While block transform image coding has not been very popular lately in the presence of current state-of-the-art wavelet-based coders, the Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based block quantiser, without the use of entropy coding, is still very competitive in the class of fixed rate transform coders. In this paper, a GMM-based block quantiser of low computational complexity is presented which is base...

In this paper, we present the use of Gaussian Supervectors with Support Vector Machines classifiers (GSV-SVM) in an acoustic speaker diarization and a speaker tracking system, compared with a standard Gaussian Mixture Model system based on adapted Universal Background Models (GMM-UBM). GSVSVM systems (which share the adaptation step with the GMMUBM systems) are observed to have comparable perfo...

The statistical monitoring of batch manufacturing processes is considered. It is known that conventional monitoring approaches, e.g. principal component analysis (PCA), are not applicable when the normal operating conditions of the process cannot be sufficiently represented by a Gaussian distribution. To address this issue, Gaussian mixture model (GMM) has been proposed to estimate the probabil...

This paper presents adaptive voice-quality control methods based on one-to-many eigenvoice conversion. To intuitively control the converted voice quality by manipulating a small number of control parameters, a multiple regression Gaussian mixture model (MR-GMM) has been proposed. The MR-GMM also allows us to estimate the optimum control parameters if target speech samples are available. However...

One-to-many eigenvoice conversion (EVC) allows the conversion of a specific source speaker into arbitrary target speakers. Eigenvoice Gaussian mixture model (EV-GMM) is trained in advance with multiple parallel data sets consisting of the source speaker and many pre-stored target speakers. The EV-GMM is adapted for arbitrary target speakers using only a few utterances by estimating a small numb...

A fast forward feature selection algorithm is presented in this paper. It is based on a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier. GMM are used for classifying hyperspectral images. The algorithm selects iteratively spectral features that maximizes an estimation of the classification rate. The estimation is done using the k-fold cross validation. In order to perform fast in terms of computing tim...

This paper proposes an effective feature compensation scheme to address a real-life situation where clean speech database is not available for Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) training for a model-based feature compensation method. The proposed scheme employs a Support Vector Machine (SVM)based model selection method to effectively generate the GMM for our feature compensation method directly from ...

In a previous work, Multi-Environment Model based LInear Normalization, MEMLIN, was presented and it was proved to be effective to compensate environment mismatch. MEMLIN is an empirical feature vector normalization which models clean and noisy spaces by Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs). In this algorithm, the probability of the clean model Gaussian, given the noisy model one and the noisy featur...

The Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) techniques are increasingly being used for both speaker identification and verification. Most of these models assume diagonal covariance matrices. Although empirically any distribution can be approximated with a diagonal GMM, a large number of mixture components are usually needed to obtain a good approximation. A consequence of using a large GMM is that its ...