, since diverse time constituents are distributable in variable positions within an utterance. The first step in...

Forward masking for increased robustness in automatic speech recognition (2007)

Sascha Wendt, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert

In automatic speech recognition mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) or linear predictive cepstral coefficients (LPCC) are features commonly used today. However, their calculation considers...

Bridging the Web and Perceptual User Interfaces (2007)

Lütkebohle, Ingo, Wachsmuth, Sven, Kummert, Franz

We present a system that bridges the perceptual user interfaces paradigm and web applications, and thus allows us to control a web application through hand-gestures. It exemplifies a general...

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On Common Intervals with Errors (2006)

Abteilung Informationstechnik, Cedric Chauve, Yoan Diekmann, Steffen Heber, Julia Mixtacki, ...

The information that groups of genes co-occur in several genomes provides a basis for further comparative genomic analysis. The task of finding such constellations, mostly referred to as gene...

On Common Intervals with Errors (2006)

Abteilung Informationstechnik, Cedric Chauve, Yoan Diekmann, Steffen Heber, Julia Mixtacki, ...

The information that groups of genes co-occur in several genomes provides a basis for further comparative genomic analysis. The task of finding such constellations, mostly referred to as gene...

Counting Suffix Arrays and Strings (2005)

Abteilung Informationstechnik, Klaus-bernd Schürmann, Jens Stoye, Impressum Herausgeber, Robert Giegerich, ...

Suffix arrays are used in various application and research areas like data compression or computational biology. In this work, our goal is to characterize the combinatorial properties of suffix...

Database driven test case generation for protein-protein docking (2005)

Zöllner, Frank, Neumann, Steffen, Kummert, Franz, Sagerer, Gerhard

Summary: We present a method for automatic test case generation for protein–protein docking. A consensus-type approach is proposed processing the whole PDB and classifying protein structures into...

Interpretation of Situated Human-Robot Dialogues (2004)

Sonja Hüwel, Franz Kummert

Robust speech understanding is an important prerequisite for intelligent human-robotinteraction. This paper presents an approach for an adept analysis of speech in a multi-modal dialogue system. In...

Optimal Group Testing Strategies with Interval Queries and Their Application to Splice Site Detection (2004)

Abteilung Informationstechnik, Ferdinando Cicalese, Peter Damaschke, Ugo Vaccaro, Impressum Herausgeber, ...

We consider the following constrained version of the classical Group Testing Problem: Given a finite set of items identified with the set of natural numbers 2, . . . , n} and an unknown distinguished...

docking (2004)

Frank Zöllner, Steffen Neumann, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

Database driven test case generation for protein–protein

Database driven test case generation for protein-protein docking (2004)

Zöllner, Frank, Neumann, Steffen, Kummert, Franz, Sagerer, Gerhard

Summary: We present a method for automatic test case generation for protein-protein docking. A consensus-type approach is proposed processing the whole PDB and classifying protein structures into...

Database driven test case generation for protein-protein docking (2004)

Zöllner, Frank, Neumann, Steffen, Kummert, Franz, Sagerer, Gerhard

Summary: We present a method for automatic test case generation for protein-protein docking. A consensus-type approach is proposed processing the whole PDB and classifying protein structures into...

A Markov Random Field Model of Microarray Gridding (2003)

Mathias Katzer, Franz Kummert

DNA microarray hybridisation is a popular high throughput technique in academic as well as industrial functional genomics research. In this paper we present a new approach to automatic grid...

Data-driven Pronunciation Modeling for ASR using Acoustic Subword Units (2003)

Thurid Spiess, Britta Wrede, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert

We describe a method to model pronunciation variation for ASR in a data-driven way, namely by use of automatically derived acoustic subword units. The inventory of units is designed so as to produce...

IPHEX: A System for Evaluating Protein Docking Hypothesis Using User Feedback (2003)

Frank Zöllner, Steffen Neumann, Kerstin Koch, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer, ...

Introduction A docking system usually consists of three main parts, the representation of the molecules (e.g. proteins), conformational space sampling and last but not least ranking of potential...

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New Collective Works, Christian Bauckhage, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

Although structural approaches to pattern recognition are not as popular anymore as they were some 30 years ago, they still provide reasonable solutions for certain recognition problems. This paper...

Dynamic search-space pruning for time-constrained speech recognition (2002)

Sascha Wendt, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert

In automatic speech recognition complex state spaces are searched during the recognition process. By limiting these search spaces the computation time can be reduced, but unfortunately the...

EIMaR: A Protein Docking System using Flexibility Information (2002)

Abteilung Informationstechnik, Frank Zöllner, Steffen Neumann, Kerstin Koch, ...

We give an overview of the ELMAR Docking System. Using a distributed modular and optionally parallel architecture results can be obtained within a few minutes. ELMAR incorporates protein flexibility...

F.: Classification of segmented regions in brightfield microscope images (2002)

Marko Tscherepanow, Frank Zöllner, Franz Kummert

The subcellular localisation of proteins in living cells is an important step to determine their function. A common method is the evaluation of fluorescence images. The position of marked proteins,...

Using speech in visual object recognition (2000)

Sven Wachsmuth, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

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Grammars and Discourse Theory to Describe and Recognize Mechanical Assemblies (2000)

Christian Bauckhage, Susanne Kronenberg, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer, Ag Angew, ...

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Grapheme based speech recognition for large vocabularies (2000)

Christoph Schillo, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert

Common speech recognition systems use phonetically motivated subword units. To utilize words in these systems, one has to translate the available graphemic word representation into a phonetic one. To...

Learning Assembly Sequence Plans Using Functional Models (1999)

Christian Bauckhage, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer, Ag Angew, Te Informatik

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Towards a Vision System for Supervising Assembly Processes (1999)

Christian Bauckhage, Jannik Fritsch, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

Abstract. Supervising robotic assembly of multi-functional objects by means of a computer vision system requires components to identify assembly operations and to recognize feasible assemblies of...

