background: chemicals are among risk factors that can affect women's reproductive system. this study is aimed to investigate the association of occupational exposure to a mixture of organic solvents with menstruation disturbances and hormonal changes among female workers. methods : female workers of a pharmaceutical company were divided into three groups of non-exposed, low-exposed and highly-e...

This paper describes a new speaker verification system based on orthogonal Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) techniques combined with maximum a posteriori (MAP) adaptation. In most of the GMM based speaker verification systems, the variance of each component is constrained to be diagonal for its computational simplicity. However, this approximation inevitably introduces performance degradation. T...

In this paper, we report our experiments in the TREC 2005 Robust Track. Our focus is to explore the use of a new axiomatic approach to information retrieval. Most existing retrieval models make the assumption that terms are independent of each other. Although such simplifying assumption has facilitated the construction of successful retrieval systems, the assumption is not true; words are relat...

We investigate the use of the log-likelihood of the features obtained from a generative Gaussian mixture model, and the posterior probability of phonemes from a discriminative multilayered perceptron in multi-stream combination for recognition of phonemes. Multi-stream combination techniques, namely early integration and late integration are used to combine the evidence from these models. By us...

In this paper, a new framework is proposed for clothing style recognition in natural scenes. Clothing region is first detected through the fusion of super-pixel segmentation, saliency detection and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). Next, a group of fashion attribute detectors are trained to get the likelihood of each attribute in the clothing image. Finally, the correlation matrix between clothing ...

In recent years Dialogue Acts have become a popular means of modelling the communicative intentions of human and machine utterances in many modern dialogue systems. Many of these systems rely heavily on the availability of dialogue corpora that have been annotated with Dialogue Act labels. The manual annotation of dialogue corpora is both tedious and expensive. Consequently, there is a growing ...

In this paper, in order to improve both the performance and the efficiency of the conventional Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), generalized GMMs are firstly introduced by integrating the conventional GMMs and the active curve axis GMMs for fitting non-linear datasets, and then two types of Fuzzy Gaussian Mixture Models (FGMMs) with a faster convergence process are proposed based on the generaliz...

In this work, we propose a new framework for learning mixture models from continuous data. Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) are commonly used for this task and are popular among practitioners because of their sound statistical foundation and the availability of an efficient learning algorithm [2]. However, the underlying assumption about the normally distributed mixing components, is often too ri...

We generalize traditional goals of clustering towards distinguishing components in a non-parametric mixture model. The clusters are not necessarily based on point locations, but on higher order criteria. This framework can be implemented by embedding probability distributions in a Hilbert space. The corresponding clustering objective is very general and relates to a range of common clustering c...

Detection is an inherent part of every advanced automatic tracking system. In this work we focus on automatic detection of humans by enhanced background subtraction. Background subtraction (BS) refers to the process of segmenting moving regions from video sensor data and is usually performed at pixel level. In its standard form this technique involves building a model of the background and extr...