D. Faulhaber, H. Niemann, P. Weierich
Based on a sample of 8000 manually segmented video images acquired in a subway station, we examine if heads of pedestrians can be detected by use of wavelet features and parameter free statistical...
M. Wolf, T. Vogel, P. Weierich, H. Niemann
Functional magnetic resonance tomography (fMRI) is used to identify eloquent areas of the brain. In combination with a 3-D anatomical MR dataset this leads to a functional neuronavigation system....
H. Niemann, D. Fischer, D. Graffe, K. Knittel, A. Montiel, O. Heilmayer, ...
First videographic indication of an Antarctic cold seep ecosystem was recently obtained from the collapsed Larsen B ice shelf, western Weddell Sea (Domack et al., 2005). Within the framework of the...
An in vivo culture system for human embryos using an encapsulation technology: a pilot study (2009)
Blockeel, C., Mock, P., Verheyen, G., Bouche, N., Le Goff, Ph., Heyman, Y., ...
BACKGROUND Animal studies have demonstrated better embryo development in vivo than in vitro. This pilot study tested the feasibility of using a novel in utero culture system (IUCS) to obtain normal...
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D. Paulus, U. Ahlrichs, B. Heigl, J. Denzler, J. Hornegger, M. Zobel, ...
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a low-activity cold seep in the Larsen B area, western Weddell Sea, Antarctica (2008)
Niemann, H., Fischer, D., Graffe, D., Knittel, K., Montiel, A., Heilmayer, O., ...
A low-activity cold seep in the Larsen B area, western Weddell Sea, Antarctica (2008)
Niemann, H., Fischer, D., Graffe, D., Knittel, K., Montiel, A., Heilmayer, O., ...
Probing noncovalent interactions in biomolecular crystals with terahertz spectroscopy (2008)
Kleine-Ostmann, T., Wilk, R., Rutz, F., Koch, M., Niemann, H., Guttler, B., ...
Wegener, G., Shovitri, M., Knittel, K., Niemann, H., Hovland, M., Boetius, A.
Fluid-flow related seafloor structures and gas seeps were detected in the North Sea in the 1970s and 1980s by acoustic sub-bottom profiling and oil rig surveys. A variety of features like pockmarks,...
Wegener, G., Shovitri, M., Knittel, K., Niemann, H., Hovland, M., Boetius, A.
Fluid-flow related seafloor structures and gas seeps were detected in the North Sea in the 1970s and 1980s by acoustic sub-bottom profiling and oil rig surveys. A variety of features like pockmarks,...
Kues, W. A., Sudheer, S., Herrmann, D., Carnwath, J. W., Havlicek, V., Besenfelder, U., ...
Bovine embryos can be generated by in vitro fertilization or somatic nuclear transfer; however, these differ from their in vivo counterparts in many aspects and exhibit a higher proportion of...
G. Wegener, M. Shovitri, K. Knittel, H. Niemann, M. Hovland, A. Boetius
Fluid flow related seafloor structures and gas seeps were detected in the North Sea in the 1970s and 1980s by acoustic sub-bottom profiling and oil rig surveys. A variety of features like pockmarks,...
G. Wegener, M. Shovitri, K. Knittel, H. Niemann, M. Hovland, A. Boetius
Fluid-flow related seafloor structures and gas seeps were detected in the North Sea in the 1970s and 1980s by acoustic sub-bottom profiling and oil rig surveys. A variety of features like pockmarks,...
Tracking of Probabilistically Coupled Features (2007)
M. Zobel, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
In this paper an approach on tracking objects consisting of multiple parts is presented. Instead of tracking each part independently, all features are tracked simultaneously. Therefore, the spatial...
Coupling Rays Probabilistic Modeling of Spatial Dependencies (2007)
Zobel Denzler, M. Zobel, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
In this paper we show, how modeling of spatial dependencies between single parts can be used to improve the robustness of the localization of multipart objects. Spatial dependencies are described by...
Bilinguale Sprachverarbeitung Mit SpeeData (2007)
U. Uebler, H. Niemann, Zusammenfassung In, Mit Speedata
. Die Sprechertypen lassen sich grob in eine der vier Gruppen aus Bild 1 unterteilen. Mit SpeeData k onnen erstmals Außerungen in zwei Sprachen gleichzeitig erkannt werden. Der entwickelte Erkenner...
Semantic Boundaries In Multiple Languages (2007)
J. Haas, V. Warnke, H. Niemann, M. Cettolo, A. Corazza, D. Falavigna, ...
This paper presents the results obtained for the task of detecting Semantic Boundaries (SBs) in spoken language using two different methods on the same data set. Hence we first introduce the two...
Contrastive Accents -- How To Get Them And What Do They Look Like (2007)
Haas Kie, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, A. Batliner, A. Batliner, ...
Automatic dialog systems tested with naive users are often confronted with special speaking styles, as e.g. words produced with emphatic or contrastive accent. Such utterances usually cause problems...
Abstract Tracking of Probabilistically Coupled Features (2007)
Matthias Zobel, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, M. Zobel, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
In this paper an approach on tracking objects consisting of multiple parts is presented. Instead of tracking each part independently, all features are tracked simultaneously. Therefore, the spatial...
Coupling Rays – Probabilistic Modeling of Spatial Dependencies (2007)
Matthias Zobel, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, M. Zobel, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
Abstract In this paper we show, how modeling of spatial dependencies between single parts can be used to improve the robustness of the localization of multi– part objects. Spatial dependencies are...
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Spain, D. Paulus, D. Paulus, U. Ahlrichs, U. Ahlrichs, ...
(20 pages (limit: 20 pages)) Abstract: We present a modular architecture for image understanding and active computer vision which consists of three major components: Sensor and actor interfaces...
M. Mast, F. Kummert, G. Fink, T. Kuhn, H. Niemann, G. Sagerer, ...
This article presents the speech understanding and dialog system EVAR. All levels of linguistic knowledge are used both to control the analysis process and for the interpretation of an utterance. All...
Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems Revisited E. Noth 1 (2007)
M. Boros, J. Fischer, F. Gallwitz, J. Haas, R. Huber, H. Niemann, ...
Abstract. In this paper we take a second look at current research issues for conversational dialogue systems addressed in [17]. We look at two systems, a movie information and a stock information...
ROBUST PITCH PERIOD DETECTION USING DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING (2007)
E. N Oth, E. N Oth, S. Harbeck, S. Harbeck, S. Harbeck, A. Kieling, ...
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A Frame and Segment Based Approach for Topic Spotting (2007)
E. N Oth, E. N Oth, E. Noth, S. Harbeck, S. Harbeck, ...
f ur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit liegt bei den Autoren.
DIALOG ACT CLASSIFICATION WITH THE HELP OF (2007)
H. Niemann, H. Niemann, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, M. Mast, ...
f ur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit liegt bei den Autoren. To appear in Proc. ICSLP'96, Philadelphia
R. Kompe, A. Kieling, H. Niemann, E. Noth, A. Batliner, S. Schachtl, ...
Parsing can be improved in automatic speech understanding if prosodic boundary marking is taken into account, because syntactic boundaries are often marked by prosodic means. Because large databases...
A. Batliner, R. Kompe, A. Kieling, H. Niemann, E. Noth
In automatic speech understanding, the division of continuously running speech into syntactic chunks is a great problem. Syntactic boundaries are often marked by prosodic means. For the training of...
R. Kompe, A. Batliner, A. Kieling, U. Kilian, H. Niemann, E. Noth, ...
A large corpus has been created automatically and read by 100 speakers. Phrase boundaries were labeled in the sentences automatically during sentence generation. Perception experiments on a subset of...
Tracking of Probabilistically Coupled Features (2007)
Matthias Zobel, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, M. Zobel, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
In this paper an approach on tracking objects consisting of multiple parts is presented. Instead of tracking each part independently, all features are tracked simultaneously. Therefore, the spatial...
R. Hendrych, R. Kompe, H. Niemann
In natural languages, the words within an utterance are often correlated over large distances. Long-spanning contextual effects of this type cannot be efficiently and robustly captured by the...
M. Mast, R. Kompe, S. Harbeck, A. Kieling, H. Niemann, E. Noth, ...
This paper presents automatic methods for the segmentation and classification of dialog acts (DA). In Verbmobil it is often sufficient to recognize the sequence of DAs occurring during a dialog...
Automatic Stuttering Recognition using Hidden Markov Models (2007)
E. Noth, H. Niemann, T. Haderlein, M. Decher, U. Eysholdt, F. Rosanowski, ...
This paper describes the combination of the work of speech therapists and speech recognition systems. Our long term goal is to evaluate the degree of stuttering during therapy and to use the...
J. Haas, A. Kieling, E. N Oth, H. Niemann, A. Batliner
Automatic dialog systems tested with naive users are often confronted with special speaking styles, as e.g. words produced with emphatic or contrastive accent. Such utterances usually cause problems...
From the Proceedings ICASSP'92. DP-BASED DETERMINATION OF F0 CONTOURS FROM SPEECH SIGNALS (2007)
A. Kieling, R. Kompe, H. Niemann, E. Noth, A. Batliner
A new algorithm for the determination of fundamental frequency (F0) contours is presented. For each voiced frame appropriate divisors of the frequency with the maximum energy in the spectrum are...
