• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.65-71
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• 2015

It has been known that GMM (Gaussian Mixture Model) based speaker identification systems using ML (Maximum Likelihood) and WMR (Weighting Model Rank) demonstrate very high performances. However, such systems are not so effective under practical environments, in terms of real time processing, because of their high calculation costs. In this paper, we propose a new speaker-pruning algorithm that effectively reduces the calculation cost. In this algorithm, we select 20% of speaker models having higher likelihood with a part of input speech and apply MWMR (Modified Weighted Model Rank) to these selected speaker models to find out identified speaker. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we performed speaker identification experiments using TIMIT database. The proposed method shows more than 60% improvement of reduced processing time than the conventional GMM based system with no pruning, while maintaining the recognition accuracy.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.457-462
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a speaker pruning method for real-time processing and improving performance of speaker identification system based on GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model). Conventional speaker identification methods, such as ML (Maximum Likelihood), WMR(weighting Model Rank), and MWMR(Modified WMR) we that frame likelihoods are calculated using the whole frames of each input speech and all of the speaker models and then a speaker having the biggest accumulated likelihood is selected. However, in these methods, calculation cost and processing time become larger as the increase of the number of input frames and speakers. To solve this problem in the proposed method, only a part of speaker models that have higher likelihood are selected using only a part of input frames, and identified speaker is decided from evaluating the selected speaker models. In this method, fm can be applied for improving the identification performance in speaker identification even the number of speakers is changed. In several experiments, the proposed method showed a reduction of 65% on calculation cost and an increase of 2% on identification rate than conventional methods. These results means that the proposed method can be applied effectively for a real-time processing and for improvement of performance in speaker identification.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.184-189
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose the injurious moving picture filtering system using certain sounds contained in the injurious moving picture to filter injurious moving picture which is distributed without limitation in internet and internet storage space. For this purpose, the Gaussian Mixture Model which can well represent the characteristics of the sound, is used and frame level likelihood estimation is used to calculate the likelihood between filtering target data and the sound models. Also, the pruning method which can real-time proceed by reducing the comparing number of data, is applied for real-time processing, and MWMR method which showed good performance from existing speaker identification, is applied for the distinguish performance of high precision. In the identification experiment result, in case of the frame rate which is the proportion of total frame to high likelihood frame, is set to 50%, identification error rate is 6.06%, and in case of frame rate is set to 60%, error rate is 3.03%. As the result, the proposed system can distinguish between general and injurious moving picture effectively.