Maureen Stone

1 A Dance Club Using Interactive Workspaces Technology (2008)

Joshua Samberg, Maureen Stone, Armando Fox

iClub is an attempt to experiment with some of the ways Interactive Workspace technology might be used in an entertainment setting in the near future. The iClub is an application developed to run in...

TRACKING TONGUE MOTION IN THREE DIMENSIONS USING TAGGED MR IMAGES (2008)

Xiaofeng Liu, Maureen Stone, Jerry L. Prince

Harmonic phase (HARP) analysis has been used in tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure two-dimensional (2D) in-plane motion and strain, and was recently applied in characterizing the...

Automatic Contour Tracking in Ultrasound Images (2008)

Min Li, Ra Kambhamettu, Maureen Stone

In this paper, a new automatic contour tracking system, EdgeTrak, for the ultrasound image sequences of human tongue is presented. The images are produced by a Head and Transducer Support System...

Abstract Tongue motion averaging from contour sequences (2008)

Min Li, Ra Kambhamettu, Maureen Stone

In this paper, a method to get the best representation of a speech motion from several repetitions is presented. Each repetition is a representation of the same speech captured at different time by...

A General Framework for 2D Multiframe and 3D Surface-to-surface Motion Estimation ∗ (2008)

Min Li, Ra Kambhamettu, Maureen Stone

A general framework for 2D multiframe and 3D surface-to-surface motion estimation is presented in this paper. By viewing a 2D contour sequence as a pseudo 3D surface, we solve the motion estimation...

HARP TRACKING REFINEMENT USING SEEDED REGION GROWING (2008)

Xiaofeng Liu, Emi Murano, Maureen Stone, Jerry L. Prince

Tagged magnetic resonance (MR) imaging makes it possible to image the motion of tissues such as the muscles found in the heart and tongue. The harmonic phase (HARP) method largely automates the...

ABSTRACT The Kinetic Mandala: Audio A-life in a Web-based 3D Environment (2007)

Maribeth Back, Maureen Stone

We describe the use of artificial life (genetic) algorithms to generate auditory behaviors within 3D graphical environments. Small, high-quality soundfiles are algorithmically recombined and their...

Automatic Motion Analysis of the Tongue Surface from Ultrasound Image Sequences (2007)

Yusuf Sinan, Akgul Chandra Kambhamettu, Maureen Stone

We present a system for automatic 2D analysis of the tongue movement from digital ultrasound image sequences. The system focuses on extraction, tracking and analysis of the tongue surface during...

M.: Prospect for a Silent Speech Interface Using Ultrasound Imaging (2006)

Bruce Denby, Yacine Oussar, Gérard Dreyfus, Maureen Stone

The feasibility of a silent speech interface using ultrasound (US) imaging and lip profile video is investigated by examining the quality of line spectral frequencies (LSF) derived from the image...

Spatiotemporal visualization of the tongue surface using ultrasound and kriging (surfaces (2005)

Vijay Parthasarathy, Maureen Stone, Jerry L. Prince

Analyzing the motion of the tongue surface provides valuable information about speech and swallowing. To analyze this motion, two-dimensional ultrasound images are acquired at video frame rates, and...

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Sept–Nov 2005; 19(6/7): 529–544 Spatiotemporal Visualization of the Tongue Surface using (2004)

Vijay Parthasarathy, Maureen Stone, Jerry L. Prince

Analyzing the motion of the human tongue surface provides valuable information about speech and swallowing. One method to analyse this motion is to acquire two-dimensional ultrasound images and...

Spatiotemporal Visualization of the Tongue Surface using Ultrasound and Kriging (SURFACES) Contact Address (2004)

J. L. Prince, Vijay Parthasarathy, Maureen Stone, Jerry L. Prince

Analyzing the motion of the human tongue surface provides valuable information about speech and swallowing. One method to analyse this motion is to acquire two-dimensional ultrasound images and...

Compressibility Analysis of the Tongue During Speech (2003)

Unay, Devrim, Ozturk, Cengizhan, Stone, Maureen

The motivation of this study is to observe the compressibility of the tongue during speech. The tongue has a complicated muscular structure. Real-time MRI (16 frames/s) with tagging has been used for...

iStuff: A physical user interface toolkit for ubiquitous computing environments (2003)

Rafael Ballagas, Meredith Ringel, Maureen Stone, Jan Borchers

The iStuff toolkit of physical devices, and the flexible software infrastructure to support it, were designed to simplify the exploration of novel interaction techniques in the post-desktop era of...

iStuff: A physical user interface toolkit for ubiquitous computing environments (2003)

Rafael Ballagas, Meredith Ringel, Maureen Stone, Jan Borchers

The iStuff toolkit of physical devices, and the flexible software infrastructure to support it, were designed to simplify the exploration of novel interaction techniques in the post-desktop era of...

Principal Components Representation of the (2002)

Eric Slud, Maureen Stone, Paul Smith, Moise Goldstein

This paper uses principal components (PC) analysis to represent coronal tongue contours for the eleven vowels of English in two consonant contexts (/s/, /l/), based upon five replicated measurements...

WorkspaceNavigator: Tools for Capture, (2002)

Recall And Reuse, Arna Ionescu, Maureen Stone, Terry Winograd

This paper describes the WorkspaceNavigator, a suite of tools to support the capture, recall and reuse of material and ideas generated by a group working in an interactive workspace in an...

Fluid interaction with high-resolution wall-size displays (2001)

François Guimbretière, Maureen Stone, Terry Winograd

This paper describes new interaction techniques for direct pen-based interaction on the Interactive Mural, a large (6’x3.5’) high resolution (64 dpi) display. They have been tested in a digital...

Fluid Interaction with High-resolution Wall-size Displays (2001)

Franois Guimbretire Maureen, Maureen Stone, Terry Winograd

This paper describes new interaction techniques for direct pen-based interaction on the Interactive Mural, a large (6'x3.5') high resolution (64 dpi) display. They have been tested in a...

A Survey of Color for Computer Graphics SIGGRAPH 2001 Description Presenter (2001)

Maureen C. Stone, Maureen Stone, Maureen C. Stone

This course will survey color disciplines relevant to Computer Graphics ranging from color vision to color design. Participants should leave with a clear overview of the world of digital color, plus...

A Survey of Color for Computer Graphics SIGGRAPH 2000 Description Presenter (2000)

Maureen C. Stone, Maureen Stone, Maureen C. Stone

This course will survey color disciplines relevant to Computer Graphics ranging from color vision to color design. Participants should leave with a clear overview of the world of digital color, plus...

Polyfluorinated acrylates as antifoulants. (1999)

Stone, Maureen.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Portsmouth, 1999.

Automatic extraction and tracking of the tongue contours (1999)

Yusuf Sinan Akgul, Ra Kambhamettu, Maureen Stone

Abstract — Computerized analysis of the tongue surface movement can provide valuable information to speech and swallowing research. Ultrasound technology is currently the most attractive modality...

The Movable Filter as a User Interface Tool (1994)

Maureen Stone, Ken Fishkin, Eric A. Bier

Magic Lens filters are a new user interface tool that combine an arbitrarily-shaped region with an operator that changes the view of objects viewed through that region. These tools can be...