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Voronoi cell shaping for feature selection with discrete HMMs

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Voronoi cell shaping for feature selection with discrete HMMs
In this paper, we introduce a novel vector quantization (VQ) scheme for distributing the quantization error equally among the quantized dimensions. Afterwards, the proposed VQ scheme is used to perform feature selection in on-line handwritten whiteboard note recognition based on discrete Hidden-Markov-Models (HMMs). In an experimental section we show that the novel VQ scheme derives feature sets which contain less than 50 % features, enabling recognition with better performance at less computational costs. Finally, the derived feature set is compared to the quantized features selected within a continuous HMM-based system: the features selected after quantization with the proposed VQ scheme are proved to perform significantly better than those in the continuous system.
Joachim Schenk, Gerhard Rigoll
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Updated 21 May 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ICASSP
Authors Joachim Schenk, Gerhard Rigoll
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