This paper presents a new HMM/MLP hybrid network for speech recognition. By taking advantage of the discriminative training of MLP, the unreasonable model correctness assumption on the model correctness of the ML trai...This paper presents a new HMM/MLP hybrid network for speech recognition. By taking advantage of the discriminative training of MLP, the unreasonable model correctness assumption on the model correctness of the ML training in basic HMM can be overcome, and its discriminative ability and recognition performance can be improved. Experimental results demonstrate that the discriminative ability and recognition performance of HMM/MLP is apparently better than normal HMM.展开更多
In order to mitigate the effects of space adaptation syndrome(SAS) and improve the training efficiency of the astronauts, a novel astronaut rehabilitative training robot(ART) was proposed. ART can help the astronauts ...In order to mitigate the effects of space adaptation syndrome(SAS) and improve the training efficiency of the astronauts, a novel astronaut rehabilitative training robot(ART) was proposed. ART can help the astronauts to carry out the bench press training in the microgravity environment. Firstly, a dynamic model of cable driven unit(CDU) was established whose accuracy was verified through the model identification. Secondly, to improve the accuracy and the speed of the active loading, an active loading hybrid force controller was proposed on the basis of the dynamic model of the CDU. Finally, the actual effect of the hybrid force controller was tested by simulations and experiments. The results suggest that the hybrid force controller can significantly improve the precision and the dynamic performance of the active loading with the maximum phase lag of the active loading being 9° and the maximum amplitude error being 2% at the frequency range of 10 Hz. The controller can meet the design requirements.展开更多
The purpose of this study was to identify the existing rice breeding programs in Myanmar and to determine researchers' attitudes on hybrid rice research mid its determinmlts. A sample consists of 56 researchers who a...The purpose of this study was to identify the existing rice breeding programs in Myanmar and to determine researchers' attitudes on hybrid rice research mid its determinmlts. A sample consists of 56 researchers who are working in Department of Agricultural Research, Department of Agriculture and Yezin Agricultural University, and involving varietal development of hybrid rice. The research instruments were a questionnaire used by 4 points Likert scale of strongly agree, agree, less agree and not agree to measure on researchers' attitudes towards 14 determinants of varietal development of hybrid rice production. The study revealed that the average age of the researchers was 46.5 years ranged from 25 to 60 years. The majority of researchers were 51-60 years old (41.1%). The working experience of researchers ranged from 5 to 36 years and the metal of their experience was 20 years. The educational level was Ph.D. (35.7%), M.Agr.Sc. (26.8%), and B.Agr.Sc. (37.5%). Majority of researchers were female (76.8%) and 58.9% were rice breeders. Moreover, 48.2% of researchers obtained the hybrid rice technology from breeding training and the researchers who believed in their current breeding works were 51.8%. Among 33 rice breeders, 72.7% of the rice breeders applied only convention breeding method. In addition, researchers' opinions on farmer's perception of hybrid rice technology, 60.7% of the researchers agreed on inferior grain quality and 73.2% of researchers strongly agreed on not stable market. This study found out more thin1 half of the researchers strongly agreed on 10 out of 14 determinmlts such as poor infrastructure, low human resource development, parental problem, insufficient experience, limit germplasm resource, limit research facilities, no incentive for breeders, weak public-private partnership, fewer quality breeders and not enough research fund. Moreover, half of the researchers agreed on 3 determinants likely need special technical training, need international assistance and climate change challenges. Finally, development of hybrid rice research in Mymlmar, there will be needed international assistmlce, and upgraded to hybrid rice research center from currently hybrid rice research section and need integrated hybrid rice policy supported by government.展开更多
A new sub-pixel mapping method based on BP neural network is proposed in order to determine the spatial distribution of class components in each mixed pixel.The network was used to train a model that describes the rel...A new sub-pixel mapping method based on BP neural network is proposed in order to determine the spatial distribution of class components in each mixed pixel.The network was used to train a model that describes the relationship between spatial distribution of target components in mixed pixel and its neighboring information.Then the sub-pixel scaled target could be predicted by the trained model.In order to improve the performance of BP network,BP learning algorithm with momentum was employed.The experiments were conducted both on synthetic images and on hyperspectral imagery(HSI).The results prove that this method is capable of estimating land covers fairly accurately and has a great superiority over some other sub-pixel mapping methods in terms of computational complexity.展开更多
This paper presents a new online incremental training algorithm of Gaussian mixture model (GMM), which aims to perform the expectation-maximization(EM) training incrementally to update GMM model parameters online ...This paper presents a new online incremental training algorithm of Gaussian mixture model (GMM), which aims to perform the expectation-maximization(EM) training incrementally to update GMM model parameters online sample by sample, instead of waiting for a block of data with the sufficient size to start training as in the traditional EM procedure. The proposed method is extended from the split-and-merge EM procedure, so inherently it is also capable escaping from local maxima and reducing the chances of singularities. In the application domain, the algorithm is optimized in the context of speech processing applications. Experiments on the synthetic data show the advantage and efficiency of the new method and the results in a speech processing task also confirm the improvement of system performance.展开更多
We propose a novel discriminative learning approach for Bayesian pattern classification, called 'constrained maximum margin (CMM)'. We define the margin between two classes as the difference between the minimum de...We propose a novel discriminative learning approach for Bayesian pattern classification, called 'constrained maximum margin (CMM)'. We define the margin between two classes as the difference between the minimum decision value for positive samples and the maximum decision value for negative samples. The learning problem is to maximize the margin under the con- straint that each training pattern is classified correctly. This nonlinear programming problem is solved using the sequential un- constrained minimization technique. We applied the proposed CMM approach to learn Bayesian classifiers based on Gaussian mixture models, and conducted the experiments on 10 UCI datasets. The performance of our approach was compared with those of the expectation-maximization algorithm, the support vector machine, and other state-of-the-art approaches. The experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach.展开更多
文摘This paper presents a new HMM/MLP hybrid network for speech recognition. By taking advantage of the discriminative training of MLP, the unreasonable model correctness assumption on the model correctness of the ML training in basic HMM can be overcome, and its discriminative ability and recognition performance can be improved. Experimental results demonstrate that the discriminative ability and recognition performance of HMM/MLP is apparently better than normal HMM.
