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The Forward Procedure for HSMMs based on Expected Duration This publication appears in: IEEE Signal Processing Letters Authors: J. Lemeire and F. Cartella Volume: 23 Issue: 8 Pages: 1116-1120 Publication Date: Aug. 2016
Abstract: For dynamic models, the forward procedure is used to calculate the probability of an observation sequence for a given model. For hidden semiMarkov models (HSMMs), the calculation can be approximated by keeping a track of the expected state duration instead of the distribution. The update equation for the expected duration proposed by Azimi et al.[1] is, however, wrong. The experiments presented by Azimi et al.[1] did not reveal the error, since for the presented cases, the state duration does not play a role in the probabilities. We propose a better equation for updating the expected duration. It nevertheless remains an approximation for calculating the probability of observation sequences. We analyze the assumptions to show under which conditions the approximation errors become important. Experiments show that the approximation is only reasonable for left-to-right HSMMs. As we focus on a specific sub class of HSMMs, we derive specialized equations from the general form for the exact calculation of the forward variable. External Link.
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