Maximum Likelihood Hidden Markov Modeling Using A Dominant Sequence Of States

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 2111-2115

  Ephraim, Yariv ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH - PROCESSING;

DOMINANT STATE SEQUENCE; ML HIDDEN MARKOV MODELING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR STATES; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0026223168     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: 19410476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.134449     Document Type: Article

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