A saliency-based auditory attention model with applications to unsupervised prominent syllable detection in speech

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2452-2455

  Kalinli, Ozlem ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attention model; Auditory attention; Auditory saliency map; Prominent syllable detection

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION MODEL; AUDITORY ATTENTION; AUDITORY ATTENTIONS; AUDITORY FEATURES; AUDITORY SALIENCY MAP; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BOTTOM-UP; BROADCAST NEWS; CLUTTERED SCENES; HUMAN PERFORMANCES; NEWS CORPORA; PROCESSING STAGES; PROMINENT SYLLABLE DETECTION; SALIENCY MAPS; WORD LEVELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPS; SPEECH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149120337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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