Object Localization in 2D Images based on Kohonen's Self-Organization Feature Maps (2007)
This paper presents a hybrid approach for neural object localization and recognition in 2D grey level images. The system combines an auto-associative network, two self-organization feature maps...
Classifier Independent Viewpoint Selection for 3-D Object Recognition (2007)
F. Deinzerh, J. Denzlerh, H. Niemann, Lehrstuhl Ftir
Abstract 3D object recognition has been tackled by passive approaches in the past. This means that based on one image a decision for a certain class and pose must be made or the image must be...
E. N Oth, A. Batliner, V. Warnke, J. Haas, M. Boros, J. Buckow, ...
In this paper, we show how prosodic information can be used in automatic dialogue systems and give some examples of promising new approaches. Most of these examples are taken from our own work in the...
Multilingual Speech Recognition (2007)
E. N Oth, S. Harbeck, H. Niemann
Summary. We present two concepts for systems with language identification in the context of multilingual information retrieval dialogs. The first one has an explicit module for language...
R. Koch, B. Heigl, M. Pollefeys, L. Van Gool, H. Niemann
Abstract. Lightfield rendering allows fast visualization of complex scenes by view interpolation from images of densely spaced camera viewpoints. The lightfield data structure requires calibrated...
E. Noth, R. De Mori, J. Fischer, A. Gebhard, S. Harbeck, R. Kompe, ...
We propose Multi--level Semantic Classification Trees to combine different information sources for predicting speech events (e.g. word chains, phrases, etc.). Traditionally in speech recognition...
Chair for Pattern Recognition (2007)
V. Warnke, E. N Oth, J. Buckow, S. Harbeck, H. Niemann
In this paper, we present a bootstrap training approach for language model (LM) classifiers. Training class dependent LM and running them in parallel, LM can serve as classifiers with any kind of...
A New Energy Term Combining Kalman--Filter and Active Contour Models for Object Tracking (2007)
Abstract. In the past years active contour models have been applied in the field of object tracking. For object tracking a prediction step is necessary, especially when tracking in natural scenes...
Chair for Pattern Recognition (2007)
J. Buckow, A. Batliner, R. Huber, E. N Oth, V. Warnke, H. Niemann
Prosody can be applied to improve the performance of spontaneous speech translation systems like VERBMOBIL. In VERB-MOBIL we previously augmented the output of a word recognizer with prosodic...
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E. Noth, A. Kieling, T. Kuhn, M. Mast, H. Niemann, K. Ott, ...
Abstract. The domain of the speech recognition and dialog system EVAR is train time table inquiry. We observed that in real human--human dialogs when the officer transmits the information, the...
Chair for Pattern Recognition (2007)
F. Gallwitz, A. Batliner, J. Buckow, R. Huber, H. Niemann, E. Noth
In this paper we present an integrated approach for recognizing both the word sequence and the syntactic-prosodic structure of a spontaneous utterance. We take into account the fact that a...
Word Recognition with integrated detection of Phrase Boundaries (2007)
F. Gallwitz, S. Harbeck, A. Batliner, J. Buckow, E. Noth, H. Niemann
In recent years prosody has been shown to be essential for improving the performance of complex speech understanding systems. In [6] the parsing of word graphs computed on Verbmobil spontaneous...
Coupling Rays-- Probabilistic Modeling of Spatial Dependencies (2007)
Matthias Zobel, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, M. Zobel, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
Abstract In this paper we show, how modeling of spatial dependencies between single parts can be used to improve the robustness of the localization of multi--part objects. Spatial dependencies are...
F. Gallwitz, A. Batliner, J. Buckow, R. Huber, H. Niemann, E. Noth
Abstract. In this paper we present an integrated approach for recognizing both the word sequence and the syntactic-prosodic structure of a spontaneous utterance. We take into account the fact that a...
COMBINING STATISTICS WITH SEMANTIC NETWORKS IN A REAL-TIME DIALOGUE SYSTEM (2007)
J. Fischer, E. Noth, H. Niemann
Abstract: We use an innovative approach to speech understanding which is based on a fine-grained knowledge representation automatically compiled from a semantic network, and on an iterative control...
J. Haas, V. Warnke, H. Niemann, M. Cettolo, A. Corazza, D. Falavigna, ...
via Sommarive, 18,
, E.G. Schukat-Talamazzini (2007)
F. Gallwitz, H. Niemann, Lehrstuhl Fur Mustererkennung
In this paper we present a new recognizer architecture that allows the efficient integration of language models with arbitrary large context information, e.g. polygram models, into the recognition...
1 Can You Tell Apart Spontaneous and Read Speech if You just Look at Prosody? (2007)
A. Batliner, R. Kompe, A. Kieling, E. Noth, H. Niemann
ABSTRACT Although the recognition of spontaneous speech is the ultimate aim of speech understanding systems it has rarely been investigated so far. In this article first analyses of a German database...
A. Kieling, R. Kompe, H. Niemann, E. Noth, A. Batliner
During any kind of information retrieval dialog, the repetition of parts of information just given by the dialog partner can often be observed. As these repetitions are usually elliptic, the...
Recognition of Out-of-Vocabulary Words and their Semantic Category (2007)
F. Gallwitz, E Noth, H. Niemann
Abstract. In almost all applications of automatic speech recognition, especially in spontaneous speech tasks, the recognizer vocabulary cannot cover all occurring words. There is always a significant...
E.G. Schukat--Talamazzini (2007)
R. Kompe, A. Kieling, H. Niemann, E. Noth, A. Zottmann, A. Batliner
Prosodic boundary detection is important to disambiguate parsing, especially in spontaneous speech, where elliptic sentences occur frequently. Word graphs are an efficient interface between word...
R. Kompe, W. Eckert, A. Kieling, T. Kuhn, M. Mast, H. Niemann, ...
We first describe EVAR, a state--of--the--art speech understanding and dialog system which application domain is train time table information retrieval. The system--- as others--- is devided into two...
V. Warnke, R. Kompe, H. Niemann, E. Noth
This paper presents an integrated approach for the segmentation and classification of dialog acts (DA) in the Verbmobil project. In Verbmobil it is often sufficient to recognize the sequence of DAs...
Prosodic Parsing of Spontaneous Speech (2007)
E. Noth, R. Kompe, A. Kieling, H. Niemann, A. Batliner, S. Schachtl, ...
In automatic speech understanding, the division of continuously running speech into syntactic chunks is a great problem. Syntactic boundaries are often marked by prosodic means. We use syntactic...
Sebastian Meller, Matthias Wolf, Dietrich Paulus, Matthias Pelka, Peter Weierich, Heinrich Niemann, ...
In: Proc. CAR'97 Berlin
R. Kompe, A. Kieling, T. Kuhn, M. Mast, H. Niemann, E. Noth, ...
Abstract: In this paper first experiments with naive persons using the speech understanding and dialog system EVAR are discussed. The domain of EVAR is train table inquiry. We observed that in real...
H. Niemann, E. N Oth, A. Kieling, R. Kompe, A. Batliner
We present the prosody module of the VERBMOBIL speech--to--speech translation system, the world wide first complete system, which successfully uses prosodic information in the linguistic analysis....
F. Gallwitz, M. Aretoulaki, M. Boros, J. Haas, S. Harbeck, R. Huber, ...
In this paper, we present an overview of the spoken dialogue system EVAR that was developed at the University of Erlangen. In January 1994, it became accessible over telephone line and could answer...
SQEL: A Multilingual and Multifunctional Dialogue System (2007)
Maria Aretoulaki, S. Harbeck, F. Gallwitz, E. Noeth, H. Niemann, J. Ivanecky, ...
Within the EC-funded project SQEL, the German EVAR spoken dialogue system has been extended with respect to multilinguality and multifunctionality. The current demonstrator can handle four di#erent...
Dialog Guiding Signals in Information Retrieval Dialogs (2007)
A. Kiessling, A. Kiessling, H. Niemann, H. Niemann, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, ...
1, E. Noth
E. Noth, S. Harbeck, H. Niemann
We present two concepts for systems with language identification in the context of multilingual information retrieval dialogs. The first one has an explicit module for language identification. It is...
J. Denzler, J. Denzler, H. Niemann, H. Niemann
The following paper will appear in the Proceedings on the 2 nd
A. Batliner, R. Kompe, A. Kieling, E. Noth, H. Niemann, U. Kilian
The prosodic marking of accents and phrase boundaries: expectations and results
PROBABILISTIC SEMANTIC ANALYSIS IN RESTRICTED DOMAINS (2007)
J. Haas, J. Hornegger, H. Niemann
We present a probabilistic approach to semantic and pragmatic analysis in restricted domains and methods to improve the understanding performance. As framework we use the EVAR system, an automatic...
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D. Paulus, U. Ahlrichs, B. Heigl, J. Denzler, J. Hornegger, M. Zobel, ...
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0 Object recognition using hidden Markov models (2007)
J. Hornegger, H. Niemann, D. Paulus, G. Schlottke
This contribution describes a statistical approach for learning and classification of two--dimensional objects based on segmented grey--level images. The research concentrates on the application of...
A spin glass model of a markov random field (2007)
B. Caputo, J. Hornegger, D. Paulus, H. Niemann
In the last few years there has been a growing interest within the machine learning comunity in Spin-Glass Theory (SGT) [8] and its possible applications in learning and recognition tasks [9], [2]....
