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Amplification of Signal Features Using Variance Fractal Dimension Trajectory

Amplification of Signal Features Using Variance Fractal Dimension Trajectory
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Author(s): Witold Kinsner (University of Manitoba, Canada)and Warren Grieder (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 15
Source title: Developments in Natural Intelligence Research and Knowledge Engineering: Advancing Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Yingxu Wang (University of Calgary, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1743-8.ch019

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Abstract

This paper describes how the selection of parameters for the variance fractal dimension (VFD) multiscale time-domain algorithm can create an amplification of the fractal dimension trajectory that is obtained for a natural-speech waveform in the presence of ambient noise. The technique is based on the variance fractal dimension trajectory (VFDT) algorithm that is used not only to detect the external boundaries of an utterance, but also its internal pauses representing the unvoiced speech. The VFDT algorithm can also amplify internal features of phonemes. This fractal feature amplification is accomplished when the time increments are selected in a dyadic manner rather than selecting the increments in a unit distance sequence. These amplified trajectories for different phonemes are more distinct, thus providing a better characterization of the individual segments in the speech signal. This approach is superior to other energy-based boundary-detection techniques. Observations are based on extensive experimental results on speech utterances digitized at 44.1 kilosamples per second, with 16 bits in each sample.

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