This paper presents a speaker identification system based on Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) using the variational Bayesian method. Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Maximum A Posterior (MAP) are well-known methods for estimating GMM parameters. However, the overtraining problem occurs with insufficient data due to a point estimate of model parameters. The Bayesian approach estimates a posterior distri...

Causal relationships are present in many application domains. CP-logic is a probabilistic modeling language that is especially designed to express such relationships. This paper investigates the learning of CP-theories from examples, and focusses on structure learning. The proposed approach is based on a transformation between CP-logic theories and Bayesian networks, that is, the method applies...

A Shared-State Hidden Markov Model (SS-HMM) has been widely used as an acoustic model in speech recognition. In this paper, we propose a method for constructing SS-HMMs within a practical Bayesian framework. Our method derives the Bayesian model selection criterion for the SS-HMM based on the variational Bayesian approach. The appropriate phonetic decision tree structure of the SS-HMM is found ...