The sfb 603 - model based analysis and visualization of complex scenes and sensor data (2007)
H. Niemann, B. Girod, H. {p. Seidel, B. Heigl, W. Heidrich, M. Magnor
Abstract. This special research area combines visualization and interpretation of sensor data by exploring the central subjects \models", \optimization", \hierarchies", and...
R. Koch, M. Pollefeys, B. Heigl, L. Van Gool, H. Niemann
In this contribution we focus on the calibration of very long image sequences from a hand-held camera that samples the viewing sphere of a scene. View sphere sampling is important for plenoptic...
F. Gallwitz, M. Aretoulaki, M. Boros, J. Haas, S. Harbeck, R. Huber, ...
In this paper, we present an overview of the spoken dialogue system EVAR that was developed at the University of Erlangen. In January 1994, it became accessible over telephone line and could answer...
Ch. Gräßl, F. Deinzer, H. Niemann
Statistical approaches play an important role in computer vision, normal distributions especially are widely used. In this paper we present a new approach for a continuous parametrization of normal...
Ch. Gräßl, F. Deinzer, H. Niemann
Statistical approaches play an important role in computer vision, normal distributions especially are widely used. In this paper we present a new approach for a continuous parametrization of normal...
Seafloor geological studies above active gas chimneys off Egypt (Central nile deep sea fan) (2007)
DUPRE, S, WOODSIDE, J, FOUCHER, Jean-Paul, DE LANGE, G, MASCLE, J, BOETIUS, A, ...
Four mud volcanoes of several kilometres diameter named Amon, Osiris, Isis, and North Alex and located above gas chimneys on the Central Nile Deep Sea Fan, were investigated for the first time with...
Hall array based linear movement detection (2007)
Grüger, H., Vogel, U., Ulbricht, S., Niemann, H.
Arrays of Hall sensors suitable to measure the field of a permanent magnets have been realized based on a commercial available CMOS technology (H. Gruger, U. Vogel, and S. Ulbricht, Setup and...
A novel THz source based on a two-color Nd:LSB microchip-laser and a LT-GaAsSb photomixer (2007)
Willer, U., Wilk, R., Schippers, W., Nodop, D., Böttger, S., Schossig, T., ...
A two-color Nd:LSB microchip-laser that simultaneously emits at 1061.3 nm and 1063.9 nm is used for photomixing. Since LT-GaAs which is typically utilized for photomixing cannot be excited...
Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as a methane sink (2006)
NIEMANN, H, LOSEKANN, T, DE BEER, D, ELVERT, M, NADALIG, T, KNITTEL, K, ...
Mud volcanism is an important natural source of the greenhouse gas methane to the hydrosphere and atmosphere(1,2). Recent investigations show that the number of active submarine mud volcanoes might...
Noise-induced annoyance and morbidity results from the pan-European LARES study (2006)
Niemann, H, Bonnefoy, X, Braubach, M, Hecht, K, Maschke, C, Rodrigues, C, ...
Beer, D. De, Sauter, E., Niemann, H., Kaul, N., Witte, U., ...
Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as a methane sink (2006)
Niemann, H., Lösekann, T., De Beer, D., Elvert, M., Nadalig, T., Knittel, K., ...
Methane Discharge Pathways at Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano (Western Barents Sea) (2006)
Sauter, E., Muyakshin, S. I., Schlüter, M., De Beer, D., Niemann, H., ...
Methane Discharge Pathways at Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano (Western Barents Sea) (2006)
Sauter, E., Muyakshin, S. I., Schlüter, M., De Beer, D., Niemann, H., ...
Methane emission and consumption at a Noth Sea gas seep (Tommeliten area) (2005)
Niemann, H., Elvert, M., Hovland, M., Orcutt, B., Judd, A., Suck, I., ...
Methane emission and consumption at a North Sea gas seep (Tommeliten area) (2005)
H. Niemann, M. Elvert, M. Hovland, B. Orcutt, A. Judd, I. Suck, ...
The Tommeliten seepage area is part of the Greater Ekofisk area, which is situated above the Tommeliten Delta salt diapir in the central North Sea (56°29.90' N, 2°59.80' E, Norwegian Block...
Methane emission and consumption at a North Sea gas seep (Tommeliten area) (2005)
Niemann, H., Elvert, M., Hovland, M., Orcutt, B., Judd, A., Suck, I., ...
The North Sea hosts large coal, oil and gas reservoirs of commercial value. Natural leakage pathways of subsurface gas to the hydrosphere have been recognized during geological surveys (Hovland and...
Methane emission and consumption at a North Sea gas seep (Tommeliten area) (2005)
Niemann, H., Elvert, M., Hovland, M., Orcutt, B., Judd, A., Suck, I., ...
The Tommeliten seepage area is part of the Greater Ekofisk area, which is situated above the Tommeliten Delta salt diapir in the central North Sea (56°29.90' N, 2°59.80' E, Norwegian Block 1/9, 75...
Methane emission and consumption at a North Sea gas seep (Tommeliten area) (2005)
Niemann, H., Elvert, M., Hovland, M., Orcutt, B., Judd, A., Suck, I., ...
The North Sea hosts large coal, oil and gas reservoirs of commercial value. Natural leakage pathways of subsurface gas to the hydrosphere have been recognized during geological surveys (Hovland and...
Methane emission and consumption at a North Sea gas seep (Tommeliten area) (2005)
Niemann, H., Elvert, M., Hovland, M., Orcutt, B., Judd, A., Suck, I., ...
The Tommeliten seepage area is part of the Greater Ekofisk area, which is situated above the Tommeliten Delta salt diapir in the central North Sea (56°29.90' N, 2°59.80' E, Norwegian Block 1/9, 75...
Methane emission and consumption at a North Sea gas seep (Tommeliten area) (2005)
H. Niemann, M. Elvert, M. Hovland, B. Orcutt, A. Judd, I. Suck, ...
The North Sea hosts large coal, oil and gas reservoirs of commercial value. Natural leakage pathways of subsurface gas to the hydrosphere have been recognized during geological surveys (Hovland and...
A. Oropeza, C. Wrenzycki, D. Herrmann, H. Niemann
The developmental potential of oocytes from prepubertal cattle is decreased, compared with those from their adult counterparts. The aim of the present study was to improve the developmental capacity...
Methane driven microbial ecosystems at mud volcanoes and other types of cold seeps (2004)
Boetius, A., Niemann, H., Tina, L., DeBeer, D., Sauter, E. J., Schlüter, M., ...
C. Wrenzycki, D. Herrmann, H. Niemann
Blastocyst formation and expansion are dependent on the differentiation and function of a proper transport of nutrients through the trophectoderm (TE) enclosing the inner cell mass (ICM). Coincident...
Various microbial communities reduce methane efflux from Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano (2003)
Elvert, M., Niemann, H., Sauter, E. J., Nadalig, T., Lösekann, T., Krüger, M., ...
Expression of active human blood clotting VIII in mammary gland of transgenic rabbits (2003)
Hiripi, L., Makovics, F., Halter, R., Baranyi, M., Paul, D., Carnwath, J., ...
Human clotting factor VIII is probably the largest protein to be expressed to date in the mammary gland of a transgenic animal, and it requires extensive posttranslational modification to achieve...
Neural networks for appearance-based 3-D object recognition (2003)
This paper presents a neural network based system for 3-D object recognition and localization. A new appearance-based approach is developed for recognition and pose estimation of 3-D objects from a...
Progress in Xenotransplantation Research Employing Transgenic Pigs (2003)
Microinjection of foreign DNA into pronuclei of a fertilized oocyte has predominantly been used for the generation of transgenic livestock. This technology works reliably, but is inefficient and...
Information theoretic focal length selection for real-time active 3-D object tracking (2003)
J. Denzler, M. Zobel, H. Niemann
Active object tracking, for example, in surveillance tasks, becomes more and more important these days. Besides the tracking algorithms themselves methodologies have to be developed for reasonable...
Information theoretic focal length selection for real-time active 3-D object tracking (2003)
J. Denzler, M. Zobel, H. Niemann
Active object tracking, for example, in surveillance tasks, becomes more and more important these days. Besides the tracking algorithms themselves methodologies have to be developed for reasonable...
Multimodal User State Recognition in a Modern Dialogue System (2003)
J. Adelhardt, R. Shi, C. Frank, V. Zeißler, A. Batliner, E. Nöth, ...
A new direction in impro ing automatic dialogue systems is to make a human-machine dialogue more similar to a human-human dialogue. A modern system should be able to recognize the semantic content of...
Multimodal User State Recognition in a Modern Dialogue System (2003)
J. Adelhardt, R. Shi, C. Frank, V. Zeißler, A. Batliner, E. Nöth, ...
A new direction in improving automatic dialogue systems is to make a human-machine dialogue more similar to a human-human dialogue. A modern system should be able to recognize the semantic content of...
Lazzari, G., Wrenzycki, C., Herrmann, D., Duchi, R., Kruip, T., Niemann, H., ...
The large offspring syndrome (LOS) is observed in bovine and ovine offspring following transfer of in vitro-produced (IVP) or cloned embryos and is characterized by a multitude of pathologic changes,...
Lipid biomarkers as a tool for the analysis of anaerobic methanotrophy in marine environments (2002)
Elvert, M., Niemann, H., Boetius, A., Treude, T., Knittel, K.
Application of cDNA arrays to monitor mRNA profiles in single preimplantation mouse embryos (2002)
Brambrink, T., Wabnitz, P., Halter, R., Klocke, R., Carnwath, J., Kues, W., ...
