Non-Linguistic Vocal Event Detection Using Online Random

Mohamed Abou-Zleikha, Zheng-Hua Tan, Mads Græsbøll Christensen, Søren Holdt Jensen

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Abstract

Accurate detection of non-linguistic vocal events in social signals can have a great impact on the applicability of speech enabled interactive systems. In this paper, we investigate the use of random forest for vocal event detection. Random forest technique has been successfully employed in many areas such as object detection, face recognition, and audio event detection. This paper proposes to use online random forest technique for detecting laughter and filler and for analyzing the importance of various features for non-linguistic vocal event classification through permutation. The results show that according to the Area Under Curve measure the online random forest achieved 88.1% compared to 82.9% obtained by the baseline support vector machines for laughter classification and 86.8% to 83.6% for filler classification.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2014 37th International Convention on
PublisherIEEE Press
Publication date2014
Pages1326 - 1330
ISBN (Print)978-953-233-081-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event2014 37th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics - Opatija, Croatia
Duration: 26 May 201430 May 2014
Conference number: 33202

Conference

Conference2014 37th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics
Number33202
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityOpatija
Period26/05/201430/05/2014

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