Automatic Assessment of Infants' Levels-of-Distress from the Cry Signals

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 253-265

  Xie, Qiaobing ^a  

^a IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL THEORY; TESTING;

AUTOMATIC CRY ANALYSIS SYSTEM; DIGITAL COMPUTER SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; TIME FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0030196358     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/tsa.1996.506929     Document Type: Article

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