The Student's t-hidden Markov model with truncated stick-breaking priors

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 355-358

  Wei, Xin ^a   Li, Chunguang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous hidden Markov model; inference; Student's t distribution; truncated stick breaking priors

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; EMISSION DISTRIBUTION; INFERENCE; INFERENCE ALGORITHM; INITIAL STATE VECTORS; NUMBER OF STATE; OBSERVED DATA; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; STATE TRANSITION MATRIX; SYNTHETIC DATA; TRUNCATED STICK-BREAKING PRIORS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79955422307     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2011.2138695     Document Type: Article

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