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ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Feature extraction for robust speech recognition based on maximizing the sharpness of the power distribution and on power floori
This paper presents a new robust feature extraction algorithm based on a modified approach to power bias subtraction combined with applying a threshold to the power spectral dens...
Chanwoo Kim, Richard M. Stern
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Blind rhythmic source separation: Nonnegativity and repeatability
An unsupervised method is proposed aiming at extracting rhythmic sources from commercial polyphonic music whose number of channels is limited to one. Commercial music signals are ...
Minje Kim, Jiho Yoo, Kyeongok Kang, Seungjin Choi
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Learning in Gaussian Markov random fields
This paper addresses the problem of state estimation in the case where the prior distribution of the states is not perfectly known but instead is parameterized by some unknown par...
Thomas J. Riedl, Andrew C. Singer, Jun Won Choi
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Video-based fingerprint verification
In this paper, fingerprint videos are used to improve the accuracy of a fingerprint verification system. We define the “inside-similarity” and “outside-similarity” to ...
Wei Qin, Yilong Yin, Chunxiao Ren, Lili Liu
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
A HMM-based speech synthesis system using a new glottal source and vocal-tract separation method
This paper introduces a HMM-based speech synthesis system which uses a new method for the Separation of Vocal-tract and LiljencrantsFant model plus Noise (SVLN). The glottal sourc...
Pierre Lanchantin, Gilles Degottex, Xavier Rodet
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Optimization of a maximum entropy criterion for 2D Nuclear Magnetic Resonance reconstruction
This paper deals with the reconstruction of T1-T2 correlation spectra in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The ill-posed character of this inverse problem and its lar...
Emilie Chouzenoux, Saïd Moussaoui, Jér...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
A symmetric adaptive algorithm for speeding-up consensus
Performing distributed consensus in a network has been an important research problem for several years, and is directly applicable to sensor networks, autonomous vehicle formation...
Daniel Thai, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Babak Hassibi
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Multiple sequence alignment based bootstrapping for improved incremental word learning
We investigate incremental word learning with few training examples in a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) framework suitable for an interactive learning scenario with little prior knowle...
Irene Ayllól Clemente, Martin Heckmann, Ger...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Independent subspace analysis with prior information for fMRI data
Independent component analysis (ICA) has been successfully applied for the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. However, independence might be too strong...
Sai Ma, Xi-Lin Li, Nicolle M. Correa, Tülay A...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Simple methods for improving speaker-similarity of HMM-based speech synthesis
In this paper we revisit some basic configuration choices of HMMbased speech synthesis, such as waveform sampling rate, auditory frequency warping scale and the logarithmic scali...
Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King