Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2009, Vic, Spain, June 25-27, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

by Jordi Sole-Casals (Editor), Vladimir Zaiats (Editor)

Overview

This volume contains the proceedings of NOLISP 2009, an ISCA Tutorial and Workshop on Non-Linear Speech Processing held at the University of Vic (- talonia, Spain) during June 25-27, 2009. NOLISP2009 was preceded by three editions of this biannual event held 2003 in Le Croisic (France), 2005 in Barcelona, and 2007 in Paris. The main idea of NOLISP workshops is to present and discuss new ideas, techniques and results related to alternative approaches in speech processing that may depart from the mainstream. In order to work at the front-end of the subject area, the following domains of interest have been defined for NOLISP 2009: 1. Non-linear approximation and estimation 2. Non-linear oscillators and predictors 3. Higher-order statistics 4. Independent component analysis 5. Nearest neighbors 6. Neural networks 7. Decision trees 8. Non-parametric models 9. Dynamics for non-linear systems 10. Fractal methods 11. Chaos modeling 12. Non-linear differential equations The initiative to organize NOLISP 2009 at the University of Vic (UVic) came from the UVic Research Group on Signal Processing and was supported by the Hardware-Software Research Group. We would like to acknowledge the financial support obtained from the M- istry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN), University of Vic, ISCA, and EURASIP. All contributions to this volume are original. They were subject to a doub- blind refereeing procedure before their acceptance for the workshop and were revised after being presented at NOLISP 2009.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642115080
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/26/2010
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #5933
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Keynote Talks

Multimodal Speech separation Bertrand Rivet Jonathon Chambers 1

Audio Source Separation Using Hierarchical Phase-Invariant Models Emmanuel Vincent 12

Visual Cortex Performs a Sort of Non-linear ICA Jesús Malo Valero Laparra 17

Contributed Talks

High Quality Emotional HMM-Based Synthesis in Spanish Xavi Gonzalvo Paul Taylor Carlos Monzo Ignasi Iriondo Joan Claudi Socoró 26

Glottal Source Estimation Using an Automatic Chirp Decomposition Thomas Drugman Baris Bozkurt Thierry Dutoit 35

Automatic Classification of Regular vs. Irregular Phonation Types Tamás Bohm Zoltán Both Géza Németh 43

The Hartley Phase Spectrum as an Assistive Feature for Classification Ioannis Paraskevas Maria Rangoussi 51

Speech Enhancement for Automatic Speech Recognition Using Complex Gaussian Mixture Priors for Noise and Speech Ramón F. Astudillo Eugen Hoffmann Philipp Mandelartz Reinhold Orglmeister 60

Improving Keyword Spotting with a Tandem BLSTM-DBN Architecture Martin wöllmer Florian Eyben Alex Graves Björn Schuller Gerhard Rigoll 68

Score Function for Voice Activity Detection Jordi Solé-Casals Pere Martí-Puig Ramon Reig-Bolaño Vladimir Zaiats 76

Digital Watermarking: New Speech and Image Applications Marcos Faundez-Zanuy 84

Advances in Ataxia SCA-2 Diagnosis Using Independent Component Analysis Rodolfo V. Garcia Férnando Rojas Carlos G. Puntonet Belén San Román Luís Velázquez Roberto Rodríguez 90

Spectral Multi-scale Product Analysis for Pitch Estimation from Noisy Speech Signal Mohamed Anouar Ben Messaoud Aïcha Bouzid Noureddine Ellouze 95

Automatic Formant Tracking Method Using Fourier Ridges Imen Jemaa Kaïs Ouni Yves Laprie 103

Robust Features for Speaker-Independent Speech Recognition Based on a Certain Class of Translation-Invariant Transformations Florian Müller Alfred Mertins 111

Time-Frequency Features Extraction for Infant Directed Speech Discrimination Ammar Mahdhaoui Mohamed Chetouani Loic Kessous 120

Wavelet Speech Feature Extraction Using Mean Best Basis Algorithm Jakub Galka Mariusz Ziólko 128

Perceptually Motivated Generalized Spectral Subtraction for Speech Enhancement Novlene Zoghlami Zied Lachiri Noureddine Ellouze 136

Coding of Biosignals Using the Discrete Wavelet Decomposition Ramon Reig-Bolaño Pere Martí-Puig Jordi Solé-Casals Vladimir Zaiats Vicenç Parisi 144

Reducing Features from Pejibaye Palm DNA Marker for an Efficient Classification Carlos M. Travieso Jesús B. Alonso Miguel A. Ferrer 152

Mathematical Morphology Preprocessing to Mitigate AWGN Effects: Improving Pitch Tracking Performance in Hard Noise Conditions Pere Martí-Puig Jordi Solé-Casals Ramon Reig-Bolaño Vladimir Zaiats 163

Deterministic Particle Filtering and Application to Diagnosis of a Roller Bearing Ouafae Bennis Frédéric Kratz 171

Applications of Cumulants in Speech Processing Vladimir Zaiats Jordi Solé-Casals Pere Martí-Puig Ramon Reig-Bolão 178

The Growing Hierarchical Recurrent Self Organizing Map for Phoneme Recognition Chiraz Jlassi Najet Arous Noureddine Ellouze 184

Phoneme Recognition Using Sparse Random Projections and Ensemble Classifiers Ioannis Atsonios 191

Author Index 199