Array technology is a widely used tool for gene expression profiling in various biological systems. However, the application of this method to mammalian preimplantation embryos is limited by the...
Generation and characterization of transgenic mice expressing cobra venom factor (2002)
Andrä, J., Halter, R., Kock, M.A., Niemann, H., Paul, D.
Cobra venom factor (CVF), the anticomplementary protein in cobra venom, activates the alternative complement pathway, eventually leading to complement consumption. Here, we describe the development...
A spin-glass markov random field for 3-d object recognition (2002)
B. Caputo, J. Hornegger, D. Paulus, H. Niemann
In this paper we present a new energy function for MRF which is inspired by models of physics of disordered systems. This energy function presents two main advantages: it can be very easily applied...
Fabrication of FGS1/COB07 magnetic field sensors in the IMS (2001)
Grüger, H., Gottfried-Gottfried, R., Niemann, H.
An integrated CMOS compatible fluxgate sensor system (FGS1), mounted in chip on board technology (COB) has been developed in the last years. It has been designed to measure magnetic fields in a range...
Niemann, H., Verhoeyen, E., Wonigeit, K., Lorenz, R., Hecker, J., Schwinzer, R., ...
The critical shortage of human donor organs has generated growing interest for porcine to human xenotransplantation. The major immunological barrier to xenotransplantation is the hyperacute rejection...
Surveillance System, Michael Greiffenhagen, Dekan Prof, Dr. A. Winnacker, ...
Das Werk einschließlich aller seiner Teile ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Jede Verwertung außerhalb der engen Grenzen des Urheberrechtsgesetzes ist ohne Zustimmung des Verlages unzulässig und...
J. Denzler, C. M. Brown, H. Niemann
Abstract In this paper we introduce a formalism for optimal camera parameter selection for iterative state estimation. We consider a framework based on Shannon 's information theory and select...
Using Quaternions for Parametrizing 3–D Rotations in Unconstrained Nonlinear Optimization (2001)
Jochen Schmidt, Heinrich Niemann, J. Schmidt, H. Niemann
In this paper we address the problem of using quaternions in unconstrained nonlinear optimization of 3-D rotations. Quaternions representing rotations have four elements but only three degrees of...
Using Quaternions for Parametrizing 3–D Rotations in Unconstrained Nonlinear Optimization (2001)
In this paper we address the problem of using quaternions in unconstrained nonlinear optimization of 3-D rotations. Quaternions representing rotations have four elements but only three degrees of...
Improved appearance-based 3-D object recognition using wavelets (2001)
M. Reinhold, D. Paulus, H. Niemann
In this paper we present an improved appearancebased approach for the localization and classification of 3-D objects in 2-D gray level images. Thereby we calculate local feature vectors by the...
From Markov Random Fields to Associative Memories and Back (2001)
In this paper we propose a fully connected energy function for Markov Random Field (MRF) modeling which is inspired by Spin-Glass Theory (SGT). Two major tasks in MRF modeling are how to define the...
Improved appearance-based 3-D object recognition using wavelets (2001)
M. Reinhold, M. Reinhold, D. Paulus, D. Paulus, H. Niemann, H. Niemann
In this paper we present an improved appearancebased approach for the localization and classification of 3-D objects in 2-D gray level images. Thereby we calculate local feature vectors by the...
Using Quaternions for Parametrizing 3–D Rotations in Unconstrained Nonlinear Optimization (2001)
In this paper we address the problem of using quaternions in unconstrained nonlinear optimization of 3-D rotations. Quaternions representing rotations have four elements but only three degrees of...
Using Quaternions for Parametrizing 3--D Rotations in Unconstrained (2001)
Nonlinear Optimization Schmidt, J. Schmidt, H. Niemann
In this paper we address the problem of using quaternions in unconstrained nonlinear optimization of 3-D rotations. Quaternions representing rotations have four elements but only three degrees of...
A novel probabilistic model for object recognition and pose estimation (2001)
In this paper we consider the problem of object recognition and localization in a probabilistic framework. An objects is represented by a parametric probability density, and the computation of pose...
Wrenzycki, C., Herrmann, D., Keskintepe, L., Martins, A., Sirisathien, S., Brackett, B., ...
Assisted reproduction technologies have made great progress during the last 15 years in most mammalian species, including humans. Growing evidence indicates that bovine pre-implantation development...
Where is the hole punch? Object localization capabilities on a specific bureau task (2001)
Michaelsen, E., Ahlrichs, U., Stilla, U., Paulus, D., Niemann, H.
Kues, W.A., Anger, M., Carnwath, J.W., Paul, D., Motlik, J., Niemann, H.
The success of somatic nuclear transfer critically depends on the cell cycle stage of the donor nucleus and the recipient cytoplast. In this study we tested serum deprivation as well as two...
Classifier Independent Viewpoint Selection for 3-D Object Recognition (2000)
F. Deinzer, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
Abstract 3–D object recognition has been tackled by passive approaches in the past. This means that based on one image a decision for a certain class and pose must be made or the image must be...
Robust facial feature localization by coupled features (2000)
Matthias Zobel, Arnd Gebhard, Dietrich Paulus, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, M. Zobel, ...
In this paper, we consider the problem of robust localization of faces and some of their facial features. The task arises e.g. in the medical field of visual analysis of facial paresis. We detect...
Viewpoint Selection - A Classifier Independent Learning Approach (2000)
Frank Deinzer, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, F. Deinzer, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
This paper deals with an aspect of active object recognition for improving the classification and localization results by choosing optimal next views at an object. The knowledge of “good ” next...
Robust facial feature localization by coupled features (2000)
Matthias Zobel, Arnd Gebhard, Dietrich Paulus, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, M. Zobel, ...
In this paper, we consider the problem of robust localization of faces and some of their facial features. The task arises e.g. in the medical field of visual analysis of facial paresis. We detect...
Recognition of emotion in a realistic dialogue scenario (2000)
R. Huber, A. Batliner, J. Buckow, E. Noth, V. Warnke, H. Niemann
Nowadays modern automatic dialogue systems are able to understand complex sentences instead of only a few commands like Stop or No. In a call-center, such a system should be able to determine in a...
Viewpoint Selection - A Classifier Independent Learning Approach (2000)
Frank Deinzer, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, F. Deinzer, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
This paper deals with an aspect of active object recognition for improving the classification and localization results by choosing optimal next views at an object. The knowledge of "good...
Viewpoint Selection - A Classifier Independent Learning Approach (2000)
J. Denzler, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
This paper deals with an aspect of active object recognition for improving the classification and localization results by choosing optimal next views at an object. The knowledge of "good"...
Robust Facial Feature Localization by Coupled Features (2000)
M. Zobel, A. Gebhard, D. Paulus, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
In this paper, we consider the problem of robust localization of faces and some of their facial features. The task arises e.g. in the medical field of visual analysis of facial paresis. We detect...
Robust facial feature localization by coupled features (2000)
Matthias Zobel, Arnd Gebhard, Dietrich Paulus, Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, M. Zobel, ...
In this paper, we consider the problem of robust localization of faces and some of their facial features. The task arises e.g. in the medical field of visual analysis of facial paresis. We detect...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental potential of isolated rabbit blastomeres under various culture conditions to gain insight into their ability to form the two cell...
Cell cycle synchronization of porcine primary fibroblasts: Abstract (1999)
Kues, W.A., Anger, M., Carnwath, J.W., Motlik, J., Niemann, H., Paul, D.
Expression of human blood clotting factor VIII in the mammary gland of transgenetic sheep (1999)
Niemann, H., Halter, R., Carnwath, J.W., Herrmann, D., Lemme, E., Paul, D.
By targeting the expression of sequences encoding non-milk proteins to the mammary gland of transgenic farm animals, the organ could serve as a 'bioreactor' for producing pharmacologically active...
Generation and characterization of pigs transgenic for CD59 constructs (1999)
Niemann, H., Kues, W., Herrmann, D., Lemme, E., Wirth, D., ...
Illumination-robust Pattern Matching Using Distorted Color Histograms (1999)
Thimm, G., Luettin, J., Radig, B., Niemann, H., Zhuravlev, Y., Gourevitch, I., ...
It is argued that global illumination should be modeled separately from other incidents that change the appearance of objects. The effects of intensity variations of the global illumination are...
Automatic Annotation and Classification of Phrase Accents in Spontaneous Speech (1999)
A. Batliner, M. Nutt, V. Warnke, E. Noth, J. Buckow, R. Huber, ...
During the last years, we have been working on the automatic classification of boundaries and accents in the German VERBMOBIL (VM) project (human-human communication, appointment scheduling...
Knowledge Based Image and Speech Analysis for Service Robots (1999)
U. Ahlrichs, J. Fischer, J. Denzler, Chr Drexler, H. Niemann, E. Noth, ...
Active visual based scene exploration as well as speech understanding and dialogue are important skills of a service robot which is employed in natural environments and has to interact with humans....
Discriminative estimation of interpolation parameters for language model classifiers (1999)
V. Warnke, S. Harbeck, E. N Oth, H. Niemann, M. Levit
In this paper we present a new approach for estimating the interpolation parameters of language models (LM) which are used as classifiers. With the classical maximum likelihood (ML) estimation...