A comparative study of HMM-based approaches for the automatic recognition of perceptually relevant aspects of spontaneous german speech melody (1999)

Christel Brindopke, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert

Three approaches to the speaker independent automatic recognition of melodic aspects of spontaneous German are presented. All systems are based on Hidden Markov Models. Their input is restricted to...

Towards a Vision System for Supervising Assembly Processes (1999)

Christian Bauckhage, Jannik Fritsch, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

. Supervising robotic assembly of multi-functional objects by means of a computer vision system requires components to identify assembly operations and to recognize feasible assemblies of single...

A Distributed Semantic Network Language for Signal Understanding (1999)

Frank Lömker, Hans Brandt-Pook, Hans Br, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

. In this paper we present a distributed and problem independent control strategy for the knowledge representation language ERN ++ EST, a language for signal understanding based on semantic networks....

Multilevel Integration of Vision and Speech Understanding Using Bayesian Networks (1999)

Sven Wachsmuth, Hans Br, Gudrun Socher, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

The interaction of image and speech processing is a crucial property of multimedia systems. Classical systems using inferences on pure qualitative high level descriptions miss a lot of information...

Multilevel integration of vision and speech understanding using bayesian networks (1999)

Sven Wachsmuth, Gudrun Socher, Hans Brandt-pook, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

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Modeling and Recognition of Assembled Objects (1998)

Christian Bauckhage, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer, Ag Angew, Te Informatik

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A Comparative Study Of HMM-Based Approaches For The Automatic Recognition Of Perceptually Relevant Aspects Of Spontaneous German Speech Melody (1998)

Christel Brindöpke, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert

Three approaches to the speaker independent automatic recognition of melodic aspects of spontaneous German are presented. All systems are based on Hidden Markov Models. Their input is restricted to...

A HMM-Based Recognition System For Perceptive Relevant Pitch Movements Of Spontaneous German Speech (1998)

Christel Brindöpke, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

This paper presents an HMM-based recognition system for perceptive relevant pitch movements of spontaneous German speech. The pitch movements are defined according to the perceptively and...

An Environment For The Labelling And Testing Of Melodic Aspects Of Speech (1997)

Christel Brindöpke, Arno Pahde, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

In this paper, we present an environment for labelling and testing of melodic aspects of spoken language. The environment has three modes of application: First, the environment provides labelling...

A distributed system for integrated speech and image understanding (1996)

Gernot A. Fink, Nils Jungclaus, Franz Kummert, Helge Ritter, Gerhard Sagerer

Most published work in the field of pattern analysis, in our opinion, underestimates the importance of system architecture or system development. When building large distributed systems both become a...

A Hybrid Approach to Identifying Objects from Verbal Descriptions (1996)

Gudrun Socher, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

In this paper we present a hybrid approach for the identification of objects in a scene from spoken verbal descriptions. An integrated knowledge base realized by a semantic network is used to build...

A Hybrid Object Recognition Architecture (1996)

Gunther Heidemann, Franz Kummert, Helge Ritter, Gerhard Sagerer

. We present an architecture for 3D-object recognition based on the integration of neural and semantic networks. The architecture consists of mainly two components. A neural object recognition system...

A Distributed System For Integrated Speech And Image Understanding (1996)

Gernot A. Fink, Nils Jungclaus, Franz Kummert, Helge Ritter, Gerhard Sagerer

Most published work in the field of pattern analysis, in our opinion, underestimates the importance of system architecture or system development. When building large distributed systems both become a...

A Hybrid Approach to Identifying Objects from Verbal Descriptions (1996)

Gudrun Socher, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

In this paper we present a hybrid approach for the identification of objects in a scene from spoken verbal descriptions. An integrated knowledge base realized by a semantic network is used to build...

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Most published work in the field of pattern analysis, in our opinion, underestimates the importance of system architecture or system development. When building large distributed systems both become a...

Talking About 3D Scenes: Integration Of Image And Speech Understanding In A Hybrid Distributed System (1996)

Gudrun Socher, Gerhard Sagerer, Franz Kummert, Thomas Fuhr

We present a hybrid system that integrates speech and image understanding. Given spoken references, it is able to identify objects of a 3D scene perceived via a stereo camera. Central to our approach...

Selective visual perception driven by cues from speech processing (1995)

Reinhard Moratz, Hans-jurgen Eikmeyer, Bernd Hildebr, Alois Knoll, Franz Kummert, Gert Rickheit, ...

At the University of Bielefeld within the framework of the colloborative research center &quot;Situated Artificial Communicators &quot; (SFB 360) an integrative system of vision and speech...

Generation Of Language Models Using The Results Of Image Analysis (1995)

Uta Naeve, Gudrun Socher, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

We present a new approach towards using contextual information to enhance speech recognition and understanding. Dynamically inferred knowledge about the context is used in addition to the static...

Robust interpretation of speech (1993)

Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer, Bernd Seestaedt

In all fields of pattern recognition there may arise situations where severe distortions of the sensor data or errors of processing prevent a successful analysis. This is especially true in speech...

Speech Recognition using Semantic Hidden Markov Models (1993)

Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

Semantic Hidden Markov Networks (SHMNs) were first introduced in [2] as a new technique of interfacing between linguistic analysis and word recognition in speech understanding systems. The main...

The dialog module of the speech recognition and dialog system EVAR (1992)

Marion Mast, Ralf Kompe, Franz Kummert, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar N Oth

This article describes the dialog module of EVAR. The dialog is seen as a sequence of dialog acts uttered by the system and the user. From a corpus of real humanhuman dialogs a model was extracted....