Abstract An “Animation Synthesizer” uses trainable probabilistic models, such as Hidden
Markov Models (HMM), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), etc., to provide speech and text …

Human visual perception is able to recognize a wide range of targets but has limited
throughput. Machine vision can pro cess images at a high speed but suffers from inadequate …

BACKGROUND Video and animation when stored requires a huge amount of memory with
respect to images, audio or text. Even for transmission of videos or animation requirement of …

METHOD (75) Inventors: Seungyup Paek, New York, NY (US); Ana Benitez, New York, NY
(US); Shih-Fu Chang, New York, NY (US); Atul Puri, Riverdale, NY (US); Qian Huang …

A semantic analyzer receives a segment of content, analyzes it utilizing semantic analysis,
and outputs an indication regarding whether a value related to a predicted emotional …

The present invention relates to systems and methods for motion estimation and mode
decision for low-complexity H. 264 standard decoders. The present invention includes a …

The present invention relates to a joint automatic audio visual driven facial animation system
that in some example embodiments includes a full scale state of the art Large Vocabulary …

Abstract Systems and methods for searching a database of media content wherein the user
can dynamically and interactively perform searches and navigate search results. One or …

audio-visual atoms for each short-term video slice by com bining the visual feature vector
and the motion feature vector for a particular region track with the corresponding audio …

There is disclosed an analyser (101) for building a transcription model (112; 500) using a
training database (111) of music. The analyser (101) decomposes the training music (111) …