Calibration of hand-held camera sequences for plenoptic modeling (1999)
R. Koch, M. Pollefeys, B. Heigl, L. Van Gool, H. Niemann
In this contribution we focus on the calibration of very long image sequences from a hand-held camera that samples the viewing sphere of a scene. View sphere sampling is important for plenoptic...
A Computational Approach to the Semantics of Function Words in Dialogue Context (1999)
B. Ludwig, G. Gorz, H. Niemann
The present paper discusses the importance of function words for understanding dialogues. In a spoken language dialogue system (SLDS), they serve for reconstructing assumptions of the user about the...
Automatic Annotation And Classification Of Phrase Accents In Spontaneous Speech (1999)
A. Batliner, M. Nutt, V. Warnke, E. Nöth, J. Buckow, R. Huber, ...
During the last years, we have been working on the automatic classification of boundaries and accents in the German VERBMOBIL (VM) project (human-human communication, appointment scheduling...
A Geometric Approach to Lightfield Calibration (1999)
R. Koch, B. Heigl, M. Pollefeys, L. Van Gool, H. Niemann
Lightfield rendering allows fast visualization of complex scenes by view interpolation from images of densely spaced camera viewpoints. The lightfield data structure requires calibrated viewpoints,...
Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems (1999)
E. Nöth, F. Gallwitz, M. Aretoulaki, J. Haas, S. Harbeck, R. Huber, ...
. In this paper we present extensions to the spoken dialogue system EVAR which are crucial issues for the next generation dialogue systems. EVAR was developed at the University of Erlangen. In 1994,...
A Computational Approach to the Semantics of Function Words in Dialogue Context (1999)
B. Ludwig, G. Görz, H. Niemann
We argue for the importance of function words to understand dialogues. In a spoken language dialogue system (SLDS), they play a crucial role in reconstructing users' assumptions about the domain...
Discriminative estimation of interpolation parameters for language model classifiers (1999)
V. Warnke, S. Harbeck, E. Nöth, H. Niemann, M. Levit
In this paper we present a new approach for estimating the interpolation parameters of language models (LM) which are used as classifiers. With the classical maximum likelihood (ML) estimation...
A geometric approach to lightfield calibration (1999)
Lightfield rendering allows fast visualization of complex scenes by view interpolation from images of densely spaced camera viewpoints. The lightfield data structure requires calibrated viewpoints,...
J. Denzler, B. Heigl, H. Niemann
Abstract Tracking the 2D contour of a moving object has widely been used in the past years. So called active contour models have been proven to be a promising approach to real--time tracking of...
On the application of lightfield reconstruction for statistical object recognition (1998)
B. Heigl, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
In this paper we apply light field reconstruction and rendering of object views to the problem of automatic generation of training material for a statistical object recognition system. The advantages...
Using prosodic cues in spoken dialog systems (1998)
H. Niemann, E. N Oth, A. Batliner, J. Buckow, F. Gallwitz, R. Huber, ...
In this paper we show how prosody can be used in spoken dialog systems. First, we describe the phenomena that prosodic analysis is concerned with and give examples why prosody is relevant in the...
A Real--Time and Any--Time Approach for a Dialog System (1998)
J. Fischer, H. Niemann, E. Noeth
In this paper we present a knowledge based approach to a speech understanding and dialog system which possesses any--time and real--time capabilities. Knowledge is represented by means of a...
You BEEP Machine --- Emotion in Automatic Speech Understanding Systems (1998)
R. Huber, E. Noth, A. Batliner, J. Buckow, V. Warnke, H. Niemann
Abstract. In this paper we report on first experiments for the detection of emotion and the use of this information in a complex speech understanding system like Verbmobil. We do not look at lexical...
A Probabilistic Approach for the Semantic Analysis (1998)
J. Haas, J. Hornegger, E. Noth, H. Niemann
For the task of speech understanding and automatic dialog systems it is not that important to recognize the user's utterance with 100 % word accuracy but to get the user's intention in...
On the application of lightfield reconstruction for statistical object recognition (1998)
B. Heigl, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
In this paper we apply light eld reconstruction and rendering of object views to the problem of automatic generation of training material for a statistical object recognition system. The advantages...
A HMM-based System for Recognition of Handwritten Address Words (1998)
This paper introduces a new handwriting recognition system that is currently under
SQEL: A Multilingual and Multifunctional Dialogue System (1998)
Maria Aretoulaki, S. Harbeck, F. Gallwitz, E. Nöth, H. Niemann, J. Ivanecky, ...
Within the EC-funded project SQEL, the German EVAR spoken dialogue system has been extended with respect to multilinguality and multifunctionality. The current demonstrator can handle four different...
Empowering Knowledge Based Speech Understanding through Statistics (1998)
J. Fischer, J. Haas, E. Nöth, E. N Oth, H. Niemann, F. Deinzer
In this paper we present an innovative approach to speech understanding which is based on a fine--grained knowledge representation automatically compiled from a semantic network and on iterative...
A. Batliner, R. Kompe, A. Kießling, M. Mast, H. Niemann, E. Nöth, ...
In automatic speech understanding, division of continuous running speech into syntactic chunks is a great problem. Syntactic boundaries are often marked by prosodic means. For the training of...
Can We Tell apart Intonation from Prosody (if we Look at Accents and Boundaries (1997)
E. N Oth, E. N Oth, A. Batliner, A. Batliner, A. Batliner, ...
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Tempo and its Change in Spontaneous Speech (1997)
E. N Oth, E. N Oth, A. Batliner, A. Batliner, A. Batliner, ...
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Prosodic Processing and its use in Verbmobil (1997)
H. Niemann, H. Niemann, H. Niemann, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, ...
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Applying a parallel any--time control algorithm to a real--world speech understanding problem (1997)
In this paper we show how to manage speech understanding using a control algorithm which enables parallel processing and is based on iterative optimization. The task specific knowledge is represented...
Tempo and its Change in Spontaneous Speech (1997)
A. Batliner, A. Kieling, R. Kompe, H. Niemann, E. Noth, Now Ericsson Eurolab
In this paper, we give a first account of speech tempo and its change in spontaneous speech in a very large data base (Verbmobil, i.e., human-human appointment dialogs). As features representing...
A Frame and Segment Based Approach for Topic Spotting (1997)
E. Noth, S. Harbeck, H. Niemann, V. Warnke
In this paper we present a new approach for topic spotting based on subword units (phonemes and feature vectors) instead of words. Classification of topics is done by running topic dependent polygram...
Topic Spotting using Subword Units (1997)
V. Warnke, S. Harbeck, E. Noth, H. Niemann
In this paper we present a new approach for topic spotting based on subword units and feature vectors instead of words. In our first approach, we only use vector quantized feature vectors and...
Real--time pedestrian tracking in natural scenes (1997)
Joachim Denzler, Heinrich Niemann, J. Denzler, H. Niemann
The following paper was published in the Proceedings on the 7 th International Conference
Speedata: A Prototype For Multilingual Spoken Data-Entry (1997)
U. Ackermann, B. Angelini, F. Brugnara, M. Federico, D. Giuliani, R. Gretter, ...
In this work we describe the development and evaluation of SpeeData, a prototype for multilingual spoken dataentry. The SpeeData project aims at developing a demonstrator that provides a...
V. Warnke, R. Kompe H. Niemann, E. N oth (1997)
E. N Oth, E. N Oth, V. Warnke, V. Warnke, ...
This paper presents an integrated approach for the segmentation and classification of dialog acts (DA) in the Verbmobil project. In Verbmobil it is often sufficient to recognize the sequence of DAs...
Topic Spotting Using Subword Units (1997)
E. N Oth, E. N Oth, V. Warnke, V. Warnke, S. Harbeck, ...
In this paper we present a new approach for topic spotting based on subword units and feature vectors instead of words. In our first approach, we only use vector quantized feature vectors and...
Improving Parsing of Spontaneous Speech with the Help of Prosodic Boundaries (1997)
Kompe Kie, E. N Oth, A. Batliner, S. Schacht, T. Ruland, H. U. Block, ...
Parsing can be improved in automatic speech understanding if prosodic boundary marking is taken into account, because syntactic boundaries are often marked by prosodic means. Because large databases...
Active Rays: Polar-transformed Active Contours for Real-Time Contour Tracking (1997)
In this paper we describe a new approach to contour extraction and tracking, which is based on the principles of active contour models and overcomes its shortcomings. We formally introduce active...
Can We Tell Apart Intonation From Prosody (if We Look At Accents And Boundaries)? (1997)
A. Batliner, A. Kießling, R. Kompe, H. Niemann, E. Nöth, Now Ericsson Eurolab
Studies on prosody/intonation normally look for important (distinctive) features denoting linguistic contrasts in production or perception experiments. The recent development in automatic speech...
Towards Understanding Spontaneous Speech: Word Accuracy vs. Concept Accuracy (1996)
Boros, M., Eckert, W., Gallwitz, F., Goerz, G., Hanrieder, G., Niemann, H.
In this paper we describe an approach to automatic evaluation of both the speech recognition and understanding capabilities of a spoken dialogue system for train time table information. We use word...
Dialog act classification with the help of prosody (1996)
M. Mast, R. Kompe, S. Harbeck, H. Niemann, V. Warnke
This paper presents automatic methods for the segmentation and classi#cation of dialog acts #DA#. In Verbmobil it is often su#cient to recognize the sequence of DAs occurring during a dialog between...
