基于模糊聚类的矢量量化的声纹识别研究

采用模糊C-均值聚类算法(FCM)实现声纹码本的矢量量化,使用基于相似系数和的孤立点检测法识别孤立点.试验表明,该方法能有效地减少孤立点对识别结果的干扰,显著降低码本量化误差,从而提高矢量量化声纹识别系统的识别率.     

Vector quantization using information theoretic concepts

The process of representing a large data set with a smaller number of vectors in the best possible way, also known as vector quantization, has been intensively studied in the recent years. Very efficient algorithms like the Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM) and the Linde Buzo Gray (LBG) algorithm have been devised. In this paper a physical approach to the problem is taken, and it is shown that by considering the processing elements as points moving in a potential field an algorithm equally efficient as the before mentioned can be derived. Unlike SOM and LBG this algorithm has a clear physical interpretation and relies on minimization of a well defined cost function. It is also shown how the potential field approach can be linked to information theory by use of the Parzen density estimator. In the light of information theory it becomes clear that minimizing the free energy of the system is in fact equivalent to minimizing a divergence measure between the distribution of the data and the distribution of the processing elements, hence, the algorithm can be seen as a density matching method.