This paper presents a system for classifying facial expressions based on a data fusion process relying on the Belief Theory (BeT). Four expressions are considered: joy, surprise, disgust as well as neutral. The proposed system is able to take into account intrinsic doubt about emotion in the recognition process and to handle the fact that each person has his/her own maximal intensity of displaying a particular facial expression. To demonstrate the suitability of our approach for facial expression classification, we compare it with two other standard approaches: the Bayesian Theory (BaT) and the Hidden Markov Models (HMM). The three classification systems use characteristic distances measuring the deformations of facial skeletons. These skeletons result from a contour segmentation of facial permanent features (mouth, eyes and eyebrows). The performances of the classification systems are tested on the Hammal-Caplier database [1] and it is shown that the BeT classifier outperforms both the BaT and HMM classifiers for the considered application.
Abstract. This communication presents a new method for automatic speech recognition in reverberant environments. Our approach consists in the selection of the best acoustic model out of a library of models trained on artificially reverberated speech databases corresponding to various reverberant conditions. Given a speech utterance recorded within a reverberant room, a Maximum Likelihood estimate of the fullband room reverberation time is computed using a statistical model for short-term log-energy sequences of anechoic speech. The estimated reverberation time is then used to select the best acoustic model, i.e., the model trained on a speech database most closely matching the estimated reverberation time, which serves to recognize the reverberated speech utterance. The proposed model selection approach is shown to improve significantly recognition accuracy for a connected digit task in both simulated and real reverberant environments, outperforming standard channel normalization techniques.
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