Robust binary hypothesis testing under contaminated likelihoods

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 3407-3411

  Wei, Dennis ^a   Varshney, Kush R ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

label noise; linear programming; minimax; signal detection theory; workforce analytics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PERSONNEL; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BINARY HYPOTHESIS TESTING; DECISION RULES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MINIMAX; MINIMAX OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY; WORKFORCE ANALYTICS;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84946022499     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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