Speaker age estimation using Hidden Markov Model weight supervectors

2012 11th International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications, ISSPA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 517-521

  Bahari, Mohamad Hasan ^a   Van Hamme, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Least Squares Support Vector Regressor; speaker age estimation; weighted supervised non negative matrix factorization

Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; EVALUATION RESULTS; INPUT SPACE; LEAST SQUARE; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSOR;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84868562739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPA.2012.6310606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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