Bhattacharyya error and divergence using variational importance sampling

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 937-940

  Olsen, Peder A ^a   Hershey, John R ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bhattacharyya divergence; Gaussian mixture models; Variational importance sampling; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BHATTACHARYYUM DIVERGENCE; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; DIVERGENCE MEASURES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIANS; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; VARIATIONAL IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

EID: 56149119214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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