Adaptive nonlinear regression using multiple distributed microphones for in-car speech recognition

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E88-A, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1716-1723

  Li, Weifeng ^a   Miyajima, Chiyomi ^a,c   Nishino, Takanori ^a,d,e,f   Itou, Katsunobu ^a,c,e   Takeda, Kazuya ^a,c,g   Itakura, Fumitada ^b,d,g,h  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ASJ ^*

^d Inst Electronics Info Commun E   (Japan)

^e IPSJ   (Japan)

^f Audio Engineering

^g IEEE

^h Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive beam forming; K means clustering; Multi layer perceptron; Signal to deviation ratio; Speech recognition; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; MICROPHONES; MULTILAYERS; NOISE ABATEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADAPTIVE BEAM-FORMING; K-MEAN CLUSTERING; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTION; SIGNAL-TO-DEVIATION RATIO; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TRANSFER FUNCTION RATIO (TFR);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 26044480947     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: 17451337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.7.1716     Document Type: Article

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