Syntactic--prosodic Labelling of Large Spontaneous Speech Data--bases (1996)
A. Batliner, R. Kompe, H. Niemann
In automatic speech understanding, the division of continuously running speech into syntactic chunks is a great problem. Syntactic boundaries are often marked by prosodic means. For the training of...
Towards understanding spontaneous speech: Word accuracy vs. concept accuracy (1996)
M. Boros, W. Eckert, F. Gallwitz, G. Hanrieder, H. Niemann
In this paper we describe an approach to automatic evaluation of both the speech recognition and understanding capabilities of a spoken dialogue system for train time table information. We use word...
A category based approach for recognition of out-of-vocabulary words (1996)
F. Gallwitz, E Nöth, H. Niemann
In almost all applications of automatic speech recognition, especially in spontaneous speech tasks, the recognizer vocabulary cannot cover all occurring words. There is always a significant amount of...
A category based approach for recognition of out-of-vocabulary words (1996)
E. N Oth, E. N Oth, F. Gallwitz, F. Gallwitz, F. Gallwitz, E Noth, ...
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Classification of Boundaries and Accents in Spontaneous Speech (1996)
R. Kompe, R. Kompe, A. Batliner, A. Batliner, H. Niemann, H. Niemann, ...
1, R. Kompe 1, A. Batliner 2, H. Niemann
Syntactic--prosodic Labelling of Large Spontaneous Speech Data--bases (1996)
H. Niemann, H. Niemann, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, A. Batliner, A. Batliner, ...
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An algorithm for any-time speech understanding (1996)
V. Fischer, J. Fischer, H. Niemann
Proc. on the 3 rd German--Slovenian Workshop
Active rays: A new approach to contour tracking (1996)
J. Denzler, J. Denzler, H. Niemann, H. Niemann
The following paper will appear in the Proceedings on the 3 rd German--Slovenian Workshop on
Knowledge based image understanding by iterative optimization (1996)
J. Fischer, H. Niemann, H. Niemann, V. Fischer, V. Fischer, D. Paulus, ...
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A category based approach for recognition of out-of-vocabulary words (1996)
F. Gallwitz, E Noth, H. Niemann
In almost all applications of automatic speech recognition, especially in spontaneous speech tasks, the recognizer vocabulary cannot cover all occurring words. There is always a significant amount of...
Semantic network meet Bayesian classifiers (1996)
J. Hornegger, E. N Oth, V. Fischer, H. Niemann
Abstract This paper presents a statistical approach to object recognition and scene analysis, and is motivated by semantic networks, a knowledge representation formalism that allows to represent...
An efficient storage scheme for reduced chemical kinetics based on orthogonal polynomials (1996)
H. Niemann, H. Niemann, D. Schmidt, D. Schmidt, U. Maas, U. Maas
Simplified chemical kinetic schemes are a crucial prerequisite for the simulation of complex three-dimensional turbulent flows, and various methods for the generation of reduced mechanisms have been...
Application Of Speech Technology In The Multilingual Speedata Project (1996)
U. Ackermann, F. Brugnara, M. Federico, H. Niemann
In this paper we present a new application for speech technology. In the SpeeData project a user of the system will speak in any of the provided languages, which presently are the two languages...
An Integrated Model Of Acoustics And Language Using Semantic Classification Trees (1996)
Oth De, E. N Oth, R. Kuhn, R. Kuhn, H. Niemann, H. Niemann, ...
We propose Multi--level Semantic Classification Trees to combine different information sources for predicting speech events (e.g. word chains, phrases, etc.). Traditionally in speech recognition...
Towards Understanding Spontaneous Speech: Word Accuracy Vs. Concept Accuracy (1996)
M. Boros, W. Eckert, F. Gallwitz, G. Görz, G. Hanrieder, H. Niemann
In this paper we describe an approach to automatic evaluation of both the speech recognition and understanding capabilities of a spoken dialogue system for train time table information. We use word...
An efficient storage scheme for reduced chemical kinetics based on orthogonal polynomials (1996)
H. Niemann, H. Niemann, D. Schmidt, D. Schmidt, U. Maas, U. Maas
Simplified chemical kinetic schemes are a crucial prerequisite for the simulation of complex threedimensional turbulent flows, and various methods for the generation of reduced mechanisms have been...
Robust pitch period detection using dynamic programming with an ANN cost function (1995)
S. Harbeck, A. Kieling, R. Kompe, H. Niemann, E. Noth
In this paper, a new pitch synchronous F0-algorithm is described. The task of detecting pitch periods in the speech signal is solved with a search for an optimal path through a space of pitch period...
Evaluating the performance of active contours models for real-time object tracking (1995)
In the past six years many algorithms and models for active contours (snakes) have been presented. Some of the work has been applied to static image analysis, some other to image sequence processing....
A. Kieling, R. Kompe, H. Niemann, E. Noth, A. Batliner
ABSTRACT Laryngealizations are irregular voiced portions of speech, which can have morphosyntactic functions and can disturb the automatic computation of F0. Two methods for the automatic detection...
The prosodic marking of phrase boundaries: Expectations and Results (1995)
A. Batliner, R. Kompe, A. Kieling, E. Noth, H. Niemann, U. Kilian
ABSTRACT Using sentence templates and a stochastic context-free grammar a large corpus (10,000 sentences) has been created, where prosodic phrase boundaries are labeled in the sentences automatically...
Statistical learning, localization, and identification of objects (1995)
Joachim Hornegger, Heinrich Niemann, J. Hornegger, H. Niemann
This work describes a statistical approach to deal with learning and recognition problems in the field of computer vision. An abstract theoretical framework is provided, which is suitable for...
Prosodic Scoring Of Word Hypotheses Graphs (1995)
Kompe Kie, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, A. Zottmann, A. Zottmann, A. Batliner, ...
Prosodic boundary detection is important to disambiguate parsing, especially in spontaneous speech, where elliptic sentences occur frequently. Word graphs are an efficient interface between word...
Pitch determination considering laryngealization effects in spoken dialogs (1994)
Niemann, H, Denzler, J, Kahles, B, Kompe, A, Kießling, A, Nöth, E, ...
A frequent phenomen in spoken dialogs of the information seeking type are short elliptic utterances whose mood (declarative or interrogative) can only be distinguished by intonation. The main...
Pitch determination considering laryngealization effects in spoken dialogs (1994)
Niemann, H, Denzler, J, Kahles, B, Kompe, A, Kießling, A, Nöth, E, ...
A frequent phenomen in spoken dialogs of the information seeking type are short elliptic utterances whose mood (declarative or interrogative) can only be distinguished by intonation. The main...
Dayanithi, G., Stecher, B., Höhne-Zell, B., Yamasaki, S., Binz, T., Weller, U., ...
The tetanus toxin light chain blocks calcium induced vasopressin release from neurohypophysial nerve terminals. Here we show that histidine residue 233 within the putative zinc binding motif of the...
Rieck: Phonetic and Prosodic Analysis of Speech (1994)
H. Niemann, H. Niemann, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, A. Kieling, A. Kieling, ...
Abstract: In order to cope with the problems of spontaneous speech (including, for example, hesitations and non-words) it is necessary to extract from the speech signal all information it contains....
Prosodic Dialog Control in EVAR (1994)
H. Niemann, W. Eckert, A. Kieling, R. Kompe, T. Kuhn, E. Noth, ...
The domain of the speech recognition and dialog system EVAR is train time table inquiry. We observed that in real human--human dialogs when the officer transmits the information, the customer very...
Semantic Analysis in a Robust Spoken Dialog System (1994)
In this paper we describe the semantic interpretation process of utterances in a spoken dialog system for train table inquiries. Spoken dialogs show a large set of problems in...
Detection of Phrase Boundaries and Accents (1994)
A. Kieling, R. Kompe, H. Niemann, E. Noth, A. Batliner
On a large speech database read by untrained speakers experiments for the recognition of phrase boundaries and phrase accents were performed. We used durational features as well as features derived...
Pitch determination considering laryngealization effects in spoken dialogs (1994)
H. Niemann, J. Denzler, B. Kahles, R. Kompe, A. Kiessling, E. Noth, ...
Abstract--- A frequent phenomenon in spoken dialogs of the information seeking type are short elliptic utterances whose mood (declarative or interrogative) can only be distinguished by intonation....
Ergodic Hidden Markov Models and Polygrams for Language Modeling (1994)
In this paper we present two new techniques for language modeling in speech recognition. The first technique is based on ergodic discrete density Hidden Markov Models (HMM) which can be applied to...
Learning, tracking and recognition of 3D objects (1994)
D. Paulus Iros, J. Denzler, J. Denzler, J. Denzler, R. Be, R. Be, ...
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A Bayesian approach to learn and classify 3--d objects from intensity images (1994)
This contribution treats the problem of learning and recognizing 3D objects using 2D views. We present a new Bayesian approach to 3D computer vision based on the Expectation--Maximization--Algorithm,...
Pitch Determination Considering Laryngealization Effects In Spoken Dialogs (1994)
Niemann Denzler, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, H. Niemann, H. Niemann, ...
A frequent phenomenon in spoken dialogs of the information seeking type are short elliptic utterances whose mood (declarative or interrogative) can only be distinguished by intonation. The main...
