Ameliorating the performances of speech recognition system is a challenging problem interesting recent researchers. In this paper, we compare two extraction methods of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients used to represent stressed speech utterances in order to obtain best performances. The first method known as traditional is based on single window (taper) generally the Hamming window and the s...

Various form features affect consumer preference regarding product design. It is, therefore, important that designers identify these critical form features to aid them in developing appealing products. However, the problems inherent in choosing product form features have not yet been intensively investigated. In this paper, an approach based on multiclass support vector machine recursive featur...

The classifications when a target is not properly extracted due to improper segmentation include the multiclass case, in which the target contains objects belonging to different classes. In this paper, a method is applied to transform the multiclass case to a single-label classification by creating merged classes. To train merged classes, each feature must be defined in a very small domain, and...

The role of inhibition is investigated in a multiclass support vector machine formalism inspired by the brain structure of insects. The so-called mushroom bodies have a set of output neurons, or classification functions, that compete with each other to encode a particular input. Strongly active output neurons depress or inhibit the remaining outputs without knowing which is correct or incorrect...

Fingerprint classification decreases the number of possible matches in automated fingerprint identification systems by categorizing fingerprints into predefined classes. Support vector machines are widely used in pattern classification and have produced high accuracy when performing fingerprint classification. In order to effectively apply Support vector machines to multi-class fingerprint clas...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for solving multiclass problems with Support Vector Machines. We modify the existing technique to properly reduce the empirical error, therefore we will be ideally able to outperform the previously proposed scheme for multi-class SVMs. The proposed approach also provides solutions with a significant reduction in the number of support vectors, which is an...

Corporate credit rating prediction is one of the most important topics, which has been studied by researchers in the last decade. Over the last decade, researchers are pushing the limit to enhance the exactness of the corporate credit rating prediction model by applying several data-driven tools including statistical and artificial intelligence methods. Among them, multiclass support vector mac...

We present a robust environmental sound classification approach, based on reassignment method and logGabor filters. In this approach the reassigned spectrogram is passed through a bank of 12 log-Gabor filter concatenation applied to three spectrogram patches, and the outputs are averaged and underwent an optimal feature selection procedure based on a mutual information criterion. The proposed m...

Simultaneous multiclass classification of tumor types is essential for future clinical implementations of microarray-based cancer diagnosis. In this study, we have combined genetic algorithms (GAs) and all paired support vector machines (SVMs) for multiclass cancer identification. The predictive features have been selected through iterative SVMs/GAs, and recursive feature elimination post-proce...

Automatic musical genre classification is very useful for music indexing and retrieval. In this paper, an efficient and effective automatic musical genre classification approach is presented. A set of features is extracted and used to characterize music content. A multi-layer classifier based on support vector machines is applied to musical genre classification. Support vector machines are used...