Memorias de investigación
Book chapters:
KPCA vs. PCA study for an age classification of speakers
Year:2011

Research Areas
  • Engineering,
  • Voice recognition,
  • Voice processing

Information
Abstract
Kernel-PCA and PCA techniques are compared in the task of age and gender separation. A feature extraction process that discriminates between vocal tract and glottal source is implemented. The reason why speech is processed in that way is because vocal tract length and resonant characteristics are related to gender and age and there is also a great relationship between glottal source and age and gender. The obtained features are then processed with PCA and kernel-PCA techniques. The results show that gender and age separation is possible and that kernel-PCA (especially with RBF kernel) clearly outperforms classical PCA or no preprocessing features.
International
Si
Book Edition
Book Publishing
Springer-Verlag
ISBN
978-3-642-25019-4
Series
Book title
Proceeding NOLISP'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in nonlinear speech processing
From page
190
To page
198
Participants

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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Informática Aplicada al Procesado de Señal e Imagen