In this article a clustering algorithm, allowing the automatic detection of speakers’ register changes, is presented. Together with automatic detection of pause duration, it has shown to be efficient for the automatic detection and prediction of topic changes. The need to take into account other parameters such as tempo and intensity, in the framework of Linear Discriminant Analysis, is propose...

The present work studied 13 types of Chinese attitudes and compared the confusion patterns between subjective and objective identification. The listening experiment showed that the overall recognition rate for these attitudinal utterances was 46% by native subjects, while in discriminant analysis, the recognition rate was 25.4% based on five prosodic parameters (minimum f0, maximum f0, mean f0,...

We present an alternative to the pseudo-inverse method for determining the hidden to output weight values for Extreme Learning Machines performing classification tasks. The method is based on linear discriminant analysis and provides Bayes optimal single point estimates for the weight values.

The analysis of brain activations using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is an active area of neuropsychological research. Standard techniques for analysis have traditionally focused on finding the most significant areas of brain activation, and have only recently begun to explore the importance of their spatial characteristics. We compare fMRI contrast images and significance maps ...

In order to develop an innovation, enterprises can collaborate either with academic institutions or other enterprises that would profit from its development. Collaboration is determined by various factors. The goal of this paper is to determine variables that are predictors of innovation collaboration in Croatian enterprises. The results of discriminant analysis suggest that the variables disti...

In order to determine the predictive validity of the premarital inventory PREPARE, this study assessed the utility of PREPARE in predicting marital success. A 3-year follow-up study was conducted with 164 couples who took PREPARE during their engagement. As hypothesized, it was found that satisfied couples scored significantly higher on the inventory than dissatisfied couples, divorced couples,...

A novel algorithm for motion segmentation is proposed. The algorithm uses the fact that shape of an object with homogeneous motion is represented as 4 dimensional linear space. Thus motion segmentation is done as the decomposition of shape space of multiple objects into a set of 4 dimensional subspace. The decomposition is realized using the discriminant analysis of orthogonal projection matrix...

Classification of whether recovery of non-performing loans NPL is zero or positive is not only important in management of non-performing loans, but also is essential for estimating recovery rate and implementing the new Basel Capital Accord. Based on the largest database of NPL’s recovering information in China, this paper tries to establish discriminant models to predict the loan with zero rec...