• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.449-471
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• 2012

In intelligent surveillance systems, it is required to robustly track multiple people. Most of the previous studies adopted a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for discriminating the object from the background. However, it has a weakness that its performance is affected by illumination variations and shadow regions can be merged with the object. And when two foreground objects overlap, the GMM method cannot correctly discriminate the occluded regions. To overcome these problems, we propose a new method of tracking and identifying multiple people. The proposed research is novel in the following three ways compared to previous research: First, the illuminative variations and shadow regions are reduced by an illumination normalization based on the median and inverse filtering of the L*a*b* image. Second, the multiple occluded and overlapped people are tracked by combining the GMM in the still image and the Lucas-Kanade-Tomasi (LKT) method in successive images. Third, with the proposed human tracking and the existing face detection & recognition methods, the tracked multiple people are successfully identified. The experimental results show that the proposed method could track and recognize multiple people with accuracy.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.807-823
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• 2018

Speaker verification system performance depends on the utterance of each speaker. To verify the speaker, important information has to be captured from the utterance. Nowadays under the constraints of limited data, speaker verification has become a challenging task. The testing and training data are in terms of few seconds in limited data. The feature vectors extracted from single frame size and rate (SFSR) analysis is not sufficient for training and testing speakers in speaker verification. This leads to poor speaker modeling during training and may not provide good decision during testing. The problem is to be resolved by increasing feature vectors of training and testing data to the same duration. For that we are using multiple frame size (MFS), multiple frame rate (MFR), and multiple frame size and rate (MFSR) analysis techniques for speaker verification under limited data condition. These analysis techniques relatively extract more feature vector during training and testing and develop improved modeling and testing for limited data. To demonstrate this we have used mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and linear prediction cepstral coefficients (LPCC) as feature. Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and GMM-universal background model (GMM-UBM) are used for modeling the speaker. The database used is NIST-2003. The experimental results indicate that, improved performance of MFS, MFR, and MFSR analysis radically better compared with SFSR analysis. The experimental results show that LPCC based MFSR analysis perform better compared to other analysis techniques and feature extraction techniques.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.277-281
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• 2013

Modern speaker verification systems based on support vector machines (SVMs) use Gaussian mixture model (GMM) supervectors as their input feature vectors, and the maximum a posteriori (MAP) adaptation is a conventional method for generating speaker-dependent GMMs by adapting a universal background model (UBM). MAP adaptation requires the appropriate amount of input utterance due to the number of model parameters to be estimated. On the other hand, with limited utterances, unreliable MAP adaptation can be performed, which causes adaptation noise even though the Bayesian priors used in the MAP adaptation smooth the movements between the UBM and speaker dependent GMMs. This paper proposes a sparse MAP adaptation method, which is known to perform well in the automatic speech recognition area. By introducing sparse MAP adaptation to the GMM-SVM-based speaker verification system, the adaptation noise can be mitigated effectively. The proposed method utilizes the L0 norm as a regularizer to induce sparsity. The experimental results on the TIMIT database showed that the sparse MAP-based GMM-SVM speaker verification system yields a 42.6% relative reduction in the equal error rate with few additional computations.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.2
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• pp.151-156
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• 2009

This paper proposes a Gaussian mixture model(GMM)-based music discrimination system for FM broadcasting. The objective of the system is automatically archiving music signals from audio broadcasting programs that are normally mixed with human voices, music songs, commercial musics, and other sounds. To improve the system performance, make it more robust and to accurately cut the starting/ending-point of the recording, we also added a post-processing module. Experimental results on various input signals of FM radio programs under PC environments show excellent performance of the proposed system. The fixed-point simulation shows the same results under 3MIPS computational power.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.76-81
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• 2009

We propose an effective emotion recognition algorithm based on the minimum classification error (MCE) incorporating multi-modal system The emotion recognition is performed based on a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based on MCE method employing on log-likelihood. In particular, the reposed technique is based on the fusion of feature vectors based on voice signal and galvanic skin response (GSR) from the body sensor. The experimental results indicate that performance of the proposal approach based on MCE incorporating the multi-modal system outperforms the conventional approach.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.2C
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• pp.78-85
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• 2011

