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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Source-normalised-and-weighted LDA for robust speaker recognition using i-vectors
The recently developed i-vector framework for speaker recognition has set a new performance standard in the research field. An i-vector is a compact representation of a speaker u...
Mitchell McLaren, David A. van Leeuwen
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A supervised approach to movie emotion tracking
In this paper, we present experiments on continuous time, continuous scale affective movie content recognition (emotion tracking). A major obstacle for emotion research has been t...
Nikos Malandrakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Georgios...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
An efficient variable step-size proportionate affine projection algorithm
Proportionate-type affine projection algorithms (PAPAs) are very attractive choices for echo cancellation. These algorithms combine the good features (convergence and tracking) o...
Constantin Paleologu, Jacob Benesty, Felix Albu, S...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Evolutive method based on a generalized eigenvalue decomposition to estimate time varying autoregressive parameters from noisy o
A great deal of interest has been paid to the estimation of time-varying autoregressive (TVAR) parameters. However, when the observations are disturbed by an additive white measur...
Hiroshi Ijima, Julien Petitjean, Eric Grivel
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Efficient NLMS and RLS algorithms for a class of nonlinear filters using periodic input sequences
The paper discusses computationally efficient NLMS and RLS algorithms for a broad class of nonlinear filters using periodic input sequences. The class comprises all nonlinear ...
Alberto Carini, V. John Mathews, Giovanni L. Sicur...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
An adaptive approach to abnormal heart sound segmentation
Heart sound is one of the significant bio-signals to diagnose certain cardiac anomalies. Aiming to provide an automatic heart sounds analysis to medical professionals, we present...
Dinesh Kumar, Paulo Carvalho, Manuel Antunes, Rui ...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Are all basis updates for lattice-reduction-aided MIMO detection necessary?
The question in the title is relevant when considering latticereduction-aided MIMO detectors, which achieve the same diversity as the maximum-likelihood detector while exhibiting ...
Brian Gestner, Xiaoli Ma, David V. Anderson
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A novel approach using modulation features for multiphone-based speech recognition
Recent advances in coherent and convex demodulation have proven useful for analyzing and modifying the low-frequency envelope structure of speech. This paper reports the applicati...
Pascal Clark, Gregory Sell, Les E. Atlas
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Investigations into the incorporation of the Ideal Binary Mask in ASR
While much work has been dedicated to exploring how best to incorporate the Ideal Binary Mask (IBM) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) for noisy signals, we demonstrate that th...
William Hartmann, Eric Fosler-Lussier
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Gaussian Mixture Modeling of vowel durations for automated assessment of non-native speech
This paper investigates using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) based vowel duration features for automated assessment of non-native speech. Two different types of models were compared...
Xie Sun, Keelan Evanini