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Sound Classification in a Smart Room Environment: an Approach using GMM and HMM Methods

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Because of cost or convenience reasons, patients or elderly people would be hospitalized at home and smart information systems would be needed in order to assist human operators. In this case, position and physiologic sensors give already numerous informations, but there are few studies for sound use in patient's habitation. However, sound classification and speech recognition may greatly increase the versatility of such a system: this will be provided by detecting short sentences or words which could characterize a distress situation for the patient. Analysis and classification of sounds emitted in patient's habitation may be useful for patient's activity monitoring. GMMs and HMMs are well suited for sound classification. Until now, GMMs are frequently used for sound classification in smart rooms because of their low computational costs, but HMMs should allow a finer analysis: indeed the use of 3 states HMMs should allow better performances by taking into account the variation of the signal according to time. For this framework a new sound corpus was recorded in experimental conditions. This corpus includes 8 sound classes useful for our application. The choice of needed acoustical features and the two approaches are presented. Then an evaluation is made with the initial corpus and with additional experimental noise. The obtained results are compared. At the end of this framework a segmentation module is presented. This module has the ability of extracting isolated sounds in a record by the means of a wavelet filtering method which allows the extraction in noisy conditions.
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Michel Vacher, Jean-François Serignat, Stephane Chaillol. Sound Classification in a Smart Room Environment: an Approach using GMM and HMM Methods. The 4th IEEE Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD 2007), Publishing House of the Romanian Academy (Bucharest), May 2007, Iasi, Romania. pp.135-146. ⟨hal-00957418⟩
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