Feature selection using singular value decomposition and QR factorization with column pivoting for text-independent speaker identification

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 693-709

  Chakroborty, Sandipan ^a   Saha, Goutam ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Correlation; Divergence; F Ratio; GMFCC; GMM; LFCC; MFCC; QRcp; Speaker identification; Subband; SVD

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DEGRADED PERFORMANCE; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH; F-RATIO; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE VECTORS; GAUSSIANS; LINEAR FREQUENCY; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPACE; MULTIPLE FEATURES; PATTERN RECOGNITION PROBLEMS; POTENTIAL FEATURES; Q R DECOMPOSITION; QR FACTORIZATIONS; REDUNDANT FEATURES; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEAKER MODEL; SUB-BANDS; TEXT-INDEPENDENT SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION;

LOUDSPEAKERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77953961105     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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