An information-theoretic perspective on feature selection in speaker recognition

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 500-503

  Eriksson, Thomas ^a   Kim, Samuel ^b   Kang, Hong Goo ^b   Lee, Chungyong ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Speaker recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

FEATURE SELECTION; LINEAR PREDICTION COEFFICIENTS; MEL-WARPED CEPSTRUM COEFFICIENTS; MUTUAL INFORMATION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 23744450898     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2005.849495     Document Type: Article

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