Outline
Mimic Synthesis
The goal: A digital violin from observation
Sensor Violin and Bow
Bowing Styles
Modeling the statistics of the violin
Modeling Sequence - Training
Modeling Sequence - Synthesis
Cluster-Weighted Modeling
Density-Estimation and Prediction
Forecast of y and ?y
CWM Prediction Space
Expectation-Maximization
EM: an information geometric view (Amari, Neural Computation 7, 1994)
EM for Gaussian Mixture Models
EM (continued M-Step)
A posteriori cluster estimation
Maximum Likelihood Derivation of Model Parameters
Predicted Spectral Data
Off-line Sound Examples
One-tone violin
One-string violin
Fine
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