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GMM-Based Gender Identification Employing Group Delay

Group Delay를 이용한 GMM기반의 성별 인식 알고리즘

  • 이계환 (인하대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 임우형 (서울대 전기컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 김남수 (서울대 전기컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 장준혁 (인하대학교 전자전기공학부)
  • Published : 2007.08.31
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Abstract

We propose an effective voice-based gender identification using group delay(GD) Generally, features for speech recognition are composed of magnitude information rather than phase information. In our approach, we address a difference between male and female for GD which is a derivative of the Fourier transform phase. Also, we propose a novel way to incorporate the features fusion scheme based on a combination of GD and magnitude information such as mel-frequency cepstral coefficients(MFCC), linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients, reflection coefficients and formant. The experimental results indicate that GD is effective in discriminating gender and the performance is significantly improved when the proposed feature fusion technique is applied.

본 논문은 Group Delay(GD)를 이용한 음성신호 기반의 효과적인 성별인식 시스템을 제안한다. 일반적인 음성 인식과 관련된 시스템에서 사용되는 특징들은 위상에 관한 정보를 제거한 크기만의 정보를 이용하여 구성한다. 본 연구에서는 위상에 관한 정보를 토대로 유도되어 지는 GD의 성별에 따른 특징을 알아보고, 보다 향상된 성별인식을 위해 MFCC(Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient), LPC(linear predictive coding) 계수, 반사계수(reflection coefficient) 그리고 포만트(formant)등과 같은 크기 정보와 GD를 이용한 결합 특징 벡터를 적용하였다. 실험을 통해 성별에 따른 GD의 특징을 확인할 수 있었고, 이를 이용한 제안된 특징 벡터를 사용했을 때 우수한 인식 성능을 얻을 수 있었다.

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