Improved estimation of Hidden Markov model parameters from multiple observation sequences

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 168-171

  Davis, Richard I A ^a   Lovell, Brian C ^a   Caelli, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TRELLIS CODES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MODEL PARAMETERS; OBSERVATION SEQUENCES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

BAUM-WELCH; ESTIMATED MODEL; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; HMM MODELS; MODEL PARAMETERS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; SINGLE SEQUENCES;

EID: 33751579019     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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