Dimension reduction approaches for SVM based speaker age estimation

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2031-2034

  Dobry, Gil ^a   Hecht, Ron M ^b   Avigal, Mireille ^a   Zigel, Yaniv ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b PuddingMedia   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Anchor models; Dimension reduction; GMM supervector; NAP; SVM

Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; ANCHOR MODELS; DIMENSION REDUCTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GENERALIZATION ABILITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SELECTION METHODS; SUPERVECTOR; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; TESTING PROCESS;

ESTIMATION; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450161521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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