Re: [Boost-users] [rfc] a library for gesture recognition, speech recognition, and synthesis

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [rfc] a library for gesture recognition, speech recognition, and synthesis
From: Roland Bock (rbock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-22 05:04:12

Stjepan Rajko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For the past few years I've been working on the AME Patterns library - a 
> generic library for modeling, recognition and synthesis of sequential 
> patterns.  So far it's been applied mostly to gesture recognition (e.g., 
> recognition of mouse gestures, full body gestures from video or motion 
> capture data, accelerometer gestures), but recently it has also shown 
> some good results on speech datasets.  It can also be used to synthesize 
> the same kinds of patterns it can recognize (e.g., you could use it to 
> synthesize a gesture or speech, or purely numerical patterns).  The 
> library provides support for hidden Markov models and other related 
> models.  The design is concept-based, and the library uses the Boost 
> Graph Library, Boost.Range (including the RangeEx extension), 
> Boost.Fusion, Boost.Math, Boost.Random, and other boost libraries.
> 
> The documentation for the library is available here:
> http://ame4.hc.asu.edu/amelia/patterns/
> 
> However, the documentation is lacking, so I'm curious to know which 
> parts of the functionality (if any) are of interest to the boost 
> community, so I know what parts of the documentation to focus on.  I am 
> also considering proposing a presentation of this library to BoostCon.
> 
> The library is currently released under the GPL, which I realize is not 
> acceptable to some.
> 
> Please let me know your thoughts.  If anyone is interested in using this 
> library, please let me know what you'd like to use it for and I'd be 
> happy to help you get started.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Stjepan

Support for Hidden Markov models would be of interest to me. I hope to 
start some part-of-speech-tagging and similar analysis in about half a year.

Regards,

Roland