Robust speech feature extraction by growth transformation in reproducing Kernel Hilbert space

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1842-1849

  Chakrabartty, S ^a   Deng, Yunbin ^b   Cauwenberghs, G ^c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b LumenVox   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Growth transforms; Noise robustness; Nonlinear signal processing; Reproducing kernel Hilbert Space; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

GROWTH TRANSFORMS; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; NONLINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; REPRODUCING KERNEL HILBERT SPACE; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; HILBERT SPACES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 64549133282     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.899285     Document Type: Article

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