A Robust Information System for Spoken Human-Machine-Dialogues (1994)
W. Eckert, G. Görz, G. Hanrieder, W. Hiltl, H. Niemann
this paper we describe the overall system and the approach towards robust dialogue processing. The system utilizes spoken input and output and is completely integrated operating on a single general...
Prosody Takes Over: Towards A Prosodically Guided Dialog System (1994)
Kompe Oth, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, A. Kieling, A. Kieling, T. Kuhn, ...
. The domain of the speech recognition and dialog system EVAR is train time table inquiry. We observed that in real human--human dialogs when the officer transmits the information, the customer very...
Automatic classification of prosodically marked phrase boundaries in German (1994)
U. Kilian, U. Kilian, H. Niemann, H. Niemann, E. Nöth, ...
A large corpus has been created automatically and read by 100 speakers. Phrase boundaries were labeled in the sentences automatically during sentence generation. Perception experiments on a subset of...
Phonetic And Prosodic Analysis Of Speech (1994)
H. Niemann, E. Nöth, E. N Oth, A. Kießling, R. Kompe, ...
: In order to cope with the problems of spontaneous speech (including, for example, hesitations and non-words) it is necessary to extract from the speech signal all information it contains. Modeling...
The Missing Information Principle in Computer Vision (1994)
Joachim Hornegger, Heinrich Niemann, J. Hornegger, H. Niemann
Central problems in the field of computer vision are learning object models from examples, classification, and localization of objects. In this paper we will motivate the use of a classical...
Prosody takes over: A prosodically guided dialog system (1993)
H. Niemann, H. Niemann, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, K. Ott, K. Ott, ...
Abstract: In this paper first experiments with naive persons using the speech understanding and dialog system EVAR are discussed. The domain of EVAR is train table inquiry. We observed that in real...
Going back to the source: Inverse filtering of the speech signal with ANNs (1993)
J. Denzler, J. Denzler, J. Denzler, R. Kompe, R. Kompe, ...
In this paper we present a new method transforming speech signals to voice source signals (VSS) using artificial neural networks (ANN). We will point out that the ANN mapping of speech signals into...
A Spoken Dialogue System for German Intercity Train Timetable Inquiries (1993)
W. Eckert, T. Kuhn, H. Niemann, S. Rieck, A. Scheuer
This paper focuses on the evaluation of the German Sundial Demonstrator maintaining interactive conversations via microphone and telephone with users. The word recognizer was implemented by the...
Going back to the source: Inverse filtering of the speech signal with ANNs (1993)
J. Denzler, R. Kompe, A. Kieling, H. Niemann, E. N Oth
In this paper we present a new method transforming speech signals to voice source signals (VSS) using artificial neural networks (ANN). We will point out that the ANN mapping of speech signals into...
ISADORA - a Speech Modelling Network Based on Hidden Markov Models (1993)
In this paper we present the ISADORA system which provides highly flexible speech recognition based on HMM technology together with an hierarchical representation of speech units. Markov model...
Semantic Hidden Markov Networks (1992)
G. A. Fink, F. Kummert, G. Sagerer, H. Niemann
Only the authors are responsible for the contents of this publication. Although much effort has been put into speech understanding systems there still exists a rather wide gap between acoustic...
Die explosions- (zerknall- ) gefahr in der feuerversicherung ... / (1936)
"Verzeichnis des benutzten schrifttums": p. v-vii.
Yamasaki, S, Hu, Y, Binz, T, Kalkuhl, A, Kurazono, H, Tamura, T, ...
Synaptobrevin/vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) and syntaxin are potential vesicle donor and target membrane receptors of a docking complex that requires N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor...
Exogenous mRNA encoding tetanus or botulinum neurotoxins expressed in Aplysia neurons.
Mochida, S, Poulain, B, Eisel, U, Binz, T, Kurazono, H, Niemann, H, ...
Injection of exogenous mRNA purified from various tissue preparations into cellular translation systems such as Xenopus oocytes has allowed expression of complex proteins (e.g., receptors for...
Tyrosine 807 of the v-Fms oncogene product controls cell morphology and association with p120RasGAP.
Trouliaris, S, Smola, U, Chang, J H, Parsons, S J, Niemann, H, Tamura, T
Expression of the v-fms oncogene of feline sarcoma virus in fibroblasts causes surface exposure of an activated receptor tyrosine kinase, v-Fms, that is autophosphorylated at multiple sites within...
Characterization of the Borna disease virus phosphoprotein, p23.
Kliche, S, Stitz, L, Mangalam, H, Shi, L, Binz, T, Niemann, H, ...
Borna disease virus infection is diagnosed by the presence of serum antibodies reactive with the major viral proteins, p40 and p23. Although p40 and p23 are unrelated in amino acid sequence...
Niemann, H, Chakraborty, A K, Friebolin, H, Stirm, S
The Escherichia coli K42 capsular polysaccharide consists of leads to 3)-alpha-D-Galp-(1 leads to 3)-alpha-D-GalUAp-(1 leads to 3)-alpha-L-Fucp-(1 leads to repeating units. The E. coli K42 and...
Niemann, H, Kwiatkowski, B, Westphal, U, Stirm, S
By partial acid hydrolysis, methylation and gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry of the methylated monomers (as the alditol acetates), mass spectrometry of trimethylsilylated disaccharide...
Reassessment of the v-fms sequence: threonine phosphorylation of the COOH-terminal domain.
Smola, U, Hennig, D, Hadwiger-Fangmeier, A, Schütz, B, Pfaff, E, Niemann, H, ...
The v-fms oncogene product of the McDonough strain of feline sarcoma virus is a member of the receptor tyrosine kinase family. Its cellular counterpart, the c-fms product, is the receptor for...
Tamura, T, Hennig, D, Grell, M, Niemann, H, Boschek, B
NRK cells transformed by the McDonough strain of feline sarcoma virus (SM-FeSV) were mutagenized by the use of 5'-azacytidine. Four cell lines expressing different transformation-defective phenotypes...
Expression of tetanus toxin subfragments in vitro and characterization of epitopes.
Andersen-Beckh, B, Binz, T, Kurazono, H, Mayer, T, Eisel, U, Niemann, H
To define epitopes of tetanus toxin, we compared four different in vitro systems in terms of their ability to produce tetanus toxin-specific subfragments from cloned DNA. A transcription-translation...
Nucleotide sequence of Clostridium botulinum C1 neurotoxin.
Hauser, D, Eklund, M W, Kurazono, H, Binz, T, Niemann, H, Gill, D M, ...
Nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin type D.
Binz, T, Kurazono, H, Popoff, M R, Eklund, M W, Sakaguchi, G, Kozaki, S, ...
Fehmel, F, Feige, U, Niemann, H, Stirm, S
Different interactions between particles of Escherichia coli capsule bacteriophage 29 and its receptor, the E. coli serotype 29 capsular polysaccharide have been studied. The inactivation of phage 29...
Tamura, T, Simon, E, Niemann, H, Snoek, G T, Bauer, H
Cells transformed by the McDonough strain of feline sarcoma virus express at their surface a v-fms-specific transmembrane glycoprotein designated gp140v-fms. By labeling with 32Pi, gp140v-fms was...
Synaptic vesicle membrane fusion complex: action of clostridial neurotoxins on assembly.
Hayashi, T, McMahon, H, Yamasaki, S, Binz, T, Hata, Y, Südhof, T C, ...
Clostridial neurotoxins inhibit neurotransmitter release by selective and specific intracellular proteolysis of synaptobrevin/VAMP, synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa (SNAP-25) or syntaxin....
Disassembly of the reconstituted synaptic vesicle membrane fusion complex in vitro.
Hayashi, T, Yamasaki, S, Nauenburg, S, Binz, T, Niemann, H
The interaction of the presynaptic membrane proteins SNAP-25 and syntaxin with the synaptic vesicle protein synaptobrevin (VAMP) plays a key role in the regulated exocytosis of neurotransmitters....
Eisel, U, Reynolds, K, Riddick, M, Zimmer, A, Niemann, H, Zimmer, A
Tetanus toxin is a powerful neurotoxin known to inhibit neurotransmitter release. The tetanus toxin light chain is a metalloprotease that cleaves some members of the synaptobrevin gene family with...
Botulinum neurotoxin C1 blocks neurotransmitter release by means of cleaving HPC-1/syntaxin.
Blasi, J, Chapman, E R, Yamasaki, S, Binz, T, Niemann, H, Jahn, R
The anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum produces several related neurotoxins that block exocytosis of synaptic vesicles in nerve terminals and that are responsible for the clinical...
Post-translational glycosylation of coronavirus glycoprotein E1: inhibition by monensin.
Niemann, H, Boschek, B, Evans, D, Rosing, M, Tamura, T, Klenk, H D
The intracellular sites of biosynthesis of the structural proteins of murine hepatitis virus A59 have been analyzed using cell fractionation techniques. The nucleocapsid protein N is synthesized on...
Keil, W, Geyer, R, Dabrowski, J, Dabrowski, U, Niemann, H, Stirm, S, ...
The structures of the oligosaccharides of the hemagglutinin of fowl plague virus [influenza A/FPV/Rostock/34 (H7N1)] have been elucidated by one- and two-dimensional 1H n.m.r. spectroscopy at 500 MHz...
Niemann, H, Geyer, R, Klenk, H D, Linder, D, Stirm, S, Wirth, M
Two size classes of O-glycosidically linked oligosaccharides were liberated from glycoprotein E1 of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) A59 by reductive beta-elimination and separated by h.p.l.c. The...
