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Multi modal multi-semantic image retrieval
(2010)
The rapid growth in the volume of visual information, e.g. image, and video can
overwhelm users’ ability to find and access the specific visual information of interest
to them. In recent years, ontology knowledge-based ...
Simplifying large-scale communication networks with weights and cycles
(2010)
A communication network is a complex network designed to transfer information from a
source to a destination. One of the most important property in a communication network is
the existence of alternative routes between ...
Learning, realizability and games in classical arithmetic
(2011)
Abstract. In this dissertation we provide mathematical evidence that the concept of
learning can be used to give a new and intuitive computational semantics of classical
proofs in various fragments of Predicative ...
Modelling Incremental Self-Repair Processing in Dialogue.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-11)
Self-repairs, where speakers repeat themselves, reformulate or restart what they are saying, are
pervasive in human dialogue. These phenomena provide a window into real-time human language
processing. For explanatory ...
Resilient and Efficient Delivery over Message Oriented Middleware.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-09)
The publish/subscribe paradigm is used to support a many-to-many model that allows an efficient dissemination of messages across a distributed system. Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) is a middleware that provides an ...
The Computational Analysis of Harmony in Western Art Music.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-07)
This thesis describes research in the computational analysis of harmony in
western art music, focussing particularly on improving the accuracy and
information-richness of key and chord extraction from digital score ...
The Effect of Audio Cues and Sound Source Stimuli on Looming Perception.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-01)
Objects that move in depth (looming) are ubiquitous in the real and virtual worlds. How
humans interact and respond to these approaching objects may affect their continued
survival in both the real and virtual words, and ...
Opinion-aware Information Management: Statistical Summarisation and Knowledge Representation of Opinions.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-05)
Nowadays, an increasing amount of media platforms provide the users with opportunities for
sharing their opinions about products, companies or people. In order to support users accessing
opinion-based information, and ...
Selectivity and Adaptation in the Human Auditory System.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-03)
Two fundamental principles dominate the signal processing of
the auditory system: selectivity and adaptation. The response of
the auditory system is selective for various acoustic features and
the representation of these ...
Semantic Audio Analysis Utilities and Applications.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-04)
Extraction, representation, organisation and application of metadata about audio recordings
are in the concern of semantic audio analysis. Our broad interpretation, aligned with recent
developments in the field, includes ...