Semi-automatic extraction of vocal tract movements from cineradiography data

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 569-572

  Fontecave, Julie ^a   Berthommier, Frédéric ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Cineradiographic data processing; Semi automatic extraction; Vocal tract contour extraction; X ray film database

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXTRACTION; RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; X RAY FILMS;

AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; HUMAN EXPERTISE; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SPEECH RESEARCH; VOCAL TRACT MOVEMENTS; VOCAL TRACT SHAPE;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 44949245253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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