"Vectors of high dimensionality" are probably what we would call a long list. (A two dimensional vector is a list of two numbers. A three dimensional vector is a list of three numbers. And so on...)
The topic of speech processing is interesting, of course. Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Anssi Seppälä <[email protected]> wrote: > "Vectors of high dimensionality". Is this interesting to J ? See below. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Tomi Kinnunen > Sent: 26. marraskuuta 2013 10:33 > To: [email protected] > Subject: NIST i-vector machine learning challenge @ Odyssey 2014 > > Hi all, > > Apologies for possible cross-postings. > > Attention, machine learning people: NIST organizes a new type of machine > learning challenge. The first results of the challenge are presented as a > part of Odyssey 2014: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop > conference that UEF hosts in 2014 > (http://cs.uef.fi/odyssey2014/) > > National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) organizes a new type > of "i-vector machine learning challenge": > > http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/ivec.cfm > > The purpose is to invite researchers outside of speech & audio processing > fields to do voice biometrics (speaker recognition) without any knowledge > required of speech or signal processing. It involves processing of feature > vectors of high dimensionality, each being a descriptor of one long audio > record. NIST shares an unlabeled training set and participants will then use > an online platform to submit pairwise similarity scores of vectors that NIST > scores. > > Schedule: > > Late November 2013: Registration opens on website Late November 2013: > Challenge data available on website [ February 10, 2014: Odyssey papers on > Challenge due -- OPTIONAL ] April 7, 2014: Last day to submit output for > official scoring April 8, 2014: Official scores (on evaluation subset) posted > > Feel free to forward this to your colleagues as widely as you can! > > Best wishes, > Tomi > > -- > ========================================== > Dr. Tomi H. Kinnunen, Researcher > School of Computing > University of Eastern Finland > P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, FINLAND > Email: [email protected], [email protected] > WWW: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/tkinnu/webpage/ > Tel. +358 50 442 2647, +358 44 507 0624 > ========================================== > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
