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Voice Activity Detection Based on SVM Classifier Using Likelihood Ratio Feature Vector

우도비 특징 벡터를 이용한 SVM 기반의 음성 검출기

  • 조규행 (인하대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 강상기 (삼성전자 정보통신총괄 통신연구소) ;
  • 장준혁 (인하대학교 전자전기공학부)
  • Published : 2007.11.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we apply a support vector machine(SVM) that incorporates an optimized nonlinear decision rule over different sets of feature vectors to improve the performance of statistical model-based voice activity detection(VAD). Conventional method performs VAD through setting up statistical models for each case of speech absence and presence assumption and comparing the geometric mean of the likelihood ratio (LR) for the individual frequency band extracted from input signal with the given threshold. We propose a novel VAD technique based on SVM by treating the LRs computed in each frequency bin as the elements of feature vector to minimize classification error probability instead of the conventional decision rule using geometric mean. As a result of experiments, the performance of SVM-based VAD using the proposed feature has shown better results compared with those of reported VADs in various noise environments.

본 논문에서는 기존의 통계적 모델 기반의 음성 검출기의 성능 향상을 위해 이진 분류에 우수한 support vector machine(SVM)을 도입한다. 기존의 통계적 모델 기반 음성 검출기의 경우 음성의 존재와 부재에 대한 가설로부터 각각의 통계적 모델을 세워 입력 데이타에 의해 결정된 각 주파수 채널별 우도비(likelihood ratio)를 단순히 기하 평균을 취하여 문턱값과 비교, 음성 검출 여부를 판단한다. 제안된 음성 검출기는 기존의 기하 평균을 이용한 결정식을 대신하여 분류 오류 확률이 최소화되도록 각 주파수 채널별 우도비를 SVM의 특징 벡터로 적용한다. 제안된 SVM 기반의 통계적 모델 음성 검출기는 기존의 LRT를 이용한 음성 검출기 및 SVM 기반의 음성 검출기들과 비교하여 다양한 잡음 환경에서 우수한 성능을 나타낸다.

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