基金Project(61175128) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2008AA040203) supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of ChinaProject(QC2010009) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province,China
文摘In order to mitigate the effects of space adaptation syndrome(SAS) and improve the training efficiency of the astronauts, a novel astronaut rehabilitative training robot(ART) was proposed. ART can help the astronauts to carry out the bench press training in the microgravity environment. Firstly, a dynamic model of cable driven unit(CDU) was established whose accuracy was verified through the model identification. Secondly, to improve the accuracy and the speed of the active loading, an active loading hybrid force controller was proposed on the basis of the dynamic model of the CDU. Finally, the actual effect of the hybrid force controller was tested by simulations and experiments. The results suggest that the hybrid force controller can significantly improve the precision and the dynamic performance of the active loading with the maximum phase lag of the active loading being 9° and the maximum amplitude error being 2% at the frequency range of 10 Hz. The controller can meet the design requirements.
文摘The purpose of this study was to identify the existing rice breeding programs in Myanmar and to determine researchers' attitudes on hybrid rice research mid its determinmlts. A sample consists of 56 researchers who are working in Department of Agricultural Research, Department of Agriculture and Yezin Agricultural University, and involving varietal development of hybrid rice. The research instruments were a questionnaire used by 4 points Likert scale of strongly agree, agree, less agree and not agree to measure on researchers' attitudes towards 14 determinants of varietal development of hybrid rice production. The study revealed that the average age of the researchers was 46.5 years ranged from 25 to 60 years. The majority of researchers were 51-60 years old (41.1%). The working experience of researchers ranged from 5 to 36 years and the metal of their experience was 20 years. The educational level was Ph.D. (35.7%), M.Agr.Sc. (26.8%), and B.Agr.Sc. (37.5%). Majority of researchers were female (76.8%) and 58.9% were rice breeders. Moreover, 48.2% of researchers obtained the hybrid rice technology from breeding training and the researchers who believed in their current breeding works were 51.8%. Among 33 rice breeders, 72.7% of the rice breeders applied only convention breeding method. In addition, researchers' opinions on farmer's perception of hybrid rice technology, 60.7% of the researchers agreed on inferior grain quality and 73.2% of researchers strongly agreed on not stable market. This study found out more thin1 half of the researchers strongly agreed on 10 out of 14 determinmlts such as poor infrastructure, low human resource development, parental problem, insufficient experience, limit germplasm resource, limit research facilities, no incentive for breeders, weak public-private partnership, fewer quality breeders and not enough research fund. Moreover, half of the researchers agreed on 3 determinants likely need special technical training, need international assistance and climate change challenges. Finally, development of hybrid rice research in Mymlmar, there will be needed international assistmlce, and upgraded to hybrid rice research center from currently hybrid rice research section and need integrated hybrid rice policy supported by government.
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 60272073, 60402025 and 60802059)by Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 200802171003)
文摘A new sub-pixel mapping method based on BP neural network is proposed in order to determine the spatial distribution of class components in each mixed pixel.The network was used to train a model that describes the relationship between spatial distribution of target components in mixed pixel and its neighboring information.Then the sub-pixel scaled target could be predicted by the trained model.In order to improve the performance of BP network,BP learning algorithm with momentum was employed.The experiments were conducted both on synthetic images and on hyperspectral imagery(HSI).The results prove that this method is capable of estimating land covers fairly accurately and has a great superiority over some other sub-pixel mapping methods in terms of computational complexity.
文摘This paper presents a new online incremental training algorithm of Gaussian mixture model (GMM), which aims to perform the expectation-maximization(EM) training incrementally to update GMM model parameters online sample by sample, instead of waiting for a block of data with the sufficient size to start training as in the traditional EM procedure. The proposed method is extended from the split-and-merge EM procedure, so inherently it is also capable escaping from local maxima and reducing the chances of singularities. In the application domain, the algorithm is optimized in the context of speech processing applications. Experiments on the synthetic data show the advantage and efficiency of the new method and the results in a speech processing task also confirm the improvement of system performance.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.60973059 and 81171407)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University,China(No.NCET-10-0044)
文摘We propose a novel discriminative learning approach for Bayesian pattern classification, called 'constrained maximum margin (CMM)'. We define the margin between two classes as the difference between the minimum decision value for positive samples and the maximum decision value for negative samples. The learning problem is to maximize the margin under the con- straint that each training pattern is classified correctly. This nonlinear programming problem is solved using the sequential un- constrained minimization technique. We applied the proposed CMM approach to learn Bayesian classifiers based on Gaussian mixture models, and conducted the experiments on 10 UCI datasets. The performance of our approach was compared with those of the expectation-maximization algorithm, the support vector machine, and other state-of-the-art approaches. The experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach.