Fuzzy support vector machines for age and gender classification

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2806-2809

  Nguyen, Phuoc ^a   Le, Trung ^a   Tran, Dat ^a   Huang, Xu ^a   Sharma, Dharmendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age classification; Fuzzy support vector machine; Gender classification; Paralinguistic challenge

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STATISTICS;

AGE CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP; FUZZY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; FUZZY SVM; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; PARALINGUISTIC; TRAINING DATA; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DATAPOINTS; PARALINGUISTIC CHALLENGE; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 79959858399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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