Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

1. Introduction and Overview. 2. Detecting Influential Observations and Outliers. 3. Detecting and Assessing Collinearity. 4. Applications and Remedies. 5. Research Issues and Directions for Extensions. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity

Wavelet filter-based weak signature detection method and its application on rolling element bearing prognostics

Digital Coding of Waveforms

This article reviews various procedures used in the analysis of circadian rhythms at the populational, organismal, cellular and molecular levels. The procedures range from visual inspection of time plots and actograms to several mathematical methods of time series analysis. Computational steps are described in some detail, and additional bibliographic resources and computer programs are listed.

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Procedures for numerical analysis of circadian rhythms.

Design, analysis and experimental evaluation of block based transformation in MFCC computation for speaker recognition

The extraction of fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) from the composite maternal ECG signal obtained from the abdominal lead is discussed. The proposed method employs singular value decomposition (SVD) and analysis based on the singular value ratio (SVR) spectrum. The maternal ECG (M-ECG) and the fetal ECG (F-ECG) components are identified in terms of the SV-decomposed modes of the appropriately configured data matrices, and elimination of the M-ECG and determination of F-ECG are achieved through selective separation of the SV-decomposed components. The unique feature of the method is that only one composite maternal ECG signal is required to determine the P-ECG component. The method is numerically robust and computationally efficient.

Fetal ECG extraction from single-channel maternal ECG using singular value decomposition

Lung sound classification using cepstral-based statistical features

Auscultation, the technique of listening to heart sounds with a stethoscope can be used as a primary detection system for diagnosing heart valve disorders. Phonocardiogram, the digital recording of heart sounds is becoming increasingly popular as it is relatively inexpensive. In this paper, a technique to improve the performance of the Least Square Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) is proposed for classification of normal and abnormal heart sounds using wavelet based feature set. In the proposed technique, the Lagrange multiplier is modified based on Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm, which in turn modifies the weight vector to reduce the classification error. The basic idea is to enlarge the separating boundary surface, such that the separability between the clusters is increased. The updated weight vector is used at the time of testing. The performance of the proposed systems is evaluated on 64 different recordings of heart sounds comprising of normal and five different pathological cases. It is found that the proposed technique classifies the heart sounds with higher recognition accuracy than competing techniques.

Detection of cardiac abnormality from PCG signal using LMS based least square SVM classifier

A state of the art Speaker Identification (SI) system requires a robust feature extraction unit followed by a speaker modeling scheme for generalized representation of these features. Over the years, Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) modeled on the human auditory system has been used as a standard acoustic feature set for SI applications. However, due to the structure of its filter bank, it captures vocal tract characteristics more effectively in the lower frequency regions. This paper proposes a new set of features using a complementary filter bank structure which improves distinguishability of speaker specific cues present in the higher frequency zone. Unlike high level features that are difficult to extract, the proposed feature set involves little computational burden during the extraction process. When combined with MFCC via a parallel implementation of speaker models, the proposed feature set outperforms baseline MFCC significantly. This proposition is validated by experiments conducted on two different kinds of public databases namely YOHO (microphone speech) and POLYCOST (telephone speech) with Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) as a Classifier for various model orders. Keywords—Complementary Information, Filter Bank, GMM, IMFCC, MFCC, Speaker Identification, Speaker Recognition.

Goutam Saha

Papers

Design, analysis and experimental evaluation of block based transformation in MFCC computation for speaker recognition

Fetal ECG extraction from single-channel maternal ECG using singular value decomposition

Lung sound classification using cepstral-based statistical features

Detection of cardiac abnormality from PCG signal using LMS based least square SVM classifier

Improved Closed Set Text-Independent Speaker Identification by Combining MFCC with Evidence from Flipped Filter Banks