Age and gender recognition based on multiple systems - Early vs. late fusion

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2830-2833

  Bocklet, Tobias ^a   Stemmer, Georg ^b   Zeissler, Viktor ^c   Nöth, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SVOX   (Germany)

^c ELEKTROBIT AUTOMOTIVE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Classification; Gaussian mixture models

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LOGISTIC REGRESSION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; AGE AND GENDER RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; DATA-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MULTI-CLASS LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MULTIPLE SYSTEMS; PROSODIC FEATURES; FEATURE SPACE; LATE FUSION; MEAN VECTOR; SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTEM MODELS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79959826869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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