Multilevel and session variability compensated language recognition: ATVS-UAM systems at NIST LRE 2009

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1084-1093

  Gonzalez Dominguez, Javier ^a   Lopez Moreno, Ignacio ^a   Franco Pedroso, Javier ^a   Ramos, Daniel ^a   Toledano, Doroteo Torre ^a   Gonzalez Rodriguez, Joaquin ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anchor models; calibration; factor analysis (FA); language recognition; linear scoring; sufficient statistics

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR MODELS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; LINEAR SCORING; SUFFICIENT STATISTICS;

BIOMETRICS; CALIBRATION; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 78649305128     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2076071     Document Type: Article

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