Appropriate glycosylation of the fms gene product is a prerequisite for its transforming potency.
Hadwiger, A, Niemann, H, Käbisch, A, Bauer, H, Tamura, T
Processing inhibitors of N-linked glycans were used to determine whether correct glycosylation of the oncogene product gp140v-fms, encoded by the McDonough strain of feline sarcoma virus (SM-FeSV),...
Tetanus toxin: primary structure, expression in E. coli, and homology with botulinum toxins.
Eisel, U, Jarausch, W, Goretzki, K, Henschen, A, Engels, J, Weller, U, ...
A pool of synthetic oligonucleotides was used to identify the gene encoding tetanus toxin on a 75-kbp plasmid from a toxigenic non-sporulating strain of Clostridium tetani. The nucleotide sequence...
Gonelle-Gispert, C, Halban, P A, Niemann, H, Palmer, M, Catsicas, S, Sadoul, K
The tSNARE (the target-membrane soluble NSF-attachment protein receptor, where NSF is N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein) synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa (SNAP-25) is expressed in...
Yamasaki, S, Hu, Y, Binz, T, Kalkuhl, A, Kurazono, H, Tamura, T, ...
Synaptobrevin/vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) and syntaxin are potential vesicle donor and target membrane receptors of a docking complex that requires N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor...
Exogenous mRNA encoding tetanus or botulinum neurotoxins expressed in Aplysia neurons.
Mochida, S, Poulain, B, Eisel, U, Binz, T, Kurazono, H, Niemann, H, ...
Injection of exogenous mRNA purified from various tissue preparations into cellular translation systems such as Xenopus oocytes has allowed expression of complex proteins (e.g., receptors for...
Tyrosine 807 of the v-Fms oncogene product controls cell morphology and association with p120RasGAP.
Trouliaris, S, Smola, U, Chang, J H, Parsons, S J, Niemann, H, Tamura, T
Expression of the v-fms oncogene of feline sarcoma virus in fibroblasts causes surface exposure of an activated receptor tyrosine kinase, v-Fms, that is autophosphorylated at multiple sites within...
Characterization of the Borna disease virus phosphoprotein, p23.
Kliche, S, Stitz, L, Mangalam, H, Shi, L, Binz, T, Niemann, H, ...
Borna disease virus infection is diagnosed by the presence of serum antibodies reactive with the major viral proteins, p40 and p23. Although p40 and p23 are unrelated in amino acid sequence...
Niemann, H, Chakraborty, A K, Friebolin, H, Stirm, S
The Escherichia coli K42 capsular polysaccharide consists of leads to 3)-alpha-D-Galp-(1 leads to 3)-alpha-D-GalUAp-(1 leads to 3)-alpha-L-Fucp-(1 leads to repeating units. The E. coli K42 and...
Niemann, H, Kwiatkowski, B, Westphal, U, Stirm, S
By partial acid hydrolysis, methylation and gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry of the methylated monomers (as the alditol acetates), mass spectrometry of trimethylsilylated disaccharide...
Reassessment of the v-fms sequence: threonine phosphorylation of the COOH-terminal domain.
Smola, U, Hennig, D, Hadwiger-Fangmeier, A, Schütz, B, Pfaff, E, Niemann, H, ...
The v-fms oncogene product of the McDonough strain of feline sarcoma virus is a member of the receptor tyrosine kinase family. Its cellular counterpart, the c-fms product, is the receptor for...
Tamura, T, Hennig, D, Grell, M, Niemann, H, Boschek, B
NRK cells transformed by the McDonough strain of feline sarcoma virus (SM-FeSV) were mutagenized by the use of 5'-azacytidine. Four cell lines expressing different transformation-defective phenotypes...
Expression of tetanus toxin subfragments in vitro and characterization of epitopes.
Andersen-Beckh, B, Binz, T, Kurazono, H, Mayer, T, Eisel, U, Niemann, H
To define epitopes of tetanus toxin, we compared four different in vitro systems in terms of their ability to produce tetanus toxin-specific subfragments from cloned DNA. A transcription-translation...
Nucleotide sequence of Clostridium botulinum C1 neurotoxin.
Hauser, D, Eklund, M W, Kurazono, H, Binz, T, Niemann, H, Gill, D M, ...
Nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin type D.
Binz, T, Kurazono, H, Popoff, M R, Eklund, M W, Sakaguchi, G, Kozaki, S, ...
Fehmel, F, Feige, U, Niemann, H, Stirm, S
Different interactions between particles of Escherichia coli capsule bacteriophage 29 and its receptor, the E. coli serotype 29 capsular polysaccharide have been studied. The inactivation of phage 29...
Tamura, T, Simon, E, Niemann, H, Snoek, G T, Bauer, H
Cells transformed by the McDonough strain of feline sarcoma virus express at their surface a v-fms-specific transmembrane glycoprotein designated gp140v-fms. By labeling with 32Pi, gp140v-fms was...
Synaptic vesicle membrane fusion complex: action of clostridial neurotoxins on assembly.
Hayashi, T, McMahon, H, Yamasaki, S, Binz, T, Hata, Y, Südhof, T C, ...
Clostridial neurotoxins inhibit neurotransmitter release by selective and specific intracellular proteolysis of synaptobrevin/VAMP, synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa (SNAP-25) or syntaxin....
Disassembly of the reconstituted synaptic vesicle membrane fusion complex in vitro.
Hayashi, T, Yamasaki, S, Nauenburg, S, Binz, T, Niemann, H
The interaction of the presynaptic membrane proteins SNAP-25 and syntaxin with the synaptic vesicle protein synaptobrevin (VAMP) plays a key role in the regulated exocytosis of neurotransmitters....
Eisel, U, Reynolds, K, Riddick, M, Zimmer, A, Niemann, H, Zimmer, A
Tetanus toxin is a powerful neurotoxin known to inhibit neurotransmitter release. The tetanus toxin light chain is a metalloprotease that cleaves some members of the synaptobrevin gene family with...
Botulinum neurotoxin C1 blocks neurotransmitter release by means of cleaving HPC-1/syntaxin.
Blasi, J, Chapman, E R, Yamasaki, S, Binz, T, Niemann, H, Jahn, R
The anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum produces several related neurotoxins that block exocytosis of synaptic vesicles in nerve terminals and that are responsible for the clinical...
Post-translational glycosylation of coronavirus glycoprotein E1: inhibition by monensin.
Niemann, H, Boschek, B, Evans, D, Rosing, M, Tamura, T, Klenk, H D
The intracellular sites of biosynthesis of the structural proteins of murine hepatitis virus A59 have been analyzed using cell fractionation techniques. The nucleocapsid protein N is synthesized on...
Keil, W, Geyer, R, Dabrowski, J, Dabrowski, U, Niemann, H, Stirm, S, ...
The structures of the oligosaccharides of the hemagglutinin of fowl plague virus [influenza A/FPV/Rostock/34 (H7N1)] have been elucidated by one- and two-dimensional 1H n.m.r. spectroscopy at 500 MHz...
Niemann, H, Geyer, R, Klenk, H D, Linder, D, Stirm, S, Wirth, M
Two size classes of O-glycosidically linked oligosaccharides were liberated from glycoprotein E1 of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) A59 by reductive beta-elimination and separated by h.p.l.c. The...
Appropriate glycosylation of the fms gene product is a prerequisite for its transforming potency.
Hadwiger, A, Niemann, H, Käbisch, A, Bauer, H, Tamura, T
Processing inhibitors of N-linked glycans were used to determine whether correct glycosylation of the oncogene product gp140v-fms, encoded by the McDonough strain of feline sarcoma virus (SM-FeSV),...
Tetanus toxin: primary structure, expression in E. coli, and homology with botulinum toxins.
Eisel, U, Jarausch, W, Goretzki, K, Henschen, A, Engels, J, Weller, U, ...
A pool of synthetic oligonucleotides was used to identify the gene encoding tetanus toxin on a 75-kbp plasmid from a toxigenic non-sporulating strain of Clostridium tetani. The nucleotide sequence...
Gonelle-Gispert, C, Halban, P A, Niemann, H, Palmer, M, Catsicas, S, Sadoul, K
The tSNARE (the target-membrane soluble NSF-attachment protein receptor, where NSF is N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein) synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa (SNAP-25) is expressed in...
Barbey, C, Tiercy, J M, Fairweather, N, Niemann, H, Seger, R, Corradin, G
The capacity of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) or Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed B cell lines from CGD patients to process and present tetanus toxin (tt)-specific epitopes was assessed...
Detection of Phrase Boundaries and Accents
Kie Ling, E. N Oth, E. N Oth, A. Kieling, A. Kieling, ...
On a large speech database read by untrained speakers experiments for the recognition of phrase boundaries and phrase accents were performed. We used durational features as well as features derived...
Kues, W. A., Sudheer, S., Herrmann, D., Carnwath, J. W., Havlicek, V., Besenfelder, U., ...
Bovine embryos can be generated by in vitro fertilization or somatic nuclear transfer; however, these differ from their in vivo counterparts in many aspects and exhibit a higher proportion of...
An in vivo culture system for human embryos using an encapsulation technology: a pilot study
Blockeel, C., Mock, P., Verheyen, G., Bouche, N., Le Goff, Ph., Heyman, Y., ...