Title
A New Approach To Discriminative Feature Extraction Using Model Transformation
Abstract
This paper deals with a discriminative feature extraction method aiming to increase the discriminative power of a linear feature transform for speech recognition. The transform is based on the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and is optimized discriminatively through a generalized probabilistic descent (GPD) algorithm employing the minimum classification error (MCE) principle. The utilized GPD/MCE algorithm considers two HMM prototypes only, whereas all prototypes have to be adjusted to the current transformation rule. The new approach which we called "extended linear discriminant analysis with model transformation" (ELDA-MT) takes into consideration the prototypes both in the feature space before transformation and in the lower-dimensional feature space after transformation. Thus, the necessary adjustment can be performed by subjecting the prototypes to the current transformation. Speech recognition experiments with ELDA-MT resulted in a significant reduction of word error rate (WER) of relatively 6.2%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/ICASSP.2000.862010
2000 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, PROCEEDINGS, VOLS I-VI
Keywords
Field
DocType
hidden markov models,prototypes,speech recognition,feature space,vectors,feature extraction,current transformer,decorrelation,maximum likelihood estimation,optimization,linear discriminant analysis,probability,word error rate
Model transformation,Feature vector,Decorrelation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Word error rate,Feature extraction,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Linear discriminant analysis,Hidden Markov model,Discriminative model
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
3
0.52
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Thomae1173.56
Günther Ruske215436.13
Thilo Pfau311315.74