zankit.txt

 

The word “pixel” Is really a short form of two words, “picture element”. It's an appropriate name,
since pixels are in fact the elements which make up our digital pictures. Pixels are the building blocks
of any digital photo or image, sort of like how those fancy Lego toys they sell at your local Toys R Us
are really nothing more than a collection of small, individual Lego pieces, or how pieces of a jigsaw
puzzle come together to form a complete picture, yet if you're standing close enough to the puzzle,
you can still see the individual pieces. Pixels make up your digital photos and images in much the
same way.

When you look at a digital photograph on your computer screen, even though it looks like @ normal
photo and you can clearly make out the people and/or objects in the photo, what you're really seeing
is nothing more than a massive collection of colored squares, squares that are normally too small for
your eyes to see them individually, yet when placed side-by-side and above and below each other,
they form a complete image, which is the photograph you're looking at on your screen. What you see
as a photo you took using your digital camera of your family or a recent trip, a sporting event or what-
ever the case may be, is really nothing more than a whole bunch of tiny colored squares.

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Preface ii

 

is a challenge to let first year students find their focus and motivation (and to

 
 

be silent while you are explaining something), and that it is not easy to
explain things that are not straightforward such as programming. Being

ant slowed down my PhD research, but on the other hand it

   

 

a blessing that I did not have to worry about funding and the teaching offered a

nice alteration to working with my good friends Matlab and Visual Studio.

    

Like anything else in life, the proces:
lots of ups and downs. Only rese

s of getting a PhD is a bumpy road with
s know the frustration of working for months

 

   

che

 

on an optimization to find out in the end that it really does not improve the results a
single bit. Debugging and the unavoidable s altogether have probably

 

 

a year of my life. On the other hand, research also offers incomparable climaxes
when your code finally produces the desired output or when an experiment points
out the hoped-for results. If I look back upon the 6.5 years I spend in research,
these years compose a very valuable lesson for life in general, teaching you to never
give up trying to reach your goals, to put yourself back together after a failure and
to keep believing in the things you do.

 

  

 

Although the process of getting a PhD often feels like a lonely quest in which

 

 

you are thrown on your own resources, the opposite is true and it is important to
never forget the people around you and their valuable contributions. Therefore, I

 

have to thank prof. Werner Verhelst to convince me to start with my PhD, to find
the necessary funding, to elaborate together on the proposed audiovisual speech
synthesis approach and to carefully revise my publications and this thesis. I also
at ETRO and at DSSP for the nice working atmosphere I have
Getting through a stressful day of failing programming

  

thank my colleagues
been able to expe

 
  
    
 

 

once.
code is only possible when it can be alternated with interesting, pleasant and
especially funny conversations with the people around you. For this I thank my
co-workers at building K and at building Ke, especially offices Ke3.13 and Ke3.14.

 

Gio, Selma, Lukas, Tomas: I cannot imagine better office co-workers than you guys.
I feel we have become real friends and that we will keep on meeting each other in

 

our post-VUB life. Lukas and Tomas, you guys ded in making me
laugh with your (sometimes somewhat special) sense of humour! If I go through my
pictures collection, it is amazing how many events and parties we already attended

alway

   

s sul

  

 

 

together (Tomas, you're looking good on every single picture ... sort of). You guys
also made the Interspeech 2011 conference in Firenze probably the nic
ever (recall “Luca de la Tacci”, “Tommaso Blanchetti” and “Matteo di Mattei”).
Thope we continue making fun together in the future and that we stay close in touch.

 

st conference

 

Obviously,
mosphere

colleagues are not only ne
they also supply valuable advi

ary for the appropriate working at-
nd support to your research. Iam very

     

    

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Preface ii

 

is a challenge to let first year students find their focus and motivation (and to

 
 

be silent while you are explaining something), and that it is not easy to
explain things that are not straightforward such as programming. Being

ant slowed down my PhD research, but on the other hand it

   

 

a blessing that I did not have to worry about funding and the teaching offered a

nice alteration to working with my good friends Matlab and Visual Studio.

    

Like anything else in life, the proces:
lots of ups and downs. Only rese

s of getting a PhD is a bumpy road with
s know the frustration of working for months

 

   

che

 

on an optimization to find out in the end that it really does not improve the results a
single bit. Debugging and the unavoidable s altogether have probably

 

 

a year of my life. On the other hand, research also offers incomparable climaxes
when your code finally produces the desired output or when an experiment points
out the hoped-for results. If I look back upon the 6.5 years I spend in research,
these years compose a very valuable lesson for life in general, teaching you to never
give up trying to reach your goals, to put yourself back together after a failure and
to keep believing in the things you do.

 

  

 

Although the process of getting a PhD often feels like a lonely quest in which

 

 

you are thrown on your own resources, the opposite is true and it is important to
never forget the people around you and their valuable contributions. Therefore, I

 

have to thank prof. Werner Verhelst to convince me to start with my PhD, to find
the necessary funding, to elaborate together on the proposed audiovisual speech
synthesis approach and to carefully revise my publications and this thesis. I also
at ETRO and at DSSP for the nice working atmosphere I have
Getting through a stressful day of failing programming

  

thank my colleagues
been able to expe

 
  
    
 

 

once.
code is only possible when it can be alternated with interesting, pleasant and
especially funny conversations with the people around you. For this I thank my
co-workers at building K and at building Ke, especially offices Ke3.13 and Ke3.14.

 

Gio, Selma, Lukas, Tomas: I cannot imagine better office co-workers than you guys.
I feel we have become real friends and that we will keep on meeting each other in

 

our post-VUB life. Lukas and Tomas, you guys ded in making me
laugh with your (sometimes somewhat special) sense of humour! If I go through my
pictures collection, it is amazing how many events and parties we already attended

alway

   

s sul

  

 

 

together (Tomas, you're looking good on every single picture ... sort of). You guys
also made the Interspeech 2011 conference in Firenze probably the nic
ever (recall “Luca de la Tacci”, “Tommaso Blanchetti” and “Matteo di Mattei”).
Thope we continue making fun together in the future and that we stay close in touch.

 

st conference

 

Obviously,
mosphere

colleagues are not only ne
they also supply valuable advi

ary for the appropriate working at-
nd support to your research. Iam very

     

    

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Ah, yes.. Thank you!

First of all, | would like to express my sincere gratitude to Kudo Hina-Lee
Yang Hwa for helping me become more flexible as a person or as an
actress.

Our drama has actually worked together as one with summer and winter
passing by, so! would like to thank all the staff members and to my dear
actors for giving me all the support | received from them. There are some
people who have been around with me for a while for Hina, and also to
my personal staff who has been right there till the end. | would like to call
every one of them, and | will try to contact them because | feel like | have
just finished.

This is an award that seems to be for Kudo Hina and not for Kim Min Jung,
so! do not have anything bigger to say. With this award, Now it's time to
be content with this form. It's been a long time since I've received one,
but | wasn't been able to get along, but my shoulders are getting a bit
shrugged and feel better.

| will always remain to be an actor who is silent and still on the spot. Thank
you!

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