In this paper we proposed an intelligent PTZ camera system which detects, classifies and tracks moving objects. If a moving object is detected, features are extracted for classification and then realtime tracking follows. We used GMM for detection followed by shadow removal. Legendre moment is used for classification. Without auto focusing, we can control the PTZ camera movement by using center points of the image and object's direction, distance and velocity. To implement the realtime system, we used TI DM6446 Davinci processor. Throughout the experiment, we obtained system's high performance in classification and tracking both at vehicle's normal and high speed motion.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.512-519
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a neuro-fuzzy modeling to improve the performance using the hierarchical clustering and Gaussian Mixture Model(GMM). The hierarchical clustering algorithm has a property of producing unique parameters for the given data because it does not use the object function to perform the clustering. After optimizing the obtained parameters using the GMM, we apply them as initial parameters for Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System. Here, the number of fuzzy rules becomes to the cluster numbers. From this, we can improve the performance index and reduce the number of rules simultaneously. The proposed method is verified by applying to a neuro-fuzzy modeling for Box-Jenkins s gas furnace data and Sugeno's nonlinear system, which yields better results than previous oiles.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.189-199
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• 2021

This study attempts to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and earnings management practices in the context of Saudi Arabia after mandatory IFRS adoption. It is carried out on an unbalanced panel of 277 observations over the period 2017-2019. For this purpose, CSR disclosure is measured by Bloomberg ESG scores, while the residuals from the modified Jones model are considered for earnings management. As control variables, we have retained the firm performance, market-to-book ratio, firm size, financial leverage, board independence, ownership concentration, managerial ownership, and lagged discretionary accruals. Using the system GMM estimator in the dynamic panel, the results show a positive association between CSR disclosure and earnings management practices, thus supporting the perspective of agency theory. Managers engage in socially responsible activities beforehand to conceal their wrongdoing and convince stakeholders that the organization is transparent. They probably use ethical codes as a tool to achieve their own goals rather than the firm's goals. Our contribution is the use of recent data (2017-2019) taking into account the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, to our knowledge, this study is the first to address CSR disclosure and earnings management practices using GMM system estimates.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.131-134
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model)을 이용한 문맥독립 화자 검증 시스템을 구현한 후, arctan 함수를 이용한 정규화 방법을 사용하여 화자검증실험을 수행하였다. 특징파라미터로서는 선형예측방법을 이용한 켑스트럼 계수와 회귀계수를 사용하고 화자의 발성 변이를 고려하여 CMN(Cepstral Mean Normalization)을 적용하였다. 화자모델 생성을 위한 학습단에서는 화자발성의 음향학적 특징을 잘 표현할 수 있는 GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model)을 이용하였고 화자 검증단에서는 ML(Maximum Likelihood)을 이용하여 유사도를 계산하고 기존의 정규화 방법과 arctan 함수를 이용한 방법에 의해 정규화된 점수(score)와 미리 정해진 문턱값과 비교하여 검증하였다. 화자 검증 실험결과, arctan 함수를 부가한 방법이 기존의 방법보다 항상 향상된 EER을 나타냄을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.237-244
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• 2006

This study proposes an approach to the performance improvement of EMG(Electromyogram) pattern recognition. MFCC(Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients)'s approach is molded after the characteristics of the human hearing organ. While it supplies the most typical feature in frequency domain, it should be reorganized to detect the features in EMG signal. And the dynamic aspects of EMG are important for a task, such as a continuous prosthetic control or various time length EMG signal recognition, which have not been successfully mastered by the most approaches. Thus, this paper proposes reorganized MFCC and HMM-GMM, which is adaptable for the dynamic features of the signal. Moreover, it requires an analysis on the most suitable system setting fur EMG pattern recognition. To meet the requirement, this study balanced the recognition-rate against the error-rates produced by the various settings when loaming based on the EMG data for each motion.