Voice activity detection driven acoustic event classification for monitoring in smart homes

2010 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, ISABEL 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hollosi, Danilo ^a   Schröder, Jens ^a   Goetze, Stefan ^a   Appell, Jens E ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EVENT CLASSIFICATION; ACOUSTIC EVENTS; ASSISTIVE LIVING; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; ELDERLY PEOPLE; EVENT MODELING; LONG TERM MONITORING; NURSING HOMES; ROBUST DETECTION; SMART HOMES; TEMPORAL REPRESENTATIONS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79952023398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISABEL.2010.5702763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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