.. vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 : .. _bob.learn.em: ================================================ Expectation Maximization Machine Learning Tools ================================================ This package is a part of Bob_. It implements a general EM algorithm and includes implementations of the following algorithms: - K-Means - Maximum Likelihood (ML) - Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) - Inter Session Variability Modelling (ISV) - Joint Factor Analysis (JFA) - Total Variability Modeling (iVectors) - Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) - EM Principal Component Analysis (EM-PCA) Documentation ------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 guide py_api References ----------- .. [Reynolds2000] *Reynolds, Douglas A., Thomas F. Quatieri, and Robert B. Dunn*. **Speaker Verification Using Adapted Gaussian Mixture Models**, Digital signal processing 10.1 (2000): 19-41. .. [Vogt2008] *R. Vogt, S. Sridharan*. **'Explicit Modelling of Session Variability for Speaker Verification'**, Computer Speech & Language, 2008, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 17-38 .. [McCool2013] *C. McCool, R. Wallace, M. McLaren, L. El Shafey, S. Marcel*. **'Session Variability Modelling for Face Authentication'**, IET Biometrics, 2013 .. [ElShafey2014] *Laurent El Shafey, Chris McCool, Roy Wallace, Sebastien Marcel*. **'A Scalable Formulation of Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis: Applied to Face Recognition'**, TPAMI'2014 .. [PrinceElder2007] *Prince and Elder*. **'Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Inference About Identity'**, ICCV'2007 .. [LiFu2012] *Li, Fu, Mohammed, Elder and Prince*. **'Probabilistic Models for Inference about Identity'**, TPAMI'2012 .. [Bishop1999] Tipping, Michael E., and Christopher M. Bishop. "Probabilistic principal component analysis." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 61.3 (1999): 611-622. .. [Roweis1998] Roweis, Sam. "EM algorithms for PCA and SPCA." Advances in neural information processing systems (1998): 626-632. .. [Glembek2009] Glembek, Ondrej, et al. "Comparison of scoring methods used in speaker recognition with joint factor analysis." Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009. ICASSP 2009. IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2009. .. [Auckenthaler2000] Auckenthaler, Roland, Michael Carey, and Harvey Lloyd-Thomas. "Score normalization for text-independent speaker verification systems." Digital Signal Processing 10.1 (2000): 42-54. .. [Mariethoz2005] Mariethoz, Johnny, and Samy Bengio. "A unified framework for score normalization techniques applied to text-independent speaker verification." IEEE signal processing letters 12.7 (2005): 532-535. Indices and tables ------------------ * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search` .. include:: links.rst