Fuzzy support vector machines for age and gender classification

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Abstract

Support vector machine (SVM) has been proven as a powerful tool for solving age and gender classi?cation problems. However, SVM is sensitive to noise and outliers. In this paper we propose a new fuzzy SVM based on an assumption that training data points should not be treated equally to avoid the problem of sensitivity to noise and outliers. This can be achieved by assigning a fuzzy membership as a weight to each training data point. A method to calculate fuzzy memberships is also presented. Experiments performed on the a Gender corpus for INTERSPEECH 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge show that the proposed fuzzy SVM can improve age and gender classification accuracy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINTERSPEECH 2010: 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
EditorsTakao Kobayashi, Keikichi Hirose, Satoshi Nakamura
Place of PublicationLisbon, Portugal
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
Pages2806-2809
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781617821233
Publication statusPublished - 2010
EventINTERSPEECH 2010: 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - Makuhari, Makuhari, Japan
Duration: 26 Sept 201030 Sept 2010

Conference

ConferenceINTERSPEECH 2010: 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMakuhari
Period26/09/1030/09/10

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