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Estimating age from a single speech is a classic and challenging topic. Although Label Distribution Learning (LDL) can represent adjacent indistinguishable ages well, the uncertainty of the age estimate for each utterance varies from person…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Zuheng Kang , Jianzong Wang , Junqing Peng , Jing Xiao

Label ambiguity poses a significant challenge in age estimation tasks. Most existing methods address this issue by modeling correlations between adjacent age groups through label distribution learning. However, they often overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Bo Wu , Zhiqi Ai , Jun Jiang , Congcong Zhu , Shugong Xu

Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have achieved excellent recognition performance in various visual recognition tasks. A large labeled training set is one of the most important factors for its success. However, it is difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Bin-Bin Gao , Chao Xing , Chen-Wei Xie , Jianxin Wu , Xin Geng

Automatic inference of important paralinguistic information such as age from speech is an important area of research with numerous spoken language technology based applications. Speaker age estimation has applications in enabling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Somer Bishop , Catherine Lord , Shrikanth Narayanan

Recently, researchers have utilized neural network-based speaker embedding techniques in speaker-recognition tasks to identify speakers accurately. However, speaker-discriminative embeddings do not always represent speech features such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Kwangje Baeg , Yeong-Gwan Kim , Young-Sub Han , Byoung-Ki Jeon

The concept of Label Distribution Learning (LDL) is a technique to stabilize classification and regression problems with ambiguous and/or imbalanced labels. A prototypical use-case of LDL is human age estimation based on profile images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Maurice Günder , Nico Piatkowski , Christian Bauckhage

Age estimation of unknown persons is a challenging pattern analysis task due to the lacking of training data and various aging mechanisms for different people. Label distribution learning-based methods usually make distribution assumptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Peipei Li , Yibo Hu , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Label distribution learning (LDL) is an effective method to predict the label description degree (a.k.a. label distribution) of a sample. However, annotating label distribution (LD) for training samples is extremely costly. So recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yuheng Jia , Jiawei Tang , Jiahao Jiang

Age estimation from facial images is typically cast as a label distribution learning or regression problem, since aging is a gradual progress. Its main challenge is the facial feature space w.r.t. ages is inhomogeneous, due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Wei Shen , Yilu Guo , Yan Wang , Kai Zhao , Bo Wang , Alan Yuille

VoxCeleb datasets are widely used in speaker recognition studies. Our work serves two purposes. First, we provide speaker age labels and (an alternative) annotation of speaker gender. Second, we demonstrate the use of this metadata by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Khaled Hechmi , Trung Ngo Trong , Ville Hautamaki , Tomi Kinnunen

Facial attributes (\eg, age and attractiveness) estimation performance has been greatly improved by using convolutional neural networks. However, existing methods have an inconsistency between the training objectives and the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bin-Bin Gao , Xin-Xin Liu , Hong-Yu Zhou , Jianxin Wu , Xin Geng

Label distribution learning (LDL) is an effective method to predict the relative label description degree (a.k.a. label distribution) of a sample. However, the label distribution is not a complete representation of an instance because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jiawei Tang , Yuheng Jia

Although multi-label learning can deal with many problems with label ambiguity, it does not fit some real applications well where the overall distribution of the importance of the labels matters. This paper proposes a novel learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Xin Geng

Label Distribution Learning (LDL) is a novel machine learning paradigm that addresses the problem of label ambiguity and has found widespread applications. Obtaining complete label distributions in real-world scenarios is challenging, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zhiqiang Kou , Haoyuan Xuan , Jing Wang , Yuheng Jia , Xin Geng

Time series forecasting in real-world applications requires both high predictive accuracy and interpretable uncertainty quantification. Traditional point prediction methods often fail to capture the inherent uncertainty in time series data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zhen Zhou , Zhirui Wang , Qi Hong , Yunyang Shi , Ziyuan Gu , Zhiyuan Liu

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson

Diagnostic procedures for ASD (autism spectrum disorder) involve semi-naturalistic interactions between the child and a clinician. Computational methods to analyze these sessions require an end-to-end speech and language processing pipeline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Rimita Lahiri , Manoj Kumar , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan

Multi-genre speaker recognition is becoming increasingly popular due to its ability to better represent the complexities of real-world applications. However, a major challenge is the significant shift in the distribution of speaker vectors…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zhenyu Zhou , Junhui Chen , Namin Wang , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for text-independent speaker identification system: Multi-Label Training (MLT). Instead of the commonly used one-to-one correspondence between the speech and the speaker label, we divide all the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Yuqi Xue

Automatic speaker verification has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, there is little research on cross-age speaker verification (CASV) due to insufficient relevant data. In this paper, we mine cross-age test sets based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Xiaoyi Qin , Na Li , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Ming Li
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