Supervector dimension reduction for efficient speaker age estimation based on the acoustic speech signal

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1975-1985

  Dobry, Gil ^a   Hecht, Ron M ^b   Avigal, Mireille ^a   Zigel, Yaniv ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Age estimation; dimension reduction; Gaussian mixture model (GMM) supervector; support vector machine (SVM); support vector regression

Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; DIMENSION REDUCTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; SUPPORT VECTOR; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960668907     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2104955     Document Type: Article

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