Classifying laughter and speech using audio-visual feature prediction

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5254-5257

  Petridis, Stavros ^a   Asghar, Ali ^a   Pantic, Maja ^b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c EEMC   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audiovisual speech laughter feature relationship; Laughter vs speech discrimination; Prediction based classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

AUDIO FEATURES; AUDIO-VISUAL FEATURES; AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH; AUDIOVISUAL SPEECH / LAUGHTER FEATURE RELATIONSHIP; LAUGHTER-VS-SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; NEURAL-NETWORKS; PREDICTION-BASED; PREDICTION-BASED CLASSIFICATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FEATURE;

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EID: 78049406136     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5494992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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