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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Quadrature approximation properties of the spiral-phase quadrature transform
The notion of the 1-D analytic signal is well understood and has found many applications. At the heart of the analytic signal concept is the Hilbert transform. The problem in exte...
Haricharan Aragonda, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Language identification using a combined articulatory prosody framework
This study presents new advancements in our articulatory-based language identi cation (LID) system. Our LID system automatically identi es language-features (LFs) from a phonologi...
Abhijeet Sangwan, Mahnoosh Mehrabani, John H. L. H...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Accurate transcription of broadcast news speech using multiple noisy transcribers and unsupervised reliability metrics
Professional manual transcription of speech is an expensive and time consuming process. This paper focuses on the problem of combining noisy transcriptions from multiple non-exper...
Kartik Audhkhasi, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikant...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Rate-distortion improvement of directional wavelets by megablocking
The inefficiency of separable wavelets in representing smooth edges has motivated the researchers to pursue new two dimensional transformations. One of the successful transformat...
Arian Maleki, Boshra Rajaei, Hamid Reza Pourreza
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Joint frequency spectral lag representation for cross-frequency modulation analysis in the brain
The concepts of modulation frequency along with modulation spectra are originally encountered in acoustics, speech and audio processing. The modulation spectrum, a function of aco...
Ali Yener Mutlu, Selin Aviyente
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Speech-based identification of social groups in a single accent of British English by humans and computers
Classification of social groups within a given accent is a challenging refinement of language identification (LID) and accent/dialect recognition. The 2001 census of England and W...
Abualsoud Hanani, Martin J. Russell, Michael J. Ca...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Talker-to-listener distance effects on the variations of the intensity and the fundamental frequency of speech
In this study we focus on the relationship between the talker-tolistener distance (TLD) and the dynamics of speech intensity and fundamental frequency. A new experiment for the ex...
Thibaut Fux, Gang Feng, Veronique Zimpfer
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Audio segmentation of broadcast news: A hierarchical system with feature selection for the Albayzin-2010 evaluation
In this paper, we present an audio segmentation system for broadcast news, and its results in the Albayzín-2010 evaluation. First of all, the Albayzín-2010 evaluation setup, dev...
Taras Butko, Climent Nadeu
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Multicast transmit beamforming using a randomize-in-time strategy
Recently there has been much interest in using transmit beamforming to provide multi-antenna physical-layer multicasting. A state of the art in this context is the semidefinite r...
Sissi X. Wu, Wing-Kin Ma
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Performance limits of LMS-based adaptive networks
In this work we analyze the mean-square performance of different strategies for adaptation over two-node least-mean-squares (LMS) networks. The results highlight some interesting ...
Xiaochuan Zhao, Ali H. Sayed